#1 — CBC | Man carrying $800K in gold freed
A man held on suspicion of being a national security threat after trying to bring nearly $1 million into Canada secretly has been released from custody and now says he’s the victim of profiling.
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#2 — CBC | Women ski jumpers push for Games inclusion
Lawyers for women ski jumpers fighting to compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics appeared before B.C.’s Court of Appeal on Thursday in their final bid to force the hand of Games organizers.
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#3 — CBC | H1N1 a ‘dud’ pandemic, Ont. health official says
The huge investments governments made in swine flu pandemic planning might not have been justified, an Ontario health official said Thursday.
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#4 — CTV | New citizenship guide big on military, small on arts
Canada’s new citizenship guide for aspiring immigrants places a new emphasis on the military, the history of Confederation and First Nations but also finds room to mention hockey and curling.
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#5 — Globe | Ontario strikes populist note on HST
The Ontario government is making a populist appeal to placate consumers by exempting their morning cup of coffee and newspaper from the province’s proposed tax reforms, and it still has room to hand out a few more goodies.
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#6 — Globe | Coderre ends silence, says he hopes to lead Liberals
The Liberals are clamouring for more visibility in Quebec after this week’s disappointing by-election results, but they could have done without the most recent outburst from their former lieutenant, Liberal MP Denis Coderre.
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#7 — NP | ‘Lawless oasis’ formed in Caledonia: lawsuit
HAMILTON — A refusal by police to move against natives, even when witnessing dangerous criminal acts unrelated to land-claims issues, has allowed a “lawless oasis” to flourish, a no-man’s land encompassing an unfortunate couple whose home lies between a police barricade and a site occupied by masked aboriginal protestors, court heard yesterday.
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#8 — OC | Royals depart after 11-day visit to Canada
OTTAWA — Following a tradition that began a century ago, Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, planted an oak tree at Rideau Hall Thursday morning before making their way to Ottawa International Airport for their flight home to England.
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#9 — MG | Bachand lays down the law
QUEBEC – Finance Minister Raymond Bachand presented Bill 74 yesterday, an omnibus of changes, including the possibility of consecutive sentences for violations of Quebec’s securities laws.
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#10 — Star | America’s steel curtain thwarts Canada
OTTAWA–As the poster boy for Buy American, steel industry executive Dan DiMicco is a leader in the campaign that is keeping Canadian companies from bidding on highly valuable urban renewal projects south of the border. But his North Carolina-based corporate giant continues to sell millions of dollars of structural steel in Canada every year with no problem.
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An Immigration and Refugee Board adjudicator released Nawaya on Thursday on the condition that he provide documentation on the source of his money.
No surprise here folks. I have sat through a number of these hearings. I don’t know where the Feds find these IRB political appointees, but my guess was be the Land of Oz.
No BTDT,not the Land of Oz,they get these IRB appointees from Liberal Party Headquarters,and sometimes for a laugh from NDP Party Headquarters
The guy is crying he is the victim of profiling. Is there a lawyer lining up behind him to sue the govt.
And I find it strange that our country would let another terrorist sympathizer in the Country, Gerry Adams of the IRA.
Gotta disagree – in this case I think the system worked.
He had $??? in Canadian gold coins; the way the $CDN/$US are bouncing around they’re a really a good investment.
He was “hiding” the gold (in a suitcase); because he thought he’d have to pay taxes on the money when he entered Canada. This was a bad idea – there are certainly easier and safer legal ways.
He was immigrating here so, yes, he had his worldly goods with him, and yes some were politically related items.
He’s a flight instructor; for light planes (a light plane went straight into a Richmond, BC apartment building and damaged the apartment and startled the woman who lived there).
He’s going to sue; no he’s not. Even his lawyer Phil Rankin said this, in public on TV, and Phil Rankin is certainly NOT shy, and NOT an ambulance chaser.
I actually feel sorry for him; his life now in the hands of the bureaucrats. I know he’ll get the majority of his money back (it was “accounted for” as a lump sum payment from a US court) – I hope he gets all of it.
#6- Coderre as leader of the Liberals? Bwhahahaha!!
#7- While I realize the OPP have a tiger by the tail in Caledonia, this situation should have been dealt with years ago. Everyone who lives behind the line should be part of a class-action lawsuit against the Band and every single protester.