CANADA
#1 — CNews | Liberal ministers told to quit posts to vie for McGuinty’s job
Premier Dalton McGuinty has told his ministers they must resign their cabinet posts if they enter the leadership race, a senior Liberal source says.
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#2 — Globe | N.S.’s Dexter worried Ottawa will throw ‘huge wrench’ into budget-balancing plan
Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter says he’s concerned Ottawa could soon throw off the province’s bid to balance its budget this spring.
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#3 — LFP | Huron-Bruce MPP says wind turbines lower resale property values
A rural Ontario MPP is calling for separate property assessments in areas where wind turbines are located or are planned.
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Dalton McGuinty’s austerity agenda began in earnest with a speech he delivered to the Canadian Club last January in which he said, “it is simply not possible to reduce spending without addressing salary expenditures.”
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#5 — WS | Return to winter on tap after balmy 2011-12
If you’ve become estranged from your snow shovel over the past two years, prepare to get back on a first-name basis.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Nissan steer-by-wire cars set for showrooms by 2013
Nissan plans to sell cars controlled by steer-by-wire technology within a year.
The innovation works by sending electronic signals from the steering wheel to a computerised unit that then controls the movement of the tyres, rather than using mechanical links.
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#7 — CNN | Picasso, Matisse paintings and more stolen from Netherlands museum
(CNN) – Paintings by famous modern artists disappeared from an exhibition in the Netherlands in a predawn art heist Tuesday, shutting down an exhibition in the Kunsthal Rotterdam, where works by Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Claude Monet are on display.
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#8 — Fox | Burma signs deal to dig up buried World War II planes
YANGON, Myanmar – Burma has signed a deal with a British aviation enthusiast to allow the excavation of a World War II treasure: dozens of Spitfire fighter planes buried by the British almost 70 years ago.
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#9 — DM | Hospital spends just 73p a meal on patients – less than is put aside to feed prisoners
Hospitals are spending as little as 73p on patients’ meals, less than is put aside to feed prisoners, officials have admitted.
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#10 — Telegraph | Yasser Arafat’s widow questioned by French investigators
Suha Arafat, the wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, has been questioned by French investigators examining claims her husband may have been poisoned.
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