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UN says world economy will only grow by 1.8 percent
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5.15.2008 : 10:13 pm
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UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. says the world economy is "teetering on the brink" of a severe downturn and will grow by only 1.8 percent in 2008.
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Leader to apologize to Canadian Indians
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5.15.2008 : 7:33 pm
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TORONTO -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper will deliver a public apology for a decades-long government policy requiring Canadian Indians to attend state-funded church schools -- often scenes of physical and sexual abuse.
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Canada eyes OTC sale of Plan B `morning-after' pill
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5.15.2008 : 7:00 pm
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TORONTO -- Canada's national pharmacy regulation body is recommending that "morning-after" contraceptive pills be sold over the counter. The National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities decided Wednesday to support sales of the drug known as Plan B from drugstore shelves instead of from behind the counter. The body advises Canada's provincial regulatory authorities, which will have final say in their own regions.
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Helicopter crash kills 4 in Canada
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5.13.2008 : 8:31 pm
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CRANBROOK, British Columbia -- A helicopter plunged to the ground and burst into flames in a residential neighborhood in western Canada on Tuesday, killing the three people aboard and one person on the ground, officials said.
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Myanmar junta hands out aid boxes with generals' names
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5.10.2008 : 3:09 pm
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YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.
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Train quarantined in Ontario with mystery illness
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5.9.2008 : 5:55 pm
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TORONTO -- Authorities quarantined a train in Ontario Friday after a woman died and several others reported being ill. But a doctor later ruled out a serious infectious disease and said the train would likely soon resume its journey.
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Foreign donors open their wallets despite Myanmar problems
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5.9.2008 : 5:52 pm
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Myanmar junta's refusal to let in foreign aid workers has not stopped donors -- from billionaire Bill Gates to a small British travel company -- from trying to help.
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Housing aid bill faces veto by President Bush
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5.9.2008 : 9:53 am
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WASHINGTON -- Democrats' plans to help hundreds of thousands of homeowners struggling with rising subprime mortgage rates and plummeting house values could be sidetracked by President Bush's threatened veto and the opposition of many congressional Republicans.
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Thousands ordered deported from Canada are unaccounted for
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5.7.2008 : 12:36 am
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TORONTO -- Canada's border control agency doesn't know the whereabouts of 41,000 people ordered to leave the country, a national government watchdog agency said Tuesday.
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UN kicks off long-delayed headquarters renovation
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5.5.2008 : 6:24 pm
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UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations kicked off the long-delayed renovation of its landmark headquarters complex Monday led by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wearing a hard hat and wielding a shovel to break ground for a temporary conference building.
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Canadian auto workers ratify 3-year Ford contract
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5.5.2008 : 7:02 am
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TORONTO -- The Canadian Auto Workers have voted to ratify a three-year contract with Ford Motor Co. CAW spokeswoman Shannon Devine says the membership voted 78 percent in favor on Sunday.
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Canadian auto workers ratify 3-year Ford contract
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5.5.2008 : 12:53 am
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TORONTO -- The Canadian Auto Workers voted to ratify a three-year contract with Ford Motor Co., an agreement the union expects Chrysler LLC and General Motors Corp. to match.
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Musharraf may accept judges restoration
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5.3.2008 : 8:21 am
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- President Pervez Musharraf may accept the reinstatement of judges he dismissed if the new government amends the constitution instead of simply passing a parliamentary resolution, a spokesman for his political party said Saturday.
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Man dies on flight from Moscow to Toronto
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5.1.2008 : 7:22 pm
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TORONTO -- Police on Thursday were investigating the death of a man who became unconscious on a flight from Moscow and could not be revived by passengers or crew members.
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South Africa lifts ban on culling elephants after 13 years
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5.1.2008 : 11:20 am
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DAKAR, Senegal -- South Africa has lifted a 13-year ban on elephant culling. Once on the verge of extinction in some parts of South Africa, elephant numbers in that country have recently grown at a rate of more than 5 percent a year.
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Hundreds of ducks die after landing in oil sands in Canada
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5.1.2008 : 8:21 am
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FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta -- Canada's government was investigating an oil sands company after hundreds of ducks that landed on a partially frozen pond filled with toxic waste died.
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Canadian lawmakers hold hearings on Guantanamo detainee
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4.29.2008 : 8:08 pm
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OTTAWA -- Canadian lawmakers began public hearings Tuesday on the detention and trial of a Canadian being held at Guantanamo Bay for allegedly killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan as a teenager.
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Safe-injection site wants exemption from Canada's drug laws
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4.28.2008 : 9:15 pm
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Operators of the only legal safe-injection site in North America, where people can inject illegal drugs with clean needles under a nurse's supervision, were in court Monday seeking a permanent exemption from Canada's drug laws.
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Toronto transit strike ends
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4.27.2008 : 8:40 pm
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TORONTO -- Ontario's legislature has ordered Toronto transit workers back to work Sunday, ending a surprise public transit strike. The strike began late Friday after transit workers voted against a tentative contract agreement.
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40 people injured when floor collapses at Canadian church
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4.26.2008 : 10:47 pm
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ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia -- The floor of a church filled with about 1,000 people, mostly teens, collapsed during a concert, injuring at least 40 people, one of them seriously, officials said.
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Toronto's public transit system shuts down because of strike
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4.26.2008 : 3:40 am
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TORONTO -- Toronto Transit Commission workers went on strike after voting against a tentative contract agreement, a surprise development that paralyzed public transportation in Canada's biggest city.
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Nicole Kidman urges fight to end violence against women
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4.23.2008 : 3:32 pm
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UNITED NATIONS -- Nicole Kidman has urged world leaders and ordinary people to join the global fight to end violence against women. The actress, seven months pregnant and passionately committed to her role as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Development Fund for Women, said Tuesday the violence was probably the "most widespread human rights violation of our time."
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Canada: Police arrest man linked to killing his 3 children
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4.16.2008 : 10:00 pm
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MERRITT, British Columbia -- A Canadian outdoorsman, driven by a sense of outrage, tracked down a fugitive father Wednesday suspected of murdering his three children, police said.
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Charges stayed against 4 in alleged Ontario terrorist plot
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4.15.2008 : 5:15 pm
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TORONTO -- Prosecutors agreed Tuesday not to proceed with charges against four men accused of involvement in a plot for terrorist attacks in Canada, leaving 11 of the 18 originally arrested still facing charges.
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