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17.05.2008
WINNIPEG - A key member of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet could be parachuted into a judgeship in Manitoba, a Conservative Party source has told the Canadian Press.
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17.05.2008
The soldiers of Charlie Company, 1 Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, thought their ordeal would end when they were shipped out after a six-month stint on the front lines of Afghanistan.
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17.05.2008
EDMONTON - Hot, dry conditions have turned parts of the Prairies into a tinderbox, as wildfires torched rural homes and forced people to flee communities in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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17.05.2008
A Canadian military plane carrying 40 tonnes worth of relief supplies for Myanmar cyclone victims arrived Saturday in Bangkok, Thailand.
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17.05.2008
VANCOUVER - Film director Uwe Boll says he left his native Germany for Canada to flee the kind of censorship he says the federal government is considering with a new film tax bill.
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17.05.2008
SASKATOON - A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for an alleged graffiti artist over fears that he might be trying to leave the country.
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17.05.2008
WARKWORTH, Ont. - A family friend of two young women involved in a fatal car crash that claimed three lives in eastern Ontario said she's "heart-broken" by the unexpected loss of the girls who were babysitting her son the day before they died.
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17.05.2008
INVERNESS, N.S. - People in this small Cape Breton community were planning a rally Sunday to show support for Nova Scotia fishermen locked in a dispute over the annual crab quota.
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17.05.2008
TORONTO - Two-time Olympic silver medallist Elvis Stojko says Canadian athletes should "make a stand" for human rights and think twice about heading to the Beijing Summer Games.
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17.05.2008
EDMONTON - An encroaching wildfire fanned by high winds forced an emergency evacuation Friday night of 150 residents of a hamlet north of Edmonton.
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