I was in the middle of our daily news meeting when I received an email that Clifford Olson, the man who once described himself as the "beast of British Columbia," had died of cancer.

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There are two consequential provincial elections in Canada in October and we will be considering their impact on national politics during Question Period this week.

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When you look at Mitchell Wilson's photos, it's hard to imagine the suffering he's had to endure at such a tender age. It's a sad but important story we'll give you more details on tonight, about this 11-year-old boy who suffered from muscular dystrophy, and whose father says took his own life after he endured bullying and a mugging.

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Recently stories of youth suicides due to bullying, or "bullycide" have been flooding the headlines in Canadian media. It's a sad reality for BullyingCanada Executive Directors Katie Neu, of Kitchener, Ontario and Rob Frenette of Fredericton, New Brunswick.

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We already know much about Michael Jackson's death, but we're expected to learn exactly what happened during the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray. Already today the prosecution has played audio of the voice of Michael Jackson. A few weeks after that recording, he was dead. I remember that day vividly ...

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The big story of the day is in Ottawa, where things have the potential to get quite heated. Environmentalists are staging a massive protest on Parliament Hill against a proposed pipeline that would carry crude oil from the Alberta oils sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast -- passing through six states.

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As the Gala host of the 2010 Junos I got to pass the prestigious award for artist of the year to K'naan, as the Canadian music industry leapt to its feet. K'naan just looked at me - incredulous, humble, and deeply moved. Now, I find myself in Dadaab, Kenya with him. Watching him as he absorbed what we were confronted with - a tent city of some 450,000 of his fellow Somali.

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If the world slips into the second recession in three years, as many leading economists believe it will, it will be much worse than the last one.

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