Canada
#1 — CBC | Top U.S. court stays out of Asian carp battle
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to get involved in a dispute over how to prevent Asian carp from making their way into the Great Lakes.
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#2 — CBC | Intensive French rejected in western P.E.I.
Parents at four schools in Western Prince have voted down the school board’s plan to introduce a new intensive French program.
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#3 — CNews | Semrau witness: All wounded were to be aided
GATINEAU, Que. — Canadian soldiers were repeatedly instructed to provide medical aid to friends or foe equally, a key witness testified Monday at a Canadian captain’s trial for murder.
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#4 — Globe | Omar Khadr’s defender sees ‘no way’ for fair trial
In shackles and flanked by military guards, Omar Khadr will be taken this week from the razor-wire-ringed Guantanamo Bay prison compound where he has spent almost a third of his life to a military tribunal court for pre-trial hearings. On Monday morning, a gaggle of media, international rights observers, military prosecutors and defence lawyers will fly to Guantanamo for the proceedings. Among them will be Nathan Whitling, one of Mr. Khadr’s Canadian civilian attorneys. Mr. Whitling offered the following views on the forthcoming trial of the only Canadian facing war crimes and terrorism charges at Guantanamo.
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#5 — Globe | Silence speaks volumes in thwarted quest to audit Parliament’s expenses
Ten months ago, Auditor General Sheila Fraser formally asked two committees for permission to audit Parliament’s expenses, including the expenses of MPs and senators. She still hasn’t received a reply. Silence equals no.
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#6 — Globe | After apparent contradictions, MPs want to grill Rahim Jaffer again
Rahim Jaffer’s appearance before a Commons committee last week may not be his last.
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#7 — NP | Government will legislate end to Olson’s pension payments
OTTAWA – The Harper government plans to introduce legislation as early as this spring that would stop serial killer Clifford Olson and other senior citizens from receiving old-age security cheques while they are in prison.
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#8 — NP | McParland: Louise Arbour speaks out on the world’s worst country — Canada
Canada’s Louise Arbour can finally say what she thinks.
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#9 — OC | PS hiring rules ‘not working,’ senator says
OTTAWA — Federal bureaucrats are dodging new rules to open up all jobs in the nation’s capital to the rest of country by simply not advertising them or using placement agencies to fill them, a Liberal senator says.
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#10 — CH | Bosnian killer fighting deportation from Calgary goes on hunger strike
CALGARY – A convicted double-murderer fighting to regain his refugee status is on a hunger strike, fearful he will die if he is deported to Bosnia.
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#11 — Star | Plastic, glass and paper pile up as recyclers close
Some GTA municipalities are scrambling to find markets for blue-box materials after three major recyclers suspended operations in recent months, including a Brampton plant that was the first and only dedicated recycler of polystyrene foam in Canada.
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World
#12 — BBC | Shops ordered to pay £20m over ‘toxic sofas’
A number of High Street chains have been ordered to pay up to £20m ($31m) to 2,000 people who received chemical burns from anti-fungal agents in sofas.
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#13 — BBC | Dead Kaczynski’s twin to run for Poland president
The twin brother of Poland’s former president, who was killed in a plane crash in Russia this month, says he will run to be elected in his place.
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#14 — BBC | Landslide victory for Hungary’s conservative opposition
Hungary’s conservative opposition party Fidesz has won a two-thirds general election victory, second round results have confirmed.
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#15 — CNN | ‘I can’t afford surgery in the U.S.,’ says bargain shopper
(CNN) — When Godfrey Davies learned he needed surgery to remove polyps blocking his nasal airways, the self-described bargain shopper set out on a mission to find an affordable surgeon. He quickly learned a good deal is hard to find.
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#16 — Fox | Lawmakers Urged to Secure Border Before Seeking Immigration Overhaul
With lawmakers on Capitol Hill reviving debate over a comprehensive immigration overhaul bill, Republicans and border-state residents are urging congressional leaders not to lift a legislative finger until they’ve dealt with border security.
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#17 — Fox | Chicago Lawmakers: Call In the National Guard
Two lawmakers who believe violence has become so rampant in Chicago that the Illinois National Guard must be called in to help made a public plea to Gov. Pat Quinn to deploy troops.
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#18 — Fox | Pint-Sized Pinto Born in New Hampshire May Be World’s Smallest Horse
A pint-sized pinto born in New Hampshire could lay claim to the world record for lightweight foal.
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Notes:
You have to see this to believe it. Click the link.
#19 — Times | SNP in legal challenge to BBC televised debate
The Scottish National Party has said that it is confident of raising the £50,000 required to mount a legal challenge over this week’s televised party leaders’ debate.
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#20 — Times | Nurses say jobs under threat as NHS tries to save £20bn
Thousands of nursing jobs are coming under threat as the NHS attempts to make £20 billion of efficiency savings, a union claims today.
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#21 — Telegraph | Ghost sightings highest in 25 years
Spooky sightings of ghouls, ghosts and evil spirits are higher than they have been in the past 25 years, according to a new report on haunted Britain.
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#22 — Telegraph | Mafia ran ‘slave’ gangs in southern Italy, police say
African farm workers were treated as little better than slaves by their mafia handlers sparking widespread riots, a police investigation into the violence four months ago has found.
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#23 — Telegraph | George W Bush to admit ‘flaws and mistakes’ in memoir
George W Bush will admit his “flaws and mistakes” in a forthcoming memoir that will focus on 14 decisions made during his eight years in the White House.
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#24 — Telegraph | ‘War crimes’ Sudan president wins election
President Omar al-Bashir has been declared winner of Sudan’s first open elections in 24 years despite his outstanding international arrest warrant over war crimes in Darfur.
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So folks in the UK have received chemical burns from anti-fungal agents in sofas are they? Well, how about the obvious chloroform packed into and emanating from mine?
Don’t know BTDT. I threw the entry in so people in other countries (and their lawyers) would be aware of the situation. You’re on your own on this one.
I don’t have that problem.
The Canadian government should do neither. What they should do is show him the same fairness that this enemy combatant (his age is irrelevant as far as I am concerned) captured on the battlefield showed as he chose to kill not only an American medic but also a husband, a father, a son. Todate the government has done just that and more. Khadr was reportedly the only surviving terrorist at the sight when he threw the grenade. He did not have anyone standing over him telling him what to do. He was old enough to be able to decide for himself whether he should refuse to fight and instead surrender. He was old enough to choose the delights that awaited him from the herd of virgins that awaited him over life on this earth. He made his choice to throw the grenade and paradise was his for eternity. Khadr made the wrong choice and he has nobody but himself to blame. So it sucks to be him, so what?
“I think it rather telling that Khadr is now attempting to cloak himself with the rights and privileges of Canadian citizenship without acknowledging that he failed to live up to the responsibilities of that same citizenship. He could have done that by staying in Toronto and playing road hockey like other 15-year-olds instead of hiding in a house on the side of a road with a grenade in Afghanistan that he just had to lob.”
http://www.troymedia.com/?p=7816
Re#1. I was referring to the habit I seem to have of falling asleep everytime I lay down on it!!!!! (heh)