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at 18:59 on November 20, 2008, EDT.
OTTAWA - The opposition Liberals accused the Conservatives of driving Canada into deficit and misrepresenting the nation's finances to voters as a supposed new era of collegial debate opened Thursday in the House of Commons.
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at 22:55 on November 20, 2008, EDT.
WASHINGTON - As U.S. legislators ordered the chief executives of North America's biggest automakers back to Detroit to come up with a business plan to justify a US$25 billion bailout, Canada's industry minister arrived in town hoping for more information on a rescue package that was possibly doomed before his plane landed.
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at 7:30 on November 20, 2008, EDT.
TORONTO - The latest real estate report from Scotia Economics has good news for home buyers and bad news for sellers: Canada is becoming a buyer's market.
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at 22:11 on November 20, 2008, EDT.
EDMONTON - A possible meteor lit up both the sky and the telephone lines in Western Canada on Thursday evening.
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at 19:03 on November 20, 2008, EDT.
TORONTO - The former district attorney who put Conrad Black behind bars for cheating shareholders said Thursday that prosecutors are highly likely to oppose the disgraced media mogul's request to U.S. President George W. Bush to commute his sentence.
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at 17:12 on November 20, 2008, EDT.
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is touting free trade as an antidote to the international financial crisis as he heads to Peru this weekend for the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation summit.
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at 16:40 on November 20, 2008, EDT.
HALIFAX, N.S. - Officials in Halifax are trying to determine what happened to conjoined baby girls who died aboard a flight travelling to New York, where they were seeking medical treatment.
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at 14:08 on November 20, 2008, EDT.
OTTAWA - Bob Rae tried to turn his biggest liability - his record as NDP premier of a recession-ravaged Ontario - into an asset Thursday as he formally launched his second bid for the federal Liberal leadership.
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at 19:31 on November 20, 2008, EDT.
TORONTO - Falling oil prices, a plunging dollar, predictions of a big deficit next year and fears of a Big Three bankruptcy: a relentless barrage of negative news pounded stock markets Thursday, worsening a profound economic pessimism that has taken hold as the recession spreads around the world.
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at 10:48 on November 20, 2008, EDT.
OTTAWA - The New Democrats hold a balance of power on all House of Commons committees for the first time after a realignment reflecting the October election results.
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