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• 2 Canadians linked to Detroit imam granted bail

  A judge on Friday granted bail for two Canadian men who face extradition to the U.S. on charges linked to the slain leader of a radical Detroit-area Islamic group.

• Canada plans Afghan withdrawal

  Canada has begun preparations to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in 2011.

• Canada requests WTO consultations on seal hunt ban

  Canada is taking its seal hunt dispute with the European Union to the World Trade Organization.

• Canadians linked to Detroit imam fight extradition

  A lawyer for two Canadians wanted by the FBI following the death of a controversial imam in a police shootout in Detroit says they plan to fight extradition.

• Canadian Auto Workers union reaches deal with Ford

  The head of the Canadian Auto Workers says the union has reached a deal with Ford Canada that will see the auto company close one of its Ontario plants employing 1,600 workers, but it will add two new vehicles to its assembly line at another Ontario plant.

• Hydro-Quebec buying energy transmission assets

  North America's largest utility company Hydro-Quebec has announced it will pay 4.7 billion Canadian dollars ($4.4 billion) for transmission lines of New Brunswick Power, a deal that would help the company secure greater access to electricity markets in the U.S.

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  Fugitive banker extradited to Thailand

  A fugitive banker's long fight against extradition ended Thursday as he was put on a plane back to Thailand, where he faces charges of fraud that Thai officials say contributed to the 1990s Asian financial crisis.

• Biker gang members found guilty of mass slayings

  Six members of the Bandidos biker gang were found guilty Thursday of murdering eight men associated with the gang in the worst mass slayings in Ontario history.

• Life sentence for Rwandan convicted of war crimes

  A Rwandan man who was the first person convicted under a law allowing people in Canada to be tried for war crimes committed abroad has been sentenced to life in prison.

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  Coyotes kill woman on hike in Canadian park

  Two coyotes attacked a promising young musician as she was hiking alone in a national park in eastern Canada, and authorities said she died Wednesday of her injuries.

• Baby born in Windsor parking lot

  A traffic jam forced a couple to deliver their baby in a auto supplies company parking lot Wednesday morning.

• Confusion in cockpit before fatal Sask. crash, report says

  A small commercial aircraft crashed and burned in northern Saskatchewan in 2007 partly because the pilot and co-pilot couldn't work effectively as a team, a report says.

• Feds, Alberta pledge $779M to carbon-capture project

  The federal and Alberta governments pledged nearly $780 million Wednesday to retrofit a coal-fired electricity generation plant to capture and store some of the carbon dioxide generated from the projct.

• Teen charged after courthouse knife attack

  A teenager has been charged with attempted murder after a woman was attacked with a knife inside a Halifax courthouse.

• RCMP search Lahey's homes, office

  RCMP in Nova Scotia have searched the former homes and offices of Raymond Lahey, the Roman Catholic bishop facing child-pornography charges.

• Tory logos on federal cheques draw fire

  Federal opposition MPs are taking aim at the ruling Conservatives over the appearance of their party's logo on ceremonial cheques at funding announcements.

• Appeal Court reserves decision in Sinclair murder

  The Manitoba couple convicted of murdering a five-year-old girl must wait to learn if their appeal is successful.

• Olympic road closures start in November

  Olympic officials plan to start restricting traffic for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver as early as Nov. 1 to prepare the city for the international event in February, with further closures rollin out in January and right up to the opening night of the Games.

• RCMP seek help of convicted gas-well bomber

  RCMP in British Columbia have recruited environmental activist and convicted gas-well bomber Wiebo Ludwig of Alberta in their attempt to stop the pipeline bomber.

• Triple murder trial postponed for ill juror

  The triple murder trial of a Quebec woman accused of killing her three children has been delayed because a juror has taken ill.

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• Partisan cheques put Tories in hot water

  Images of MPs handing over government payments emblazoned with Conservative Party logo prompt PMO warning

• Schoenborn was a model dad: former wife

  Darcie Clarke testified that the accused killer of her three children was never violent towards the kids, but his ‘mental stability' prevented them from ever reconciling

• RCMP seize computers, storage units from Raymond Lahey's home

  Child exploitation unit go through two residences and the office of the former bishop accused in Ottawa of possessing child porn

• Ontario boosts local wine with new labelling, tax measures

  Province announces it will tighten rules surrounding wines branded as “Cellared in Canada,” which are required to include only 30 per cent local grapes

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• Literary newspaper near a loss for words

  Its government funding cut, BC Bookworld reaches out to writers for help to keep publishing

• Health-care cuts hit dozens of programs

  'Service equalization' to help Vancouver Island Health Authority trim $45-million from budget

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• X-rated x-rays? Airports test scanners that see all

  A controversial new technology that can see through an airline passenger's clothes – revealing everything from concealed weapons to piercings and even an outline of breasts and genitals – may soon becoming to Pearson International Airport.

• Tory logos on funding announcements, critics charge

  Opposition MPs are crying foul over a binge of taxpayer-funded cheque presentations that bear either the Conservative party logo or the prominent name of the local Tory MP.

• RCMP search residences, office of accused bishop

  RCMP in Nova Scotia have searched two residences and the office of a bishop accused in Ottawa of possessing child porn.

• 'Alternative Nobel' prize bittersweet for David Suzuki

  Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki says he's proud to receive an "Alternative Nobel" prize announced Tuesday, but humiliated that Canada has become an international pariah when it comes to climat change.

• MP plans to save the world without help of Bono, Bob Geldof

  With apologies to Bob Geldof and Bono, Keith Martin thinks he has a better strategy for helping developing nations. And it's not about writing cheques for impoverished nations.

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• Ed Stelmach gets 77 per cent support from Alta. Tories

  Premier Ed Stelmach received 77 per cent support in a leadership review vote by Tory delegates meeting in Red Deer, Alta., on Saturday.

• Funeral held in Saskatoon for Lt. Justin Boyes

  Citizens hung Canadian flags over a highway overpass and lined the route as the funeral procession for a soldier killed in Afghanistan wound its way through Saskatoon on Saturday.

• W5: The fight to preserve desecrated war graves

  Bell Island, N.L. was the only North American location directly attacked by German Forces during WWII. The wrecks at the bottom of Conception Bay are in pristine condition but divers have been pillagng the sunken artifacts.

• W5 investigates: Children on the frontlines of divorce

  The world of divorce is scary for any child. But when a divorce becomes especially toxic, children can become the target of an unrelenting crusade by one parent to destroy the child's relationship wih the other.

• Driver facing charges after car plunges off cliff

  Police are investigating a bizarre crash that saw a car plunge off a cliff on Saturday morning and the driver inside walk away with only minor injuries.

• Charles, Camilla visit Vancouver Olympic sites

  Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, visited a 2010 Olympics site in Vancouver on Saturday, to the sounds of First Nations drumming.

• Tax agency probes restaurants that hide cash sales

  A two-year probe of the restaurant industry in Canada has uncovered at least $40 million in "phantom" cash sales so far, says the Canada Revenue Agency.

• RCMP charge Rwandan immigrant with war crimes

  RCMP have arrested a Rwandan immigrant and charged him with war crimes, capping an exhaustive six-year investigation that involved questioning witnesses far outside Canada's borders.

• Driver walks away after car plunges off cliff

  Police are investigating a bizarre crash that saw a car plunge off a cliff on Saturday morning and the driver inside walk away with only minor injuries.

• Estimates of declining caribou a hoax, claims outfitter

  Caribou herds aren't shrinking; scientists are just looking in the wrong place. That's the opinion of some aboriginal elders and at least one outfitter determined to expose what he calls a fraud.

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