#1 — CBC | Woman arrested in autistic boy’s death
Police in B.C. have arrested a woman they were seeking in connection with the death of an autistic boy whose body was found inside her home.
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#2 — CBC | Ponzi scheme netted Jones $12 million: report
Disgraced Montreal financial adviser Earl Jones appears to have spent at least $12 million of his clients’ money, according to a report from the trustee investigating his corporation.
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#3 — CBC | N.B. will not appeal Morgentaler decision
The Liberal government will not appeal the New Brunswick Court of Appeal decision that paves the way for Dr. Henry Morgentaler to sue the province to pay for abortions at his Fredericton clinic.
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#4 — CBC | Opium poppy seizure largest in Alberta history
A man was charged after he allegedly accepted a package with more than 70 kilograms of dried opium poppy at his grocery store in southeast Edmonton last week, police said Tuesday.
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#5 — CTV | TSX claws back much of Monday’s losses
TORONTO — Higher commodity stocks led the way to a sharply higher close on the Toronto stock market Tuesday as the market clawed back some of a selloff Monday that was triggered by worries about doubtful consumer strength in a U.S. economic recovery.
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#6 — CTV | Lawyer demands Ottawa return passport in Kenya saga
TORONTO — The passport which stranded a Toronto woman in Kenya for months is now at the centre of a standoff between the federal government and the lawyer representing Suaad Hagi Mohamud.
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#7 — CTV | Liberal leader’s office dismisses fall election report
OTTAWA — Michael Ignatieff’s office is dismissing as “pure speculation” a report that the Liberal Opposition leader will bring down the minority Conservative government in September.
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#8 — Globe | Creating a crisis
Only two months after taking a beating in the Quebec press for his handling of a controversy over botched breast cancer tests, Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc is facing a new round of criticism over proposed new rules for abortion clinics.
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#9 — Globe | Cheap Canadian farmland lures foreign buyers
The renowned cranberry harvest in southern Quebec has long attracted tourists to the picturesque region. But the cranberry bogs sprinkled throughout the countryside near Victoriaville attracted a different type of sightseer earlier this summer – a billion-dollar, U.S.-based agriculture fund hungry for cheap Canadian farmland.
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#10 — NP | Quebec group wants War Museum to return ‘spoils of war’
OTTAWA — The mayor of Quebec City apparently isn’t interested in the French royal coat of arms that a French-language advocacy group in Gatineau, Que., wants the Canadian War Museum to return to the city.
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#11 — NP | Canadian officials feared backlash to film on Islam: reports
Canadian security officials closely monitored last year’s release of a Dutch film about Islam, fearing it could spark violent protests, documents released under the Access to Information Act show.
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#12 — OC | DND plans to test model of proposed Arctic patrol vessels
OTTAWA — The Defence Department will run some tests at the end of the month on a model of a proposed new Arctic patrol vessel, but there is still no indication of when it will approach the shipbuilding industry to move ahead with the $3-billion program.
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#13 — Star | Ottawa’s plans for the North run up against hard reality
IQALUIT–In a town where the days run long, the youth wander the streets late into the night.
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