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Ottawa - Prime Minister Jean Chretien called for party unity at a closed-door caucus meeting Wednesday, saying infighting among MPs and over-zealous bids for funding could leave the government vulnerable in the months before an election call. At what was likely one of his last caucus meetings in his 40-year Liberal career, Chretien's admonition got a prolonged standing ovation from more than 100 MPs who heard the 20-minute speech, sources said. Ottawa - The August blackout that shut down much of Ontario resulted in nearly 19 million lost work hours, says Statistics Canada. "An estimated 2.4 million workers in Ontario and Gatineau, Que., lost 26.4 million hours of work time in the second half of August because of the Ontario-U.S. power outage and subsequent conservation period," the agency reported Vancouver - The star witness in the Air India trial burned parts of her diary after her husband accused her of setting up an accused bomber, B.C. Supreme Court heard Wednesday. The woman's diary revealed details of alleged confessions made by Ripudaman Singh Malik, one of two men facing first-degree murder charges in Canada's worst mass murder. RCMP Cpl. Douglas Best said the woman burned some of her diary entries after her husband accused her of setting up Malik and told her not to co-operate with police.
