#1`– CBC | Saudi court revokes Montrealer’s death sentence
Saudi Arabia’s highest court has revoked the death sentence against Montrealer Mohamed Kohail, arrested after a fatal 2007 brawl, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon confirmed Saturday.
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#2 — CBC | Loblaws lawsuit backlash may linger: expert
A marketing professor is amazed at how quickly public opinion on the internet spurred Loblaws to drop its lawsuit for damages in the 2008 New Brunswick accident that killed seven members of the Bathurst High School basketball team and the coach’s wife.
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#3 — CTV | Ontario town rallies to help war-ravaged Afghan city
It’s a long way from small-town Ontario to the battlefield of Afghanistan, but that hasn’t stopped the owner of a small convenience store from uniting his community to help the impoverished nation’s neediest.
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#4 — CTV | Fantino to defend himself on charges
TORONTO — Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino is vowing to fight an allegation from an activist that he illegally influenced elected officials in Caledonia, Ont., the site of a long-running aboriginal occupation.
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#5 — Globe | Pine beetles transform B.C. forests into greenhouse enemy
In a single season, an army of pine beetles has transformed our allies in the battle against climate change into the enemy.
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#6 — LFP | London-Niagara among bus routes to be slashed
Blaming the decline of rural Ontario, Greyhound Canada announced yesterday it plans to abandon a series of routes, including one that serves communities from London to Niagara Falls.
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#7 — OC | Airport search leaves 85-year-old ‘terrified’
When Cynthia Sutcliffe took her 85-year-old aunt to Ottawa Airport for a flight to Toronto on Dec. 28, she expected the 4-foot-10 woman would have a smooth and uneventful trip home.
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#8 — OC | Note to Citizen readers
Friday’s announcement that our parent company, Canwest Limited Partnership and its subsidiaries, sought protection of the courts under the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act is a step forward in rebuilding and restructuring the newspaper group, including the Ottawa Citizen.
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#9 — MG | ADQ dead? Far from it, Gérard Deltell insists
MONTREAL – He’s a frank talker even when it comes to touchy subjects.
Ask Gérard Deltell what he has inherited in taking over as leader of the beleaguered Action démocratique du Québec and he’ll tell you: a big mess.
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#10 — Star | Olive: China’s automakers coming into view
China is poised to join the front ranks of global automakers, after decades of producing low-quality vehicles exclusively in its enormous home market.
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Re: Globe | Pine beetles transform B.C. forests into greenhouse enemy
Ben Parfitt, resource policy analyst “advocates preserving more healthy, old-growth forests on the coast as carbon sinks.”
… Unmentioned of course is that his employer is the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’.
Ben, here’s my question. “Don’t young and growing trees absorb more CO2 than old-growth mostly dead husks?” Sometimes I just can’t believe the science that gets published.