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| | Ottawa to reveal fate of
softwood deal | |
| | Prime Minister Stephen
Harper's government appears set to announce Tuesday whether key players
in Canada's forestry industry have given enough support to the softwood
lumber deal to move ahead with it. | |
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Tuesday, 22 August 2006 7:50
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| | Weight linked to where you
live: Statistics Canada | |
| | Canadian adults who live in
rural areas are more likely to be obese than city dwellers, Statistics
Canada reported Tuesday. | |
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Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:28
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| | Strike averted at
Vancouver airport | |
| | A looming strike by security
workers at Vancouver International Airport was called off Tuesday
morning just hours before their union had planned to set up picket
lines. | |
| | Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:25
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| | Ottawa to reveal fate of
softwood deal | |
| | Prime Minister Stephen
Harper's government appears set to announce Tuesday whether key players
in Canada's forestry industry have given enough support to the softwood
lumber deal to move ahead with it. | |
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Tuesday, 22 August 2006 7:50
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| | Consumer prices rise
despite GST cut | |
| | Consumer prices actually
increased by a 10th of a percentage point last month, despite the one
percentage point cut in the GST that went into effect on Canada Day. |
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| | Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:47
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| | Edmonton doctor performs
closed-heart surgery on children | |
| | The Stollery Children's
Hospital in Edmonton has become the first facility in Western Canada and
the second nationwide to replace heart valves in children without
open-heart surgery, regional health authorities say. | |
| | Monday, 21 August 2006 17:48
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| | All passengers feared dead
after Russian plane crashes | |
| | Ukrainian officials believe
all passengers on board the Russian jet that crashed Tuesday in eastern
Ukraine are dead, said a Russian news agency. | |
| | Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:40
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| | Canadian patrol attacked
by suicide bomber | |
| | Four NATO soldiers and one
civilian were wounded and a child was killed when a suicide bomber
plowed his car into a Canadian military patrol in southern Afghanistan,
officials said. | |
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Tuesday, 22 August 2006 9:40
EST | |
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| | Iran responds to Western
incentives | |
| | Iran gave a formal response
Tuesday to a package of incentives that Western countries hope will
persuade it to curb its uranium-enrichment program. | |
| | Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:37
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| | Almodovar's hits
re-released ahead of Volver | |
| | Spanish filmmaker Pedro
Almodovar will get an extra chance to woo U.S. audiences this fall, as
eight of his movies will be re-released in advance of his latest
theatrical feature, Volver. | |
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Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:52
EST | |
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| | Swedish broadcaster
apologizes for steamy slip-up | |
| | Sweden's state broadcaster
got hot and bothered this weekend, after technicians mistakenly showed
an adult movie in the background of a late-night news broadcast. |
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| | Tuesday, 22 August 2006 9:26
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| | Coleridge family sells
archive to British Library | |
| | The British Library in London
has bought an archive containing letters and a previously unknown
manuscript of a poem from the family of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. |
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| | Monday, 21 August 2006 16:03
EST | |
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