Jack's Newswatch

#1 — CBC | Ontario man killed in Connecticut explosion

An Ontario man was among the five people killed in Sunday’s explosion at a power plant under construction in Middleton, Conn.

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#2 — CBC | Interim commander will replace Williams

The Canadian military expressed shock Monday at the murder charges laid against Col. Russell Williams and said it will appoint an interim commander to replace him as head of 8 Wing/CFB Trenton.

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Globe | Respected colonel charged with murder of two women (updated)

LFP | Top gun falls from grace

LFP | Anger, fear linger in Tweed despite relief at arrests

NP | CFB Trenton commander makes court appearance in double first-degree murder charge

Star | Trenton commander charged with 2 murders, sex crimes

#3 — CBC | 2 plead not guilty in Creba murder trial

Two men have pleaded not guilty to all charges against them in connection with a shootout in downtown Toronto on Boxing Day 2005 that left 15-year-old Jane Creba dead and six others injured.

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#4 — Globe | IOC won’t have to bailout VANOC, Rogge says

The International Olympic Committee no longer expects to have to throw local Olympic organizers a multimillion-dollar fiscal lifeline.

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#5 — Globe | Hamilton researchers to test Italian scientist’s MS theory

Researchers in Hamilton plan to begin patient trials evaluating the work of an Italian scientist whose intriguing treatment for multiple sclerosis has sparked both hope and controversy.

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#6 — Globe | Home prices on course to hit record highs in 2010

A rush to buy, sparked by expectations of higher mortgage rates and the pending harmonized sales tax in Ontario and British Columbia, is fuelling an ever sharper rebound in the real estate market.

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#7 — Globe | First Nations University set to close after losing federal funding

Canada’s only aboriginal-run university has been run into the ground.

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#8 — OC | Nortel pension bailout to cost about $200M, Duncan says

OTTAWA — Help for Nortel pensioners announced by the provincial government will cost about $200 million, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said.

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#9 — MG | Nicolo Rizzuto faces fresh tax-evasion charges

MONTREAL – Nicolo Rizzuto might have thought he left his troubles behind him in 2008 when he walked away from a conviction in Project Colisée with only a probationary sentence left to serve.

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#10 — Star | Williams doing well, staff says

ST. JOHN’S, Nfld.–Premier Danny Williams is recovering well from his heart surgery in the United States and is expected to be released from hospital this week, his office says.

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#1 — CBC | Ontario to partially guarantee Nortel pensions

The Ontario government is reassuring former Nortel employees who worked in the province that the first $1,000 of their monthly pension payments will be guaranteed under an emergency pension insurance fund.

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#2 — Globe | Isotope crisis deepens with Dutch reactor shutdown

Canadian medical officials are bracing for “significant shortages” of a key isotope used to perform imaging tests and warning a lack of supply this spring could hamper diagnoses of life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and heart disease.

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#3 — Globe | A new way to harden Cypress’s snow

VANCOUVER - Organizers for the 2010 Winter Olympics are pulling out all stops at troubled Cypress Mountain, including a snow-hardening technique designed to battle the unseasonably warm temperatures.

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#4 — Globe | Canadian envoy objected to banning George Galloway

The Canadian high commissioner to London flatly objected to barring British MP George Galloway from Canada, saying it would simply provide “a greater platform” for a vocal politician who’s “not taken seriously” in his homeland.

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#5 — NP | Stop selling unlicensed natural health remedies: pharmacy regulators

Makers of natural-health products say they are bracing for widespread layoffs and millions of dollars in losses after Canada’s pharmacy regulators issued a surprise directive recently urging druggists to stop selling unlicensed natural remedies.

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#6 — NP | Should the government fund libel suits against its citizens?

At around dinner time on Feb. 6, 2008, a knock at the door at the Rawdon, Que., home of Steve Solo set the dogs barking. It was a pair of Sûreté du Québec police officers, on hand to usher in the local huissier — the bailiff — on an unannounced visit to execute a court order to seize computer records as evidence in a defamation case.

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#7 — OC | Fire destroys CTV Ottawa newsroom, decades of history

A fire that tore through the CTV Ottawa newsroom early Sunday caused at least $2.5 million in damage and gutted the newsroom in the former CJOH building at 1500 Merivale Road.

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#8 — OC | Special Report: Cockroaches, mice rampant at Chinatown eateries

OTTAWA — On most Sunday mornings, the line of hungry customers at the Chu Shing restaurant stretches out the door and down the spiral staircase that overlooks Somerset Street West. For late arrivals, waits of half an hour for a table at the bustling dim sum spot are not unusual.

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#9 — MG | Women’s hockey team lands in Vancouver

VANCOUVER — The Canadian Olympic women’s hockey team couldn’t wait to get Vancouver. Delays at Calgary International Airport had other ideas.

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#10 — Star | Elite police squad looks for trouble

It’s Saturday night in Malvern, and a young black man is leaning over the side of a police cruiser, arms spread wide, crying for a bit of mercy.

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#1 — CBC | G7 Iqaluit meeting ends

The meeting of the finance ministers from the world’s leading economies ended in Iqaluit Saturday, but there was no indication whether the Group of Seven leaders had bridged the gaps that separated them.

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#2 — CBC | Training on Cypress cut to save snow for Olympics

Olympic officials announced Saturday that in order to save snow, they would scale back training time for athletes at one of the mountain venues for the 2010 Winter Games.

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#3 — CBC | Winds damage historical sites in St. John’s

Newfoundland residents were digging out from a heavy snowfall Saturday and surveying the wind damage to some of St. John’s oldest and most beloved sites.

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#4 — Globe | Big Six banks urge Ottawa to tighten mortgage rules

Canada’s top bankers are pushing the government to clamp down on the mortgage market to cool off the rise in home prices.

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#5 — NP | Wildrose leader accuses Alberta’s premier of spying

EDMONTON — The leader of Alberta’s upstart Wildrose Alliance party has accused the office Premier Ed Stelmach of spying on her.

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#6 — FP | Interlopers sideswipe makers of sanctioned Games apparel

At a Lululemon Athletica store in midtown Toronto, the lineup was long and the merchandise that dared not speak the name “2010 Olympics” was in hot demand.

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#7 — OC | Bank manager’s arrest in robberies stuns Hawkesbury, Vankleek Hill

News that a Hawkesbury bank manager has been arrested for an armed robbery of her own bank — and for a string of other robberies and home invasions since November — is the talk of the town in Hawkesbury and Vankleek Hill.

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#8 — OC | Canadian dies in Canary Islands while training for Ironman triathlon

EDMONTON — An Edmonton family is mourning the death of a daughter, a kind-hearted psychologist and extreme athlete, after she crashed her bicycle while training for an Ironman triathlon in the Canary Islands.

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#9 — MG | Body scanner operational at Trudeau

MONTREAL – Full-body scanning has begun at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.

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#10 — Star | Police, tenants fight for Chalkfarm

Four towers. Thousands of tenants stacked 23 storeys.

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#1 — CBC | 7 Canadian children rescued from porn ring

RCMP in Surrey, B.C., have rescued seven children and charged one man after a tip he was involved in an international child pornography ring.

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#2 — CBC | Earl Jones victims apply to sue Royal Bank

The victims of Montreal financial adviser Earl Jones announced Friday they are seeking a judge’s permission to launch a class-action lawsuit against the Royal Bank of Canada.

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#3 — Globe | Informal yet intense – one day to fix global finance

The finance ministers of the G7 have given themselves less than 24 hours between wheels down and wheels up on this barren subarctic island to sort out their differences over the best way to prevent another global financial collapse.

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#4 — Globe | Aboriginal university’s federal funding hangs in the balance

The fate of millions of dollars in federal funding for the beleaguered First Nations University will be decided within days, and Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Chuck Strahl is offering little hope that it might continue.

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#5 — Globe | Charest pilloried over asbestos exports at Delhi summit

Premier Jean Charest maintains he can do nothing to protect workers in India who are exposed to the health risks of asbestos mined in Quebec.

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#6 — LFP | OPP targets illegal motorists

OTTAWA — There are an estimated five million to seven million Ontario motorists behind the wheel of vehicles they shouldn’t be driving and now the OPP say they’ve got a system that will help put the brakes on them.

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#7 — NP | Court overturns IRB ruling allowing Tamil free

The Federal Court of Canada has rebuked the Immigration and Refugee Board for putting the rights of a foreign national being investigated for possible links to a terrorist group above the protection of Canadians.

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#8 — NP | Toyota facing nearly $1-billion in potential lawsuits in Canada: lawyer

Toyota is facing potential class-action lawsuits that could be worth nearly $1-billion in Canada alone, says the law firm that’s looking to launch the suits in the wake of the automaker’s massive recall.

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#9 — OC | Anti-Olympic activists plan massive disruption

OTTAWA — A call has gone out for anti-Olympic activists from across the continent to clog the streets of Vancouver and disrupt the first full day of the Winter Games.

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#10 — Star | Gang staged car crashes: cops

In a bizarre fraud scheme that could have been lifted from a movie, Toronto police allege a Scarborough gang bilked insurance companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by staging car crashes.

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#1 — CBC | Bank aware of irregularities with Jones account, memo reveals

The Royal Bank of Canada knew disgraced Montreal financial adviser Earl Jones was using his personal account for business and passing it off as an in-trust account, The Fifth Estate has learned.

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#2 — CBC | Breakthrough made on ‘Buy American’

Canadian companies will get access to funding from U.S. economic stimulus projects in 37 U.S. states under a deal to circumvent the protectionist “Buy American” clause, CBC News has learned.

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#3 — CBC | Independent agencies to probe RCMP complaints

The RCMP will bring in independent agencies to investigate, whenever possible, if a member of its own force has been accused of serious offences, the RCMP commissioner said.

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#4 – Globe | Divided G7 brings competing visions to the Arctic

A year after the world’s governments agreed to tackle the global financial collapse with a co-ordinated program of big-budget stimulus spending, their top ministers are arriving in the Canadian Arctic Friday in a desperate bid to keep that unity from falling apart.

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#5 — Globe | Liberals keep Toronto Centre in hard-fought by-election

Ontario’s governing Liberals won a Toronto by-election Thursday night, cruising to an easy victory despite discontent over Premier Dalton McGuinty’s sales tax reforms.

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#6 — Globe | Williams recovering from heart surgery

As Premier Danny Williams lay in intensive care after heart surgery Thursday in a U.S. hospital, his second-in-command lashed out at the “ferocious” debate around his trip south for treatment.

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#7 — NP | Sarah Palin to speak in Calgary

CALGARY – Sarah Palin is coming to Canada.

The former Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate will make her first Canadian public appearance since leaving office.

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LFP | Records: Palin didn’t pay property taxes on cabins

#8 — LFP | Pharmacies fear funding cuts loom

CHATHAM — There’s growing concern among Ontario pharmacy owners over potential government funding cuts that could affect services.

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#9 — Star | Auditor pegs city’s lost cash at $105M

An auditor’s report has revealed that fraud, waste and unpaid parking tickets are costing Toronto about $105 million.

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#10 — Star | Singles unite to say nay to Cupid’s Day

Love stinks, Cupid’s stupid, roses are dead.

And if that doesn’t say nay to Valentine’s Day, how about just ripping the heads off teddy bears?

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Popularity: 2% [?]

#1 — CBC | Government has no plans to bring back Khadr

The Canadian government still has no plans to push for the repatriation of Omar Khadr, an aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and a cabinet minister said Wednesday.

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#2 — CBC | Ex-Hells Angel gets immunity and $3M

A former member of the Hells Angels was paid $3 million and given immunity, in exchange for acting as a witness for Quebec provincial police, a Radio-Canada investigation has discovered.

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#3 — Globe | Harper sets a trap for the opposition

After weeks of being pilloried for shuttering the Commons, Stephen Harper is trying to win back disaffected Canadians by adding extra House sittings in March and April to recoup some lost time.

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LFP | Rae predicts ‘major confrontation’ when Parliament resumes

#4 — Globe | Despite heart-surgery flap, the Rock stands behind Danny Williams

Premier Danny Williams was sequestered in an undisclosed U.S. location Wednesday as he prepared for a medical procedure that has triggered ridicule south of the border about Canada’s health system but support at home for the popular politician.

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#5 — Globe | Vancouver police attack ‘cancer’ of gangs

Dubbing criminal gangs a “cancer” on Vancouver’s health, city police Wednesday announced 14 gang-related arrests as part of a sweep that has come to a head a week before the Winter Olympics begin.

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#6 — NP | Canada to match California, Quebec on tailpipe emissions

OTTAWA – Environment Canada is drafting vehicle tailpipe regulations to match the climate change goals of Quebec and California, according to a recently released federal document.

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#7 — NP | Not native? Then leave reserve, Mohawks say

The Kahnawake reserve on Montreal’s South Shore has issued eviction notices to 25 residents, saying they are not native enough to remain there.

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#8 — OC | Carleton expert to study stress among city police investigators

The Ottawa Police Service is about to expose the stressed-out, overworked soul of its criminal investigative services to an outsider who will study what lies behind the thin blue line.

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#9 — MG | Olympic history has been rife with scandal

From judges to juries; doping to, well, dopes: the Olympic Games have had their share of scandals.

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#10 — Star | Forces’ ‘credibility’ at stake

OTTAWA–Withdrawing from a fast-moving war presents a security challenge, a financial burden and a logistical nightmare for any army.

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#1 — CBC | Ont. top cop pushed for charges against protester

OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino encouraged his officers to lay charges against a protester — before there was any evidence the man had committed a crime — during a clash between natives and residents of Caledonia, Ont., in late 2007, according to emails made public this week in a court case.

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#2 — CBC | Tougher rules against suspended Ont. drivers coming

Ontario’s transportation minister says it will be harder for people with suspended licences to take to the road once the tougher penalties the province introduced last year take effect this fall.

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#3 — CBC | Olympic floating-hotel scheme sinks

A cruise ship that was to serve as a floating hotel in the port of Vancouver during the Olympics will not be showing up, leaving hundreds of tourists high and dry.

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#4 — CTV | Colleges push second vote on rejected offer

TORONTO — Ontario’s 9,000 college teachers will vote on a final contract offer after the colleges moved Tuesday to take a deal already rejected by the union straight to the teachers.

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#5 — CTV | Hiking funding or see beds closed, hospitals say

TORONTO — Ontario hospitals will have to close beds and scale back or even eliminate basic health care services if they don’t get at least a two per cent increase in operating funds from the provincial government, the Ontario Hospital Association warned Tuesday.

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#6 — Globe | RCMP investigating dozens of immigration firms

Police are investigating allegations of fraud at dozens of immigration consultancies across the country, according to government and law enforcement sources.

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#7 — Globe | Harper must make abortion part of health pledge, Ignatieff says

If Stephen Harper wants to champion the health of the world’s poor mothers, he’ll have to go to bat for abortion, too, Michael Ignatieff says.

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#8 — NP | Former Chinese spy seeks asylum in Toronto church

TORONTO — A man who spied on Chinese dissidents in the United States has been living in a Toronto church since this past August to avoid deportation, the National Post has learned.

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#9 — MG | Prosecutors assemble evidence for Shafia hearing

KINGSTON, Ont. – The puzzling case of three Montrealers accused in the bizarre canal drowning deaths of four family members continues Tuesday in the city where the shocking killings took place.

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#10 — Star | U.S. bloggers weigh in on Danny Williams surgery

ST. JOHN’S, N.L.— The decision by Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams to go stateside for heart surgery has provided ammunition for opponents of health care reform in the United States.

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Popularity: 4% [?]

#1 — CBC | Oilsands jeopardize Canada’s reputation: Prentice

Canada risks becoming the international poster child of unsound resource development if it doesn’t do a better job of developing the oilsands, says federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice.

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NP | Martin: Prentice acknowledges Canada’s reputation at stake on the oil sands

#2 — CBC | Nearly 1,000 Olympic security cameras go live

With just 10 days to go until the opening of the 2010 Winter Games, nearly 1,000 security cameras have been turned on to monitor the crowds, which are already starting to fill the streets.

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#3 — CBC | Whistler owner wants Ottawa to pay $90M US: report

The Canadian government denies that it is negotiating a payout to the owners of the giant ski resort and Winter Olympics venue, Whistler Blackcomb.

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#4 — CTV | Deficit won’t stop spending on child care, Ignatieff vows

OTTAWA — Michael Ignatieff says a Liberal government would pour money into child care and early childhood education, no matter how deep a financial hole the Tories may have dug the country into by then.

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#5 — Globe | Danny Williams travels to U.S. for heart surgery

The heart and soul of Newfoundland politics is in for repair – and it’s not in his home province or even in Canada, for that matter.

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#6 — Globe | Public Works under cloud over contracts

The senior bureaucrat in charge of Ottawa’s massive real-estate portfolio left his job after allegations that he engaged in favouritism and was in a conflict of interest with one of his suppliers, sources say.

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#7 — Globe | First the Victoria Cross, now a stamp

It is probably not widely known that the first Canadian to win the coveted Victoria Cross – Britain’s highest military award, given for valour in the face of the enemy – was the Nova Scotia son of former American slaves: William Neilson Edward Hall.

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#8 — LFP | Ontario college teachers threaten strike Feb. 11

Ontario’s 9,000 college instructors are set to strike Feb. 11 unless there’s an agreement in place or arbitration under way by then.

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#9 — OC | Harkat denies all terrorist ties

Mohamed Harkat took the stand Monday and denied ever running a safe house for Islamic extremists in Pakistan.

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#10 — Star | Police layoffs? Not in this town

Faced with a financial crisis, the city manager of Phoenix broke the news Thursday that 352 uniformed police officers would likely get pink slips next month.

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#1 — CBC | No regulations for GPS use despite safety risk

Transport Canada has identified the use of GPS devices as a threat to road safety but after six years of consultation with industry and safety groups has done nothing to regulate them, a CBC news investigation found.

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#2 — CBC | Deadline for home reno tax credit ends

Some big-box home renovation stores stayed open later than usual Sunday night to accommodate Canadians hoping to take advantage of the federal Home Renovation Tax Credit.

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#3 — CBC | OPP conduct aerial search for Belleville, Ont., woman

The Ontario Provincial Police took to the air Sunday as they ramped up their search for a Belleville woman who was last heard from on Thursday.

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#4 — CTV | Ignatieff sketches out ‘doable’ Senate reform ideas

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff laid out some broad Senate reform ideas Sunday, including term limits and a curb on the prime minister’s ability to stack the Upper House with his own picks.

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#5 — CTV | Police warn pet owners, parents, after coyote attack

Police are warning people to keep a close eye on their kids and pets after a dog was attacked by two coyotes in Scarborough.

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#6 — Globe | More than 300 people linked to suspected case of citizenship fraud

More than 300 people who claimed to live at the same address in Mississauga are being investigated by the RCMP in what police suspect may be a massive case of citizenship fraud.

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#7 — NP | Court to decide legal remedy for secret jury vetting

The Ontario Court of Appeal will hear arguments on Monday in a case that could lead to several convictions being overturned in the province as a result of secret jury vetting by the Crown and police.

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#8 — MG | Warning period ends for phone-using B.C., Ontario drivers

The grace period is over for drivers in Ontario and B.C. Those caught driving while clutching cellphones get more than a warning starting Monday.

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#9 — MG | Security sweeps wrap up as Olympic venues head into lockdown

WHISTLER, B.C. — Olympic security officials are finishing the final sweeps of the venues in preparation to lock down the Olympic Games sites.

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#10 — Star | Canada braces for fallout as Barack Obama unveils budget

WASHINGTON–The year ahead could be littered with as many as 14 fresh pieces of Buy American legislation as Washington readies to crunch a budget built for hard times, a senior Canadian trade adviser warns.

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#1 — CBC | Canada files emissions target with UN

Canada has aligned itself with U.S. policy as it gave the United Nations its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the Copenhagen Accord.

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#2 — CBC | DND denies blame for cancer in Shannon, Que.

The federal government denies responsibility for hundreds of cancer cases at the heart of a class-action lawsuit filed over allegations of contaminated water near CFB Valcartier in Quebec.

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#3 — CTV | Canadian general plans offensive against Taliban

A Canadian general in southern Afghanistan has vowed to “break the back” of Taliban insurgents as the hard-line Islamist movement rejected participation in proposed peace talks with the Afghan government.

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#4 — CTV | End of home reno credit prompt last-minute rush

Hardware stores, lumber yards and home renovation stores are reporting crowded parking lots and busy aisles this weekend as homeowners rush to beat the deadline for the federal home renovation tax credit.

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#5 — Globe | Ontario colleges urge union to let faculty vote on offer

Ontario’s 24 colleges have issued a fresh appeal to the Ontario Public Service Employees Union to let faculty vote on a final contract offer.

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#6 — OC |  Wind farms creating blackout zones for aviation radar

Canwest News Service – Wind turbines may be seen by governments across the land as a power source for the future, but a group of Canadian engineers could hold the key to ensuring that the clean energy system doesn’t end up causing an aviation disaster.

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#7 — OC | Day reaches out to bureaucrats

“Hello out there in Treasury Board land.” That’s how Stockwell Day opened his first memo to his new department.

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#8 — OC | Guilty plea expected from disgraced financial adviser

VICTORIA — Disgraced investment adviser Ian Thow is expected to plead guilty to two charges of fraud on March 1 in a Vancouver court, according to several potential Crown witnesses in the case.

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#9 — MG | Montreal protestors march against corruption

MONTREAL- A mix of about 100 citzens and politicians braved the frigid weather Saturday to march from City Hall to the premier’s Montreal office in the latest public push for a commission of inquiry into alleged collusion, corruption and outrageous cost overruns in Quebec’s construction industry.

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#10 — Star | The Bandidos and their mass-murder over nothing

The Shedden Massacre was not the work of criminal masterminds. As a whodunit, the story of the murder of eight members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club by fellow members in a barn outside London, Ont., could be told in a few sentences. But look at it as a whydunit, and it becomes a mystery of fascinating complexity. Not even outlaw biker insiders have an answer for this. Police, family members, even rival gangs can only shake their heads.

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#1 — CBC | Canada’s economy grew 0.4% in November

Canada’s gross domestic product grew by 0.4 per cent in November, Statistics Canada said Friday.

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#2 — CBC | 2 Ont. skiers plunge to deaths near B.C. resort

Two Ontario skiers were killed after they slid over a cliff in an out-of-bounds area near the Revelstoke Mountain ski resort in southeastern B.C., police said.

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#3 — CBC | PETA protester hit with pie at Harper event

A seal hunt protester with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was pied in St. John’s on Friday by someone dressed up in a Newfoundland dog costume.

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#4 — CTV | Danny Williams says war of words with PM over, for now

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Warm and fuzzy: that’s how Premier Danny Williams described a meeting Friday with his recent nemesis, Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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#5 — CTV | Noise complaint leads to discovery of deadly snake

Toronto Police dealt with an unusual call from an east-end residence on Thursday — they encountered five snakes, including one that’s highly venomous.

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#6 — Globe | With Senate in his grip, PM drives crime agenda

The appointment of five new Conservative senators who promise to expedite their party’s “tough on crime” agenda marks a realignment of political influence that will reverberate through Canada’s Parliament for years to come.

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#7 — Globe | Elections Canada to appeal GST ruling

Elections Canada says it will appeal a court ruling that required it to accept a $591,000 GST payback from the federal Conservative Party.

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NP | McParland: Harper has a good month in the dock

#8 — LFP | Cellphone crackdown marks end to warnings

There could be a blizzard of tickets written next week as police start cracking down on drivers with cellphones glued to their ears.

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#9 — MG | Speedskater Hughes named Canada’s flag-bearer

RICHMOND, B.C. — Speedskater Clara Hughes, one of Canada’s most-decorated Olympians, will carry the Maple Leaf during the opening ceremony at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.

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#10 — Star | GTHL cracks down on dangerous play

The world’s largest minor hockey league has announced sweeping new enforcement rules designed to protect young players from life-altering injuries.

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#1 — CBC | Harper to name 5 new senators

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is poised to name five new senators on Friday, giving the Conservatives effective control in both houses of Parliament as well greater sway over the legislative agenda.

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#2 — CBC | Supreme Court to rule on Khadr repatriation

The Supreme Court is expected to rule Friday on whether Ottawa has a legal obligation to press for the return of Canadian Omar Khadr from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

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#3 — CBC | Military probes beating of Afghan prisoner

The Canadian military has ordered a formal investigation into how a critical report on the beating of an Afghan prisoner remained buried at National Defence headquarters.

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#4 — CTV | Harper faces off on climate change at global forum

Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a global audience Thursday that Canada won’t immediately commit to deep carbon emission reduction targets — a comment that drew quick criticism from other world leaders.

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#5 — Globe | ‘No indication’ of rocket launch over Newfoundland, PMO official says

In the coastal Newfoundland town of Harbour Mille, the cozy type of place where everybody knows everybody and phone numbers only ever differ by a few digits, questions and theories abound.

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#6 — Globe | Saturna plane crash doors ‘jammed shut’

Six occupants of a Seair de Havilland Beaver floatplane that crashed on takeoff at Saturna Island last November drowned after the impact jammed most of the aircraft’s doors shut, says the Transportation Safety Board.

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#7 — NP | Tories to fine tune young offenders act

OTTAWA — The Harper government has decided to tweak rather than overhaul Canada’s young offender laws, which the prime minister once dismissed as an “unmitigated failure.”

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#8 — MG | Quebec accused of hypocrisy on asbestos exports

MONTREAL – More than 100 prominent scientists and researchers from 28 countries appealed yesterday to Premier Jean Charest on the eve of his trade mission to India to stop exporting Quebec-mined asbestos to developing nations.

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#9 — MG | Alberta’s privacy czar must justify delays, court rule

EDMONTON — Alberta’s highest court says the province’s backlogged Information and Privacy Commissioner can no longer take “routine extensions” in privacy cases, a decision that extends to complaints under health and access-to-information laws.

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#10 — Star | Hume: Trouble brewing on waterfront

When Toronto won the 2015 Pan Am Games last year, the future of the waterfront suddenly looked a whole lot brighter. Money would flow, decisions would be made, approvals granted and political will discovered. Projects mired in endless bureaucratic wrangling would finally come to life.

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