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Thousands without power after windstorm hits southwest BC
CTV News
VANCOUVER -- A powerful windstorm caused chaos in southwestern British Columbia on Saturday, knocking out power to 400,000 homes and felling trees that crushed cars and critically injured a woman. Winds gusting up to 80 kilometres per hour forced ...

BC storm leaves woman seriously injured, causes havoc   CBC.ca
Windstorm causes widespread power outage in southwest BC   Toronto Star
Windstorm cuts power to up to 300000 customers in southwestern BC   News1130
Prince George Citizen
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Toronto Sun

NDP's Olivia Chow, Jennifer Hollett start C-51 'countdown'
Toronto Sun
Olivia Chow says she has one message for “those cynics” — a.k.a. the Liberals, who voted in favour of the Conservatives' anti-terror law. “Get out of the way.” “We can, we must and we will repeal Mr. Harper's C-51,” she told reporters Saturday in Toronto.
Kenney derides Trudeau's pledge to repeal PC citizenship law   Toronto Star
Trudeau goes all-in with stand on deficit financing: Hébert   OurWindsor.ca
Election 2015 Seat Projections: NDP Still Favourite, While Polls Show Some ...   Huffington Post Canada
Ottawa Sun
MetroNews Canada
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CBC.ca

Barrie police seek 2 suspects after allegedly abducting girl at gunpoint
CBC.ca
Police are searching for two suspects in Barrie, Ont., after they allegedly held a girl at gunpoint, forced her into a vehicle and drove away. The alleged incident happened Saturday morning near Dunlop Street East and Owen Street in downtown Barrie, ...

Two suspects arrested, victim found safe after downtown Barrie abduction: police   CTV News
Teenage girl abducted at gunpoint, found safe: Barrie police   Toronto Star
Young woman found safe after being abducted at gunpoint in middle of downtown ...   National Post
640 Toronto News
CHCH News
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Toronto Star

Christine Elliott quits as Progressive Conservative MPP
Toronto Star
Christine Elliott, runner-up to Patrick Brown in the May 9 Progressive Conservative leadership election, has quit provincial politics. “Today, I am resigning as the MPP for Whitby-Oshawa, effective immediately,” Elliott said in a 123-word statement ...
Christine Elliott quits as Whitby-Oshawa MPP   Alberni Valley Times
Ontario MPP Christine Elliott resigns   Daily Xtra
Statements on the resignation of Christine Elliott   NorthumberlandView.ca (press release) (registration) (blog)
CTV News
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Vancouver Sun

BC courts deny First Nations' Site C stop-work order and dismiss judicial review
Vancouver Sun
Courts on Friday dismissed three actions against BC Hydro's $9-billion Site C dam project, although the utility still faces additional legal challenges that have yet to be decided. In one action, a B.C. Supreme Court judge dismissed an application ...
Courts deny First Nations' Site C stop-work order   CTV News
First Nations in northern BC worry Site C dam will obliterate their heritage   The Globe and Mail

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CBC.ca

Mayor criticized for comparing Harper's use of private security to dictators ...
CBC.ca
The mayor of Oakville found himself under a barrage of online criticism when he wrote a tweet comparing Stephen Harper's use of private security with those that protected Hitler and Mussolini. He has apologized for the implication, seen by some critics ...
Oakville mayor under fire for comparing Harper's private security team to Hitler's   CTV News
Oakville mayor sorry for tweets comparing veterans to Nazis, mercenaries   Toronto Sun
Oakville mayor apologizes for controversial comment on veterans' work for Harper   Toronto Star
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Winnipeg Free Press
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Oot and aboot on Twitter: how the @Canada account's first tweet came to be
Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA - How many polar bears is too many to promote Canada? That's one of several questions Foreign Affairs bureaucrats were asking themselves last fall in the lead-up to the launch of the @Canada Twitter account. But more importantly — what would ...

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