11.   But Canadian officials say they no longer will support Cuba until it dramatically cleans up its human rights act.

12.   But Canadian officials were having to deflect questions about whether Canada was ceding some of its independence by bowing to American demands to preserve continued trade.

13.   But Canadian officials would require it to sell too much of its Canadian assets, Kimberly-Clark said.

14.   But observers give Canadian officials credit for finally making an unequivocal apology to Milgaard and agreeing to the extraordinary payment.

15.   By early Thursday morning, Canadian officials had dispatched a Hercules aircraft, two Labrador helicopters and two naval vessels to search the area.

16.   But, with warmer weather increasingly making commercial and scientific ship traffic a summer reality in the Arctic, some Canadian officials are taking less nationalistic stands.

17.   Canadian military officials said the Canadian troops were conducting an exercise using live ammunition and small arms in a designated training area south of Kandahar.

18.   Canadian officials acknowledged on Tuesday that Ressam had taken advantage of lax procedures and loose cooperation between the police and immigration authorities to obtain his false papers.

19.   Canadian officials acknowledged that the fee was largely a public relations gesture to get high-level attention in the U.S. government.

20.   Canadian officials also acknowledged that the growing black market made it more difficult to control access to cigarettes by teen-agers.