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Ottawa - The Canadian government is willing to smooth the way toward a national election in Iraq by helping to train officials there and monitor the voting process, say Prime Minister Paul Martin. "This is an area in which Canada has a great deal of expertise . . . and we're prepared to offer it," Martin said Sunday in an interview on CNN, the U.S. cable news network. So far there's been no official request for Canadian help in the election that U.S. authorities in the occupied country want to hold at the end of January. But Martin said Ottawa has "indicated that if we're asked we will participate. And we can move very quickly once we're asked. We've done this before." Toronto - Ontario parents who fail to pay child support could face up to six months in jail under a proposed bill in the province's legislature. Sandra Pupatello, the provincial community and social services minister, said the current three-month maximum jail sentence, isn't enough of a deterrent. About 1,500 deadbeat parents spend time in Ontario jails every year. Toronto - The truth of why Andrea Labbe fatally stabbed her husband and three-year-old daughter last week may have died with the 26-year-old mother of three when she turned the knife on herself, police said Saturday. But mothers have been known to kill their children in misguided acts of mercy, also known as "altruistic filicide," that are usually associated with major depression or psychotic illness, experts say.
