Canada
#1 — CBC | Bernier flabbergasts ex-Que. premier Landry
Maxime Bernier was an avowed supporter of Quebec independence, says a former boss who’s now disappointed to see his old protégé taking shots at his home province.
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#2 — CBC | Police kill bear north of Peterborough, Ont.
Police have shot and killed a marauding bear in Ontario for the second time this week.
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#3 — CBC | Release N.B. teen’s prison files, judge says
A Federal Court judge has ordered Correctional Services of Canada to release documents about a New Brunswick teen who committed suicide in her cell, ending an access-to-information fight that began months before she died.
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#4 — Globe | Ottawa headed for smaller deficit than projected
The federal government may be headed for a smaller deficit than it feared in the just past year, thanks to a quicker and stronger than expected recovery in economic activity.
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#5 — LFP | Kummer gets 8 years for impaired driving
LONDON, Ont. – Impaired driver Andrew Kummer, 26, was sentenced to eight years in prison this morning for the fiery crash that killed three people a year ago.
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#6 — NP | Bogus RCMP wiretap memos derail drug case
A stunning admission by a senior RCMP officer that he drafted a bogus memo to cover up concerns about police wiretap methods has led to the collapse of a major drug prosecution in northern Ontario and raised questions about wiretapping in at least 30 investigations.
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#7 — NP | Petition calls for a ‘Trans-Quebec Express’ linking Gaspe to Nunavik
Nearly 4,000 Quebecers have signed a petition that calls for a cross-Quebec railway that would link the province’s Nunavik region to southern Quebec.
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#8 — NP | Pirates’ cut of ransom traced back to Canada
Some Somali-Canadians have received a cut of the ransoms collected by pirates operating off the Horn of Africa and money may have been sent back to Somalia to fund other hijackings, according to an intelligence specialist on piracy.
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#9 — OC | Canadian Vietnam vets still feel pain over fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, 35 years ago today, ended the Vietnam War. But “let’s face it,” say the Windsor men who were there, fighting “in country” with the U.S. military: it’s a date they neither celebrate nor observe.
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#10 — MG | Drug-smuggling prison guard to get 96 months
Pierre Arold Agnant, the prison guard who smuggled drugs into the Montreal Detention Centre for a member of a gang, has been sentenced to a 96-month prison term.
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#11 — Star | Man ‘justified’ in waving board at cop, judge rules
An escaping drug suspect was legally justified in tearing a board off a fence to defend himself against a pursuing police officer because he had been unlawfully arrested, a judge has ruled.
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World
#12 — BBC | Ghost estates testify to Irish boom and bust
David McWilliams is the man who coined the phrase “ghost estate” when he wrote about the first signs of a disastrous over-build in Ireland back in 2006.
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#13 — Fox | House Approves Puerto Rico Statehood Measure
The House voted Thursday to allow Puerto Ricans to change the island’s commonwealth status, in what critics are saying is a backdoor attempt to force Puerto Ricans into choosing U.S. statehood — something Puerto Rican voters already have rejected three times.
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#14 — DM | Russian who ‘cremated’ Adolf Hitler refuses to reveal where he scattered his ashes
Exactly 65 years after Adolf Hitler perished in his Berlin bunker, the man who Moscow claims destroyed his bones today refused to reveal the exact spot in Germany where he ‘cremated’ the Fuhrer.
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#15 — Times | Plastic surgeon imposter Steven Moos jailed after disfiguring women
An American man who left women disfigured after botched surgery when he impersonated a top Hollywood plastic surgeon has been jailed in Dubai.
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#16 — Telegraph | Prince Harry passes Army pilot course
Prince Harry’s hopes of returning to frontline action in Afghanistan were given a major boost today when it was announced that he had passed his Army pilot’s course.
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#17 — Telegraph | Australia’s smiling assassin remembered as a ‘family man’ at funeral
Australia’s most notorious underworld killer who was murdered last week in a high security prison, was remembered at his funeral as a “family man” as he was buried in a gold coffin.
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#18 — Telegraph | Men who force women to wear burka would face €15,000 fine in France
Anyone who forced a woman to wear a burka would face a fine of €15,000 (£13,000), according to leaked extracts of a proposed French law banning the face-covering Islamic veil.
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