CANADA
#1 — CS | Budget bleeds red ink
We’re still in the red but we’re flush with cash.
A robust economic forecast, fuelled by Alberta bitumen, means revenues in the province are expected to top $40 billion for the first time ever in 2012-2013, according to a fifth straight deficit Progressive Conservative budget tabled at the Legislature on Thursday.
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#2 — Globe | Toronto Mayor reassessing plan to sell off social housing units
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is re-evaluating a plan to liquidate 740 social housing units, a significant rethink that will see him working closely with councillors who have largely abandoned his agenda of late.
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#3 — LFP | Chief coroner mulls possible inquest
With many questions remaining, the head of Canada’s largest private-sector union wants a formal inquest into one of the most deadly crashes in Ontario history.
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#4 — FP | Foster: Political science at the academies
When Lord Robert May — a distinguished British population biologist — told a journalist: “I am the president of the Royal Society, and I am telling you the debate on climate change is over,” he was risking the reputation of the venerable institution he headed.
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#5 — OC | Adami: The costly downside of going green
Jeffrey Pelletier says he’s “all for preserving the planet.” But, he adds, “not over my wallet.”
Pelletier, who receives a small disability pension because he has Parkinson’s disease, didn’t know what to think when he came across a $19.99 “carbon offset fee” on his Enbridge gas bill last month.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Syria unrest: Arab League observer mission head quits
The head of the suspended Arab League observer mission to Syria has resigned as League foreign ministers meet to decide their next move in the crisis.
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#7 — CNN | Palin calls on Romney to work harder for the conservative vote
Washington (CNN) - Sarah Palin issued a warning to Mitt Romney Saturday, calling on the former Massachusetts governor to do a better job explaining his record to conservatives or risk dampening voter turnout in November if he wins the Republican presidential nomination.
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#8 — Fox | Prescription drugs found in Whitney Houston’s hotel room, report says
LOS ANGELES – Bottles of prescription drugs were found in the Beverly Hills Hilton hotel room where Whitney Houston’s lifeless body was discovered Saturday afternoon just hours before a huge Grammy party she was to attend, a report says.
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#9 — DM | It feels like home at last!
They are a long way from home – but these Arctic Wolves had their first proper taste of snow at a farm in rural Berkshire.
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#10 — Telegraph | Pakistan PM says to lose job if convicted of contempt
Pakistan’s beleaguered prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani has conceded he would automatically lose his job if he is convicted of contempt, as he prepared to face the Supreme Court on Monday.
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