Manitoba&#39;s smoking rebels defiant Wednesday after province laid ...
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WINNIPEG (CP) - Manitoba&#39;s smoking rebels remained defiant Wednesday after the province laid more charges under its tough new anti-smoking law.
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Rockford, Illinois- If you&#39;re a smoker and you&#39;d like to quit, your chance to kick the habit and get some major support is coming up.
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IRA guerrillas said on Thursday they would never be &quot;humiliated&quot; by the photographing of their final acts of disarmament -- the last sticking point in an Anglo-Irish drive for a Northern Ireland political settlement.
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The Ontario government is adamant it will push ahead with its agenda to improve health care despite a sound rejection of a proposed landmark deal by the province&#39;s doctors.
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There is little doubt that Prime Minister Paul Martin took the path of least resistance in his handling of Quebec at last week&#39;s medicare summit.
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The Afghan government and its NATO allies are preparing to take back a remote town occupied by the Taliban, who vowed to resist as residents fled fearing military strikes.
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TORONTO (CP) - Roy Romanow made an impassioned plea Wednesday for Prime Minister Paul Martin and the provincial premiers to come up with a concrete strategy -and not just more rhetoric -on how to maintain the lifeblood of Canada&#39;s health-care system at ...
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Defiant Palestinian militants fired  rockets into an Israeli border town on Monday despite Israel's  vow to stop such attacks from the Gaza Strip with a massive  military offensive that has killed 63 Palestinians.
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TORONTO (CP) - Bar and corner-store owners winced while anti-tobacco activists celebrated Wednesday as the Ontario government introduced a provincewide ban on smoking, part of what it considers the toughest anti-tobacco strategy on the continent.
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RED DEER, Alta. (CP) - At first blush, the Alberta Alliance Party looks like any other fledgling political movement struggling to find a foothold in the province's Tory-dominated landscape.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon confronted  Likud party rebels with a pledge to put the good of Israel  first Wednesday as he battled to avoid an embarrassing defeat  over his Gaza pullout plan.
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New Zealand Hockey boss Ramesh Patel is sticking to his guns over the national men&#39;s team&#39;s participation in the Champions Trophy in Pakistan despite Australia waving the white flag yesterday because of security concerns.
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EDMONTON (CP) - With just days to go before Monday's provincial election, Alberta's Tory government is taking some heat from rural municipal leaders over its provincial water policy and the handling of the mad cow crisis.
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HEADINGLEY, Man. (CP) - For much of the last year, Jonathon Barkley has fled Winnipeg's municipal smoking bylaw by driving a few minutes west to a bar in Headingley to enjoy a cigarette with his lunch.
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A defiant Gary Mar refuses to step down as Alberta health minister despite a scathing auditor general&#39;s report. &quot;I&#39;ll take responsibility by taking steps to try to mitigate the legitimate problems identified by the auditor general,&quot; Mar said yesterday.
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A major push to seal a political  settlement for the turbulent British province of Northern  Ireland stalled at the last moment on Wednesday over demands  for photographic evidence of IRA guerrillas scrapping their  arms.
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Ontario smokers could find themselves way out in the cold, if the province goes ahead with a plan for sweeping, no-smoking zones around all public buildings.