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Universities looking outside academia for leaders

From attracting donations to settling with unions, the job of campus president now requires a range of skills beyond the scholarly

By ELIZABETH CHURCH

-- Canada's universities are experiencing a hiring boom as a dozen campuses across the country scout for new leaders. The competition is intense and the stakes are high. With a recession looming, community and political leaders are counting on universities for everything from breakthrough technologies and able graduates to the steady paycheques of campus jobs. The men and women who will take on the job of university president are likely to face a barrage of demands in the coming months, as their institutions face funding shortfalls of their own. FULL STORY 


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Liberals, NDP firm up deal to topple Tories

Parties agree to form coalition that would last 2½ years with NDP taking 6 cabinet seats; Liberal leadership of alliance undecided

By CAMPBELL CLARK AND BRIAN LAGHI

OTTAWA -- The Liberals and NDP have reached a deal to bring down the federal Conservative government and form an unprecedented coalition to take its place that would last 30 months and include cabinet seats for both parties. FULL STORY 


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Liberals, NDP firm up deal to topple Tories

Parties agree to form coalition that would last 2½ years with NDP taking six cabinet seats; Liberals debate who will be prime minister

By CAMPBELL CLARK AND BRIAN LAGHI

OTTAWA -- The Liberals and NDP have reached a deal to bring down the federal Conservative government and form an unprecedented coalition to take its place that would last 30 months and include cabinet seats for both parties. FULL STORY 


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Liberals, NDP firm up deal to topple Tories

Parties agree to form coalition that would last 2 ½ years with NDP taking six cabinet seats; Liberal leadership of alliance undecided

By CAMPBELL CLARK AND BRIAN LAGHI

OTTAWA -- The Liberals and NDP have reached a deal to bring down the federal Conservative government and form an unprecedented coalition to take its place that would last 30 months and include cabinet seats for both parties. FULL STORY 


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Crash kills brothers, 6 and 9


By JEFF GRAY

-- Two young children are dead and their eight-year-old brother remained in critical condition last night after a minivan, forced by engine trouble to stop in a high-occupancy vehicle lane on the Trans-Canada Highway outside Vancouver, was rammed from behind. FULL STORY 


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