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Ottawa - Ottawa pledged another $36 million to help the relief efforts in Southeast Asia in the wake of the deadly tsunami, Defence Minister Bill Graham announced Wednesday, bringing Canada's total to $40 million. Graham also announced that a 12-member reconnaissance team will go to the devastated area to make recommendations on whether Canada's rapid disaster response team should be deployed. A planeload of relief supplies will go to Indonesia, the nation hardest hit by the earthquake and resulting tsunami, Graham said. Winnipeg - A 22-year-old Manitoba man has been charged after police followed a trail of pine needles and found a neighbour's tree in his living room. The building manager of a Winnipeg-area apartment block called police on Dec. 23 after she noticed someone had cut the tree from the building's front yard. Police checked the scene and followed a trail of needles to a nearby home. Ottawa - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency expects the U.S. to go ahead with plans to reopen the border to live cattle from Canada despite tests suggesting another Canadian cow may have been infected with mad cow disease. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday that it would reopen the border to live cattle less than 30 months old and a wider variety of cuts of beef beginning March 7.
