Canada
#1 — CBC | Skyservice charter airline goes under
The Skyservice charter airline filed for receivership and shut down its operations Wednesday.
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#2 — CBC | First Nations University has uncertain future
The federal government announced Wednesday financial help to allow students of a beleaguered aboriginal university in Saskatchewan to finish their academic year, but future funding for the institution will depend on its ability to reform.
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#3 — Globe | Ontario foot-dragging imperils Canada-EU trade pact, officials say
As a proposed large-scale free-trade and economic-integration pact between Canada and the 27 European Union countries enters a crucial stage of negotiations, Canadian and European officials say the deal’s biggest obstacle is the province of Ontario.
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#4 — Globe | Remove the veil for mugshots or face further charges: police
Police forces in different parts of the country say charges will be laid against anyone who refuses to remove religious face-coverings such as Muslim niqabs when being booked after an arrest.
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#5 — NP | FBI says Canadian behind online cancer drug scam
EDMONTON – The FBI believes an Edmonton man is behind an international online scam to sell counterfeit cancer drugs to dozens of desperate patients around the world.
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#6 — NP | Senators call for changes to rights act
Senator Doug Finley led a call yesterday to scrap a section of Canada’s Human Rights Act that he and other Conservative senators say is being used to stifle free speech in Canada.
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CH | No laughing matter
#7 — NP | Guergis wobbly after new misstep
The ministerial disaster they call Helena Guergis has attracted more controversy, this time having a local paper discover the junior minister’s executive assistant masquerading as a fawning letter-to-the-editor writer.
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#8 — CH | Canada rejects idea of building new isotope reactor
OTTAWA — The federal government will not build a medical-isotope reactor to replace the Chalk River, Ont., facility that has been shut down since last spring.
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World
#9 — Fox | Texas Town on High Alert
Residents of a small Mexican border town under siege by at least one of the country’s most notorious drug cartels are fleeing into a tiny Texas community, which is on high alert and preparing for a surge of illegal immigrants should a street battle break out with another cartel – or if gunmen begin carrying out a threat to start killing the town’s children.
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#10 — LFP | Research: Tuna eat fish that eat plastic
If mercury levels are enough for you to question your tuna sandwich, the amount of plastic these fish might be consuming could turn you off your lunch for good.
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#11 — Newsmax | Obamacare Sparks Death Threats Against IRS Agents
Radical anti-government, anti-tax protestors have lit up private message boards and e-mail lists with violent calls to action against IRS workers in response to the healthcare law, according to Fox News.
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#12 — Newsmax | Forecasters at Odds about Warming Threat
Is climate change a serious threat to humanity or a scam trumped up by agenda-minded activists?
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#13 — Telegraph | Belgium could be first country to ban the burka
Belgium is on course to become the first European country to ban the burka after a parliamentary committee backed proposals to make it illegal on the grounds of national security and women’s rights.
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#14 — Times | ‘Hubble Bubble’ tower will be icon of Olympic legacy
Taller than Big Ben and resembling a curved and twisted Eiffel Tower, London’s most striking Olympic legacy was introduced today.
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Notes: You have to see this monstrosity.
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