#1 — CBC | Suspect in OPP killing dies
Fred Preston, who faced charges in the shootout death of an Ontario Provincial Police officer, has died, the province’s Special Investigations Unit confirmed late Thursday.
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#2 — CBC | Indian Act changes tabled in House
The federal government tabled legislation Thursday that could see more than 45,000 Canadians recognized as status Indians under changes to the Indian Act.
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#3 — CBC | Nunavut Mountie’s killer guilty of murder
An Iqaluit jury has found Pingoatuk Kolola guilty of murdering an RCMP officer in a remote Nunavut community more than two years ago.
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#4 — Globe | HST a potential boon to Ontario’s tax collectors
Tax collectors in Ontario will fare much better than their colleagues in British Columbia as both provinces move to harmonize their retail sales levies by July 1.
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#5 — Globe | Privileges restored for mistaken mastectomy MD
A Windsor, Ont., doctor at the centre of a controversy over mistaken mastectomies has won back her hospital privileges, but her cases will be monitored for the next three months.
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#6 — FP | Big funds stalk Canwest newspapers
The sale of Canada’s largest English-language daily newspaper chain has attracted some of the country’s financial heavyweights as potential suitors.
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#7 — NP | Rights of disabled new foreign policy focus, Cannon says
UNITED NATIONS — Promoting the rights of disabled people around the world will become a key foreign policy focus for Canada, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said at the United Nations Thursday.
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#8 — OC | MADD demands answers in ex-MP Jaffer plea bargain
OTTAWA — MADD, the national advocacy group against drunk driving, has written Ontario’s attorney general seeking answers on why charges were dropped against former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer.
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#9 — MG | Fight not over on O Canada lyrics: Senator
OTTAWA — Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth says she will keep trying to make the lyrics to the national anthem gender-neutral despite the abrupt reversal last week by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to withdraw a proposal to examine the possibility in the throne speech.
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#10 — Star | Canada denounces Israeli settlement
OTTAWA–Canada is sounding a rare criticism of Israel after news of plans to build a housing project in disputed East Jerusalem.
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“An Iqaluit jury has found Pingoatuk Kolola guilty of murdering an RCMP officer in a remote Nunavut community more than two years ago.”
Murdered officer had only 6 months service and serving in an isolated detachment. Hopefully this (incident and a few others) have forced a policy change. For starters a minimum 5 yrs service before getting sent to isolated postings? In any event, incidents like this I am sure prompt every serving or retired police (especially RCMP) officer to recall this saying, “there, but for the grace of God, go I”.