Six stories in the news today, Nov. 1

Six stories in the news for Tuesday, Nov. 1

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STRIKE AVERTED AFTER FORD, UNIFOR REACH TENTATIVE DEAL 

The union representing 6,700 autoworkers at Ford in Canada said it has reached a tentative agreement and secured a $700-million product investment from the automaker after a tense round of talks that went past the midnight deadline. Ford workers at Ontario operations in Bramalea, Oakville and Windsor were prepared to go on strike if a tentative agreement was not reached.

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FEDS TO UPDATE ECONOMIC, FISCAL PROGRESS TODAY

The federal Liberal government will update the country’s economic and fiscal progress today. The Liberals won last year’s election on a platform promising to help lift the slow-growth economy with billions worth of borrowing to fund more ambitious infrastructure and child-benefit programs for the long haul. But a few months into their mandate, the Liberals pointed to weaker-than-expected economic conditions as they tripled their anticipated budgetary deficits for the next two years — nearly 30-billion dollars each.

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CHRISTIAN LAW SCHOOL DECISION EXPECTED

The British Columbia Court of Appeal is expected to rule today on whether graduates of a proposed law school at a Christian university would be allowed to work in B.C. The decision marks the latest development in Trinity Western University’s quest to clinch cross-country accreditation for its future lawyers.

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QUEBEC CONSTRUCTION FIRMS FACE DEADLINE

Hours remain for Quebec companies and individuals to step forward with restitution plans for having obtained public contracts through fraud or other questionable means. The deadline for participating in the provincial voluntary reimbursement program is just before midnight. So far, 11 companies have publicly stepped forward while an undisclosed number of others are participating, said a retired judge overseeing the program.

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DELIBERATIONS CONTINUE FOR CORRIVEAU FRAUD TRIAL

The jurors at Jacques Corriveau’s fraud trial will be back at it again today after the fourth full day of deliberations came and went without a verdict. The jury was sequestered Thursday afternoon following a six-week trial. The former federal Liberal organizer is charged with fraud against the government, forgery and laundering proceeds of crime, and the jury must decide whether Corriveau knowingly used his influence to secure himself about 6.5-million dollars in kickbacks between 1997 and 2003.

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MAN ON TRIAL AFTER PYTHON KILLS 2 BOYS

The case of a man charged in the deaths of two young New Brunswick boys who were suffocated by a python is back in court today. Jean-Claude Savoie pleaded not guilty to criminal negligence causing death as the case convened at the Campbellton Civic Centre for jury selection yesterday. Four-year-old Noah Barthe and his six-year-old brother, Connor, died after a 45-kilogram African rock python fell into the room where they slept in Savoie’s Campbellton apartment in August 2013.

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The Canadian Press