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Toronto - Two new opinion polls released on Saturday put the Conservatives well ahead of the Liberals and one says they are within striking distance of forming a majority government. The polls provide new evidence of how a government spending scandal is draining support from the Liberals, who formed a minority government after a tight election last year and who need the backing of at least one other party to stay in power. Swift Current, Sask. - Power was restored Saturday to about 3,000 SaskPower customers who had lost their electricity Thursday after a spring snowstorm toppled dozens of power poles. Only about 100 customers near Turtleford and Hudson Bay would have to wait until today for their power to come back on, said SaskPower spokesman Larry Christie. Toronto - The lawyer who crafted the 1993 plea bargain for Karla Homolka says he can't believe Ontario's attorney general is trying to place further restrictions on Homolka as she prepares to leave prison. Crown prosecutors agreed to the deal that made Homolka a witness against Paul Bernardo in the first place, George Walker said in an interview from Niagara Falls. "It just bothers me this legislature doesn't seem concerned with the administration of justice," Walker said.4/18/2005
