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Tories slashing $44.8-million in arts spending
Canadian Heritage programs hit hardest
By JAMES BRADSHAW
-- The Tories are committed to cutting $44.8-million in spending on arts and culture by April of 2010, The Globe and Mail has learned.As criticism of recent cuts continues, most recently from the mayors of Montreal and Toronto in a joint letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, details of several new cutbacks are emerging. FULL STORY 
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The tough transition from tilling tobacco
The sandy soil that once reaped rewards for tobacco farmers has become economic quicksand. As growers who raised the crop for generations watch their livelihood go up in smoke, they're looking to Ottawa for help to leave the crippled industry
By CAROLINE ALPHONSO
OTTERVILLE, ONT. -- The pungent sweetness of tobacco hangs heavy in the air at the entrance of the Godelie family farm.Its master farmer, Gary Godelie, is inside on this August afternoon, a cigarette dangling loosely from his lips, as he scoops armloads of dried, golden tobacco leaves and heaps them into a trailer. The leaves will be carted off to a nearby barn for storage for a few weeks until it's time to sell them on the market. FULL STORY
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Accept the reality of private health care: CMA chief
'I'm not ashamed,' Ouellet says
By ANDRÉ PICARD
LAVAL, QUE. -- The natural next step for Canada's health system is allowing more private delivery, which will give patients more choice, and better access to care, the new president of the Canadian Medical Association says. FULL STORY
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Be ready for fall election, Harper warns
All bets are off on fixed voting date as PM backtracks on promise to wait until October, 2009; decision expected within weeks
By CAMPBELL CLARK, BILL CURRY AND MURRAY CAMPBELL
OTTAWA and HAMILTON -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper set a collision course for a fall election yesterday, indicating he has given up on the fixed date his government wrote into law and will decide in a few weeks whether to call a national vote. FULL STORY
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