#1 — CBC | Liberals in no rush for election
Senior Liberals are signalling they’re unlikely to use their first opportunity, in early October, to pull the plug on Stephen Harper’s minority government.
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#2 — CBC | Senate appointees include Habs ex-coach, journalist
Former NHL coach Jacques Demers, who in 2005 revealed he had hidden his struggle with illiteracy, journalist Linda Frum Sokolowski and Tory loyalists were among a slate of Senate appointees announced Thursday.
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#3 — CTV | Harper to name tax crusader as top spokesman
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper has chosen a longtime conservative crusader for lower taxes to be his new director of communications.
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#4 — CTV | Home resales rebound dramatically: real estate body
OTTAWA — The Canadian Real Estate Association has dramatically increased its forecast for sales of existing homes this year, to about where they stood in 2008 before the recession took hold.
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#5 — Globe | Ontario moves to seize bike-theft suspect’s property
Accused bicycle thief Igor Kenk is still a long way from justice on dozens of criminal charges, but that isn’t stopping the Ontario government from moving to take ownership of his bike repair shop, pickup trucks and 2,292 bicycles seized in police raids across west-end Toronto last summer.
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#6 — Globe | Canadian health-care advocates fire back
There are no death panels, no reference to “Obamacare” and no Shona Holmes. But vocal advocates of Canada’s health-care system have shot back at American detractors with a tamer brand of YouTube video, intended to correct what they see as misconceptions about Canada’s health resources being batted about in the heated United States health-care debate.
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#7 — Globe | CanWest talks hit unlikely snag
CanWest Global Communications Corp.’s efforts to restructure its debt have come up against a series of glitches in the past few weeks that are delaying a deal with bondholders.
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#8 — Globe | California’s Toyota loss is Ontario’s gain
Toyota is shutting the California factory it ran with General Motors for 25 years — the first time the Japanese auto maker is closing a major auto assembly plant ever.
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#9 — LFP | DriveTest strike surprises, frustrates motorists
One week into a strike that’s slammed the brakes on Ontario driving tests, many would-be drivers are still being blindsided by the work stoppage.
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#10 — LFP | Passport snafu strands Londoner in Scotland
A Londoner who should have celebrated her 24th birthday yesterday with family here is instead stuck in Scotland, the latest Canadian stranded in a foreign country and getting little help from Canadian staff abroad.
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#11 — NP | Blood, hair found in slain model’s car
California police say they’ve found evidence of a violent, bloody struggle inside the abandoned car owned by slain swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore, according to media reports.
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#12 — Star | Telltale teardrop quashes acquittal
In North American gang culture, a teardrop tattoo on your face often means you’ve killed a rival gang member.
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#13 — Star | Tax-rebate `bribes’ worry Liberal MPPs
Liberal MPPs worry that rebate cheques of up to $1,000, which Premier Dalton McGuinty assures them will cushion the blow of the new 13 per cent harmonized sales tax, are already being seen as “bribes” by skeptical voters.
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Kinda funny to read the Star’s readers snarling and snapping about the HST bribes…