#1 — CBC | Health costs push Alberta budget deficit to $4.75B
Alberta’s Progressive Conservative government is projecting a record $4.75-billion budget deficit and planning cuts in many departments while increasing health-care spending by 16.6 per cent.
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#2 — CBC | Ludwig search warrant cites phone records, letter to EnCana
CBC has obtained a copy of the search warrant executed last month on Wiebo Ludwig’s farm near Hythe, Alta., in connection with the investigation into the bombing of natural gas pipeline sites in B.C.
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#3 — Globe | Anglican Church facing the threat of extinction
The Anglican Church in Canada – once as powerful in the nation’s secular life as it was in its soul – may be only a generation away from extinction, says a just-published assessment of the church’s future.
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#4 — Globe | Major player in wind energy may come to Ontario: McGuinty
The Ontario government is in talks with a major wind turbine maker about possibly setting up shop in the province.
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#5 — LFP | Four face murder counts in decade-old cold case
BRANTFORD — Brantford police have arrested four people in a decade-old train fatality.
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#6 — NP | Honda to recall 826,000 cars globally over airbags
DETROIT — Honda Motor Co Ltd said Tuesday it would expand a recall by nearly 379,000 vehicles in the United States to replace an airbag deflator that could rupture and send shards toward the driver during an accident.
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#7 — OC | McGuinty prorogues legislature
OTTAWA — Stephen Harper did it, so why not Dalton McGuinty.
The Ontario premier said Tuesday he will “briefly” prorogue the provincial legislature, probably next week, and then begin a new legislative session following the Olympic Games with a throne speech.
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#8 — OC | Price of gas falls for sixth straight week
OTTAWA — The average price of gasoline in Canada has fallen every week so far in 2010, and on Tuesday was down 3.7 cents from the first week in January, according to a weekly report.
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#9 — MG | PQ to pressure Charest on corruption
QUEBEC – When the Quebec National Assembly resumes sitting Tuesday afternoon, the opposition Parti Québécois will renew its attacks on the Charest government, calling for a public inquiry into allegations of corruption and under-the-table cash payments in the construction industry.
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#10 — Star | Teachers slam pricey ACC blowout
Toronto’s elementary and high school teachers’ unions say they don’t want a giant one-day conference Sept. 1 at the Air Canada Centre, but would rather spend the day preparing their own classrooms for the start of school.
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I guess if the Anglican church considers Canada a post-Christian society they have some decisions to make about how they conduct themselves over the next few years don’t they?
Personally I do not think Canada is as much a post-Christian society as it is a society that is simply unwilling to embrace a belief structure such as that espoused by the Anglican (or any other) Church if those beliefs do not fit within what it considers to be societal norms and values.
The written word of the bible has always been interpreted differently by different people in different times, maybe they just need to sit down and take a hard look at their current interpretation and see if it still makes sense.
– failing that I suppose they can bemoan the ills they perceive society has visited upon them, and the secular/liberal persecution they perceive they suffer under, while sliding further into irrelevancy until they ultimately fade away and leave us in peace.
“CBC has obtained a copy of the search warrant executed last month on Wiebo Ludwig’s farm near Hythe, Alta., in connection with the investigation into the bombing of natural gas pipeline sites in B.C.”
Wow, good on the CBC. What an investigative coup! They sure are worth that $!B+ taxpayer funding they get every year after all! Duh, earth to the world. Search warrants, unless specifically requested to be sealed by the police and such request approved by the court, become a matter of public record once they are sworn. All ya gotta do is go down to the courthouse and ask for a copy. Just in case anyone thinks the CBC has really done something spectacular here. They haven’t. What is more revealing is how long it took anyone in dumb ass MSM to get off their lazy butts and just go down and ask for it.
More bad news for Alberta as ‘two U.S. firms wash hands of tar sands.’ Two Fortune 500 companies announced plans to eliminate the high carbon Alberta fuel from its supply chain. This should add some fuel to Quebec’s constant bashing of anything Alberta.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/763336–2-u-s-firms-wont-use-tar-sands-oil?bn=1
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