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Thursday May 17, 2012
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- Canada stops funding famed experimental lakes science program
NATIONAL (Today) - The federal government has pulled the plug on one of Canada's most famous science facilities as part of budget cuts at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.... - Military ombudsman took 90-day casual worker on trip to Geneva on taxpayers' dime NATIONAL (Today) - The Canadian Forces Ombudsman travelled to Geneva with his executive assistant and her sister, charging taxpayers a little more than $16,500 to attend a two-day planning meeting in Switzerland, according...
- Secret-sharing seminar at Ottawa elementary leaves girls in tears NATIONAL (Today) - A session designed to help girls at an Ottawa school "recognize their inner voice" drastically went off the rails last week when secrets the girls had written on paper airplanes...
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Official: Volkswagen interns roll into Worthersee with GTI Black Dynamic show car 
Autoblog Canada (Today) - Filed under: Hatchback, Europe, Volkswagen, Concept Cars, PerformanceSlammed Skodas, SEATs, Audis and Polos are all well and nice, but at the end of the day, the annual gathering of Volkswagen... - From debt to defence, Harper has his hands full at G8/NATO summits NATIONAL (Today) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to leave the lectures at home and take a more flexible approach to the European debt crisis when he heads to the U.S. on...
- Conservatives, Liberals join hands to slap down Mulcair over oilsands attacks NATIONAL (Today) - A senior cabinet minister in the Harper government demanded Thursday that New Democratic Party leader Thomas Mulcair apologize to all Western Canadians for his attacks on the oilsands industry....
- Health care cost for older immigrants pegged at nearly $3 billion NATIONAL (Today) - Elderly immigrants cost the government approximately $3 billion annually in health care, while those over 50 who have worked have never reported earning more than $15,000 a year, figures obtained...
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Report: Plans for Volvo XC90 to become Geely? Autoblog Canada (Today) - Filed under: Luxury, China, Volvo, Plants/Manufacturing, SUVVolvo recently unveiled yet another model year of the impossibly old XC90 - promised to be the final one before a complete redesign. But... -
Report: Toyota turning Nintendo DS into navigation system Autoblog Canada (Today) - Filed under: Toyota, Japan, Technology, Video GamesVideo games are already an easy target for politicians, what with their amazing ability to turn both brains and muscles to jelly while also... - Top Montreal executives face charges in real-estate corruption probe NATIONAL (Today) - Frank Zampino, former right-hand man to Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay, was "the ringleader" in a bid-rigging scheme that defrauded Montreal taxpayers of approximately $1 million, investigators with Quebec's permanent anti-corruption...
