#1 — CBC | Dozens arrested at Montreal protest
Dozens of protesters were detained after bottles and firecrackers were thrown at police officers during an annual police brutality demonstration in Montreal on Monday evening.
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#2 — CBC | Senior drivers need more options: MDs
A senior’s licence to drive shouldn’t trump public safety, say doctors advocating better transportation programs for an aging population.
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#3 — CBC | Snowmobile events need tighter rules: widow
The wife of a man killed in a weekend avalanche near Revelstoke, B.C., wants to know why the extreme snowmobiling event her husband attended went ahead despite avalanche warnings.
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#4 — Globe | Managers urge NHL to fast-track head shot regulations
In the face of mounting public criticism, a group of general managers is pushing the NHL to adopt its proposed new rule on hits to the head before the end of the current season.
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#5 — Globe | Ending Indian band councils’ post-secondary funding recommended
A new think tank wants Indian band councils stripped of their power to give out post-secondary education grants. Instead, it says, Ottawa should create accounts for each Indian child at birth that would be used later for tuition and living expenses.
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#6 — NP | Ottawa ups seal hunt quota by 50,000
OTTAWA – Canada’s fisheries minister on Monday hiked the total number of seals that hunters would be allowed to slaughter during an annual Atlantic coast hunt set to begin later this month.
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#7 — NP | Death-benefit lawsuit could cost Ottawa billions
OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada will venture on Wednesday into one of the biggest age-discrimination cases in years, when it considers an appeal from the widows of two former federal employees that could cost the federal treasury more than $2-billion.
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#8 — OC | Get ready for a sunny summer: Experts
OTTAWA — Canadians can look forward to a sunny summer this year, forecasters say.
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#9 — MG | Canadian housing market shows signs of cooling
OTTAWA — The once red-hot housing market — which several observers warned last month was in danger of turning into a bubble — is showing signs of losing steam as new listings climb and affordability begins to tighten, data released Monday indicate.
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#10 — Star | MPP’s vision: Province of Toronto
OWEN SOUND, ONT.–A Progressive Conservative member of the Legislature says he thinks Toronto should become its own province.
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Latest Nano’s poll:
Cons…34.7%
LIEberals…34.6%
ndp…17.8%
Grn…5.2%
Latest dumber than a bag of hammers poll:
34.6% of the people polled.
I don’t know about anybody else but I either don’t answer the phone when I see a 1-800 number or if I happen to answer it without looking at the call display I hang up on the pollsters. So this poll could actually indicate that liberals are much more prone to answer their phones (except when some stupider than stupid reality show is on) and waste 5-10 minutes talking to a complete stranger about their personal political preferences than conservatives. I wonder what percentage of the people polled live outside the GTA? Just a guess, but 34.7% sounds about right.
It would seem again that the main two left leaning federal parties are still confusing the electorate, Those who care about Canadian politics.