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CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The Calgary Sun newspaper in Alberta, Canada, chose Monday to publish no bad news and made the story of a found dog its front page banner piece.
The tabloid said it was filling the paper with "good news" on a gamble "the news gods would cooperate with us and not deal us any world catastrophes or local tragedies that would elbow for space on Page 1."
None of the Sun newspapers in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto or Ottawa followed suit.
"It's not something we would do every day and the nature of news being what it is, we can't promise a sequel with any certainty," the Calgary paper said. "But it was a relatively tranquil day yesterday in our (oil) boomtown ..."
The front page story was about a dog that went missing on Christmas Eve and reunited with it owners on Jan. 27, while the other Sun papers fronted bombings in Afghanistan and local missing person reports.
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