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• Christmas likely can't come early enough for embattled Fantino, government
• Calgary mayor says gay-straight alliance bill 'damaging and hateful'
• CF-18s bomb Islamic State bunkers near Iraq's second largest city
• Canada dismemberment killing was planned, deliberate -prosecutor
• CP Rail derailment caused by broken wheel: watchdog

Christmas likely can't come early enough for embattled Fantino, government Posted: 11 Dec 2014 02:34 PM PST OTTAWA - Longtime denizens of Parliament Hill know Veterans Affairs as a troublesome, thankless ministerial assignment, but it rarely generates the kind of sustained political heat the Harper government is hoping will dissipate with the coming Christmas break.

Calgary mayor says gay-straight alliance bill 'damaging and hateful' Posted: 11 Dec 2014 09:12 PM PST CALGARY - Calgary's mayor says a now-delayed Alberta government bill about gay-straight alliances in schools would have focused international attention on "what kind of hillbillies we are."

CF-18s bomb Islamic State bunkers near Iraq's second largest city Posted: 11 Dec 2014 08:37 PM PST OTTAWA - Canadian warplanes have conducted another attack on Islamic State forces.

Canada dismemberment killing was planned, deliberate -prosecutor Posted: 11 Dec 2014 01:06 PM PST By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - The Canadian man who killed and dismembered a Chinese student in Montreal in 2012 was "a man on a mission" who had planned to commit such an act and film it six months in advance, the prosecutor in one of the grisliest trials in Canadian history said in his closing argument on Thursday. Luka Magnotta, 32, has admitted to killing engineering student Jun Lin, 33, defiling a corpse, videotaping the acts, and mailing parts of the body to elementary schools and political parties. ...

CP Rail derailment caused by broken wheel: watchdog Posted: 11 Dec 2014 11:28 AM PST (Reuters) - A Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd train carrying crude and other cargo derailed in April 2013 because of a broken wheel, which Canada's transport safety watchdog said could have been replaced but was not due to differing guidelines on when repairs should be made. Four days before the incident the wheel exceeded the American Association of Railroads' (AAR) removal threshold in a trackside test, but under CP's higher threshold, which is similar to that of other major railways, it remained in service, said the Transportation Safety Board (TSP). After the test, "... ...

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