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Contamination's cause may not be found, CEO says
By TU THANH HA AND BILL CURRY
TORONTO, OTTAWA -- The cause of the deadly listeria contamination at a Toronto meat plant may never be fully pinned down, the head of the food company said yesterday as he faced questions about how much of the bacteria were detected at the facility before the outbreak. FULL STORY 
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PM pledges wider Arctic patrols
Move would require foreign vessels to notify authorities of trips into polar waters
By STEVEN CHASE
TUKTOYAKTUK -- Canada is expanding by half a million square kilometres the amount of Arctic Ocean it will consider to be Canadian territory for the purpose of policing pollution violations, and will make it mandatory for all ships entering its polar waters to report their presence. FULL STORY
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Ottawa defends contract with U.S. intelligence firm
By OMAR EL AKKAD
OTTAWA -- Ottawa is defending its decision to award a contract to a U.S. intelligence firm to train Canadian soldiers on the nature of the Afghanistan insurgency.The government announced this week that it will hire the Terrorism Research Center to train Canadian soldiers. The training will focus on understanding insurgent groups such as the Taliban. FULL STORY
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Alberta ups number of postsecondary spots by nearly 2,500
By ELIZABETH CHURCH
-- Alberta is adding nearly 2,500 spaces at universities and colleges this September, the latest step in a provincial plan to increase the education capacity of the booming province.The new spots, allocated on the basis of student and industry demand and government priorities, are concentrated in health-care programs such as nursing, medicine and technical laboratory training. More than 40 per cent of the new spaces are in health-care fields. Commerce and business programs also are getting a boost in funding, as are graduate programs at universities. FULL STORY
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