#1 — CBC | Hillier wanted Canadians in safer Kabul: memoir
Canada’s former top soldier says in his new memoir that he argued for Canadian troops deployed to Afghanistan to be kept in the relative safety of Kabul, and he rebuffs claims he was responsible for getting the country mired in the bloody battlefields of Kandahar.
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#2 — CBC | Tortured Canadians won’t get quick compensation
The federal government has rejected a call from MPs to compensate three Canadians tortured overseas.
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#3 — CTV | Feds ship 2 million doses of swine flu vaccine
Two million doses of the swine flu vaccine have been shipped to the provinces and territories, the federal government announced Monday, with more expected to be ready in the coming days.
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#4 — CTV | Still no price tag attached to new sentencing bill
OTTAWA — Parliamentarians are in the final stages of passing a prison-sentence bill without fully understanding the price tag or the repercussions on prison conditions — despite some estimates that the new measures could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
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#5 — CTV | Defence lawyer pins blame on one Bandido biker
A simple plan to strip eight men of their Bandido biker gang affiliations turned instead into one of Ontario’s worst mass killings because one man, Wayne Kellestine, harboured murderous intentions not shared by his co-accused, a defence lawyer told court Monday.
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#6 — Globe | Ottawa targets abusers of tax-free savings accounts
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is cracking down on abuse of Tax Free Savings Accounts, closing loopholes in the popular investment program that is one of his centrepieces.
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#7 — Globe | Harper warns Karzai to accept Afghan recount
Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned Afghan President Harmid Karzai yesterday that he must respect his country’s electoral laws, after a United Nations-sponsored probe into the presidential election threw out so many fraudulent votes that a new vote now appears inevitable.
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#8 — OC | Tory ridings the winners from stimulus
OTTAWA-Conservative ridings across Canada received more than their fair share of big-money stimulus projects paid for by taxpayers, an investigation into the Harper government’s Economic Action Plan shows.
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#9 — Star | GTA drivers face 14% rise in car insurance rates
Millions of Ontario drivers are about to be slammed with double-digit premium hikes, with the average Toronto-area driver likely to pay nearly 14 per cent more.
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#10 — Star | Bureaucrat pay loophole to close
Highly paid Ontario government bureaucrats will no longer have their salaries “buried away” in hospital budgets to skirt public scrutiny, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Monday, bowing to opposition pressure following a Star exposé on the practice.
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And now for something different, Canadian News.
Another interesting article from a former Quebec Anglophone entitled ‘The Canadian Disease of Ethnocentric Quebecois Nationalism.’
http://www.galganov.com/editorials.asp?id=1168
Hillier wanted to take the easier Kabul assignment? That’s pathetic. We’re in it to win it – not take easy assignments. It’s war, the enemy must be engaged and defeated. Our soldiers have been courageously fighting in the Kandaher region – and now their former Commander is basically saying he doesn’t believe in the overall mission, he preferred an easy assignment and would let someone else do the fighting or concede. My respect for this man is greatly diminished.