April 24 | Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:27am EDT
April 24 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
- Less than a year after he asked Canadian voters to make him prime minister, ex-Liberal leader and academic Michael Ignatieff warned that the country is drifting towards a breakup.
- One of Canada's leading polling firms says it has found strong evidence of a targeted program of voter suppression aimed at non-Conservative voters during last May's federal-election campaign.
Reports in the business section:
- Swapping out engines is costly, but natural gas has grown so much cheaper than diesel that, according to a new analysis conducted by the Conference Board of Canada, a long-distance trucker could save nearly $160,000 over a decade by making the change.
- Shoppers Drug Mart Corp has been hit with yet another round of Ontario cuts in generic prescription drug prices while still grappling with earlier profit-pinching drug reforms.
NATIONAL POST
- Defying the odds of pollsters and naysayers, Alberta's long-ruling Progressive Conservatives won their 12th straight majority government Monday night.
Reports in the business section:
- Ontario's minority Liberal government is set to survive a budget vote after Premier Dalton McGuinty said he will introduce a 2 percent tax on people with incomes greater than $500,000, meeting a key demand from the New Democrat Party.
- Three weeks after Baja Mining Corp narrowly won a proxy fight with its largest shareholder, the company revealed on Monday that three directors have resigned and that it is facing a big funding shortfall at its flagship copper project.
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