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HALIFAX - When Nova Scotia's finance minister presents a balanced budget Thursday, she will fulfil a promise that the NDP has tweaked since it first came to power.

AMOS, Que. - They're a long way from the Haitian campus where they dreamed of life abroad at a time when their homeland was under Papa Doc's despotic grip.

TORONTO - The governing Liberals must have given Ontario's public elementary teachers a special deal to resume extracurricular activities, the Progressive Conservatives charged Wednesday.

CALGARY - Colorado's governor was not willing to wade into the debate over capital punishment Thursday in light of an offer from the lawyers of theatre shooting suspect James Holmes.

MONTREAL - A former Montreal municipal-party fundraiser, referred to locally as "Mr.

TORONTO - In a move aimed at striking a balance between the needs of students and public post-secondary institutions, the Ontario government announced Thursday it is lowering the cap on average tuition fee increases over the next four years.

HALIFAX - Trailing in the polls and saddled with an anemic economy, Nova Scotia's NDP government is calculating its odds for re-election as the legislature resumes sitting Tuesday, probably for the last time before voters go to the polls.

TORONTO - The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.'s plans to build new casinos must be halted, given that the property values of some of its existing gaming venues have plunged, the New Democrats said Monday.

WINNIPEG - Provinces introducing laws to crack down on school bullies are taking different approaches as they decide where to draw the line between chronic abuse and a one-time insult or slight.

OTTAWA - If money talks, then it's saying Justin Trudeau has a lock on the federal Liberal leadership while Joyce Murray and Martha Hall Findlay are fighting over who'll finish second.