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02.09.2010

Ex-justice minister Bellemare files lawsuit against former boss: Jean Charest

QUEBEC - Ex-Quebec justice minister Marc Bellemare has launched a $900,000 countersuit against his former boss: Premier Jean Charest.

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02.09.2010

Terry Fox 30th anniversary fundraising initiative includes Olympians

TORONTO - Betty Fox says the spirit of her son lives on in so many people who are the unsung heroes of the Terry Fox Run.

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02.09.2010

Arrival of East Coast hurricane season revives worries over dikes, seawalls

HALIFAX - The hurricane season is reviving fears about deteriorating dikes and seawalls that some East Coast residents rely on to shield them from the Bay of Fundy's immense tides.

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02.09.2010

Canada's shadowy war ends when troops leave Kandahar in 2011, overseas commander

OTTAWA - The shadowy war fought in Afghanistan by Canada's ultra-secret, elite special forces will come to end next year when the army ceases combat operations in Kandahar.

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02.09.2010

Body of Cpl. Brian Pinksen arrives at CFB Trenton for repatriation ceremony

CFB TRENTON, Ont. - A military plane carrying the body of the latest Canadian soldier to die during the Afghan mission arrived this afternoon at CFB Trenton, in eastern Ontario.

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02.09.2010

Free Parks Canada passes for Grade 8 students 'no federalist plot,' Harper says

KITCHENER, Ont. - Stephen Harper is dismissing accusations that free student passes for Canada's national parks are part of a federalist plot aimed at separatists.

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02.09.2010

Forecasters say hurricane Earl's track on course for Atlantic Canada by Saturday

HALIFAX - The Canadian Hurricane Centre says its numerical models continue to show little significant change in hurricane Earl's forecasted track toward Atlantic Canada.

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02.09.2010

Hockey coach turned senator says he faces third operation after brush with death

MONTREAL - Senator Jacques Demers, a former NHL coach who almost died this summer after what should have a routine operation, says he will have to face another operation.

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01.09.2010

Website of Discovery Channel gunman hosted in B.C.; RCMP interested

VANCOUVER - The U.S. gunman who took hostages at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Discovery Channel before being killed by police ran a website that was hosted by a Vancouver-area company.

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01.09.2010

Bureaucrats researched HST on their own, B.C. finance minister says

VICTORIA - British Columbia's finance minister says staff in his ministry were researching the possibility of switching to the harmonized sales tax on their own accord, even though they knew he did not support the HST.

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