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Montreal - Air Canada, due to emerge from bankruptcy-court protection this week, announced a revised deal with aircraft maker Bombardier on Monday that includes fewer firm orders. The deal, including 30 firm orders for regional jets, is worth at least $821.2 million US with the prospect of growing to as much as $2.45 billion US if Air Canada buys 15 planes on "conditional" order and exercises options to buy 45 more. The agreement in principle announced in last year by Air Canada and Bombardier called for 45 firm orders and 45 options in a deal valued at from $1.3 billion US to $2.7 billion US. Fredericton - New Brunswick hospital workers have hit the picket lines. Unionized workers did not report for their 6 a.m. shifts yesterday at either of the two Moncton hospitals. David Rouse, president of CUPE local 12-52, said the workers are taking action in Moncton because it is in the riding of Premier Bernard Lord, adding no other hospitals will be immediately affected. Pierreville, Que. - The taint of an exploding pot trade is growing faster than the cornfields in this small farming community, leaving frustrated locals with an ominous new town nickname. "Bienvenue a Stoner City," said Jean-Francois Cote, a farmer who recently found 220 marijuana plants grown secretly by drug gangs in his field. "That's how sad it has become. This is how we're starting to think of ourselves."
