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Ottawa - Canada's minority Liberal government escaped being forced into a snap election on Tuesday but polls continued to show a dramatic drop in its popularity as a kickbacks scandal deepened. The separatist Bloc Quebecois failed to get support from the other two opposition parties for a nonconfidence motion that could have toppled the government, but it suggested the opposition parties might get together to bring down the Liberals in the near future. "Nothing's excluded for the future in the next few days or few weeks," Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe told reporters. Toronto - Canada honored legendary runner Terry Fox with a memorial on Tuesday and a new C$1 coin with his image to mark the 25th anniversary of his famous Marathon of Hope to raise money for cancer research. Fox, who lost a leg to cancer when he was a teenager, launched his cross-Canada marathon exactly 25 years ago by dipping his prosthetic leg into the Atlantic Ocean with the aim of running all the way to the Pacific. Ottawa - The Supreme Court of Canada reserved judgment Tuesday in the landmark case of a Sikh teenager who was prohibited from wearing his ceremonial dagger to class at his west-end Montreal school.4/14/2005
