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Ottawa - Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper will decide in "some weeks" whether to seek a national election as a corruption scandal threatens to bring down the ruling Liberal Party. "I think more and more Canadians will ask the question, 'Why are these people remaining in office?'" Harper told reporters. Support for the Liberal Party has plummeted since Quebec advertising executive Jean Brault testified at a public inquiry last week that he paid more than $1.2 million in kickbacks to the Liberal party to win government contracts. Ottawa - The federal government plans to spend about $10 billion over the next seven years to meet Canada's Kyoto targets under a long-awaited implementation plan released Wednesday. The goal is to cut average annual greenhouse emissions by 270 megatonnes for the period 2008-2012. But the plan doesn't say how much of that will be obtained by cutting actual pollution and how much by purchasing emissions credits abroad. Vancouver - Police have charged three boys Ð and 11-year-old and two 13-year-olds Ð in connection with a series of robberies of women along Burnaby's SkyTrain line. Edmonton - Daniel Robert Carter, a former soldier, pleaded guilty in front of a court martial Tuesday to two counts of possessing child pornography. The court martial is to reconvene in June to consider a sentence for Carter, but mental tests are to be done first.4/14/2005
