#1 — CBC | MacKay denies Afghan committee request
The Conservative government has refused a parliamentary committee’s request to allow the military’s former top lawyer to testify without legal restrictions on the Afghan detainee affair, CBC news has learned.
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#2 — CBC | Vader a suspect in McCann disappearance
Travis Edward Vader is now considered a suspect in the case of missing Alberta couple Lyle and Marie Ann McCann, RCMP said Tuesday.
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#3 — CNews | Suspected Tamil Tigers segregated from migrants
More than three dozen Tamil migrants have been segregated from 492 others who arrived by boat for questioning by police on suspicion of being linked to the Tamil Tigers, or other inadmissible groups, including war criminals.
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#4 — CNews | Harper, Ignatieff lay out election themes
BADDECK, N.S. – Within days of each other, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his main opponent, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, have now sketched out the themes each will likely offer up to Canadians in the next election campaign.
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#5 — Globe | Natives fear Ottawa aiming to convert reserves to private land ownership
Ottawa has quietly ordered a study of Canada’s most economically successful first nations, raising the prospect of a new approach to developing businesses on reserves while sparking fear among some native leaders that their rights to land and resources are at risk.
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#6 — LFP | Khadr trial to resume Oct. 18
OTTAWA — The historic war crimes trial of accused terrorist Omar Khadr is set to resume Oct. 18, more than two months after his lawyer collapsed in court.
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#7 — FP | Housing will be banks’ next sore spot
Canada’s housing market was a key source of strength that shielded the banks from the financial crisis but a flurry of recent warnings about a market bubble is raising concerns the vast mortgage holdings on bank balance sheets is about to become a millstone.
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#8 — OC | Terror suspect’s house bugged for six months
OTTAWA — Prosecution evidence in the domestic assault case Awso Peshdary comes from microphones planted by police in his house, an Ottawa court heard Tuesday.
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#9 — MG | Health agencies won’t sanction national trials of controversial MS treatment
OTTAWA — Canada’s leading multiple sclerosis scientists and researchers have recommended there be no Canadawide clinical trials of a controversial treatment for the disease because of the overwhelming lack of scientific evidence on the procedure’s safety.
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#10 — Star | Missing woman may be linked to bloody crime scene
Police investigators are holding out hope that a 42-year-old Orangeville woman is still alive, even though blood has been found splattered in her car and home.
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