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Derailed Train Had Cancer-Causing Chemicals

  • Several days after a Canadian National Railway train spilled 70,000 litres of oil near Lake Wabamun in central Alberta, local residents were unaware that the oil-slicked waters they were helping to clean up contained a toxic, cancer-causing chemical. And now, they're demanding to know why CN kept them in the dark when the company was aware of the derailed tanker's dangerous contents for at least three days. CTV News

  • Canadians have no problem with deporting advocates of terrorism or suicide bombing, a new poll has found. But support for other draconian measures -- like detention without trial, infiltrating the Muslim community and restricting the number of Muslim immigrants -- is considerably weaker. CTV News

  • Survivors of an Air France flight that skidded off a runway and burst into flames say they are entitled to further compensation from the airline because of the trauma they suffered, and deny that being part a class-action lawsuit is simply a cash grab. CTV News

  • The federal government announced Thursday that it is stiffening the penalties for production and use of crystal meth. Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh, Attorney General Irwin Cotler, and Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan are to announce officially Thursday morning an increase in the maximum penalties for possession, trafficking, importation, exportation and production of methamphetamines, known in one form as speed or meth and in another as crystal meth. Globe and Mail

  • Smoking rates among young women dropped sharply last year, and overall statistics suggest the broader trend away from lighting up also continued in the Canadian population. Statistics Canada said Thursday that about 25 per cent of Canadian women aged 20 to 24 smoked in 2004, down “significantly” from 30 per cent a year earlier. Globe and Mail

  • Union leaders reacted angrily yesterday to news that the federal government is in the final stages of a two-year study that proposes to eliminate thousands of jobs across the public service in a bid to save as much as $4-billion a year. Globe and Mail

  • The federal and provincial governments will begin taking a more active role at Regina-based First Nations University of Canada, Saskatchewan Learning Minister Andrew Thomson says. Thomson met in Ottawa Wednesday with federal Indian Affairs Minister Andy Scott. CBC News

  • Mayor David Miller will interrupt a family vacation on Thursday to attend a Police Services Board meeting, which is expected to focus on the recent rash of shootings in the city. Miller has been under heavy criticism lately from critics who say he's not doing enough to combat street violence. CBC Toronto

  • The revised forecast for the rest of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season looks "ominous," a weather predictor warns. About one-third of the storms are expected to affect weather in the Atlantic provinces in some way before the season ends in November. CBC News

  • Investigators are trying to determine how a homebuilt plane travelling to Grande Prairie, Alta., from Calgary fell apart in the sky, killing the pilot and his passenger. The plane, described by Sundre RCMP as a Lancair IV-P, a four-seat, single-engine turbo propeller, crashed about 20 kilometres southeast of Sundre on Tuesday night. CBC News

  • Quebec City police say a man they arrested in 1995 spent five years in jail for crimes he did not commit. Simon Marshall confessed to a series of sexual assaults but police now say DNA evidence proves he was innocent. CBC News


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