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Mariko Oi, BBC News, Japon Japan’s era of shoguns and samurai is long over, but the country does have one, or maybe two, surviving ninjas. Experts in the dark arts of espionage and silent assassination, ninjas passed skills from father to son – but today’s say they will be the last.

La chroniqueuse Margaret Wente du Globe and Mail « Meantime, don’t shed too many tears for our beleaguered public-sector workers. They’ve done okay. The pay scale for Ontario’s teachers, who rank among the best paid in North America, maxes out at more than $92,000 a year. Police officers in Canada are often able to retire…