Some of those leaders will also be on hand at Kananaskis for the formal launch of the plan.

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Tony Blair has promised African aid will be at the top of the agenda when the leaders of the world's most powerful countries meet in Kananaskis.

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Wafted eastwards by strong winds, in 2002 the beastie made its debut in northern Alberta and further south in the national parks of Jasper, Banff and Kananaskis on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

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