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Ottawa - Canadian viewers will soon be able to watch the Arabic Al-Jazeera network, after the federal broadcast regulator on Thursday approved the network's distribution by cable companies. Cable companies have been eager to pick up the network, known as the CNN of the Arab world. Critics of the network, including the Canadian Jewish Congress, have argued that Al-Jazeera broadcasts anti-Semitic programs. Vancouver - A British Columbia woman with cerebral palsy says she's devastated by news that the provincial government plans to appeal a landmark human rights tribunal decision. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal recently ruled that the Ministry of Health had discriminated against a 34-year-old woman with severe cerebral palsy by denying her the right to pay her father as her caregiver. The ruling was the first in Canada to rule on the rights of the disabled to pay family members as caregivers. Saint John - An environmental group whose odd-smelling missives led to the New Brunswick legislature being cordoned off last Friday, said it regretted causing a stink. Members of the Association for the Preservation of the Bouctouche Watershed sent samples of algae to politicians in little plastic bags in the mail. Police and fire services cordoned off the front lawn of the legislature and the mail room of the province's main government office building.
