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UPDATED - Orders of the Day - Okay, Supreme Court of Canada, we're ready for your close-up!

Will this be the week we finally find out if the voters of Etobicoke Centre will be heading back to the polls? Stay tuned!

Meanwhile, it's an Ontario-centric day on the ministerial circuit.

UPDATE
- According to a just-received advisory, the prime minister, his wife, local Vancouver MP Wai Young and, somewhat unexpectedly, Leeds-Greenville MP Gord Brown will make an appearance at Shaughnessy Elementary School later today.
 
With the second - and final - week of Olympic gaming underway, Minister of State for Science Gary Goodyear clambers aboard the bandwagon and heads to the University of Waterloo, where, according to the advisory, he will join engineering professor Dr. Naveen Chandrashekar for a tour of the lab where he studies "factors causing knee injuries," thus "helping Canadian athletes own the podium."

Meanwhile, in Toronto, newly installed International Cooperation Minister Julian Fantino dispatches his parliamentary secretary, Lois Brown, to Plan Canada national headquarters to "detail the government's response" to the food crisis in West Africa.

Elsewhere in the province, Conservative MP Daryl Kramp teams up with representatives from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities for an "important funding announcement" for the Town of Picton.

Finally, back in Ottawa, a trio of media moguls -- Cogeco Cable president Louis Audet, Eastlink CEO Lee Bragg and Quebecor president and CEO Pierre-Karl Peladeau -- will hold a press conference to share their thoughts on Bell Canada's proposed acquisition of Astral Media.

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