Jack's Newswatch

#1 — CBC | Charges possible in B.C. avalanche deaths

RCMP in B.C. say they have stopped searching at the site of a deadly avalanche and are now focusing on whether charges should be laid.

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#2 — CBC | Paralympics closing ceremonies make live TV

The closing ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Paralympics have gone from a no-show to a live show on the official broadcast network for the Games.

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#3 — CBC | Charges laid in BC Ferries deaths

One of the officers on the ill-fated Queen of the North has been charged with criminal negligence causing the deaths of two people, in the sinking of the BC Ferries vessel off the West Coast in March 2006.

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#4 — Globe | MPs vote to trash ten percenters

MPs have voted to put a stop to the practice of mailing taxpayer-funded political flyers to voters outside their own ridings.

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#5 — Globe | Tory bill proposes publicizing names of violent young offenders

With a greater emphasis on protecting the public rather than rehabilitating young offenders, the Conservative government is proposing changes for teenagers convicted of serious crimes that could result in their names being publicized and evidence from previous encounters with the law used in sentencing.

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#6 — NP | Federal funds for First Nations University ‘off the table’

REGINA — Saskatchewan Advanced Education Minister Rob Norris says there is no indication the federal government will restore more than $7-million in annual funding to First Nations University of Canada as it scrambles to forge a new operating partnership with the University of Regina.

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#7 — NP | Ottawa fails to commit on isotope compensation for provinces

OTTAWA — With Canada’s isotope supply stretched thin this week, Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq refused to commit Tuesday to compensating the provinces and territories for the added costs caused by the ongoing shortage.

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#8 — OC | Tories reject consumer fee on MP3 players

OTTAWA — A consumer levy on blank tapes and compact discs to compensate musicians may be fine, but the Conservative government on Tuesday drew the line at extending the fee to iPods and other MP3 players.

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#9 — MG | Remove niqab to get medicare card

A niqab-clad woman must uncover her face to confirm her identity when applying for a Quebec medicare card, the province’s human rights commission says.

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#10 — Star | Stephen Harper answers questions on YouTube

OTTAWA-Marijuana is not going to be decriminalized or even “respectable” as long as Stephen Harper is Prime Minister.

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#1 — CBC | Dozens arrested at Montreal protest

Dozens of protesters were detained after bottles and firecrackers were thrown at police officers during an annual police brutality demonstration in Montreal on Monday evening.

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#2 — CBC | Senior drivers need more options: MDs

A senior’s licence to drive shouldn’t trump public safety, say doctors advocating better transportation programs for an aging population.

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#3 — CBC | Snowmobile events need tighter rules: widow

The wife of a man killed in a weekend avalanche near Revelstoke, B.C., wants to know why the extreme snowmobiling event her husband attended went ahead despite avalanche warnings.

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CBC | B.C. avalanche regulations reviewed

#4 — Globe | Managers urge NHL to fast-track head shot regulations

In the face of mounting public criticism, a group of general managers is pushing the NHL to adopt its proposed new rule on hits to the head before the end of the current season.

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#5 — Globe | Ending Indian band councils’ post-secondary funding recommended

A new think tank wants Indian band councils stripped of their power to give out post-secondary education grants. Instead, it says, Ottawa should create accounts for each Indian child at birth that would be used later for tuition and living expenses.

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#6 — NP | Ottawa ups seal hunt quota by 50,000

OTTAWA – Canada’s fisheries minister on Monday hiked the total number of seals that hunters would be allowed to slaughter during an annual Atlantic coast hunt set to begin later this month.

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#7 — NP | Death-benefit lawsuit could cost Ottawa billions

OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada will venture on Wednesday into one of the biggest age-discrimination cases in years, when it considers an appeal from the widows of two former federal employees that could cost the federal treasury more than $2-billion.

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#8 — OC | Get ready for a sunny summer: Experts

OTTAWA — Canadians can look forward to a sunny summer this year, forecasters say.

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#9 — MG | Canadian housing market shows signs of cooling

OTTAWA — The once red-hot housing market — which several observers warned last month was in danger of turning into a bubble — is showing signs of losing steam as new listings climb and affordability begins to tighten, data released Monday indicate.

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#10 — Star | MPP’s vision: Province of Toronto

OWEN SOUND, ONT.–A Progressive Conservative member of the Legislature says he thinks Toronto should become its own province.

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#1 — CBC | B.C. avalanche missing accounted for: RCMP

RCMP say they have looked for abandoned vehicles and canvassed area hotels and there is no one that they know of left unaccounted for following a deadly B.C. avalanche.

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#2 — CBC | Public Safety minister to unveil emergency plan

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is expected to announce a federal emergency response plan on Monday in Ottawa, four months after being criticized by the auditor general for not having one.

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#3 — Globe | Ontario seeks Ottawa’s help as welfare cases spike

Welfare cases are on the rise in Canada as laid-off workers exhaust their federal employment insurance benefits and turn to provincial social assistance programs for help.

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#4 — Globe | Canadian scientists uncover poppy’s painkilling power

Canadian researchers have unlocked the genetic secrets of the poppy plant, raising the possibility of making powerful narcotics from simple raw materials.

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#5 — LFP | Car dealership shooter killed teen in Winnipeg

When an Edmonton man shot two co-workers and turned the gun on himself at a car dealership last week, it wasn’t the first time he took a life in a fit of violence.

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#6 — NP | Plans for new fleet of armoured combat vehicles back on track

A multibillion-dollar plan to buy a fleet of new armoured combat vehicles for the army is back on after the Defence Department has decided that the program should be a priority.

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#7 — NP | Identify ‘rogue’ scientists, Tories say

The federal government has been pushing Canada’s largest research council to release the names of scientists who fudge research results, plagiarize reports or misspend grant money, according to federal documents obtained by Canwest News Service.

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#8 — OC | U.S. regulations forcing more meat inspections in Canada

OTTAWA— The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is scrambling to maintain an increased presence at dozens of large meat-processing plants after auditors from the United States Department of Agriculture found inspections were too infrequent to meet U.S. food-safety standards, newly released internal records show.

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#9 — MG | Government overhauling handling of depression in public service

OTTAWA — The Harper government is taking steps to promote “workforce wellness” in the public service, as records show depression, stress and other mental illnesses account for nearly 45 per cent of all disability claims.

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#10 — Sar | Crowd roars as Canadians win 3 medals on home snow

WHISTLER, B.C.–Viviane Forest is legally blind.

But she has no problems with her hearing.

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#1 — CBC | Avalanche kills 3 at B.C. snowmobile event

Three people are confirmed dead and two others are in critical condition after an avalanche struck an annual snowmobiling event in southeastern British Columbia on Saturday.

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#2 — CBC | Switch to daylight time this weekend

This is the weekend most Canadians lose an hour of sleep as they switch to daylight time from standard time.

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#3 — CBC | Atlantic bluefin tuna ban considered

An international organization is contemplating an export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna that Prince Edward Island fishermen say would have a disastrous impact on their livelihood.

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#4 — Globe | Shooter ‘just snapped’, says owner at Edmonton dealership

The thoughts of staff at an Edmonton car dealership where two employees were fatally shot are now on whether a third worker who was hit will survive life-threatening wounds.

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#5 — Globe | Stelmach’s royalty reversal gives the opposition a boost

Early Friday morning, a day after his government slashed royalty rates in the oil and gas sector, Alberta energy minister Ron Liepert pulled some lamb from his freezer. He planned on having a nice meal with his wife. A celebration?

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#6 — LFP | Tories unveil terms for Afghan detainee review

OTTAWA — The Conservatives have unveiled the terms under which a respected former Supreme Court justice will examine whether the government should continue to prevent public scrutiny of documents related to the handling of Afghan detainees.

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#7 — NP | Scientist’s spending has run afoul of Canada’s research council

Canada’s largest research-funding organization has slapped an extraordinary ban on a star scientist who is accused of plagiarism and of spending up to $150,000 in government grant money on custom car parts, televisions, home-entertainment systems and other equipment “inconsistent” with his research proposals.

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#8 — OC | Military unveils plaque for Calgary Herald reporter slain in Afghanistan

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Michelle Lang of the Calgary Herald was fondly remembered Saturday by some of the troops, diplomats and journalists whose lives she touched before she was killed in December along with four Canadian soldiers when their armoured patrol struck a huge homemade bomb on the outskirts of Kandahar City.

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#9 — MG | Quebec needs to tackle corruption, Marois tells PQ conference

LEVIS- Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois has launched a blistering attack on Premier Jean Charest’s integrity, suggesting Saturday that he is in the pay of corrupt friends of the Liberal party.

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#10 — Star | Half-price homes? Canadians pounce on the Sunbelt

Last November Stacey Lynn found herself in Florida pondering whether to buy a condominium in Naples or one in nearby Sarasota. The Toronto woman ended up buying both.

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#1 — CBC | Paralympics open with rocking ceremony

Two singular journeys that have inspired Canadians for years became inspirations for the world as well on Friday with the start of the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games

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#2 — CBC | Controversial native leader Ahenakew dies

David Ahenakew, the controversial Saskatchewan First Nations figure whose comments on Jews were the subject of several court cases, has died at the age of 76, reportedly from cancer.

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#3 — Globe | Dollar pushes Canada ahead of the pack

As the rest of the developed world trudges through a fragile recovery, Canada is pulling away from the pack.

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#4 — Globe | Mother, daughter shot dead; sister badly wounded in Ontario

Among their friends, Shannon Hannah is known as the studious girl and Dean Brown as the bad boy she dated until they broke up recently.

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#5 — Globe | Fallen OPP officer remembered as a hero

An Ontario police officer who died in the line of duty is being remembered as a modern day hero who courageously put himself in harm’s way to honour his oath of duty.

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#6 — NP | Sicilian anti-Mafia initiative stretches from the Mediterranean to Canada

The sun had not yet risen when 80 police officers gathered along the narrow roads that twist through the rocky hills on the outskirts of a sleeping town on the Italian island of Sicily.

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#7 — NP | Two dead, including gunman, after shooting in Edmonton

EDMONTON — The man thought to be responsible for an early-morning shooting that left two dead at an Edmonton car dealership Friday had recently been suspended from his job there, sources say.

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#8 — OC | A mother’s fear turns to rage

OTTAWA — It was a hockey mother’s worst nightmare.

As Boston Bruins centre Marc Savard lay on the ice in Pittsburgh last Sunday following a devastating open-ice hit by Matt Cooke of the Penguins, back in Ottawa, Rollande Savard’s heart was in her throat.

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#9 — MG | Salmonella scare spreads to Montreal health-food stores

MONTREAL – The spreading salmonella scare originating south of the border has made a dramatic impact even closer to home – on the shelves of most health-food stores in the Montreal region.

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#10 — Star | Listeria spike triggers hospitalizations

Two Ontarians were hospitalized — and another two deaths are being investigated — in relation to a listeria outbreak traced to a Toronto deli meat manufacturer.

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#1 — CBC | Suspect in OPP killing dies

Fred Preston, who faced charges in the shootout death of an Ontario Provincial Police officer, has died, the province’s Special Investigations Unit confirmed late Thursday.

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#2 — CBC | Indian Act changes tabled in House

The federal government tabled legislation Thursday that could see more than 45,000 Canadians recognized as status Indians under changes to the Indian Act.

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#3 — CBC | Nunavut Mountie’s killer guilty of murder

An Iqaluit jury has found Pingoatuk Kolola guilty of murdering an RCMP officer in a remote Nunavut community more than two years ago.

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#4 — Globe | HST a potential boon to Ontario’s tax collectors

Tax collectors in Ontario will fare much better than their colleagues in British Columbia as both provinces move to harmonize their retail sales levies by July 1.

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#5 — Globe | Privileges restored for mistaken mastectomy MD

A Windsor, Ont., doctor at the centre of a controversy over mistaken mastectomies has won back her hospital privileges, but her cases will be monitored for the next three months.

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#6 — FP | Big funds stalk Canwest newspapers

The sale of Canada’s largest English-language daily newspaper chain has attracted some of the country’s financial heavyweights as potential suitors.

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#7 — NP | Rights of disabled new foreign policy focus, Cannon says

UNITED NATIONS — Promoting the rights of disabled people around the world will become a key foreign policy focus for Canada, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said at the United Nations Thursday.

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#8 — OC | MADD demands answers in ex-MP Jaffer plea bargain

OTTAWA — MADD, the national advocacy group against drunk driving, has written Ontario’s attorney general seeking answers on why charges were dropped against former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer.

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#9 — MG | Fight not over on O Canada lyrics: Senator

OTTAWA — Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth says she will keep trying to make the lyrics to the national anthem gender-neutral despite the abrupt reversal last week by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to withdraw a proposal to examine the possibility in the throne speech.

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#10 — Star | Canada denounces Israeli settlement

OTTAWA–Canada is sounding a rare criticism of Israel after news of plans to build a housing project in disputed East Jerusalem.

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#1 — CBC | Murder charge laid in deadly police shootout

Ontario Provincial Police have charged former township leader Fred Preston with first-degree murder in death of a constable who was killed in a shootout on a rural road in southwestern Ontario.

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#2 — CBC | Federal contractor racks up hefty bills

Federal contract workers charged the government $5,266 to install six potlights and $1,000 to replace a light switch.

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#3 — Globe | Aboriginals in Canada face ‘Third World’-level risk of tuberculosis

It’s been more than 100 years since Peter Bryce, former chief medical officer at Indian Affairs, sounded the alarm over shockingly high rates of deadly tuberculosis in government-funded Indian residential schools.

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#4 — Globe | Aspers bid to reclaim newspaper chain

The Asper family is attempting to regain control of the newspaper assets that slipped from their grasp when their media empire crumbled last year under $4-billion in debt.

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#5 — Globe | Stephen Harper to reach out to Canadians on YouTube

Stephen Harper has befriended Canadians on Facebook and followed them on Twitter. He’s posted videos of campaign announcements and clips of public appearances on YouTube.

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#6 — NP | Tories revive random roadside breath test

The Harper government appears ready to move ahead with imposing random roadside breath testing, which a new federal discussion paper says has produced “remarkable results” in catching drunk drivers in other countries.

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#7 — NP | Levant says libel suit aims to ‘chill’ debate

Free-speech blogger Ezra Levant has accused anti-hate activist Richard Warman of exploiting court processes to publicly “scandalize” him with “wholly irrelevant” allegations, and to discourage his “public service journalism” against human rights commissions.

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#8 — OC | Defence industry urges single minister for military procurement

One minister, not three, should oversee the billions of dollars worth of future equipment purchases for the Canadian Forces, a new report to the Harper government recommends.

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MG | Canadians split on potential military spending cuts: Poll

#9 — MG | Canadians, Afghans beat back Taliban in ‘crazy’ fighting: Soldier

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — “It was crazy,” was how Capt. Terry MacCormac described the fighting that he and several dozen other Canadians were involved in while mentoring Afghan troops who took part in the biggest offensive of the eight-year war against the Taliban in neighbouring Helmand province.

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#10 — Star | 35 charged in Ontario child porn bust

Millions of images have been seized and 35 people arrested in a province-wide crackdown of child pornography.

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#1 — CBC | Ex-politician suspected in deadly police shootout

Fred Preston, a former Ontario township council leader who was struggling with marital problems, has been identified as the suspect in a shootout on a rural road that killed an Ontario Provincial Police officer.

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#2 — CBC | Federal budget survives 1st vote

Stephen Harper’s minority Conservative government has survived its first confidence test of the new session of Parliament.

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Globe | Budget deep freeze will lead to end of climate research lab

#3 — CBC | Niqab-wearing woman blocked again from class

The Quebec government has intervened again in the case of a Muslim woman who refused to remove her niqab veil during a French-language class.

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#4 — Globe | Jaffer avoids criminal charges, leaving questions unanswered

Was there some flaw in the way the police stopped him and administered the breath-analysis test? Was it the way he was arrested and searched?

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Star | Judge gives former Tory MP $500 slap on wrist

#5 — Globe | Ontario stakes its recovery on education

Ontario’s road to economic recovery leads through the classroom, with a new strategy to turn education into an export industry.

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#6 — LFP | Thousands salute Peel officer killed in crash while on duty

MISSISSAUGA – Thousands of officers from emergency services across Canada marched in dress uniforms to pay tribute Tuesday to a Peel Regional Police officer killed on duty.

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#7 — NP | U.S. lawmakers urge scrapping of NAFTA

WASHINGTON — The Harper government sought Tuesday to fend off a new trade threat from U.S. lawmakers pushing legislation to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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#8 — OC | Growing foreign-born population to forge ‘new Canada’

There is a “new Canada” just over the horizon — home to a diversity of skin tones, birth countries, languages and religious faiths unprecedented in the nation’s history.

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#9 — MG | Food recall could be largest in North America: FDA

OTTAWA — About 50 Canadian food companies manufactured snacks and other processed foods made with an ingredient that has been recalled due to possible salmonella contamination, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Tuesday.

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#10 — Star | No freeze on spending for PM’s own bureaucracy

OTTAWA–In the Conservative crackdown on salaries and office budgets, it seems one wing of government didn’t get the memo – Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s own bureaucracy.

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#1 — CBC | OPP officer dies after shootout

An Ontario Provincial Police officer has died after a Monday morning shootout with an elderly man near Seaforth, Ont., north of London.

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NP | OPP officer confirmed dead after shootout

#2 — CBC | Air India trial jury abruptly dismissed

The perjury trial of the only person ever convicted in the Air India bombing 25 years ago was suddenly delayed Monday just before it was to get underway in B.C. Supreme Court.

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NP | Air India perjury trial postponed over racist comment from juror

#3 — Globe | Ottawa cuts already vacant positions

Treasury Board President Stockwell Day is trumpeting job cuts at government boards and agencies in the name of fiscal prudence – but the measures are largely phantom restraint because most affected posts are empty and have been for some time.

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#4 — Globe | Concussion effects linger for decades, study finds

She remembers the collision with another player, the fall to the ice, the feeling of dizziness. Skating shakily to the bench, she told her coach she had a concussion.

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#5 — NP | Former Research Council scientist denies spying for Iran

A former National Research Council scientist has been battling the Canadian government over allegations he participated in Iran’s controversial weapons program.

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#6 — NP | Building boom set for federal prison system

The head of Canada’s prison system says there will be “major construction initiatives” in the coming years to cope with federal legislation to imprison more offenders longer — an assertion backed by new spending estimates showing a 43% increase in penitentiary capital costs next year.

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#7 — NP | York suspends student for Internet posts

A Toronto man has been suspended from York University after the National Post reported he was under police investigation over his controversial Internet postings.

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#8 — OC | Canada needs to take ’serious look’ at Afghan role, report says

OTTAWA — Canada needs to “grow up” and start talking seriously about its role in Afghanistan once its military mission there ends in 2011, says a document to be released at a public event in Ottawa on Tuesday night.

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#9 — MG | Sarah Palin’s Canadian health care link has critics sick

CALGARY — A weekend admission by former Alaskan governor and U.S. vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin over her family’s use of the Canadian health care system while growing up in Alaska has critics of the outspoken hockey mom crying foul online.

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#10 — Star | Dalton McGuinty bets big on mining, critics fear eco-disaster

Premier Dalton McGuinty hopes a massive northern ore deposit will be the motherlode for Ontario’s economy but critics are warning of an environmental disaster akin to the Alberta tar sands.

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Popularity: 4% [?]

#1 — CBC | Canada expands recall of flavour-enhanced foods

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which is closely following a U.S. investigation and recall of foods containing hydrolyzed vegetable protein, has expanded its recall of products that contain the flavour enhancer, which may be contaminated with salmonella bacteria.

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#2 — CBC | First Nations blockade delays logging

A five-month-long First Nations blockade has forced Tolko Industries to temporarily give up its plans to log an area near Vernon, B.C.

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#3 — Globe | Tories to unveil public service efficiency plan

The Harper government will launch a campaign this week to freeze-and-squeeze the public service, but Treasury Board President Stockwell Day says he is looking to avoid a major battle with front-line federal workers who will be most affected.

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#4 — Globe | Precious medical isotopes could be shipped overseas

Scarce medical isotopes produced by a Canadian reactor could be heading overseas when the aging Chalk River facility returns to service, after a year of repairs that cost taxpayers an estimated $70-million.

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#5 — Globe | Canadian spies interrogated Afghan prisoners, insiders reveal

Officers of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service have played a crucial and long-standing role as interrogators of a vast swath of captured Taliban fighters, The Canadian Press has learned.

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#6 — NP | U.S. trying to repatriate Khadr: sources

NEW YORK — Obama administration officials are quietly seeking a way to repatriate Canadian-born terror suspect Omar Khadr, an authority in a position to know has confided.

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#7 — NP | U.S. court rejects Canadian’s death-row appeal – but opens door to clemency

Ronald Smith, the only Canadian on death row in the United States, is one step closer to Montana’s execution chamber after an appeal court ruling that upheld his death sentence for the brutal murders of two American Indian men in 1982.

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#8 — OC | Francophones fear troublemaker label

Ontario francophones are reluctant to ask for French-language services in the province’s justice system because they fear being labelled as troublemakers, according to a University of Ottawa study.

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#9 — MG | One third of Quebecers want own Olympic team: survey

Nearly one-third of Quebec residents say the province should have its own Olympic team separate from Canada’s, according to a survey conducted in the days following the Vancouver Games.

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#10 — Star | Dalton McGuinty’s cash quest goes global

Premier Dalton McGuinty wants to transform Ontario into a beacon for foreign students, allow Crown corporations to compete globally, and sell clean-water expertise to a thirsty world.

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#1 — CBC | Ont. Liberal party ‘reckless, failed:’ Hudak

Ontario needs the Progressive Conservatives to clean up after a “reckless, failed” Liberal government, Opposition Leader Tim Hudak said Saturday as he fired up the Tory troops for the 2011 election.

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#2 — CBC | Sask. officials will stay mum about some escapes

Government officials have changed their policies on notifying the public about prisoners who have escaped or been inadvertently released, following an embarrassing mistake at the end of January.

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#3 — Globe | Rights fracas draws international rebuke

The Harper government has drawn a blast of international criticism for its handling of the internecine fracas at a once-respected human rights and democracy promoting organization.

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#4 — Globe | Ontario in no rush to sell Crown assets, minister says

The cash-strapped Ontario government has no plans to announce the sale of any iconic Crown assets this year, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said Friday.

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#5 — LFP | Ontario pays tribute to long-time MPP

OTTAWA — Ontario progressive conservatives paid tribute to long-time MPP and new senator Bob Runciman Saturday.

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#6 — NP | Jolt for declining towns

Driving his signature red Ford Mustang with Bruce Springsteen blasting on the radio, Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley is a politician who knows how to get ink. He writes his own humour column in the local newspaper and even scored a cameo in Michael Moore’s documentary Bowling for Columbine. His easy manner has kept him in office for 22 years. That, and his ability to help create jobs.

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#7 — NP | Witness for the prosecution

Genevieve Camara followed accused serial killer Charles Kembo’s instructions to the letter. Whatever subterfuge her common-law husband requested, she performed, apparently without question.

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#8 — OC | Calgary crowd receptive to Palin

CALGARY— In her first public appearance outside the United States since stepping down as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin went to the heart of Canada’s oil and gas industry Saturday bringing her message of lower taxes, free markets and energy development to a receptive crowd.

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Star | Sarah Palin warms to Calgary crowd

#9 — MG | One-for-one jail credit could fail charter challenge, advocates say

VANCOUVER — A new Canadian law that limits the ability of judges to reduce criminals’ sentences based on time they spend in jail awaiting trial could fail a charter challenge, according to prisoners’ advocates.

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#10 — Star | City warmed by ‘false spring’

Toronto may be basking in balmy temperatures this weekend, but weather experts say there’s still plenty of winter to come.

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Popularity: 3% [?]