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Toronto - NDP Leader Jack Layton outlined a proposed $61 billion election platform Wednesday that would include five consecutive balanced budgets and tax increases for the wealthy. The left-of-centre party, long tagged as a tax-and-spend outfit, is eager to prove to Canadians it won't spend the country into deficit. Layton pledged to reform the tax system and impose higher corporate and capital gains taxes. Calgary - The streets of Calgary were alive with Flames' hysteria again Tuesday night as hundreds of people took to the streets to celebrate the team's 4-1 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first game of the Stanley Cup finals. Though the first game of the final round was played in Tampa Bay, thousands crammed into Calgary's Pengrowth Saddledome to watch the action on giant video screens. After the game, fans crowded the bar and restaurant strip along Calgary's 17th Avenue, which has been dubbed the Red Mile for the sea of jerseys people are wearing in support of the team. Nain, Nfld. - More than 4,000 Inuit in Newfoundland and Labrador are voting Wednesday on whether to ratify their land claim agreement with the federal and provincial governments. The agreement gives them title to more than 15,000 square kilometres of land and 50,000 square kilometres of ocean. It also gives them power to make their own laws and control education and social services.
