Canada - Friday, February 29th, 2008
Posted on 29 February 2008 by Jack
CTV | Canadians to resume transfer of Afghan detainees
The Canadian military has resumed the transfer of detainees to Afghan officials.
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CTV | Liberals to RCMP: Investigate Tory bribe claims
The Liberals are calling on the Mounties to investigate allegations that the late Tory MP Chuck Cadman was offered a bribe by his party in an effort to influence his vote.
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- Canwest | Prime minister denies his party tried to bribe late MP
- National Post | Policy not possible, experts say
- The Star | ‘Bribe’ furor grips Tories
CTV | Talks break down between Anglican Church, parishes
TORONTO – Talks between three breakaway Anglican churches in Ontario and their diocese have failed and the two sides are headed to court in what could be a precedent-setting case over parish ownership, observers said Thursday.
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CTV | Patients ‘fired’ by their doctors out of luck
Patients who don’t like the care they are getting from their doctors are always free to leave them and find a new one - if they can fnd one in these days of chronic physician shortages. But do doctors have the right to “fire” a patient?
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National Post | Advocacy work draws Latimer to Ottawa
A day after Robert Latimer unexpectedly won day parole, and seven years after he was sent to prison for killing his disabled daughter, friends of the Saskatchewan farmer said he was determined to head to Ottawa to clear his name.
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National Post | Governments overspent $70B in the last decade: study
OTTAWA — Federal, provincial and territorial governments have spent nearly $70-billion more than they budgeted for over the past decade, suggesting a lack of accountability to voters about budget promises, an economic think-tank said Thursday.
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National Post | Ottawa wins no-execution guarantee for American murder suspect
Despite its controversial refusal to seek clemency for a Canadian murderer on death row in Montana, the Conservative government has won a no-execution guarantee from U.S. authorities for an alleged American killer facing deportation from Quebec to South Carolina, Canwest News Service has learned.
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National Post | Barley may be next threat to Conservative minority
CALGARY -In the past few days, federal Conservatives have stared down their Liberal opponents by threatening an election over such weighty national issues as the mission in Afghanistan, the federal budget and the crime bill. Emboldened by their apparently unchallenged power in the House, the Tories are preparing for their next potential parliamentary standoff, this time over — would you believe? –barley.
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Globe | Inquiry pointless, Mulroney lawyer says
OTTAWA — It isn’t Brian Mulroney’s fault that the world leaders he says he approached about buying light-armoured vehicles are dead and can’t corroborate his explanation about why he was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, the former prime minister’s lawyer said yesterday.
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The Star | Florist found slain in her store
A Downsview florist was found dead, bound to a chair and gagged with duct tape in the washroom of her flower shop in what appeared to be a robbery.
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The Star | Editorial: The diaper debate
Four years after Health Minister George Smitherman vowed to tackle the conditions in our nursing homes and make them “places where quality and dignity are enhanced,” the problems persist.
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