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B.C. firm chasing $3-billion deal to modernize rescue plane
Although foreign company expected to get contract, executive says building aircraft in Canada would create jobs in downturn
By STEVEN CHASE
OTTAWA -- A British Columbia aircraft maker is pitching the Harper government to reconsider plans for replacing the aging Buffalo search and rescue planes with what's expected to be foreign-made technology, saying it can produce a modernized Buffalo in Canada at a lower cost. FULL STORY 
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Couple in suspected suicide pact had money woes
By INGRID PERITZ AND RHÉAL SÉGUIN
-- Only months before the gruesome suicide pact that police say left their three children dead, a Quebec couple were struggling with bankruptcy, joblessness and little more than their Toyota Corolla as the sum of their worldly possessions. FULL STORY
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New Tory senator faces harassment complaint
Brazeau cleared of sexual accusations by aboriginal group's internal process
By BILL CURRY
OTTAWA -- Patrick Brazeau, national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples and one of 18 new Conservative senators, is facing an allegation he sexually harassed one of his female employees.The complaint from the former congress staffer was transferred last week to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and has not become public until now, even though the harassment was alleged to have occurred in late 2007 and early 2008. FULL STORY
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Canada lagged in helping get citizens out of Gaza
Many foreigners got out Friday, but Canadians remain
By CAMPBELL CLARK, AND ORLY HALPERN
OTTAWA and EREZ CROSSING, ISRAEL -- Canada only asked Israel for help in getting its stranded citizens out of Gaza after hundreds of other foreign nationals were able to depart, and as a ground assault was preparing to roll in. FULL STORY
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Powder-hungry skier says he'd break the rules again
By IAN BAILEY
VANCOUVER -- Graham Haywood and three other skiing buddies sparked a rescue effort that included an RCMP helicopter last week when they slipped out of bounds at B.C.'s Grouse Mountain Resort into ''an extremely hazardous and avalanche-prone area.'' FULL STORY
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Learn from U.S., 911 expert says
U.S. didn't get serious about upgrading phone system until a series of preventable deaths
By GRANT ROBERTSON
-- The United States didn't get serious about updating its 911 phone system until a series of preventable deaths relating to emergency calls from cellphones began to occur. Now experts fear Canada may be at risk of making the same mistake. FULL STORY
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