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St. John's Nfld. - About 100 striking civil servants brought question period in the legislature of Newfoundland and Labrador to an early end on Monday when they disrupted proceedings by chanting "Solidarity Forever" from the public gallery. About 20,000 government, health care and school workers have been on strike since April 1. Ottawa - Canada's birth rate fell two years ago to its lowest level since 1921, when the agency began keeping records, according to Statistics Canada. The rate declined by slightly more than a quarter in the decade between 1992 and 2002, according to the report. In 2002 Canadian women gave birth to 328,802 babies, down 1.5 per cent from the year before. It was also the eleventh decline in 12 years. Ottawa - The former president of Groupe Everest told a parliamentary committee investigating the sponsorship scandal that the ad agency followed appropriate guidelines and co-operated fully with auditors. "No public funds were misappropriated," said Claude Boulay Monday. In February, the auditor general's report discovered that Groupe Everest, together with Groupaction and Lafleur Communication Marketing, kept $1.3 million of $3 million in government funding earmarked for the RCMP's 125th anniversary in 1998-1999.
