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Confession made officer lose objectivity, lawyer says
Detective in 1967 slaying worked to discredit accused's alibi in any way he could despite having first verified it, Court of Appeal told
By KIRK MAKIN
-- An Ottawa homicide investigator went from being coolly objective to hell-bent for a conviction upon hearing that Romeo Phillion had confessed to the 1967 murder of firefighter Leopold Roy, a lawyer for Mr. Phillion told the Ontario Court of Appeal yesterday. FULL STORY 
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Economic woes cast doubt on Games' sponsors
'VANOC should be worried'
By ROD MICKLEBURGH
VANCOUVER -- Are economic vultures beginning to hover over the 2010 Winter Olympics? Or is it business as usual despite concerns that many parts of the world, including North America, are slipping into recession? FULL STORY
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Environmentalists promote 'green stimulus'
Governments can save the economy and the planet, they say, by spending on mass transit, renewable energy and fuel-efficient cars
By MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
-- Saving the economy and saving the planet at the same time were once considered two mutually incompatible goals. But not any longer.A chorus of proposals from liberal-leaning think tanks and conservation organizations is suggesting that the best way to revive the faltering economy would be to finance solutions to pressing environmental problems. FULL STORY
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Conversation cops step in to school students
By CARLY WEEKS
-- Your friend's new fuchsia fedora might be hideous. But don't call it gay, or you might get a language lesson from the conversation cops. Students at Queen's University who sprinkle their dialogue with an assortment of ''homo'' or ''retarded'' could find out the hard way that not everyone finds their remarks acceptable. FULL STORY
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Surmounting 'remarkable' odds, survivor isn't afraid to fly again
By IAN BAILEY
VANCOUVER -- The crash killed seven men and left a debris field spread widely over a Sunshine Coast island - and one man walked away, leaving even doctors astounded.They said Tom Wilson, who fled the burning wreckage of the Grumman Goose just before it exploded and who hiked for two hours to a beach where he was rescued, should recover within two to three weeks from light burns to his face, hands and right thigh. He will not require surgery. FULL STORY
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Alberta trims $6.5-billion from surplus
By NORVAL SCOTT
CALGARY -- Teflon-coated Alberta, long protected from the global economic downturn by its oil and gas wealth, is now feeling the full force of the world's financial panic. Alberta will have a budget surplus of only $2-billion for the financial year 2008-2009, Finance Minister Iris Evans said yesterday. While that's still substantial - especially as other less fortunate economies tumble into recession - it's $6.5-billion less than the province had forecast only three months earlier. FULL STORY
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