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Mexican president-elect Felipe Calderon met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa Oct. 26 and the pair held a news conference later. Harper said he and Calderon spent the day talking about ways to strengthen the North American Free Trade Agreement. Calderon is to be sworn into office Dec. 1 succeeding Vicente Fox as president of Mexico. |
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Bishop Radosavljevic Artemije, the Serbian Orthodox leader of Kosovo, appeals to the Canadian government to "lend its voice to to a growing effort to force a reconsideration of the ill-advised prospect of an independent Kosovo." At a news conference on Parliament Hill Oct. 26, the bishop said that under United Nations and Nato military control, "Kosovo has become a black hole of organized crime activity, including trafficking in drugs, weapons and slaves." |
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A day-long
radiothon held Oct. 27 by CFRA, an Ottawa radio station, raised almost $1.3 million for
the Elisabeth Bruyere Health Centre, operated by the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa. The
amount doubled last year's radio appeal total of $650,000. The centre houses |