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Ontario funds think tank with focus on province
By BRIAN LAGHI
-- Ontario is backstopping a new think tank that will focus on the province's place within a rapidly changing Confederation.Premier Dalton McGuinty's government, which has engaged in some high-profile battles with Ottawa recently, yesterday announced a one-time, $5-million grant to the University of Toronto to establish a new institute at the school of public policy and governance. FULL STORY 
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Ottawa throws weight behind Pan-Am Games bid
But Finance Minister says more work needed before government can commit to $600-million funding request
By MATTHEW TREVISAN
-- One day before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, the federal government decided to support a bid by municipalities in Southern Ontario's Greater Golden Horseshoe to host the 2015 Pan American Games. FULL STORY
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Delays force Canada to lease helicopters
By DANIEL LEBLANC
OTTAWA -- The Canadian Forces announced yesterday they will fly leased Russian helicopters and secondhand U.S. ones in Afghanistan as the purchase of a new fleet of Chinooks is delayed by another two years to 2013. FULL STORY
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Rain in Vancouver? Not in this VANOC presentation
By ROD MICKLEBURGH
BEIJING -- When it comes to the Olympics, the onetime Irish Gaelic football star who heads Vancouver's juggernaut to the 2010 Winter Games is an enthusiast of the first order.John Furlong believes passionately in the ability of sport to inspire and change a country's soul, even when that country is the People's Republic of China, an authoritarian, one-party state ruled by leaders who have no desire to change anything about, say, tossing people in jail for posting anti-Olympics missives on the Internet. FULL STORY
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