Canada August 17th, 2009 (15)
#1 — CBC | Kenya ordeal left woman ailing: lawyer
The lawyer for a Canadian woman who was stranded for three months in Kenya on suspicion of identity fraud, said Suaad Hagi Mohamud is seriously ill and that a Kenyan lawyer had “no authority” to talk about launching a lawsuit on her behalf.
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#2 — CBC | Firefighting chopper pilot believed dead after crash
Mounties in B.C. say a helicopter pilot who was helping fight one of the province’s many forest fires is believed to have died when he crashed into a river.
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#3 — CBC | Boys hit by lightning improve
Two young boys struck by lightning this week in Brampton, Ont., are improving, according to a Toronto hospital spokesperson and the father of one of the boys.
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#4 — CTV | Canadian injured in Kabul blast identified
The Canadian injured in Saturday’s suicide car bomb attack outside NATO headquarters in Kabul has been identified as an RCMP officer who had just begun a nine-month mission to the Afghan capital.
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#5 — CTV | Ottawa eyes Arctic co-operation with Danes
Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads north Monday for his annual Arctic pilgrimage, a trip that comes as Canada and Denmark begin exploring closer military co-operation in the barren region.
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#6 — CTV | Edmonton pranksters tipping over Smart cars
EDMONTON — Owners of pint-sized Smart cars aren’t laughing about reports that vandals may be targeting the tiny vehicles in a 21st-century take on tipping cows over.
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#7 — Globe | Pronghorns get free rein on the prairie
Designed to outrun saber-toothed cats as well as other ancient predators, and now, the coyotes and wolves that prowl the prairie, the pronghorn can reach a top speed of nearly 100 kilometres an hour.
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#8 — Globe | Canada Line set to launch Monday
Flat, suburban Richmond suddenly feels like a city of the future as we slide through the air amid its dense and glassy clusters of towers.
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#9 — Globe | As potash falls, Saskatchewan tightens purse strings
Marking a drastic turn in the province’s world-beating fortunes, the government of Saskatchewan announced yesterday it will divert over $700-million from construction projects, Crown corporations and its rainy-day fund in a bid to stanch the $1-billion drain of plummeting potash revenue.
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#10 — Globe | Quebec’s top court overturns gag order
Quebec’s top court has quashed an order that prevented the newspaper La Presse from reporting about talks to recoup federal money paid out in the sponsorship scandal.
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#11 — LFP | Lone kids seek entry at border
TORONTO — As many as four children a week are showing up without parents or loved ones at Niagara Falls border crossings to file refugee claims to stay in Canada, U.S. immigration workers say.
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#12 — NP | CSIS asks foreign agencies to share Harkat files
OTTAWA — Federal officials have written to a number of foreign spy agencies, asking them to release new information in the case of accused terrorist Mohamed Harkat.
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#13 — OC | RCMP yet to mount probe into missing mint gold
OTTAWA-Nearly a year after $15.3 million in gold vanished from the Royal Canadian Mint and two months after the Harper government ordered it to call in police, the Mounties have yet to launch a criminal probe.
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#14 — OC | Test-fire all guns before sale, White urges
Ottawa’s chief of police says every gun sold in Canada should be test-fired before sale and the information entered into a national database, making it easier to identify Canadian-bought guns and bullets recovered at crime scenes.
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#15 — Star | Quebec doctors lead charge for private health care
LAVAL, QUE.–Though officially named after the wide suburban-style boulevard it sits on, the double meaning of the family medical clinic’s moniker, which translates as “Future M.D.” is not lost on its patients.
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