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Martin refuses to back PM's Quebec strategy
OTTAWA AND ST. JOHN'S - Paul Martin, the highest-ranking federal minister from Quebec who is also considered the frontrunner in the unofficial Liberal leadership race, refused for a third straight day yesterday to endorse Jean Chretien's plan to set the rules for the next referendum on Quebec secession.

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  • Martin's silence speaks volumes




    • Highest court sides with Ottawa in rape ruling
      The Supreme Court of Canada yesterday ended five years of disagreement between lawmakers and the judiciary over whether private psychiatric or medical records of victims of sexual assault can be made available to defence lawyers. In a near-unanimous ruling, the court upheld a law that prevents the automatic disclosure of therapeutic records but allows trial judges to give access only after considering the privacy right of the alleged victim.

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    • Blackmail for sexual favours constitutes extortion: high court




      • Influential Desmarais family has ties to Sudan
        Canada's involvement in Sudan goes beyond one oil company and includes links to Montreal's powerful and politically connected Desmarais family. Sudan's government has been condemned recently by the United Nations and the United States for sponsoring terrorism and killing its own people to keep money flowing from local oil projects.

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      • Action against Sudan might bring about more 'humane world'
      • B.C.'s Lundin family doesn't let politics get in the way
      • Chretien, Desmarais families linked by ties that bind
      • TotalFina proves it won't shy away from controversy




        • Lawyer blames groping binge on brain tumour
          A partner at a major Canadian law firm, who groped a number of female colleagues during a drunken company social event last weekend, is blaming his erratic behaviour on a possible brain tumour. Thomas Haythe, a presiding partner of Toronto's Tory Haythe law firm, was placed on permanent medical leave after complaints from female staff about his inappropriate remarks and actions during an evening of wining and dining last Friday.

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        • What Haythe actually did veiled in mystery




          • Taber suspect fights for his life after heart surgery
            CALGARY - The teenager accused of killing one boy and wounding another youth in last April's high-school shooting in Taber, Alta., is fighting for his life in an Edmonton hospital after complications from heart surgery. The lawyer for the 15-year-old boy will ask today for an indefinite postponement of a transfer hearing that is to determine if he will be tried in adult court.



            Broadcasting live from underneath Saskatchewan...
            WATROUS, Sask. - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will be sending an on-air host and technician to an isolated Saskat-chewan transmitter site complete with fallout shelter for New Year's Eve in case Y2K problems cause a major breakdown in communications. The site, near Watrous, used to function as the home of CBC radio for the Prairies before CBC Saskatchewan was moved to Regina after 1947.



            Convicted Ramsay refuses to resign
            OTTAWA - Jack Ramsay, the Reform MP convicted of attempting to rape a 14-year-old girl, is refusing to resign his seat in Parliament and maintained yesterday that the sexual assault "was inappropriate, but it wasn't criminal."
             
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