CANADA
#1 — CNews | Quebec student leaders want to spark national anti-Harper movement
The face of the Quebec student protests, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, has embarked on a Canada-wide tour to inspire Canadians to fight against austerity measures as well as Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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#2 — Globe | Be ‘fearless’ in face of wage-freeze furor, McGuinty urges Ontario Liberals
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is calling on Liberal Party members to be “fearless” in the face of mounting labour unrest over his government’s plans to freeze public-sector wages.
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WS | Embattled Ontario premier wins 85 per cent leadership endorsement from party
Cincinnatus | It’s good that Dalton McGuinty won the last Ontario election
TORONTO – This is the first of a three-part series from the newly published Predator: The Life and Crimes of Serial Killer Clifford Olson, by award-winning Canadian journalist Peter Worthington.
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#4 — NP | Omar Khadr has been returned to Canada, Vic Toews confirms
A decade after 15-year-old Omar Khadr was pulled near death from the rubble of a bombed-out compound in Afghanistan, the Canadian citizen set foot on Canadian soil early Saturday after an American military flight from the notorious prison in Guantanamo Bay.
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#5 — WS | Vulnerabilities in Canadian IT systems are nothing to joke about
OTTAWA — When a federal cyber-security expert gave his colleagues a rundown of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, his coworkers were impressed with his expertise — so impressed they jokingly became suspicious.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Venezuela election: Opposition duo die at poll rally
Two opposition politicians have been killed in Venezuela during a campaign rally, a week before the country’s presidential election.
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Telegraph | Venezuela’s marathon man looks to run down Chavez
#7 — CNN | Investigators find cracks in second Dreamliner engine
(CNN) – Just two months after an engine cracked and failed during test aboard a Boeing 787, federal plane inspectors have found a second engine problem on a different Dreamliner, the National Transportation Safety Board announced.
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#8 — Fox | Administration again urges contractors not to warn of layoffs, despite defense cuts
The Obama administration has doubled down on its plea to defense contractors not to warn employees about possible layoffs due to looming budget cuts — going so far as to offer to cover legal fees in compensation challenges.
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The carjacking suspect who shot himself in the head on live television yesterday has been identified as wanted felon, Jodon F. Romero.
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#10 — Telegraph | Senior Tory accuses EU of “squandering” Britain’s aid budget
A senior Government minister has accused the European Union of squandering Britain’s international aid budget on schemes that often have nothing to do with alleviating world poverty.
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