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Ottawa - Paul Martin will continue the controversial Jean Chretien tradition of hosting a cocktail party at the prime minister's residence as a reward for the Liberal party's top financial backers, the Ottawa Citizen reported Saturday. Martin has invited hundreds of members of the federal party's prestigious Laurier Club ? exclusive to donors who shell out $1,000 to the Liberals each year ? to 24 Sussex Drive on Wednesday evening. The perk began under Chretien and was criticized by opposition parties as a means of buying access to the head of government. Saskatoon - Saskatoon could be at risk if a private space flight by the da Vinci Project goes awry and a rogue rocket comes the city's way, a University of Saskatchewan physicist says. E.J. Llewellyn, a professor of engineering and physics who has been involved with the Canadian Space Program since 1964, said Saskatoon should be prepared in the event the da Vinci rocket turns into a missile. Saskatoon and Kindersley, the launch site in Saskatchewan near the Alberta border, are going to be within bombing range, Llewellyn said. Thunder Bay, Ont. - Two Toronto men wanted in connection with a pair of fatal stabbings last week have been arrested on a bus in Thunder Bay headed for western Canada. The men pulled off the bus face two counts each of second-degree murder.8/23/2004
