By The Canadian Press

Developments Monday in the ongoing H1N1 pandemic in Canada and around the world:

Canada's MPs were to engage Monday night in an emergency debate about swine flu in the House of Commons.

Permission for the unusual measure was granted by house speaker Peter Milliken after pressure from opposition Liberals and New Democrats, who accuse the Tory government of botching Canada's national immunization program.

They cite a significant shortage of vaccine, long lineups at crowded clinics and confusion about the overall strategy.

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About 900 mourners crowded into a Toronto church Monday for the funeral of a teen whose name has become inextricably linked with the national swine flu outbreak.

Evan Frustaglio was an otherwise healthy 13-year-old who died of the virus last Monday after falling ill at a hockey tournament. His sudden death galvanized public concern about the virus and caused a spike in demand for the vaccine.

In an emotional eulogy, Frustaglio's father Paul described his son's enthusiasm for hockey and protectiveness towards his younger brother.

He later expressed the hope that his son's death would encourage people to educate themselves about the dangers of swine flu.

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Officials in Yukon say a young girl has become the first resident of the territory to die of swine flu.

Medical Health Officer Dr. Brendan Hanley said the school-aged girl died Sunday in a Vancouver hospital. She was first treated in Whitehorse when she fell ill earlier in the week.

Hanley did not release any other details, including the girl's name or age, but said she did have an underlying health condition.

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Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews said residents eligible for the H1N1 shot are experiencing shorter lineups. The number of clinics across Ontario has doubled from 50 to 100, and Matthews said she hopes up to 2.2 million people can be immunized by week's end.

In Alberta, Health Minister Ron Liepert was called to an emergency meeting with Premier Ed Stelmach and the province's chief health officer. Liepert has been the target of fierce criticism after Alberta was forced to suspend its immunization clinics over the weekend due to a shortage of vaccine.

Dwindling supplies also forced temporary suspensions in parts of Manitoba, where the opposition accused the NDP government of creating chaos and public confusion.

Clinics continued to operate in Nova Scotia, but Health Minister Maureen MacDonald said there are not enough doses to immunize all that need them. The province has already administered half the doses it received from national suppliers and is only expecting 12,500 this week, MacDonald said.

Only those who are most at risk will be eligible for a shot in the near future, she added.

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A new editorial in a medical journal says the World Health Organization's definition of a flu pandemic is too broad.

The editorial, published in the journal BMJ Clinical Evidence, says changes the WHO made in the definition a few years ago now allow more viruses to qualify as pandemics.

The editorial says before the change, a flu virus of a new subtype would be needed to cause a pandemic. A subtype is the H number in a flu virus's name, such as H1N1 or H3N2.

In the latest version of the definition, the article argues, viruses of an existing subtype but which have mutated away from previous viruses could qualify as a pandemic, raising the risk of false alarms.

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Austria reported its first swine-flu-related death after an 11-year-old girl died Monday. The girl had been in intensive care for days at a hospital in Innsbruck. No other details of her condition were released.

Austrian Health Minister Alois Stoeger expressed his condolences to the girl's family and stressed that the Alpine republic was well prepared to deal with the disease.

In Turkey, officials said the death of four children caused the country's overall death toll to double to eight.

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Officials in the Ukraine closed schools across the country to prevent the spread of swine flu and urged night clubs, cinemas and food markets in parts of the country to follow suit.

The WHO sent a team to the country to help cope with the situation, but added there was no evidence that the Ukraine was experiencing a severe outbreak. Ukraine's Health Ministry said Monday that 70 people in the nation of 40 million have died of flu, but did not say how many of those deaths were related to swine flu.

Worldwide, outbreaks of regular seasonal flu claim 50,000 lives each year.