Homelessness awareness trek crosses Canada to speak out
Kerry Pakarinen, a Dryden Ontario native living on the streets of British Columbia, walks about 1,200 kilometres from Hope to Vancouver to raise awareness of homelessness in Canada. He plans to reach PEI and return by 2010 Olympics time, speaking in communities along the Trans-Canada Highway.
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Medicine Hat
Dryden, Ont
British Columbia
Pakarinen
Hope
B.C
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Vancouver
McCain suspends campaign to address financial crisis
John McCain announces suspending campaign to head to Washington for crisis talks with President Bush and Barack Obama. He proposes a nonpartisan joint statement and seeks to delay the upcoming presidential debate as the economy plunges amid bipartisan pressure.
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U.S
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Barack Obama
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Obama
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Bush
Florida
Cops warn of scam targeting online shoppers in Medicine Hat
The Medicine Hat Police Service cautions the public about an online fraud targeting buyers on Kijiji and eBay. Sgt Gord Stull warns that scammers route buyers to a fake site and push wire transfers for items priced far below market value. He urges verifying company details via phone numbers postal addresses and exact names and using Google to confirm legitimacy. Read the Q and A with Kelly Almer on B8.
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MHPS
Gord Stull
Google
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Weather Readout and Classifieds Drama In City News
Fragmentary weather and desk notes from a city paper. The readable lines show a weather section and scattered contact numbers, but the majority of the page is unreadable.
Stars defend arts funding against Harper jab in Toronto
Canadian film and TV stars led by Art Hindle Colm Feore Gordon Pinsent and Wendy Crewson at a Toronto news conference to oppose $45 million in arts cuts and urge government support for culture ACTRA noted the sector employs 1.1 million and adds 86 billion to GDP while criticising Harper for calling culture a niche issue and portraying artists as complainers The event followed the prime minister's remarks and highlighted culture as a driver of prosperity and public services.
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Hindle
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Gordon Pinsent
Wendy Crewson
Feore
Pierre Trudeau
Trudeau
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Harper
ACTRA
Richard Hardacre
Crewson
Police lockdown hits five Lethbridge schools
In Lethbridge Alberta hundreds of students at five schools went into lockdown after a man confronted in the area by a handgun. Police arrested a 44 year old man with charges not yet released. The incident stemmed from an ongoing dispute between two students.
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