CANADA
#1 — CNews | Anglers on hook for rescue costs
The 26 fishermen plucked from an ice floe on Lake Simcoe north of Toronto on March 9 will be on the hook for their rescue.
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#2 — Globe | Loosening of rules about spreading sewage sludge on Ontario farms alarms critics
The loosening of rules around spreading sewage sludge – potentially laced with pharmaceuticals like Viagra – on Ontario farm fields has critics sounding the alarm about potential health risks.
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#3 — LFP | Most Ontarians want an election: OFL
A poll conducted on behalf of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) revealed that “Ontarians from every riding in the province are solidly opposed to the unfairness of (Premier Dalton) McGuinty’s budget and they are ready to go back to the polls to demand fair taxation.”
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#4 — FP | Corcoran: Chobani’s Greek yogurt drama
You’ve got to wonder what the agri-bureaucrats in Ottawa and Ontario were thinking when they decided to green-light the entry of Chobani Greek yogurt into the Canadian market. First Ottawa approved temporary imports of the U.S.-made product, as a preliminary step. Then Ontario granted the company that makes Chobani — Agro Farma of Norwich, N.Y. — a licence to build a $76-million yogurt making plant in the province. Then all hell broke loose.
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#5 — OC | Letters go out next week to public servants who may be affected by job cuts
OTTAWA — Public servants whose jobs could be affected by the cuts in the federal budget are starting to get notices that the work they do may disappear.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | US lottery: Search on for $640m jackpot winners
The search is on in the US for the winners of the world’s biggest ever lottery jackpot – $640m (£400m).
Three tickets have now been announced as sharing the massive prize, with the winners in the states of Maryland, Kansas and Illinois.
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#7 — CNN | Despite diplomacy, killing persists in Syria
(CNN) – Despite a U.N. envoy’s demand for an immediate cease-fire, the Syrian military clashed with defectors in the capital of Damascus and regime forces pummeled other areas with heavy gunfire Saturday, opposition activists said.
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Fox | Revolt to ouster President Assad is over, says Syrian official
#8 — Fox | Dead Briton feared for safety in China after dispute with fallen leader’s wife
Neil Heywood, the Briton whose death in China is at the center of a Chinese political crisis, told friends he feared for his safety because he had fallen out with the wife of a senior Communist Party leader, according to people familiar with the matter.
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#9 — DM | Heffer: It took Dave just ten days to REALLY toxify the Tories
The last ten days have been shocking for the Conservative Party. First the Budget misfired, particularly upsetting millions of pensioners.
Then the party’s Del Boy treasurer made a fool of himself, and embarrassed the Prime Minister, when undercover reporters posing as wealthy party donors secretly filmed him offering them private access to David Cameron.
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#10 — Telegraph | Fuel strike: government fails to calm panic buying
Afternoon Update March 31st, 2012 (10),The Government’s attempt to calm worried motorists appeared to have had little effect on Saturday as the country endured a third day of panic buying at the pumps.
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Telegraph | Moore: Even I’m starting to wonder — what do this lot know about anything?
