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Details of proposed Liberal-NDP coalition emerge
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/11/30/canada-coal...A Liberal-NDP coalition agreement that would replace the minority Conservative government was being fleshed out Sunday night, the CBC has learned.
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Conservatives to deliver early budget
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/11/30/politics.html?ref=r...The Conservative government moved up the federal budget date and scrapped a second element of its economic update Sunday in a bid to stave off opposition efforts to take power with a Liberal-NDP coalition.
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Harper moves to avoid political showdown
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2008/11/28/fed-govt.h...Prime Minister Stephen Harper has temporarily stymied a Liberal plan to bring down the government and propose a governing coalition with the New Democrats, delaying the opportunity for a no-confidence vote by one week.
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Researchers Find Oldest Stash of Weed
http://silencedmajority.blogs.com/silenced_majority_portal/2...The 18 researchers, most of them based in China, subjected the cannabis to a battery of tests, including carbon dating and genetic analysis. Scientists also tried to germinate 100 of the seeds found in the cache, without success. Marijuana Origins story
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Harper's Black Friday
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/11/28/123258/53?source...while. According to frenzied reporting out of Ottawa, opposition parties in Canada's Parliament (who, while not forming the government, hold the majority of seats between them) are preparing to topple the Conservative government of Stephen Harper. According to initial reports, Dion would become Prime Minister until the spring, when his party chooses a new leader. It will go down on Dec. 8, when opposition parties will table a motion of no confidence in the House of Commons; the motion will endorse a coalition of parties
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So farewell then, The New Music
http://www.colbycosh.com/mt/2008/12/so_farewell_then_the_new...you lived about 20 years beyond your sell-by date
