Canada
#1 — CBC | TSX, dollar up on strong GDP report
A report showing strong economic growth in Canada pushed the Toronto Stock Exchange higher Monday.
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#2 — CBC | Former Manitoba premier Duff Roblin dies
Former Manitoba premier Duff Roblin, who led the charge to create the Red River Floodway around Winnipeg, has died.
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#3 — CNews | Privacy fence now facing Peeping Tom
A year ago yesterday, the Crown prosecutor in St. Catharines quietly dropped all charges against James Cedar, whose Peeping Tom antics had been caught on video as he crept into his neighbours’ backyard, peered into the windows, and pleasured himself as the tape rolled on.
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#4 — Globe | Fear of Liberal advertising to blame for billion-dollar G20 tab?
Blaming Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals is the latest defence in the Conservative quiver of excuses to try to explain the massive $1-billion security tab for next month’s G8/G20 summits.
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#5 — Globe | Spector: Prime Minister Layton?
In one respect, the results of an Angus Reid poll to be released on Monday are not surprising — the Conservatives are at 35 per cent, the Liberals at 27 and the NDP are at 19 per cent; in Quebec, the Bloc leads with 37 per cent.
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#6 — LFP | International flight diverted to Montreal
MONTREAL — A flight from Paris to Mexico was rerouted to Montreal Sunday afternoon at the request of U.S. authorities, and a passenger was taken into custody.
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#7 — NP | Rumours swirl after dismissal of Canadian commander in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – Brig.-Gen. Daniel Menard — who was fired late Saturday as head of the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan because of alleged sexual misconduct — is the first Canadian general officer to be dismissed on the battlefield since the Second World War.
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#8 — OC | Firefighters facing “a real monster,” Que. official says
Firefighters continued to battle Monday major forest fires inching closer to the native reserve of Wemotaci in central Quebec as winds blew thick smoke hundreds of kilometres way to Montreal and Ottawa.
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#9 — Star | Copyright: consumer versus artists
OTTAWA—This week Ottawa will try once again to update Canada’s copyright law that Industry Minister Tony Clement says has holes big enough to “drive a Mack truck through.”
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World
#10 — BBC | International Criminal Court ‘altered behaviour’ – UN
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has forced governments to alter their behaviour in the eight years of its existence, the UN chief has said.
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#11 — BBC | Up to 25 bodies found in abandoned mine in Mexico
Between 20 and 25 bodies, thought to be the victims of drug gang violence, have been found in an abandoned silver mine in southern Mexico, officials say.
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#12 — BBC | German President Koehler quits amid row over military
German President Horst Koehler says he is resigning immediately, following criticism of remarks he made about German military deployments abroad.
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#13 — CNN | U.S. military: Air strike kills Taliban leader in Kandahar
A precision air strike has killed one of the two most senior Taliban leaders in Kandahar province and several of his fighters, the U.S. military said Monday.
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#14 — Fox | “Lost Mayor” found
CAIRO (AP) — Archaeologists have discovered the 3,300-year-old tomb of the ancient Egyptian capital’s mayor, whose resting place had been lost under the desert sand since 19th century treasure hunters first carted off some of its decorative wall panels, officials announced Sunday.
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Diana, Princess of Wales was killed because she planned to expose senior members of the British arms trade involved with land mines, a leading lawyer claimed today.
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#16 — Times | Henry II’s mistress returned to righful resting place
With her porcelain skin, blonde hair and dark blue eyes she was once hailed as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Yet for more than 200 years the bones of Diane de Poitiers were left in a common grave after her tomb was destroyed in the French Revolution.
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#17 — Times | Anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune gives evidence
Peter Bethune, the anti-whaling activist on trial in Tokyo, today took the witness stand to defend himself against charges of injuring a Japanese sailor with an acidic stink bomb.
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#18 — Telegraph | Danny Alexander, new Treasury chief, avoided capital gains tax on house
The new Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, avoided paying capital gains tax when he sold his taxpayer-funded second home at a profit, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
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#19 –Telegraph | Hurt Locker producers sue 5,000 over digital piracy
Producers of The Hurt Locker are suing 5,000 people who allegedly downloaded copies of the Oscar-winning film from the internet in the latest attempt to fight digital piracy.
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