#1 — CBC | 4 federal ridings up for grabs Monday
Voters go to the polls in four federal byelections Monday after tight races that seem likely to confirm the status quo but could produce upset victories for the Conservatives and New Democrats.
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#2 — CBC | Smitherman to quit Ont. cabinet
Ontario deputy premier George Smitherman will resign from cabinet on Monday to prepare his run for mayor of Toronto in 2010.
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#3 — CTV | Omar Khadr’s legal fate could be decided this week
Omar Khadr, the only Canadian held at Guantanamo Bay, should have a clearer idea of his legal fate by the end of this week.
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#4 — Globe | Native tribe will petition Ottawa to remove their Indian status
A delegation of the Gitxsan people from northwest British Columbia is set to meet with Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl next month with a groundbreaking proposal: That the 13,000 members of their tribe be allowed to abandon their status as “Indians.”
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#5 — Globe | Low birth rates put hundreds of schools at risk of closing
Ontario will see an unprecedented number of school closings unless the province updates its funding models to account for the ever-shrinking school-age population, a report by an education advocacy group has found.
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#6 — Globe | Polar bear steals the torch’s thunder
The Olympic flame began its journey to the furthest point north in its history by stopping off first at a town known for the Arctic’s most familiar icon – the polar bear.
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#7 — NP | Canadian commander ends Afghan role with warning and optimism
SENJARAY, Afghanistan — Western patience with Afghanistan’s political class was wearing so dangerously thin that coalition forces might quit the country if the situation regarding governance and corruption did not soon change radically for the better.
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#8 — OC | Michael J. Fox named most influential expat
Michael J. Fox, who used the fame he gained as an actor to take a starring role in the fight against Parkinson’s disease, has been named the most influential Canadian expatriate.
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#9 — MG | Muslim scholar draws sellout crowd
Despite a full-page advertisement in a local newspaper denouncing his visit, there were no protesters when controversial Muslim orator Tariq Ramadan spoke last night.
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#10 — Star | GM throws laid-off staff a $90M lifeline
OTTAWA–General Motors is to announce Monday a $90-million investment in the CAMI plant in Ingersoll, east of London, Ont. where the popular Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain crossover models are built, the Toronto Star has learned.
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CBC byline: …upset victories for the Conservatives and the New Democrats…??? You’re shittin’ me right??
Why are these creeps still allowed to exist?
CBC crying, tom clark, giggles and oliver are probably in deep shock. Gilles is in shock, he lost a seat. Libs come behind NDP in most ridings we won. Lizzie must be very upset, less than 1000 votes in all ridings.
We gain 2 seats against all the faux scandals, the libs and media could throw at us.