Canada July 28th, 2009 (12)

canada9#1 — CBC | $158M scam earns 2-year sentence

A Toronto man is facing a two-year sentence in a federal penitentiary for his involvement in a fraudulent telemarketing scheme that generated an estimated $158 million over a 10-year period.

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#2 — CBC | Civic workers’ return to take at least week

Word of tentative deals with Toronto’s two striking municipal unions already has some residents celebrating, but it will be a while before the piles of trash disappear.

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Globe | 36 days on strike, 48,900 tonnes of trash, and for what?

Star | There will be a political price for chaos from strike

Star | Strike aftermath: Who blinked?

#3 — CTV | TSB says crashed water bomber had wheels down

VANCOUVER – The Transportation Safety Board says a float-equipped water bomber that crashed while fighting forest fires last weekend mistakenly had its wheels down as it tried to land on Okanagan Lake.

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#4 — CTV | Ontario wants Nortel’s wireless tech kept Canadian

TORONTO — Canadian taxpayers helped fund the development of the next generation of wireless technology at Nortel Networks and the federal government should not allow it to fall into foreign hands, Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said Monday.

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#5 — CTV | Canadian convicted in Ethiopia on terror charges

OTTAWA — The lawyer for a Canadian convicted in Ethiopia is calling on the prime minister to help save Bashir Makhtal from possible execution.

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#6 — CNews | Man gets 18 years for girlfriend’s brutal murder

TORONTO – A jealous refugee was sentenced today to life in prison without parole eligibility for 18 years for brutally killing his Ryerson student girlfriend – cutting her jugular vein and slashing his victim’s face after she was dead.

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Star | No remorse from killer for ‘extreme butchery’

#7 — Globe | Hells Angels get one-day sentences

Randall Potts, a full-patch member of the East End Hells Angels, stored four grenades, six guns, four silencers and ammunition at his mother’s and stepfather’s home – an arsenal that B.C. Supreme Court Judge Selwyn Romilly was convinced could have only sinister purposes.

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#8 — NP | Newly formed Toronto drug squad finds massive heroin stash

Toronto • A new specialized team of drug investigators has uncovered one of the largest heroin caches found in Canada during its first investigation, one that started and finished within a month.

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#9 — NP | Czech Roma being persecuted: Canadian government study

OTTAWA — Incidents of members of the Roma minority in the Czech Republic being firebombed, turned away from restaurants and refused housing by landlords are contained in a fact-finding report released in Ottawa on Monday.

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#10 — NP | Man charged in synagogue attack returns to teaching

An Ottawa university professor charged in the deadly terrorist bombing of a French synagogue nearly 30 years ago is expected to resume teaching this week.

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#11 — MG | Cédrika Provencher’s family still hopes for her return 2 years after disappearance

MONTREAL – Henri Provencher is never far from his phone.

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#12 — Star | Woman held in Kenya gives up DNA samples

A Toronto woman trapped in Africa allowed Canadian officials to weigh, measure, photograph, fingerprint and swab her for DNA yesterday in a last-ditch attempt to prove her identity.

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