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ERIKA HELLER
-- Today, The Globe and Mail begins its annual selection of reader nominees for Nation Builder of the Year 2008 by profiling Erika Heller, a cancer survivor who serves as a role model for others battling the disease. Here's what some of you said in your online nominations: FULL STORY 
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Leaders forcing Jean into uncharted territory
No governor-general has ever had to decide whether to dismiss a prime minister or to accept a coalition of opposition parties - and constitutional experts are sharply divided on what the sovereign's representative can do in such an unprecedented crisis
By MICHAEL VALPY
-- Stephen Harper and the opposition party Leaders have pushed Michaelle Jean onto a constitutional cliff-edge where no governor-general has stood before.No governor-general previously has faced having to dismiss a prime minister. FULL STORY
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Low prices have lobster fishermen seeing red
Nearly 50-per-cent drop from last year prompts hundreds of Nova Scotia fishermen to call snap strike, return to harbour
By OLIVER MOORE
HALIFAX -- Hundreds of lobster boats returned to port in southwestern Nova Scotia yesterday in a protest against the low prices they were getting for their catch.The protest was spontaneous, several fishermen said, and began with the usual early morning chatter over the boats' radios. FULL STORY
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A chat over chicken gets Dion back to the table
By JANE TABER
-- Bob Rae and Dominic LeBlanc arrived just after 7 p.m. for Sunday dinner at Michael Ignatieff's modest condominium in Toronto's swank Yorkville neighbourhood. Mr. Ignatieff's wife, Suzanna Zsohar, cooked chicken. FULL STORY
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'It's a PR war now': Tories to take to the streets and voters' front doors
The Liberals, NDP and Bloc have signed a historic accord that supports a Liberal-led coalition government. But the Conservatives are determined to do all they can to stay in power: One prime minister too many
By STEVEN CHASE, CAMPBELL CLARK AND BRIAN LAGHI
OTTAWA -- Stephen Harper's beleaguered Conservative government girded yesterday for an all-out battle to stave off imminent defeat at the hands of a newly minted Liberal-NDP coalition, signalling it might even move to terminate the current session of Parliament to do so. FULL STORY
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New chapter in Apotex legal battle
By ELIZABETH CHURCH
-- The legal wrangling between Toronto physician and researcher Nancy Olivieri and Apotex Inc. is continuing after more than a decade, with a new lawsuit by the drug maker raising fresh charges it is trying to muzzle academic freedom. FULL STORY
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