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IN OTHER WORDS, 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY'
As proponents of Braille, which some call as monumental as the printing press, raised a glass to wish Louis Braille a happy 200th birthday, others say the code has been rendered obsolete by advances in computer software for the blind
By JANE TABER
-- At a downtown Toronto restaurant yesterday, Jim Sanders and about 30 of his friends raised a glass of wine, enjoyed a piece of cake and sang Happy Birthday to Louis Braille to honour the 200th anniversary of his birth. FULL STORY 
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Crack cocaine hits the great white North
Two sentenced on drug charges in Iqaluit, where police say Edmonton gangs introduced cocaine to a new and lucrative market
By JOE FRIESEN
-- To the drug dealers from the south, the frozen land of Nunavut was virgin territory just waiting to be colonized.They saw a new and lucrative market where local residents accustomed to scarcity pricing would pay 21/2 times the going rate for crack cocaine, flooding their operation with cash. FULL STORY
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Kids killed in parents' suicide pact: police
Three children dead, mother charged as financial woes suspected
By ANDRÉ PICARD
MONTREAL -- Facing the prospect of a new year unemployed, bankrupt and with few prospects of digging themselves out in a recession, a previously unremarkable Quebec couple hatched a horrific plot to kill their three young children and then take their own lives, police say. FULL STORY
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911 system upgrade would have saved man, family says
By KATHERINE O'NEILL AND WENDY STUECK
-- The death of an 18-year-old B.C. man who called 911 from his cellphone while lost in the woods on New Year's Day is the latest in a string of incidents that highlight serious problems plaguing Canada's 911 system. FULL STORY
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From throat singing to hip hop
New leader seeks to protect Inuit traditions while using sponsored dance workshops to connect with the territory's large and growing youth population
By KATHERINE O'NEILL
-- For Eva Aariak, Nunavut's new Premier and a passionate defender of Inuit ways, it seems to be an odd fit - hip hop.But the territory's former language commissioner recently supported funding hip hop workshops as a way to reach Nunavut's large and growing youth population. More than half of its 30,000 residents are 25 or younger, and rap music and break dancing are as popular as Inuit traditions such as throat singing and drum dancing. FULL STORY
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