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– Consumer prices rose 1.6 per cent in the 12 months to February, topping the forecasts of economists and boosting the possibility of interest rate hikes by the Bank of Canada.
– Montreal police are searching for two men after a deadly gangland-style shooting killed two people and injured two more in the heart of the city’s historic waterfront business district.
– Top international diplomats on Friday called on Israel and the Palestinians to return to peace negotiations with a goal of reaching a final settlement that would create an independent Palestinian state within 24 months.
– The health of thousands of Canadian and U.S. patients could be put in jeopardy by a critical shortage of radioactive isotopes over the next few weeks, nuclear medicine experts say.
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Vancouver Sun
– The San Jose Sharks are playing like they think it’s mid-April already. The Vancouver Canucks probably wish it was.
– Taiwanese authorities are scrambling to contain a public furore that has erupted after one of its citizens was turned from Canada by border agents at Vancouver International Airport.
– Jon Bacon and two associates will have to go to trial a second time on 15 gun and drug charges after the B.C. Court of Appeal overturned their acquittals in the case.
– When it comes to dinner, Puget Sound’s killer whales show no respect for international boundaries.
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The Tyee News
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Some critics say LEED’s pending new rules could do just that. As the decision nears, the debate between competing eco-certifiers is nervous and angry. Last of five this week.
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Down, down, into fiery depths of French auteur Clouzot’s imagination, and his unfinished masterpiece ‘Inferno.’
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