#1 — CTV | Fire crews continue to battle 3 West Kelowna blazes
A massive B.C. wildfire burning dangerously close to homes near West Kelowna is now about 40 per cent contained, but two other fires in the region remain out of control, fire officials said Monday.
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#2 — CTV | Listeriosis report to recommend more spot checks
A new report into the fatal listeriosis outbreak will call for more unannounced federal spot checks at meat facilities across the country, and an enhanced role for the chief public health officer in managing food-borne illnesses, CTV News has learned.
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#3 — CTV | B.C. double murder suspect killed in shootout
A 62-year-old New Jersey man, wanted for a 1972 double-homicide in Tofino, B.C., has been killed in a shootout with police in New Mexico
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#4 — CTV | One of 5 cyclists in hit and run clinging to life
One of the five Ottawa-area cyclists seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident Sunday morning remains in critical condition after being struck by a minivan in the Ottawa suburb of Kanata.
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#5 — CTV | Inquiry told Tasered man had ‘incredible’ strength
HALIFAX — A Halifax police officer who helped wrestle a mentally ill man to the ground seconds before he was Tasered says the man had “incredible” strength and couldn’t be forced onto his stomach using usual restraint methods.
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#6 — CTV | Judge orders premier to release BC Rail emails
VANCOUVER — A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ordered Premier Gordon Campbell and former finance minister Gary Collins to produce “potentially explosive” emails linked to the 2003 sale of Crown-owned BC Rail — almost six years after a police raid on the province’s legislature.
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#7 — CTV | Expectations low as panel begins looking at EI reform
OTTAWA — A panel of federal Conservatives and Liberals will hold its first face-to-face meeting this week to negotiate reforms to Employment Insurance.
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#8 — Globe | RIM cries foul over Nortel auction
In a stunning display of industrial brinkmanship, Research In Motion Ltd. is alleging that Nortel Networks Corp. shut it out of the bidding for the distressed telecom giant’s nationally sensitive wireless assets.
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#9 — Globe | Mass health-worker absenteeism feared
Hospital workers are supposed to be first in line for any pandemic influenza vaccine so they can keep Canadian hospitals running during an outbreak – but that strategy hinges on workers agreeing to take an unproven vaccine for an uncertain threat.
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#10 — NP | Canada a key source of Tamil Tiger funding
Canada was one of the top sources of funding for Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers rebels, providing up to $12-million a year, says a secret intelligence report obtained by the National Post.
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#11 — OC | Liberal strategist Kinsella defeats defamation suit
OTTAWA-A former diplomat who sued Liberal political strategist Warren Kinsella for defamation had an established reputation for “anti-Semitic, racist views,” before Kinsella told a CBC audience that the ex-diplomat supported the KKK, a judge ruled.
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#12 — Star | Second young Tamil man slain
For the second time in a little over a week, a young Tamil man has been beaten and killed in northern Scarborough.
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#13 — Star | The skinny on the stinky mess in city parks
Why not just truck it away?
As people wonder why temporary dumps that have closed aren’t being cleaned up, Mayor David Miller said such a move would be very difficult and not practical.
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#14 — WFP | Judge says Winnipeg police had no option but to shoot man who later died
WINNIPEG – A judge says Winnipeg police had no choice but to shoot a 21-year-old man who later died in hospital.
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