Martin slams flat tax plan vows faster tax cut axe
Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin cautioned that the Opposition Reform Alliance flat tax plan would cost Ottawa about 20 billion dollars annually. He warned essential services like old age pensions RCMP and debt interest would leave little for other programs and even threaten penitentiaries. He criticized rapid debt reduction and deeper cuts as unaffordable.
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Ottawa
Canadian Alliance
Paul Martin
Martin
All Party Commons
RCMP
Sopohonow Cleared of 1981 Murder After 18 Year Wrongful Conviction
Thomas Sopohonow sobbed and laughed as he accepted police and Crown apologies for a 1981 murder he did not commit in Winnipeg. The case spurred a judicial inquiry and a $75,000 payout to cover legal expenses.
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Toronto
Thomas Sophonow
Winnipeg
Jack Ewatski
Sophonow
Barbara Stoppel
Winnipeg Police Service
Ewatski
Manitoba
Gord Mackintosh
Crown
Walkerton to offer compensation for deadly water outbreak
Ontario officials led by Attorney General Jim Flaherty visited Walkerton to announce a compensation package for residents made ill or bereaved by the town's contaminated drinking water. Payments are described as compassionate, not an admission of liability, with mediation or arbitration as potential dispute paths.
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Walkerton
Ontario
Jim
Flaherty
Quebec truck driver charged in Highway 401 crash injuring officers
Quebec driver Terry DeMerchant, 26, faces multiple charges of criminal negligence and dangerous driving after a crash on Highway 401 near Chatham injuring three police officers two seriously. An SIU probe also targets an unnamed officer involved while two officers remain hospitalized and two civilians were injured.
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Chatham
Ont
Quebec
Canada
Terry DeMerchant
Ste. Agathe
Quc
Here
Special Investigations
Mary Eve
London
Patti Pask
Brad Sakalo
Premier Tobin blamed for perpetuating native stereotypes
Phil Fontaine, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, accuses Newfoundland Premier Brian Tobin of outdated racist language portraying aboriginals as lazy drunks. Fontaine calls Tobin's remarks an ugly blame the victim tactic and urges solutions over highlighting familiar social ills.
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ST. John’s
Nfld
Phil Fontaine
Canada
Newfoundland
Brian Tobin
The
Assembly of First Nations
Tobin
Labrador
Fontaine
McGray charged in 1985 Halifax murder case
Nova Scotia police will charge Michael Wayne McGray with the 1985 murder of hitchhiker Elizabeth Tucker. McGray, already convicted this week for another murder, is expected to plead guilty in the Tucker case, while his lawyer awaits formal details.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Michael Wayne McGray
McGray
Elizabeth McGrAy
Gail Tucker
Tucker
Wendell Maxwell
Moncton
N.B
Renous
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Scott Edmonds
Ihe
Fushla & Dahlia
Get Medicine Hat Mall
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Victoria
British Columbia
Prince George
Mike Farnworth
Kowalewich
Farnworth
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