#1 — CBC | Ex-politician suspected in deadly police shootout
Fred Preston, a former Ontario township council leader who was struggling with marital problems, has been identified as the suspect in a shootout on a rural road that killed an Ontario Provincial Police officer.
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#2 — CBC | Federal budget survives 1st vote
Stephen Harper’s minority Conservative government has survived its first confidence test of the new session of Parliament.
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Globe | Budget deep freeze will lead to end of climate research lab
#3 — CBC | Niqab-wearing woman blocked again from class
The Quebec government has intervened again in the case of a Muslim woman who refused to remove her niqab veil during a French-language class.
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#4 — Globe | Jaffer avoids criminal charges, leaving questions unanswered
Was there some flaw in the way the police stopped him and administered the breath-analysis test? Was it the way he was arrested and searched?
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#5 — Globe | Ontario stakes its recovery on education
Ontario’s road to economic recovery leads through the classroom, with a new strategy to turn education into an export industry.
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#6 — LFP | Thousands salute Peel officer killed in crash while on duty
MISSISSAUGA – Thousands of officers from emergency services across Canada marched in dress uniforms to pay tribute Tuesday to a Peel Regional Police officer killed on duty.
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#7 — NP | U.S. lawmakers urge scrapping of NAFTA
WASHINGTON — The Harper government sought Tuesday to fend off a new trade threat from U.S. lawmakers pushing legislation to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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#8 — OC | Growing foreign-born population to forge ‘new Canada’
There is a “new Canada” just over the horizon — home to a diversity of skin tones, birth countries, languages and religious faiths unprecedented in the nation’s history.
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#9 — MG | Food recall could be largest in North America: FDA
OTTAWA — About 50 Canadian food companies manufactured snacks and other processed foods made with an ingredient that has been recalled due to possible salmonella contamination, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Tuesday.
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#10 — Star | No freeze on spending for PM’s own bureaucracy
OTTAWA–In the Conservative crackdown on salaries and office budgets, it seems one wing of government didn’t get the memo – Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s own bureaucracy.
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