The Media

CBC News - Edmonton - Syncrude trial to start Monday

In 2008, 1,600 ducks died after landing on a pond filled with toxic waste from the Syncrude oilsands operation at the Aurora North Site mine, north of Fort McMurray. (CBC)Lawyers for oilsands giant Syncrude are scheduled to appear in court in Alberta on Monday to defend the company against charges laid in the deaths of 1,600 ducks in a northern Alberta tailings pond in April 2008.

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PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW: Out of the 'Park' - Yahoo! News

Former actor and current playwright Bruce Norris has been scribbling away for some years now, garnering productions a-plenty and a heap of respect in Chicago, where his works are staged regularly. But one career-cementing thing always eluded him: a New York hit.

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"Prodigal Sons" unlike any other family documentary - Yahoo! News

Depicting the transgender woman filmmaker's return to her Montana hometown for her 20th high school reunion, the film delivers a midway narrative revelation so unexpected and bizarre that one is tempted to doubt its veracity. The First Run Features film opened Friday in limited release.

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Today's Garfield Comic Strip - ArcaMax Publishing

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Vancouver Now - Italy's Razzoli takes men's slalom gold

Leading after the first run, Razzoli entered with a cushion of 43-100ths of a second and posted a combined time of 1 minute 39.32 seconds to hold off Croatia's Ivica Kostelic of Croatia, who finished 16-100ths of a second off pace to collect silver.

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CBC News - Montreal - Montreal's Nuit Blanche is bigger this year

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Obama signs one-year extension of Patriot Act - Yahoo! News

The Senate also approved the measure, with privacy protections cast aside when Senate Democrats lacked the necessary 60-vote supermajority to pass them. Thrown away were restrictions and greater scrutiny on the government's authority to spy on Americans and seize their records.

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Tsunami spares US, takes aim at Japan - Yahoo! News

HONOLULU – With a rapt world watching the drama unfold on live television, a tsunami raced across a quarter of the globe on Saturday and set off fears of a repeat of the carnage that caught the world off guard in Asia in 2004.

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CBC News - Health - Improve playpen testing, labels: Health Canada

Under the recommendation, playpen accessories that are made, advertised or sold in Canada would meet standards set out by ASTM International, a worldwide organization that develops voluntary standards.

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