Air Canada dispute over pilot dispute in July 2008
Air Canada stands by a pilot amid a staff clash on a Toronto to Paris flight in July 2008. Public safety remained intact, but the matter reached federal court as a staff dispute rather than a safety threat.
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Toronto
Air Canada
Hugh Bouchard
Toronto-Paris
Canadian sci fi writer convicted in border clash
Peter Watts of Toronto, 52, convicted by a St. Clair County jury of assaulting, obstructing, and resisting a U S Customs and Border Protection officer during a Dec 8 inspection at the Blue Water Bridge. He faces up to two years in prison at sentencing April 26.
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Port Huron
Mich
Michigan
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
St. Clair County
Peter Watts
Toronto
Watts
Canada
Blue Water Bridge
Octuplets mom faces foreclosure on La Habra home
Nadya Suleman homeowner in La Habra, California, faces foreclosure after $565,000 mortgage default. Amer Haddadin, mortgage holder, says payments not kept up and notes he signed the home to Suleman’s father last year. In New Haven, Ronald Taylor, a 51 year old inmate with cancer, is freed after a star witness recanted and a judge overturns his 1993 murder conviction.
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Orlando
Fla
Casey Anthony
Stan Strickland
ABC
Florida
LA Habra
Calif
Nadya Suleman
California
Amer Haddadin
Ramsey Masso
Haddadin
Suleman
New Haven
Conn
Connecticut
Ronald Taylor
Health care overhaul plan outlines key provisions
Congressional Democrats release final version of President Obama’s health care bill ahead of a House vote. The measure costs about 940 billion over ten years and aims to expand coverage to 32 million uninsured by 2014, with 95 percent coverage fully phased in later. It includes mandates, insurance reforms, Medicaid expansion, taxes, and exchange-based buying.
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Barack Obama
House
Senate
Congressional Budget Office
Nebraska
Mary Landrieu
Louisiana
Federal
Congress
GOP
Obama
Chuck Grassley
Iowa
Patriot Center
George Mason University
Fairfax
World diplomats call for resumption of Mideast talks
In Moscow the Quartet urged Israel and the Palestinians to return to indirect talks to seek a two year path to an independent Palestinian state. The delegation condemned Jewish housing in East Jerusalem but stopped short of harsher criticism.
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Moscow
Israel
East Jerusalem
Mideast
United States
Obama
Benjamin Netanyahu
U.S
Hillary Clinton
George Mitchell
Clinton
Middle East
Russia
United Nations
Lawyer connected to U S missionaries on trafficking arrest
A fugitive who once represented a group of U S Baptist missionaries facing kidnapping charges for allegedly taking 33 Haitian children was arrested in Santo Domingo on human trafficking charges. Puello faces extradition and has denied the allegations.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Jorge Puello
United States
McDonald’s
National Drug Control Agency
Roberto Lebron
Puello
Vermont
Canada
Philadelphia
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
el Salvador
ICE
Interpol
Soledad Puello
National Party of Veterans and Civilians
Associated Press
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Ban Ki-moon
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Catherine Ashton
Tony Blair
Lavrov