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Divorce Law In Top Court

  • The Supreme Court of Canada will be asked to decide whether divorced couples are "lifers" who remain at permanent risk of being forced to pay money to their former partners, even after a divorce court declines to award support or cuts it off. The issue, which affects many divorced couples across Canada, will be brought before the high court by a London psychiatrist, Adrian Hynes, who faces the prospect of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars of support to his former wife -- even though the Manitoba courts ruled he was off the hook 13 years ago. Full story
  • Alberta will close a number of hiking trails around Canmore and the Bow Valley to try to separate bears and people, a month after a grizzly killed a woman who was jogging in the area. Alberta Community Development said it was trying to create natural barriers between wildlife corridors and people by shutting down certain trails areas around the Canmore Nordic Centre and in nearby Kananaskis Country and Bow Valley Wildland Provincial Park. Full story
  • Canadians in the market for a new car may not have to worry about haggling over the price -- if they choose one of the DaimlerChrysler vehicles now being sold to the public at employee prices. For a limited time, the company is offering Canadian customers the chance to buy virtually any of its 2005 Chrysler, Dodge or Jeep models for the same price its 12,000 employees pay. Full story
  • Canadian soldiers heading for Afghanistan are being prepared for direct combat with Taliban fighters as insurgents promise more - and more sophisticated - attacks on foreign troops. Full story


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