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In airborne Olympics, the motto's higher, faster, higher
By PETER CHENEY
ROCKTON, ONT. -- Wing attachment bolts? Check. Parachute? Check. And then, perhaps the most important part of a major flight in a high-performance glider: the relief tube, which looks like a condom with a length of garden hose grafted onto the tip. Without it, there's no way to urinate in the form-fitting cockpit of a flying machine that looks like an F1 car that has sprouted wings. FULL STORY 
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Slowing economies will force entente on climate, energy, food, Harper says
By CAMPBELL CLARK
OTTAWA -- The world's recession fears and thirst for energy will move Europeans and others closer to Canada's position on climate change, Prime Minister Stephen Harper predicts.Climate change is supposed to be central to the agenda of G8 leaders when they meet in Japan next week, but divisions between Europeans and North Americans on what the next greenhouse-gas treaty should look like threatens to stymie progress. Economic concerns, especially those linked to rising fuel and food prices at a time when the global economy is slowing, may dominate G8 talks. FULL STORY
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Top general sees 'huge progress'
Canada's new Chief of Defence Staff sees Afghans becoming more adept in military roles
By STEVEN CHASE
OTTAWA -- Canada's new top general says he's still confident Canadian soldiers can quit combat operations in Kandahar by 2011, despite a surge in Taliban attacks and gloomier assessments of the Afghan war from the Pentagon. FULL STORY
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Canada lands second-last in climate-change ranking
By MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
-- Canada and the U.S. are the worst countries in the G8 when it comes to taking effective measures to forestall the risk of rapid and uncontrolled climate change, according to an assessment of the major industrialized countries compiled by a European-based environmental consulting firm. FULL STORY
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Panel divided on crusader's nomination, vote suggests
Morgentaler defends his appointment, surprised at lack of uproar over honours
By JANE TABER AND GLORIA GALLOWAY AND CAROLINE ALPHONSO
OTTAWA, TORONTO -- Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin permitted a rare recorded vote on whether to name abortion-rights activist Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada, an indication the independent advisory committee that usually operates by consensus was split on whether to grant him Canada's highest honour, sources said. FULL STORY
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First the stroke, then a Newfoundland accent
Southern Ontario woman's file is the first documented case of foreign accent syndrome in Canada
By ANNE MCILROY
-- Rose Dore has lived her entire life in Southern Ontario, but, after a debilitating stroke two years ago, she started talking like a Newfoundlander.''I don't know where it came from. I guess I'm lucky. A lot of people can't talk at all after they have a stroke. Lord Almighty,'' she says, with an East Coast lilt to her voice. ''My family thinks it's cute, but I don't.'' FULL STORY
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