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The way Canadians eat sugar has changed dramatically since the 1960s and growing obesity rates are evidence that we might be getting it wrong. In Saturday's Vancouver Sun, read the first installment of a six-part series on sugar.
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Defence opens in U.S. trial of Alberta man accused of killing wife
The U.S. defence team representing a Canadian man accused of murdering his wife in North Carolina spent nearly three hours Thursday trying to raise doubt about the police investigation and pointing the finger at others who might have had a motive to kill the 34-year-old Edmonton native in the summer of 2008.
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Berlusconi takes on magistrates with reform plan
The government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who faces trial on corruption and sex charges, on Thursday unveiled what he has called "epoch making" reforms in Italy's justice system.
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Bahrain prepares for march, sectarian clash erupts
Sectarian clashes erupted at a school in Bahrain on Thursday, fuelling fears a planned march on the royal court on Friday could inflame the Gulf island where a majority of citizens is Shiite but the ruling family is Sunni.
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Gbagbo camp rejects Ivorian plan, warns of war
Envoys of Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo rejected on Thursday an African Union proposal to end a violent power struggle and warned that the West African country now risked a return to civil war.
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India's Hyderabad shut down as thousands demand new state
Police fired tear gas on Thursday at protesters demanding a separate state in southern India, a campaign that could potentially hurt the stability of the governing coalition already struggling with graft scandals.
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Egyptian Copts hold funeral after sectarian strife
Thousands of Egyptian Christians attended an emotional funeral service on Thursday for people killed in the worst Christian-Muslim violence since Hosni Mubarak was toppled from power.
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Wisconsin Senate passes public-sector union curbs
Republicans in the Wisconsin state Senate approved Governor Scott Walker’s plan to curb the rights of public-sector unions on Wednesday, stripping out the parts that required the presence of their 14 absent Democratic colleagues.
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Oman protesters want information minister sacked
Omani protesters demanded the sacking of the information minister on Thursday, three days after the sultan removed ten cabinet members to try and address widening discontent in the Gulf Arab state.
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Yemen leader offers to devolve power
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh bowed on Thursday to pressure after a month of violent protests, but his pledge to devolve power to parliament was swiftly rejected as too late by the opposition.
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Japan reports sixth infant death after vaccination
Japan's health ministry on Thursday reported the death of a sixth infant who recently received vaccinations made by Pfizer or Sanofi-Aventis that have been suspended since last week.
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Blast kills 5 people in southern Philippines
A powerful blast killed at least five people and wounded three near a school on a southern island in the Philippines on Thursday, a marine general said.
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Egypt’s ElBaradei to run for president: TV
Egypt’s reformist Mohamed ElBaradei announced on Wednesday that he planned to run for president in an election expected to be held this year.
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Shuttle Discovery lands after final voyage
The space shuttle Discovery capped a successful 13-day spaceflight with a smooth landing in Florida on Wednesday, ending a 27-year flying career for NASA's most-traveled spaceship.
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EU and NATO to meet on Libya after raging battles
A Libyan insurgent said rebels had retaken the heart of the closest city to the capital from forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi on Wednesday evening.
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NPR chief forced out after fundraiser dubs Tea Party activists 'seriously racist'
Memo to American public broadcasting executives seeking $430 million from Republican budget makers in Congress: denounce the GOP and its conservative Tea Party brethren at your peril.
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UN confirms probe into torture allegations by Gadhafi
The UN special rapporteur for torture said he is looking into allegations that Gadhafi's security forces have tortured opponents since the country erupted in an armed rebellion.
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Mexico gang members charged in U.S. consulate deaths
U.S. authorities charged 35 Mexican gang members with murder, drug smuggling and other crimes Wednesday, including 10 accused in a deadly 2010 shooting at the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez.
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Brazil making billionaires faster than Canada: Forbes
Canada lost its top ranking to Brazil this year on Forbes magazine’s list of the number of billionaires each country boasts in the Americas outside the United States, the magazine said Wednesday in its annual richest-people edition.
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Canada extends funding for Kandahar learning centre
A popular learning centre in Kandahar City has received new financial backing from the Canadian government, temporarily ending fears that the facility might have to close.
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Legal aid fails B.C.'s most vulnerable, commission concludes
B.C.'s legal aid system is failing to meet even the most basic needs and should be fully funded as an essential public service, a public commission has concluded.
