Canada
#1 — CBC | Controversial Que. cardinal promoted to Rome
The Vatican has promoted Canada’s highest-ranking Catholic priest despite recent controversy over his response to the church sex-abuse scandal.
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#2 — CBC | Queen leaves Halifax for Ottawa
The Queen and Prince Philip are on a plane from Halifax to Ottawa, where they will continue their Canadian tour.
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#3 — Globe | Carney to chair international financial forum
Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney has added another feather to his cap, having been tapped by a Swiss-based committee of his fellow central bankers to chair a key forum on the global financial system.
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#4 — LFP | Gold nuggets stolen at Yukon hotel
There’s gold somewhere in them hills and Whitehorse RCMP are hoping to recover some that was stolen from a customer at a local hotel.
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#5 — LFP | Sarnia council drops OPP move
SARNIA — Police Chief Phil Nelson wept with joy, Mayor Mike Bradley was visibly relieved and Coun. Bev MacDougall stood defiant.
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Note:
I’m far from certain this was a good decision for many reasons, not least of which is the savings that could be made over the long term.
#6 — NP | FP Tech Desk: Starbucks to offer unlimited free Wi-Fi nationwide starting July 1
If you thought the free wireless internet at Starbucks was good before, just wait until Canada Day.
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#7 — NP | IBM: Toronto’s commuter traffic ranks among the worst worldwide
There’s nothing Torontonians like to do more than gripe about their commute. And now, a new survey proves that all that dissatisfaction with the trip to work is justified.
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#8 — OC | “Larry, the mayor guy” running for second term
OTTAWA — Flanked by his wife, Colleen McBride, and surrounded by more than 40 supporters, Mayor Larry O’Brien announced Wednesday morning he was going to run for re-election in this fall’s municipal election.
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#9 — Star | Toronto woman hits police car in repatriation motorcade on 401
A Toronto woman faces charges after a car hit an empty police vehicle in east Toronto as a repatriation motorcade was coming through on Highway 401, the Highway of Heroes.
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Just a wild guess but this could be a case of highway hypnosis. Anyone who has ever seen the new lighting array on OPP cruisers will understand. The hypnosis problem has been investigated for quite sometime and therefore the reason I used my lighting array sparingly when working the 401. It can be hazardous to one’s health because instead of avoiding the emergency vehicle as intended, some people will become mesmerized and drive right into them. It can be a very bad scene. Fortunately this situation wasn’t but there is always something to learn and therefore the reason for this post.
World
#10 — BBC | Taliban attack on Nato base in Afghanistan is ‘repelled’
Insurgents have attacked Nato forces in eastern Afghanistan.
Several attackers were killed in the Taliban attack on a base at an airfield outside Jalalabad, near the border with Pakistan.
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“Only several?”
#11 — BBC | Death penalty for Iran jail abuse
An Iranian military court has sentenced two men to death in connection with the killings of three anti-government protesters, the state news agency said.
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#12 — BBC | EU Airbus subsidies illegal, says WTO
The EU paid illegal subsidies to aircraft giant Airbus, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled, in the latest twist in a long-running dispute.
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#13 — CNN | Dems push hard on Boehner comments
(CNN) – Democrats are apparently doing everything they can to ensure Rep. John Boehner’s recent comments to a conservative-leaning paper in Pittsburgh aren’t soon forgotten.
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Welcome to Stephen Harper’s world, John. You’re on a roll.
#14 — Fox | Massachusetts School Offers to Allow Pledge of Allegiance — but Not in Class
Student Sean Harrington appears to have won his fight to bring the Pledge of Allegiance back into his Massachusetts high school — except the principal’s proposed solution leaves the daily honor to the nation’s flag literally hanging in the hall.
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#15 — Fox | Kagan: World Doesn’t Revolve Around Judges
The world does not revolve around judges, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said on the third day of her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill.
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I’ve been watching this confirmation hearing while saying literally nothing. From what I see Elena has a great sense of humor (she broke out laughing yesterday at one question and then fired a “zinger” right back). That tells me something about her. I think she’s her own person and does what she feels is right based on reason…not feelings…and will do fine in the position.
Just like Sarah Palin will if given the opportunity to run for president. Elena is what she is — you get what you see and my instinct tells me she will be nothing if not fair as she considers every argument from both sides.
I have no problem with this lady.
#16 — Fox | Judge Grants Asylum to Former Israeli Spy Accused of Being Terrorist Threat
SAN DIEGO — The son of a Hamas founder who became a Christian and an Israeli spy will be granted U.S. asylum after he passes a routine background check, an immigration judge ruled Wednesday.
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#17 — Fox | Dems Dare, GOP Calls Bluff on Unemployment Benefits
House Democrats failed again to pass an extension of unemployment benefits that would have kept payments flowing through November. The $34 billion bill was considered “emergency” spending and thus not subject to pay-as-you-go restrictions.
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A family of benefit cheats who owned a property portfolio worth £1.5million were today jailed for fraudulently claiming £170,000 in housing allowances.
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#19 — DM | Tory MP launches first legal bid to ban burkha in Britain
A Tory MP who was probed by police for alleged racial hatred earlier this year has launched a landmark bid to ban Muslim women from wearing the burkha in Britain.
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#20 — DM | The world’s worst photofit?
New York police are hunting a feline felon who robbed a high-end shoe shop while wearing a Catwoman mask.
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#21 — DM | Revealed: The British towns where one worker in two is a migrant
A map today reveals parts of Britain where more than half of jobs are held by workers who were born overseas.
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#22 — Independent: Living the American dream.
The endgame came last Saturday, on a sweltering early summer afternoon in downtown Washington. The year was 2010, but the Cold War might never have ended. The FBI undercover agent, purporting to be a Russian government official, and a suburban travel agency employee named Mikhail Semenko met on a street corner six blocks east of the White House, and exchanged pre-arranged code phrases. “Could we have met in Beijing in 2004? Yes, we might have, but I believe it was in Harbin.”
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