Canada
#1 — CBC | Human rights law to protect N.L. ex-convicts
Ex-convicts are among those who will enjoy protection from job discrimination, according to proposed changes that Newfoundland and Labrador has unveiled.
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#2 — CBC | Record lottery jackpot spurs brisk sales
The largest lottery prize pool in Canadian history will be up for grabs in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw.
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#3 — CNews | Accused drunk driver in fatal crash may have been texting
B.C. RCMP allege the driver involved in a fatal car crash near Cranbrook earlier this month may have been texting while driving drunk.
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#4 — Globe | Obama, Harper urge G20 nations to ‘safeguard’ economic recovery
Beware the Double Dip. That’s the key message in a new letter from U.S. President Barack Obama to his G20 colleagues, and the underlying thought in a soon-to-be released essay by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, obtained by The Canadian Press.
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#5 — Globe | Twelve current, former Canadian soldiers face 70 drug charges
Military police say a dozen current and former soldiers from a Canadian forces base in Alberta are facing a total of 70 drug-related charges.
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#6 — NP | Soldiers with guns. In our cities. In Canada.
I’m going to be kicked out of the Unquestioning Tory Lapdog Club for pointing this out, but has anyone else noticed that the famous Paul Martin campaign ad, the one he was so heavily ridiculed over, is looking a lot less ridiculous?
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#7 — NP | MPs grudgingly do their jobs, bugger off for three months
A brief fit of usefulness
MPs agree on Afghan detainee documents, auditing parliamentary expenses and that Karla Homolka is a very bad person. Nothing motivates like an impending vacation!
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#8 — OC | Time to wake up to cyber threat: Experts
TALLINN, June 18, 2010 (AFP) – NATO governments and the public must wake up to the threat of cyberattacks, which could paralyze a nation far more easily than conventional warfare, experts warned Friday.
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#9 — MG | You have 50 million reasons to read this
OTTAWA — Phil Cousineau was put off by the high price of Lotto Max tickets — until the dream of life on Easy St. became too much to resist.
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#10 — Star | Dogs sniff out bedbugs from G20 delegates’ rooms
As delegates to next week’s G20 summit check into their Toronto hotel rooms, some should feel safer knowing Michael Goldman’s dogs have already secured the premises.
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Notes:
What if Stephen Harper threw a party and nobody attended?
World
#11 — BBC | BP suffers third rating downgrade
Rating agency Moody’s has downgraded BP’s credit rating, adding to concerns over the impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on the company’s finances.
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Telegraph | Oil spill: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fears BP’s ‘annihilation’
#12 — BBC | Illegal bushmeat ‘rife in Europe’
About 270 tonnes of illegal bushmeat could be passing through one of Europe’s busiest airports each year, the first study of its kind estimates.
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#13 — CNN | The night the oil rig exploded: Escape from a fire-breathing monster
Editor’s note: This account of the night the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded is based on exclusive interviews with five survivors and three of their wives conducted by CNN’s Anderson Cooper and the CNN Special Investigations Unit. The interviews paint perhaps the most detailed picture yet of what happened — and the possible causes of the explosion. Additional reporting for this story was done by CNN producers Scott Bronstein and Wayne Drash.
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#14 — CNN | Killer, 13, sent to juvenile detention until age 21
(CNN) — A Michigan judge ordered a 13-year-old boy convicted of murdering a woman during a robbery to remain in juvenile detention until he turns 21.
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#15 — Fox | Arlington Headstones in Creek Bed Catch Officials by Surprise
ARLINGTON, Va. — Several discarded headstones recently discovered in a creek bed near Arlington National Cemetery have left Department of Defense officials scrambling for answers.
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#16 — Fox | South African Woman Ruptures Throat in Vuvuzela-Blowing Contest
A South African woman ruptured her throat while taking part in a vuvuzela-blowing competition, but said Friday she was recovering with no permanent damage.
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#17 — DM | Revealed: Labour’s barmy army of private consultants… paid up to £643,000 EACH
Consultants for the Government have been earning more than £600,000 each year, data released today from the Cabinet Office reveals.
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DM | Have you seen this man? Gordon Brown does a disappearing act…
#18 — DM | Catch of the day! Monster 99lb carp reeled in by British angler breaks world record
Weighing exactly 99lbs, this monster mirror carp took a fisherman an agonising 20 minutes to reel in.
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#19 — DM | So much for recycling
This is the moment binmen were caught on camera emptying a recycling bin and one with ordinary rubbish into the SAME lorry.
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#20 — Independent | Gang’s £60m drug business was among biggest in UK
A gang which ran a £60 million drug business from a set of isolated farm buildings was heading one of the biggest operations in the country, police said today.
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Independent | Navy wren jailed for smuggling £2m of cocaine on warship
#21 — Telegraph | Switzerland examines legal action over Libya ‘kidnapping’
Switzerland is examining if it can take international action against Libya over the “kidnapping” of two Swiss citizens, according to the country’s foreign minister.
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#22 — Telegraph | The greatest guitarists you’ve never heard of
I saw the most extraordinary show at the Meltdown Festival at Southbank this week. “Six Strings / Six Guitars” was conceived by Richard Thompson as a celebration of the wonder and versatility of what has surely been the key instrument in post 50s pop culture. Which might be considered pretty rum when Thompson himself declared in my interview last week that the guitar’s day had gone “about 1969″. He felt there was nothing really new being done on the instrument, which survived nevertheless because of the visceral appeal of rock music and because “they are easy instruments to pick up and play at some level. If you’re a kid today and you want to play music, instead of going for the xylophone or French horn and the bass clarinet, people tend to go for the guitar.”
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Notes:
Somebody else few people have ever heard of. Pick up.
Three jounalists were supposedly fired yesterday. Anyone know who they are and who they worked for and what they did. Getting caught talking to Kory could be a job killer. LOL