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• Canadian CF-18s escort Aussie humanitarian airdrop mission in Iraq
• Police struggling to hire officers from African community
• Westoverhill Road walloped by traffic amid LRT construction
• Kinder Morgan loses bid to extend injunction against Canada protesters
• Canadian media mogul joins race to lead Quebec separatists

Canadian CF-18s escort Aussie humanitarian airdrop mission in Iraq Posted: 27 Nov 2014 02:53 PM PST OTTAWA - Canadian warplanes escorted an Australian transport on a humanitarian airdrop mission over a besieged portion of northern Iraq, the military revealed Thursday.

Police struggling to hire officers from African community Posted: 27 Nov 2014 08:04 PM PST Recruitment is key to improving relationships between police and Edmonton's African communities, police were told at a public meeting at the African Centre this week.

Westoverhill Road walloped by traffic amid LRT construction Posted: 27 Nov 2014 08:00 PM PST Traffic restrictions caused by construction of the EglintonLRT have turned a residential street in central Toronto into an on-ramp for the Allen Expressway, according to residents. "I'm scared to play outside," said 12-year-old Ben Bar-Ziv. Traffic is going through Westoverhill because the only other option, Glen Cedar Road, doesn't allow left-hand turns during rush hour.

Kinder Morgan loses bid to extend injunction against Canada protesters Posted: 27 Nov 2014 06:17 PM PST VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP said on Thursday that it would clear its equipment and crews off a mountain in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby by month-end, after it lost a bid to extend an injunction keeping protesters away from the site. A B.C. Supreme Court judge also threw out civil contempt charges against dozens of protesters arrested while rallying against the pipeline project due to confusion about the GPS coordinates in the original injunction order. ...

Canadian media mogul joins race to lead Quebec separatists Posted: 27 Nov 2014 12:50 PM PST By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canadian media mogul Pierre Karl Peladeau announced his candidacy to lead the separatist Parti Quebecois on Thursday, declaring his focus would be on taking the mainly French-speaking province of Quebec out of Canada. The Parti Quebecois (PQ) has been without a leader since shortly after April's provincial election, in which the party suffered its worst defeat in 40 years. A recent poll, however, showed the PQ with Peladeau as leader would be ahead of the federalist Liberal Party, which won the April election, in popular support. ...

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