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Premiers Conclude Summit

  • Wrapping up their annual summit, the premiers said it's time the federal government increases funding for post-secondary education, although they've yet to decide exactly how much. At a press conference concluding their annual summit in Banff on Friday, Alberta Premier Ralph Klein said education ministers will study the exact numbers at a meeting in the fall.CTV

  • Provincial leaders say the U.S. government's refusal to comply with a NAFTA ruling that would have ended punitive duties on Canadian softwood lumber harms the entire trading relationship between the two countries.Globe And Mail

  • A bullet ripped through a window into a Montreal apartment, hitting a crib only an arm's length from a sleeping boy's head. A Montreal police spokesperson, Annie Lemieux, said several bullets went through a window into the bedroom of a ground-floor apartment in Pointe-St-Charles early Friday morning.CBC

  • Friends, family and admirers will say a final goodbye Saturday to Sgt. Ernest (Smokey) Smith, one of Canada's greatest war heroes. Funeral services for Smith, who died Aug. 3 at age 91, will be held at St. Andrew's-Wesley Church in Vancouver.CBC

  • Canadian Environment Minister StĂ©phane Dion vowed that Canada will do whatever it can to try and persuade the U.S. Senate not to permit oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.Globe And Mail


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