Canada September 1st, 2009 (11)

#1 — CBC | Ontario cleans house at OLG

Ontario’s finance minister has fired the head of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation and accepted the resignations of the entire board of directors in an attempt to head off another scandal.

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#2 — CBC | New trial for Toronto cops ‘not fair’: lawyer

The lawyer for Toronto policemen accused of corruption said Monday an attempt to launch renewed legal proceedings against his clients isn’t fair, particularly as the allegations are based on “the flimsiest of evidence.”

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#3 — CBC | Contraband cigarette trade hit by border dispute

Prices for contraband cigarettes have doubled and supplies have dwindled in eastern Ontario and western Quebec since a border post at Cornwall, Ont., was moved due to a dispute with local Akwesasne Mohawks.

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#4 — CTV | Liberals consider pulling election trigger

The Conservatives launched a pre-emptive strike on their political rivals Monday, saying that talk of a fall election could risk derailing the nation’s fledgling economic recovery. But Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff called the remark a “load of nonsense.”

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#5 — CTV | B.C. fire crews still battling more than 400 blazes

As a wildfire season that’s already seen more than 2,700 blazes and cost British Columbia about five times its forest firefighting budget enters September, fire officials are making changes to ensure exhausted crews get a little more time to rest.

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#6 — Globe | Natives, mining firm dig in their heels in 11-year long dispute

In purely physical terms, it was a duel between a Beaver floatplane and a small aluminum skiff.

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#7 — Globe | Fake kidnap victim arrested again

In the latest twist to a bizarre saga, a University of Toronto engineering student accused of faking his own abduction has been arrested and charged for stealing computer equipment from a second previous employer.

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#8 — NP | Parents link dead teens to Winnipeg sex-for-drugs ring

WINNIPEG — The family of a sexually exploited teenager slain two years ago says she was linked to the same sex-for-drugs ring as were two other Winnipeg teenagers whose bodies were found recently.

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#9 — NP | Drunk driver who killed ‘Pie Ladies’ jailed four years

A drunk driver who killed four elderly women when he slammed his minivan into their car was sentenced yesterday to four years in jail. Wladyslaw Bilski, 49, will also be prohibited from driving for 10 years.

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#10 — MG | Drunk driver gets 10 years for mowing down woman in east end

MONTREAL – Raymond Lévèsque had more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood and seven drunk-driving convictions under his belt when he killed 23-year-old Karine Méthot as she was about to get into a car parked outside her parents’ home in Pointe aux Trembles.

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#11 — Star | Toyota move seen driving a jobs boom

Toyota will probably shift production of the Matrix crossover vehicle from Cambridge to Woodstock within the next year to make room for more output of the popular Corolla compact in a move that should create several hundred jobs, sources say.

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