#1 — CBC | New libel defence allowed: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Canada has opened the door for journalists to use the defence of “responsible communication” against libel suits.
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#2 — CBC | No tax cuts in next budget: Flaherty
Canadians shouldn’t expect any significant tax cuts or new spending in next spring’s budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Tuesday.
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#3 — CBC | Life sentence for Jane Creba murder
A man accused of killing a Toronto teenager as she shopped on busy Yonge Street on Boxing Day 2005 has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and has been sentenced to life in prison.
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#4 — CTV | Charest rips into Harper government over environment
MONTREAL — A war of words has erupted between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the premier of Quebec, with Jean Charest tearing a strip off Ottawa’s environmental performance.
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#5 — Globe | Top court refuses to hear case of female ski jumpers
A group of feisty women ski jumpers have lost their last attempt to leap the obstacles set in their path to competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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#6 — Globe | Quebec’s would-be saint all but forgotten
A million people attended Brother André’s funeral 72 years ago, but on the Sunday after Pope Benedict signalled his impending sainthood, not even a trickle of worshippers file into his chapel.
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#7 — OC | Unilingual postmistress reassigned to part-time, mail delivery job
OTTAWA — Pakenham has lost its home-grown but unilingual postmistress for a second time, despite what sounded like a promise to the contrary by Canada Post.
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#8 — OC | Hillier accused of ‘trivializing’ torture at detainees hearing
OTTAWA — Civil liberties lawyer Paul Champ on Tuesday accused retired general Rick Hillier of “trivializing” torture when the country’s former top soldier compared Afghan detainees and inmates at Ontario’s Millhaven penitentiary during testimony last month to a House of Commons committee.
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#9 — MG | Quebec’s parental leave program can’t keep up with birth rate
MONTREAL – Despite a $300-million government loan last spring and increased insurance premiums for employees and employers, Quebec’s popular parental leave program will need another handout if it is to keep afloat.
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#10 — Star | BlackBerry users stumped by 2nd outage in a week
A widespread service outage affected BlackBerry users across North and South America Tuesday evening.
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The situation in Pakenham, Ontario is the line that is being drawn in the sand as people are starting to understand the onerous and very expensive burden of Trudeau’s Official Bilingualism – a policy that was designed by the former liberals to push the french language onto English speaking Canada to the exclusion of all common sense.
Even Ignatieff has recently jumped on the language debate by stating “being bilingual is the essence of being Canadian. Fool!
‘Pakenham postmistress to keep job. Canada Post reverses decision to dismiss anglophone woman … AGAIN. Doug Hempstead, Ottawa Sun.
http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2009/12/22/12241046.html
Liberals – their discriminatory language policy still haunts Canada to this day and at a great cost to the Canadian economy. The above article also has an interesting video interview of the female anglophone involved in this sad language case.