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 Ottawa
plans much looser refugee policy A draft of the Liberal government's
long-anticipated new Immigration Act contains an expanded definition
of refugees that goes beyond the United Nations Convention on
Refugees to include a new category for "people in need of
protection." The new classification would vastly widen the notion of
asylum, opening up Canada's refugee system not only to those who
fear torture in their homeland, but to those who fear becoming the
"object of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment."

 New book
challenges belief that HIV is main cause of
AIDS The
real destructive agent in AIDS is not HIV, as widely believed, but a
herpes virus carried by more than 90% of the population, says a
controversial new book by Canadian writer Nicholas Regush. In his
book, The Virus Within, which is to be published later this month
and is excerpted exclusively in the National Post today, Mr. Regush
says the virus lies dormant in most people from infancy until
activated, possibly by drug use or infection.

  Who
wants to grow up a millionaire? PALO ALTO, Calif. - Every day after
school, 13-year-old Jeffrey Mendelman has a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich with milk, finishes his homework -- and checks his stocks.
"My dad's stock was going up," he explains of his decision to plunge
into the market, and he now follows stocks the way he collects
baseball cards.

 Cinar
restates its financial statements Cinar Corp., the Montreal-based
animation company, dropped a bombshell late yesterday when it
announced it will need to restate its audited financial statements
for the past two fiscal years of 1997 and 1998 and the first three
quarters of 1999. The company said the restatements "relate to tax
incentives and the disclosure of related party transactions." As
well, the company also alluded to a number of "unauthorized
transactions."

  Virk
screamed as accused hit her, teen witness
says VANCOUVER - Accused killer Kelly Ellard was "throwing most
of the punches" at Reena Virk in a swarming attack less than an hour
before she allegedly held the teenager's head underwater, B.C.
Supreme Court was told yesterday. Marissa Bowles, 16, was a witness
to the first beating of Ms. Virk. She said that Ms. Ellard, who is
now 17, had been drinking before the attack in the shadows of a
bridge across the waterway in suburban Victoria where Ms. Virk's
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