Hacker hits Canadian prime minister   A hacker hit the website
of Canada’s ruling Conservative Party on Tuesday morning,
spreading a false report that Prime Minister Stephen Harper had
been rushed to the hospital with a piece of hash-brown lodged in
his throat.  “There was unauthorized access:  The story is
absolutely false.  We do have our IT people looking into this
immediately. They’ll be going through it to figure out what’s
going on,” Conservative spokesman Fred DeLorey told Postmedia
News.  The false report had Harper being rushed to Toronto
General Hospital following “an incident at breakfast.”
“According to staff at the hospital, Harper was brought in via
helicopter early this morning after his wife called 911,” said
the false report.  “He was eating breakfast with his kids when a
piece of hash-brown lodged in his throat, blocking air from
reaching his lungs.  “A member of his security team happened to
be nearby, and immediately began to apply first aid.”  The real
story of the Prime Minister’s morni