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1 hr ago | The Victoria Star

Supply of organs for transplant doesn't keep pace with demand: study

A new study finds that the gap between supply and demand for donated kidneys for transplant is widening in Canada.

1 comment

Related Topix: Canada, World News,

5 hrs ago | Penticton Herald

Canada's deficit plan Take an axe, cut deep & then exist & enjoy many future years of living lean ?

No new tax cuts or significant new programs in 2010: Flaherty

yet Ottawa Tories say they have ruled out significant tax cuts or new spending programs for Canadians in next year's federal budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Paul Martin,

10 hrs ago | KRGV

Texas Border Mayor Caught in Shootout

Gunmen sprayed bullets at a restaurant Tuesday where the mayor of a Texas border town was eating with a Mexican state attorney general and other officials, police said.

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Related Topix: World News, Mexico, Eagle Pass, TX

Tue Dec 22, 2009

CKNW News Talk 980

Harper hopes carbon tax not in Canada's future, but won't rule it out

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has refused to rule out a carbon tax for some time in the country's future, sending Conservative spin doctors scrambling to reframe his comments.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Stephen Harper

www.theglobeandmail.com | North America

Whats the Big Deal if a Protestant Group thinks out loud about Jewish Group as probably Quid Pro Quo

Debate continues over Federal minister's comments about religious group Kairos

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's declaration that Ottawa's funding for a church aid agency was cut because of its anti-Israel stand is threatening to open a chasm of hostility between Canadian Christian and Jewish organizations.

The minister's office has not given reasons for his accusation against Kairos, the social justice arm of Canada's Roman Catholic and major Protestant faiths, but it did specifically refer to a column in the Toronto Star that suggested that Kairos's actions were anti-Semitic.

as Kairos & Jewish Groups ignore problems in North America like a Pollution Source of United Nations UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

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The Globe and Mail

Machinists union warns of Air Canada layoffs as Another Peel Region CAW Employer Closes up

Machinists union warns of Air Canada layoffs

A snowplow clears ramps at Pearson airport in Toronto.

Losses will be the direct result of Transport Canada's ruling to allow more time between maintenance checks for certain fleets ???, union says

Workers enraged at plant closure

http://www.mississauga.com/news/article/246356--workers-enraged-at-plant-closure

Workers at a Meadowvale heating and air conditioning plant that suddenly shut down last week picketed Monday morning outside the factory.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News

Fox 8 - WJW

Gold Coin Tossed into Salvation Army Kettle in Akron

It sure isn't chump change. An anonymous donor dropped a Canadian gold coin worth hundreds of dollars into a Salvation Army red kettle in Ohio.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Ohio, Elizabeth Ii

Slam Sports

Federal government urged to go slow on tightening mortgage-eligibility rules

Hints by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty that Ottawa may tighten mortgage eligibility rules to avert a possible housing bubble sent ripples through the industry Monday, with analysts urging a cautious approach to avoid damaging the economy.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Canada, World News, Winter Sports, Curling

National Post

Banks to settle ABCP for $130M CIBC and Scotiabank Canada investment-banking arms

The investment-banking arms of CIBC and Scotiabank may each pay about $20-million to settle the ABCP issue.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News

Mon Dec 21, 2009

www.wellingtonnorth.com | North America

What does a billion dollars buy these days? need for some more white collar criminals behind bars

pict Why not ask for a gift that will make a real difference?

This year, instead of the usual material goods, ask your family and friends to donate to the Green Party of Canada.

http://bit.ly/7YbWoy

Joe Q. Public may not understand the finer points of how government agencies tender contracts or hire consultants, just as he fails to comprehend the complexities of switching the provincea s health records systems to an electronic model.

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Edmonton Sun

Self-inflicted wounds, bad luck PM's downfall Canada Karma appears to have come around

Not that long ago a piano-playing Stephen Harper bestrode his world like a colossus.

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Related Topix: Stephen Harper, Canada, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Opinion

CFRB

Winter Storm Causes Havoc

A snowstorm that has hammered the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States has grounded some planes in Ottawa and Toronto.

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Related Topix: Blizzard, Canada, World News

Times-Transcript

Women's bookstores struggle to survive

Nearly two decades after almost being destroyed in a firebombing, the Toronto Women's Bookstore is once again fighting for its survival.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News,

Canoe

US storm delays Canadians on Atlantic Coast after White House recieves record Snow levels

A fierce storm that pounded the U.S. is slowly moving into Atlantic Canada while Americans dig out from the aftermath.

Canadians

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Uniondale, NY,

Sun Dec 20, 2009

Penticton Herald

MPs appeal to PM's Christmas spirit to give man living in BC church his freedom

He hasn't stepped a foot outside, nor sat down to sup with his family in their own home for six months, but when asked about his ideal Christmas, Mikhail Lennikov doesn't wish for himself.

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Related Topix: Life, Christmas, Holidays, Chorus, Canada, World News, Stephen Harper

Edmonton Journal

Leaders reach final deal in Copenhagen

World leaders attempted to pull all the meaning they could from the tenuous deal brokered between the U.S., China and other major economies during the final hours of climate change negotiations Friday night and Saturday morning -- but the newly christened "Copenhagen Accord" elicited mainly resignation or disappointment.

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Related Topix: Fredrik Reinfeldt, Canada, World News, Stephen Harper

900 CHML AM

Red Cross president talked about Afghan detainees with Tory ministers in 2006

Three federal cabinet ministers and a senior government official met the head of the International Red Cross in the fall of 2006 as the humantarian organization tried to focus Canada's attention on alleged abuses in Afghan prisons, The Canadian Press has learned.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Canada

National Post

Deal or dud? Copenhagen Canada's strategy: Promise now, implement later

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama talk at the climate conference in Copenhagen yesterday.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/canadas-strategy-promise-now-implement-later/article1406232/

Sounding like GTA Ontario so called Sustainable Halton's byline too

http://www.topix.net/forum/ca/halton-hills-on-georgetown/T74FH40QGGJMHS7IK

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Related Topix: World News, South Africa, Africa, Canada

24 Hours Vancouer

Victoria's royal troubles relevant

English actress Emily Blunt, who plays the title character in The Young Victoria, went absolutely C.R.A.Z.Y. for Montreal filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee.

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Related Topix: The Young Victoria, Australia, World News, Canada

Sat Dec 19, 2009

www.topix.com | North America

Journalist in hospital with concussion after shoving incident at torch relay - Topix

York Region GTA : This is an Olympic torch relay. It’s a feel good event.

It’s the last place where you would find heavy-handed, police-state, goon tactics

A torch relay security team is travelling around the country with the torch and is responsible for ensuring safety of the torch and torch bearer.

A news photographer was sent to hospital with a concussion on Friday after security officers involved in crowd control for the Olympic torch relay "shoved" the man to the ground, said a spokesman for a union representing journalists.

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