#1 — CBC | Alberta budget hits kids, seniors, disabled
Frontline public services will be affected by provincial funding cuts, Premier Ed Stelmach warns.
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#2 — CBC | Saint John MP pushes bridge deal
Conservative MP Rodney Weston is arguing the federal government is not stalling approval for $35 million worth of repairs to the Saint John Harbour Bridge.
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#3 — Globe | Canada’s avalanche warning system facing financial crunch
Faced with a rising tide of snowmobilers dying in avalanches, the Canadian Avalanche Centre says it needs to more than triple its budget to $3-million a year in order to run proper safety programming.
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#4 — Globe | Corrections Canada escapes shackles of fiscal restraint
Ottawa will spend more money on federal prisons in coming years – a rare exception to government-wide restraint and a sharp contrast to efforts by cash-strapped American states to save money through lower inmate populations.
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#5 — LFP | Cops, firefighters should help freeze wages, says McGuinty
TORONTO — All public-sector workers in Ontario — including municipal police and firefighters who escaped last week’s wage-freeze edict — need to do their part to slay Ontario’s massive deficits, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Sunday.
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#6 — LFP | Tories hope to shorten senate term
OTTAWA — The Conservative government will give Senate reform a fourth try Monday, senior government officials confirm.
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#7 — NP | Arctic summit highlights tensions, competing interests
OTTAWA — As the foreign ministers of five Arctic coastal states gather Monday for talks near Ottawa on the economic and environmental challenges facing the planet’s polar frontier, difficult questions linger over the region’s geopolitical future — highlighted by the exclusive guest list of the “Arctic Summit” itself.
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#8 — OC | Tim Hortons’ employees eligible for military medal
Tim Hortons’ employees at Kandahar Airfield will be among the medal recipients from the Afghan war, the result of a major overhaul of how the Canadian Forces recognize overseas service.
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#9 — MG | Charest government ‘paralyzed’ by allegations of inaction
QUEBEC – When Quebec Premier Jean Charest was re-elected with a majority in December 2008, he promised to weather the economic storm by keeping both hands on the wheel.
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#10 — Star | Michael Ignatieff’s election vow: Scrap tax cuts for business
MONTREAL–Michael Ignatieff promised that if elected, he will cancel $6 billion a year in corporate tax cuts planned by the Conservatives so that his Liberal party can pay for a more caring, environmentally friendly and smarter society in the years ahead.
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