#1 — CBC | Canadian stranded in Kenya begins trip home
A Canadian woman stranded in Kenya boarded a flight home Friday evening after false-identity charges against her were dropped in a Nairobi court.
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#2 — CBC | Native protesters blockade Manitoba dam project
Members of a First Nation are blocking access to a $1.3-billion hydroelectric development project in northern Manitoba.
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#3 — CBC | Montreal teacher gets more jail time for sex crimes
A former teacher at an elite Montreal private school received additional jail time Friday after being sentenced in Virginia for more sex crimes involving children.
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#4 — CNews | Ottawa in no hurry to bring back Khadr
OTTAWA — Despite losing a second court battle, Prime Minister Stephen Harper appears unwilling to comply with a federal court order demanding his government seek the return of Omar Khadr to Canada.
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#5 — Globe | Fraser Health Authority slashes services
The Fraser Health Authority will cut elective surgeries by 10 to 15 per cent, place a cap on MRI procedures and reduce management positions in an effort to meet a budget shortfall of up to $160-million that the opposition alleges was hidden from the public during the last provincial election.
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#6 — Globe | Sun columnist poised to run for Tories
A staunchly conservative newspaper columnist will reportedly be the Progressive Conservative candidate in an upcoming by-election in the provincial riding of St. Paul’s.
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#7 — LFP | Too close for comfort
Public reaction — from ridicule to outrage — exploded yesterday as loudly as the 19-shot hail of gunfire a London police officer fired in pursuit of a robbery suspect this week.
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#8 — NP | Canada is not out of recession yet: Harper
CHELSEA, Que. — Canada is not yet out of the recession that has gripped the world, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday, adding that now is not the time for opposition parties to be contemplating an election.
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#9 — NP | Broadbent fires up NDP convention
HALIFAX — Twenty years after he left the helm of the federal NDP, a greyer, more stooped, but no less feisty Ed Broadbent was back in front of his party on Friday, unleashing an angry attack on the Liberals and Conservatives and blaming them squarely for the current recession.
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#10 — NP | System failing mentally ill in jails: experts
Phase one of an inquiry into the death of a Nova Scotia man who was Tasered while in police custody ended yesterday, and experts say the process has underscored a dire need for changes in the treatment of mentally-ill prisoners.
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#11 — Star | ‘Amoral thug’ gets seven years, curses judge
A 21-year-old Mississauga man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in a killing a judge said was designed to “instill fear” in Mississauga’s Malton community.
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Is it a coyote? Is it a wolf?
Yes and yes. It’s a “coywolf.”
The predators that are plaguing Durham Region and showing up in urban areas appear to be an emerging species resulting from wolves and coyotes interbreeding.
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