Weather outline for Wednesday to Friday
A brief forecast shows Wednesday with a high of 16 and low of 6 sunny to partly cloudy and warm. Thursday warms to 21 with a low of 7 and mostly cloudy with showers. Friday reaches 19 with a high and a low of 7, with partly cloudy and mild conditions.
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Moussaoui pleads guilty in 2005 with White House attack plan
Moroccan-born Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty in 2005 to terror charges linked to the 9 11 attacks and disclosed a plan to crash a Boeing 747 into the White House. In a 2006 sentencing hearing he admitted a fifth target was the White House, alongside the shoe bomber plot. The item also notes Canada’s first iron smelter in Trais Rivieres 1915 and chlorine gas use at Ypres 1915, plus Rolling Stones concerts for the blind in Oshawa 1979 as a jail-sentence substitute for Keith Richards.
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Oshawa
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Polar bears doomed by shrinking Arctic ice says Tim Flannery
Australian scientist Tim Flannery warned at a news conference that polar bears could be extinct within 25 years as Arctic ice retreats eight percent yearly. He cited fewer cubs, longer weaning, weight loss, and stressed bears, and linked warming to broader changes such as Fraser River warmth and pine beetle wipeout in British Columbia.
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Brooks RCMP seek egg attackers after McNab Park Street incident
Brooks RCMP investigate multiple egging reports on McNab Park Street dated April 20. Residents had vehicles and homes egged including a damaged picture window. Police seek public help to identify suspects and urge tips to CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
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Generator stolen from Brooks carwash site in Brooks
Brooks RCMP seek public help to locate a blue Yamaha EF4000 generator, serial 73R250230, taken from a construction site at the Brooks Express Carwash between Wednesday and Thursday. Police urge anyone with information to contact Brooks RCMP or CrimeStoppers at 1 800 222 TIPS.
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Harper appoints Calgary executive to public appointments panel
Stephen Harper's nominee for chair of the Public Appointments Commission faces questions about his parliamentary confidence. Gwyn Morgan, former EnCana chief executive from 2002 to 2009, was named Canada's most respected CEO by Ipsos Reid. In a Toronto Empire Club speech last February he praised Harper's ethics while criticizing the Liberals.
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Motorcycle rider avoids crash after stop sign run
Francis Self, 50, talks with a Medicine Hat Police officer after walking away from a bike collision on Ross Glen Drive SE. Self laid down his bike to avoid a collision with a white Chevrolet van that ran a stop sign at the Rice Drive SE and Ross Glen Drive intersection.
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Ross Glen Drive
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Rice Drive
Cardinal Martini says condoms are lesser evil against AIDS
Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, former Milan archbishop, told AP that condoms may be the lesser evil in fighting AIDS, diverging from Vatican anti contraception and suggesting even single women could bear frozen embryos if survival depended on it. Nearby, Sudanese protesters in N Djamena burned an effigy of Omar al Bashir over Darfur.
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Goodale declines bid for Liberal leadership
Regina MP and former Liberal finance minister Ralph Goodale says he will not run to lead the party. In a letter he cites concerns about his French language skills and the demands on home life, though he could muster support in caucus and among the base. He will stay active in advancing ideas and rejuvenating the party as Opposition house leader.
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Ralph Goodale
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Emerson calls PM tough in compliment talk
Emerson says he did call Prime Minister Stephen Harper a hard ass but meant it as a compliment. He compares Harper to Gordie Howe and Pierre Trudeau as heroes and says Harper has strong views and principles he will stand up for. A former Liberal aide says Emerson was frustrated by cabinet control.
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