An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu – an electronic holy water dispenser. The terracotta dispenser, used in the northern town of Fornaci di Briosco, functions like an automatic soap dispenser in public washrooms – a churchgoer

GUELPH -- A former Maple Leaf Foods employee who inserted sewing needles into meat products at a local No Frills store was sentenced to 18 months of house arrest. Justice Robert Weseloh said 42-year-old Mastoora Qezil’s behaviour caused “panic in the community and tarnished the reputation of both the retailer and the producer.”

GUELPH -- The Guelph Police Service and Canadian Food Inspection Agency are investigating a report that a 2.5-centimetre-long metal object was discovered in a package of pork sausage that was purchased at No Frills on Silvercreek Parkway on Oct. 11.

Brett James brought the mother of all show-and-tell novelties to his Yorkville office Wednesday: a black widow spider he found in his fridge. The public affairs consultant was fetching U.S. red grapes from his crisper the night before when he spotted the dime-sized invader.