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Toronto - One of the most popular booths at the Canadian Comic Book Expo was missing from the floor of the convention Saturday after police seized a cache of illegal weapons and arrested six staff. Police cleared 12 tables worth of swords, double-edged knives and nunchakus, and carted away two truckloads of still-packaged weapons from the booth run by American online weapons company swordstaff.com. Ottawa - Manhattan and mad cow may seem an unlikely combination but Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchell will be mixing the two this Saturday when he travels to New York City to meet his American counterpart to lobby for an end to the costly mad cow crisis. Before leaving, Mitchell tried to dampen expectations among desperate producers that the U.S. border might swing open quickly following his first face-to-face meeting with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman. Toronto - Ottawa has the money to set up and pay for a national pharmacare program despite its insistence to the contrary, provincial finance ministers said Saturday. The ministers argued the federal government consistently cries poor even though it is awash in cash, saying it has underestimated its revenues by about $73 billion over 10 years. Winnipeg - A life-sized statue of Mahatma Ghandi will become the showpiece of the new Museum for Human Rights opening in the Manitoba capital.
