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Some people think Milton's dislikes extend to any form of competition. When a small regional airline started up in eastern Canada, Air Canada responded last fall with sharply reduced fares on some routes. When the Competition Bureau, a federal consumer watchdog, ordered Milton to stop price cutting on five of those routes, Air Canada hit back with a legal challenge questioning the bureau's constitutional power to unilaterally restrict fare changes. The case is winding through a Quebec court. Air Canada dived into hot water again in October, when a corporate official sent voice-mail messages about the airline...
...Volusia and Palm Beach counties (joined by the Gore team) file suit in Leon County circuit court to extend the 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline for certifying their results. The argument: since state law allows hand counts and since those under way may be completed after the deadline, the state should wait to certify results until the hand counts...
Republicans believe that the court should enforce state law, which says that manual recounts be completed within seven days of the election. Democrats are petitioning the court to extend the deadline due to extraordinary circumstances and the fact that the counties began recounting a full six days after the election, effectively making it impossible for large counties to certify their ballots by the deadline...
Cambridge was the first city in Massachusetts and the 19th in the nation to extend healthcare benefits to the domestic partners of its city employees. This commitment to equality and justice should be fully supported, not undercut by state statues. While there may be some hope in an appeal of the recent ruling, equal rights for homosexuals will not be secure until Massachusetts state law is changed. A full-fledged effort to do so must begin...
...Gates Foundation's primary goal is to extend science and technology to poverty stricken areas, with a focus on the fields of public health and education...