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	A seal chews on a large cod near the shore of Lewisporte harbour last year. - Photo by Don Noble

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The long-running debate over whether harp seals indiscriminately rip the bellies out of codfish has resurfaced.

The latest chapter has a Newfoundland blogger and advocate for rural Newfoundland taking on Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

	Photo at left, Col. Russ Williams. Top right, Jessica Lloyd. Bottom right, Marie Comeau.

The Canadian military was rocked to its core Monday following the bombshell allegation that the colonel in command of the country's largest air force base had killed two women and sexually assaulted two others.

Col. Russell Williams, a 46-year-old career member of the Canadian Forces, was charged Monday with first-degree murder in the deaths of Jessica Lloyd, 27, of Belleville, and Marie France Comeau, a 38-year-old corporal with CFB Trenton's 437 squadron who was killed last November.

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The province's constituency allowance scandal came into being because the former Liberal government - with the support of the Conservatives - removed an officer of the House of Assembly, thereby preventing that person from reviewing what they were doing.

They forced the auditor general out of the House of Assembly's account books.

Now, a court action has removed another officer of the House from reviewing material that used to be part of his job, and has made the government itself the arbiter of whether or not it is acting properly.

	Top photo, a bird's-eye view of the Bloom Lake project. Bottom left, Richard Quesnel. Bottom right, ... »

It's an exciting time for Consolidated Thompson (CLM) as the mining company gets ready to put its new world-class iron ore mine into full operation.

The Bloom Lake iron ore deposit, located in Quebec two miles south of the Quebec-Labrador border, is expected to have its first shipment of ore rolling down its new $100-million rail line some time between the end of February and the middle of March.

	Bob Gainey hangs his head at a news conference in Montreal on Monday where he announced he would ste... »

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The new-team smell had faded by early 2003 when George Gillett Jr., by then two years the majority owner of the Montreal Canadiens, met Bob Gainey for the first time.

It was at a restaurant dinner in Vail, Colo., attended by Gillett's wife, Rose, and three of the couple's four sons. The hosts planned to talk hockey with their guest, having heard excellent reviews about Gainey as a potential general manager for the Canadiens.

	Dash Malone performs in a scene from "Trickster." Wonderbolt Circus will be taking the show on the r... »

Wonderbolt Circus is ready to spark some enthusiasm among audiences provincewide and at the Cultural Olympiad in Vancouver with "Tricksters."

The show begins its provincial tour tonight in St. John's at the main stage of the Arts and Culture Centre.

	For a unique perspective, bottoms up.

You stare straight ahead of you, feeling the sweat break out all over your body - a sweat brought on not only by the heat, but also by nerves and anticipation.

You are perched on a platform mounted in a treetop too many feet above the ground to think about. Your field of vision presents you with lush vegetation, blue sky and a gorge that you know has a bottom only because you can hear the roaring river lost in the undergrowth way below. Barely visible on the other side of this chasm is another platform similar to the one you now occupy. It is your destination.

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Two Type A businessmen on the plane, Thursday night and heading home, and they have duelling cellphone battles on the go, one in the row behind you, window seat 8A, the other in the aisle one row up, 6D, and it's suppertime. A short-hop Dash-8, and the doors are already closed, but they'll use their phones to the very last second, damn it, and don't you try to stop them.

And they don't care who hears, because they're doing their own business and it doesn't matter if bits of their conversation are thrown all over the plane, because it's the anonymity of happenstance air travel, sharing the plane with 30 faces you'll see once and never again.

It’s 5:23 a.m. and the baby is awake and fussing — just as he was an hour ago.
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I'm writing to express my disgust and disbelief over the photo chosen for the Telegram's front page on Feb. 3. This photo, taken by Joe Gibbons, shows a firefighter in the doorway of a home with a man covered in a blanket at his feet. It is obvious that this man has passed away.

This man belonged to someone. This man was a son, a brother, an uncle, a cousin, a father, a friend. I believe it was horribly disrespectful of your paper to publish such a photo. Disrespectful of the deceased and, of course, his family.

	If you and you’re soul mate are planning a stay at a sun destination, a Mexican all-inclusive resor... »

PUERTO MORELOS, Mexico

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