#1 — CBC | LaFortune accused faces new charges
The man accused of assaulting Dustin LaFortune now faces more criminal charges.
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#2 — CBC | Jail sex video scandal spurs 6 suspensions
Six of the seven men who allegedly watched on a security camera monitor while two women engaged in sex in a Kamloops, B.C., jail cell have been suspended.
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#3 — CNews | Toronto woman ID’d as fatal motorcycle victim
TORONTO – The woman who was killed after falling off a speeding motorcycle in Whitby, Ont., on Friday has been identified as Ioana Bocunescu, 40.
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#4 — Globe | Blatchford: Juicy details of Manitoba judge’s undoing provide grist for myriad pundits
There’s a delightful tale about a Toronto Superior Court judge who occasionally hosts groups of high-school students visiting the courthouse and who sometimes even takes questions from them.
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NP | Manitoba judge embroiled in sex scandal removes self from bench
Star | Nude photos raise questions about private lives of judges
#5 — Globe | B.C. got details of Ontario HST deal before provincial vote
Weeks before the British Columbia election campaign began last year, senior officials in the B.C. Finance Ministry were given confidential details of Ontario’s harmonized sales tax agreement with Ottawa – information that B.C.’s Finance Minister Colin Hansen maintains he knew nothing about until after the polls had closed.
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#6 — LFP | Missing woman victim of ‘foul play’
TORONTO – Missing nurse Sonia Varaschin was the victim of foul play, the Ontario Provincial Police said in an announcement Wednesday.
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#7 — FP | New credit card rules take effect
OTTAWA — New regulations came into effect Wednesday that the federal government says will protect credit-card holders from unexpected costs and help them make better financial decisions.
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#8 — OC | Pakistani Taliban implicated in alleged Ottawa terror plot
OTTAWA — The Pakistani Taliban, which claimed responsibility for May’s failed Times Square bombing, is now implicated in the alleged jihadist scheme to bomb Ottawa.
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#9 — MG | Bastarache gives Bellemare some ammunition
QUEBEC – Former justice minister Marc Bellemare was granted the status of full participant at the Bastarache commission yesterday, allowing him to better fend off the vigorous attacks his opponents are promising in the weeks ahead.
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#10 — Star | Ottawa won’t fund MS trials, but others could
OTTAWA–A federal decision not to fund clinical trials for an experimental multiple sclerosis treatment cannot stop Saskatchewan from going ahead, but the province would have other scientific and ethical hoops to jump through first.
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