Canada
#1 — CBC | Montreal fuel truck explosion injures 8
Eight people were taken to hospital after a tanker truck exploded while refuelling at a PetroCanada refinery in Montreal on Tuesday night.
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#2 — CBC | ATM skimming gear busted by bank customer
Calgary police have arrested two Ontario men in what they described as a sophisticated operation targeting debit information at bank machines across Canada.
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#3 — CNews | Bathtub killer seeks freedom
TORONTO – The younger of two Mississauga sisters convicted of killing their mother is expected to make a bid for early release Wednesday.
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#4 — Globe | Catholic schools must teach sex ed, McGuinty says
Premier Dalton McGuinty insists Ontario’s Catholic schools will have to teach sex education like any other public school.
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#5 — LFP | Canadian tax watchdog cries foul over First Nation band council salaries
OTTAWA — Aboriginal band council salaries should be posted online “for all to see,” says the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
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#6 — LFP | Doctors group wants gun registry to stay
OTTAWA — Repealing Canada’s long-gun registry would set back the significant gains in suicide prevention since the registry was introduced, emergency doctors and public health organizations said Wednesday.
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OC | Jail for man who traded shotgun for BMW with suicidal teen
#7 — NP | Barbara Kay: The cult of multisexualism
Sex education in the schools isn’t new. As John Moore pointed out in his Post column yesterday (“Hide your kids. The Liberals are coming”), Ontario’s more graphic additions, hastily rescinded to accommodate Christian and Muslim critics, were mere “tweakings” to a well-entrenched model.
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#8 — OC | Calgary facing winter storm warning; up to 20cm of snow expected
CALGARY – It may be the end of April, but Calgarians will get another reminder that snow is never too far away in the foothills today, according to Environment Canada.
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#9 — MG | African woman can stay – for now
Sayon Camara looked dazed as her husband, Abdul Sow, hugged her in the glare of TV cameras at Dorval airport.
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#10 — Tillsonburg News | The tobacco comeback
Ontario tobacco growers are looking at an expansion in production during the second year of the new licensing system, but it is too soon to tell whether the crop sector is reaching a plateau of stability after years of freefall.
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#11 — Star | Omar Khadr turned down plea deal
GUANTANAMO BAY–Military prosecutors offered a sentence of five years in a U.S. prison if Canadian detainee Omar Khadr pleads guilty to war crime offences, the Toronto Star has learned.
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World
#12 — CNews | Spring snowstorm drops up to 2 ft. in northeastern U.S.
MONTPELIER, Vt. — A spring snowstorm has dumped up to 2 feet (60 centimetres) of heavy, wet snow on parts of the northeastern U.S., cutting off power to thousands and closing some schools.
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#13 — BBC | Russia publishes Katyn massacre archives
Russia has published online once-secret files on the 1940 Katyn massacre, in which some 22,000 members of the Polish elite were killed by Soviet forces.
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#14 — BBC | Niger – UN warning over total crop failure
Niger is threatened with total crop failure in some areas and the situation is worse than the 2005 crisis, the UN humanitarian chief has told the BBC.
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#15 — CNN | Coast Guard to try burning oil slick off Louisiana coast
(CNN) — The U.S. Coast Guard prepared to set fire to portions of a growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday to keep the pool of crude away from sensitive ecological areas in the Mississippi River Delta.
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#15 — CNN | Nation’s first offshore wind farm approved for Nantucket Sound
(CNN) — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday approved the nation’s first offshore wind farm, signing off on a project that has split Cape Cod over the last nine years.
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#16 — Fox | GPS to Revolutionize Aviation…Finally
GPS technology has been in cars for years — now most advanced cell phones are GPS capable, but you might be surprised to know that the nation’s air traffic control system is only now starting to use GPS in a sophisticated way.
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#17 — NY Times | Man Stabs 15 Students in South China
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — A teacher wielding a knife broke into a primary school in southern China and stabbed 15 students and a teacher Wednesday, the same day another school attacker was executed for killing eight children last month, police and state media reported.
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#18 — DM | Space yacht will be first craft to travel on ‘solar waves’
A ‘space yacht’ propelled only by sunlight particles bouncing off its kite-shaped sails is to launch next month.
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#19 — DM | Young Picasso: the boy of ten who paints like a great
THEIR bold black lines, vibrant colours and disjointed, cubist forms have drawn inevitable comparisons with the paintings of Pablo Picasso.
But they are instead the work of a ten-year-old boy, who stunned the art world with echoes of the Spanish genius before ever seeing his pieces.
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#20 — Telegraph | Baby boy survives for nearly two days after abortion
A baby boy abandoned by doctors to die after a botched abortion was found alive nearly two days later.
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#21 — Telegraph | Pensioners pay a third of income in tax, research shows
Pensioners end up paying back a third of their income to the Government through taxes, new research has revealed.
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#22 — Telegraph | Drink drive limit ‘should be zero’, say nurses
Drivers should be banned from drinking even half a pint of shandy before they get behind the wheel, according to nurses.
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re # 6 “The vast majority of firearm deaths in Canada are not gang-related but occur when an ordinary citizen becomes suicidal or violent.” I don’t see any numbers in this article, which makes me suspicious. Is there a better source than stats. Can.?
Re topic # 6 and comment # 1 : Yes actual statistics not only of suicide by firearm but of cases where the registry actually stopped a suicide would be nice if the information actually exists.
OOOOPS, no gun well pills or jumping off a bridge or drowning or driving one’s car into a tree ……… the seriously motivated will find a way ! Medical mistakes in our hospitals kill a thousand times more as well as long waiting lists ….. but I don’t have any statistics either: Take that Doctors Group ” razz “, they probably all vote Liberal in that group.
Just nanny state mindset I think by some doctors: Over the years I’ve know a few doctors who enjoyed target shooting and had collections of firearms and didn’t like or believe gun control as being effective.