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This Week on the Mercer Report
Rick visits the winners of this season's Spread the Net Student Challenge at Algonquin College in Ottawa, ON; Almonte & District High School in Almonte, ON; and Pleasantdale School in Estevan, SK.

Congratulations to the Spread the Net: Student Challenge top fundraising teams:

Elementary School: Pleasantdale School in Estevan, SK, with $5,439.69

High School: Almonte and District High School in Almonte, ON, with $5,854.05

Post-Secondary Institute: Algonquin College in Ottawa, ON, with $40,394.64

A Man of the Pandas

Sir Wilfrid Laurier once quipped that the 20th century would belong to Canada. Not quite. But by the looks of it the 21st century may be ours because, thanks to Stephen Harper, our country Canada, the true north strong and free, has pandas. And not just any pandas – giant pandas from China. Well, they’re not our pandas. They’re rental pandas. But at ten million bucks, they are awesome.

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