Jack's Newswatch

#1 — CBC | G7 Iqaluit meeting ends

The meeting of the finance ministers from the world’s leading economies ended in Iqaluit Saturday, but there was no indication whether the Group of Seven leaders had bridged the gaps that separated them.

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#2 — CBC | Training on Cypress cut to save snow for Olympics

Olympic officials announced Saturday that in order to save snow, they would scale back training time for athletes at one of the mountain venues for the 2010 Winter Games.

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#3 — CBC | Winds damage historical sites in St. John’s

Newfoundland residents were digging out from a heavy snowfall Saturday and surveying the wind damage to some of St. John’s oldest and most beloved sites.

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#4 — Globe | Big Six banks urge Ottawa to tighten mortgage rules

Canada’s top bankers are pushing the government to clamp down on the mortgage market to cool off the rise in home prices.

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#5 — NP | Wildrose leader accuses Alberta’s premier of spying

EDMONTON — The leader of Alberta’s upstart Wildrose Alliance party has accused the office Premier Ed Stelmach of spying on her.

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#6 — FP | Interlopers sideswipe makers of sanctioned Games apparel

At a Lululemon Athletica store in midtown Toronto, the lineup was long and the merchandise that dared not speak the name “2010 Olympics” was in hot demand.

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#7 — OC | Bank manager’s arrest in robberies stuns Hawkesbury, Vankleek Hill

News that a Hawkesbury bank manager has been arrested for an armed robbery of her own bank — and for a string of other robberies and home invasions since November — is the talk of the town in Hawkesbury and Vankleek Hill.

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#8 — OC | Canadian dies in Canary Islands while training for Ironman triathlon

EDMONTON — An Edmonton family is mourning the death of a daughter, a kind-hearted psychologist and extreme athlete, after she crashed her bicycle while training for an Ironman triathlon in the Canary Islands.

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#9 — MG | Body scanner operational at Trudeau

MONTREAL – Full-body scanning has begun at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.

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#10 — Star | Police, tenants fight for Chalkfarm

Four towers. Thousands of tenants stacked 23 storeys.

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