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Saskatoon - Saskatoon's groundwater may have been contaminated by a fire at a scrapyard outside city limits, officials say. The blaze at Hub City Iron and Metal yard, which handles everything from discarded train cars to trunk tankers, burned for more than eight hours on Friday before fire crews extinguished it. Deputy Fire Chief Gary Kobussen said the fire was blazing in a large pile of metal, wood and industrial wire. "Different metals burn at high degrees of heat and can give of some serious toxic fumes," Kobussen said. New York - Montreal singer Caroline Marcil has won over the hosts of a U.S. TV program after twice flubbing the American national anthem at a hockey game in Quebec City on Friday night. Marcil seemed to have forgotten the words to The Star-Spangled Banner when she was supposed to sing the national anthems at a Canada-U.S. exhibition game. She left the ice, but on her way back for a third attempt, she slipped and fell. On Sunday, however, she appeared on Good Morning America where the hosts were sympathetic. Ottawa - NDP leader Jack Layton reiterated on Saturday that he's willing to support the Liberals if the federal budget is adjusted to remove a corporate tax break. Layton said, however, that any talks on shoring up support for the beleaguered minority government will focus only on budget matters, not saving the Liberals. "It's really not about propping up anything," Layton told CBC Newsworld.
