#1 — CBC | Soldier a weapons instructor after shooting: victim’s uncle
The uncle of Cpl. Kevin Megeney, killed by his tentmate in Afghanistan in 2007, said Friday that the military should explain why the soldier who shot him was subsequently used as a weapons instructor.
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#2 — CBC | Parole board grants Latimer another 10-day leave
Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer who is serving a life sentence for killing his disabled daughter, has been given permission to take ten days away from his current residence, a half-way house in Ottawa.
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#3 — CBC | Toronto council approves deals to end strike
Toronto city councillors voted narrowly Friday evening to approve deals worked out with two CUPE unions to bring an end to the strike by municipal workers.
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#4 — CNews | Child allegedly assaulted by HIV-postive man
An HIV-positive Brampton man is accused of sexually assaulting a child.
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#5 — CNews | Duceppe threatens to take down Tory government
OTTAWA – Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe is threatening to bring down Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government unless it makes changes to Canada’s employment insurance system.
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#6 — CNews | Guilty verdict in torture murder case
After three days of deliberations, a jury found a Midland Ont. man guilty today of the brutal torture of a mentally challenged woman.
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#7 — CTV | Honda recalls 440,000 vehicles due to airbag defect
Honda is recalling 440,000 cars because of an airbag problem. In Canada, almost 50,000 vehicles are being recalled.
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#8 — CTV | Canada to review Honduran army training: MacKay
Defence Minister Peter MacKay says Canada is examining training programs for the Honduran military in light of the coup in that country.
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#9 — Globe | How a business trip imperilled a man’s life
Mohamed Osman Hassan never questioned his close friend and mentor Bashir Makhtal when in early 2001 he announced plans to leave a well-paid job as an information technologist at CIBC in Toronto for the unlikely sounding, but lucrative, business of hawking used clothing across the volatile Horn of Africa.
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#10 — NP | PM plans Arctic tour in late August
Defence Minister Peter MacKay has issued a decidedly cool response to the Russian military’s planned paratrooper drop at the North Pole next spring, suggesting Canadian fighter jets would scramble to “meet” any Russian aircraft “approaching” Canada’s airspace.
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#11 — OC | Police chief seeks officer’s dismissal
Ottawa police Chief Vern White says he wants the badge of an officer who was given a suspended sentence Friday for assaulting and threatening to kill his fellow officers.
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#12 — MG | Duped Jones investers get leeway on taxes
It’s not exactly a tax break.
But federal and provincial tax authorities have sent clear signals they expect to be giving something of a time-out break in how they deal with alleged victims of the Earl Jones debacle in the short term – as these individuals begin to try to pick up the pieces of their suddenly shattered financial security.
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So Miller finds no flaw in his own performance, yet plenty to criticize for those who didn’t instantly capitulate to the unions. Imagine that…
Duceppe rattling his sabre handle… a rather empty gesture since all he has is the handle… I suspect most Canadians would be more surprised if Duceppe and his Bloc-heads voted FOR something instead of against something…
I’m surprised Chief Vern White waited until after the criminal case to start proceedings to discharge an officer who assaulted and threatened to kill fellow officers. Yes, I realize there is more than one side to this story but I’m having a hard time seeing how his fellow officers could ever trust the guy again…