#1 — CNews | Immigration worker charged with selling route to Canada
OTTAWA – A federal employee from the immigration department has been nicked by the Mounties and charged with selling a path to living in Canada.
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#2 — CNews | Controversial Mackenzie pipeline gets approval
CALGARY — A massive pipeline to tap into the natural gas wealth in the Mackenzie River valley is in the public interest and should be approved by cabinet, Canada’s national energy industry regulator has ruled.
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#3 — CNews | Iggy wants to ride Rob Ford's wave
OTTAWA — Michael Ignatieff says his Liberal Party can beat Stephen Harper by riding the same wave of voter disgust that propelled Rob Ford into the Toronto mayor’s chair.
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#4 — Globe | Showdown over pension reforms pits Ottawa against provinces
Provinces are planning to fight for enhancements to the Canada Pension Plan at a key meeting on Monday, setting up a showdown with the Harper government over how Canadians will fund their retirements.
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#5 — Globe | PM to make native education a priority
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has taken a personal stake in improving the way children are taught on reserves by agreeing to meet collectively for the first time with first-nations leaders – a gathering where education would top the agenda.
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#6 — LFP | Stranded motorists shocked by towing fees
SARNIA, Ont. — Travellers stranded on local highways by this week’s winter storm are crying foul over fees charged by tow truck operators.
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#7 — NP | UPDATE: Council votes to cancel car registration tax on Jan. 1
City council has voted to cancel the wildly unpopular vehicle registration tax starting Jan. 1. Repealing the $60 fee that the city collects on your birthday, seen by many as a twisted present, was a central promise made by Mayor Rob Ford during the election.
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#8 — OC | Dealer lied about 'harrowing' deportation, government says
Canadian officials say they now believe a former Ottawa drug dealer, deported to Somalia, lied about his "harrowing" arrival in Mogadishu.
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#9 — MG | N.B. storm caused millions in damages to roads
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick is turning its attention from crisis management to repair in the wake of a fierce rain and windstorm this week that dumped up to 100 to 185 millimetres of rain on parts of the province.
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#10 — Star | Chief prevention officer to police all Ontario workplaces
No report will give Dilshod Marupov his old life back or undo the deaths of his four co-workers.
But the 22-year-old Uzbek refugee, the lone survivor of a scaffold collapse that killed four migrant workers last Christmas Eve, hopes an increase in training and education for workers and their supervisors will prevent future accidents.
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