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09.05.2008

Space agency announces four-year deal with MDA for International Space Station

LONGUEUIL, Que - Only hours after confirming his decision to block a controversial foreign takeover of part of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX:MDA), federal Industry Minister Jim Prentice announced a major contract Friday between the company and the Canadian Space Agency.

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09.05.2008

Atlantic premiers gather in N.B. to call on Ottawa for more money

FREDERICTON - The four Atlantic premiers say it's time for the federal government to kick in some cash for the Atlantic Gateway initiative - and a number of other projects as well.

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Halifax Cartoon Crisis

Posted 5/8/2008 7:30:00 PM

Yes, it's another human rights complaint over a cartoon:

Police in Halifax are investigating a complaint about a political cartoon that some members of a local Islamic group claim is a hate crime.

The cartoon, published April 18 in the Chronicle Herald newspaper, depicts a woman in a burka holding a sign that reads, "I want millions," and she says, "I can put it towards my husband's next training camp."

The cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon is a reference to Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal, a woman from Nova Scotia whose husband was arrested in 2006 in an anti-terrorism raid. Qayyum Abdul Jamal was released from jail after charges against him were stayed on April 15.

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