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Ontario rejects lawsuit against big tobacco

April Lindgren, CanWest News Service
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Font: * * * * TORONTO - Ontario won’t go to court seeking to ”punish” tobacco companies and to recover ongoing health-care costs related to smoking, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Monday.

”There are two agendas here,” McGuinty told reporters. ”We’re pursuing one particular agenda and that is to reduce the incidence of tobacco use in Ontario, especially among our young people. We’re enjoying some success.

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Canadian-born former NYT editor dies at age 84

NEW YORK — A.M. Rosenthal, a demanding editor who lifted the New York Times from economic doldrums in the 1970s and moulded it into a journalistic juggernaut known for distinguished reporting of national and world affairs, died Wednesday at age 84.

He died of complications from a stroke he suffered two weeks ago, the Times said.

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