#1 — CBC | Missing couple’s SUV found near Edson, Alta.
The RCMP said Friday they have found an SUV belonging to an Alberta couple who were last seen on July 3 and they are hunting for a man with a long criminal record.
[...]
#2 — CBC | High demand crashes B.C. gambling website
The BC Lottery Corporation’s expanded online gambling website PlayNow.com crashed hours after its launch Thursday due to overwhelming popular demand, an official says.
[...]
#3 — CNews | Three more G20 suspects ID’d
Three more men have been identified for their alleged role in the G20 mayhem that erupted on Toronto’s streets last month.
[...]
#4 — Globe | Alberta’s fast-growing photo-based traffic traps a hot-button issue
Like many Albertans, Tom Woznow knows the flash, a glimmer in his rearview mirror that suggests trouble.
[...]
#5 — Globe | Iroquois lacrosse team bowing out of UK tournament
Time ran out on Friday for a team of Iroquois lacrosse players who have been blocked from traveling to a tournament in England because of a passport dispute.
[...]
#6 — LFP | Inaccurate anti-oilsands ad campaign no editing error: Prentice
OTTAWA – An anti-oilsands ad campaign that erroneously compared the size of the oilsands to twice the size of England was not a simple editing error, argues Environment Minister Jim Prentice.
[...]
#7 — NP | Is Ted Morton the Alberta PC’s last, best hope?
The invitation to the invitation-only “Firewater Friday,” the annual Peters and Co. Stampede barbecue, features a cartoon cowboy scaring off a “doom and gloom” bear while laughing around a campfire with a bull. For the Calgary investment bankers, the bloom on energy markets makes all the difference between life being a party — or just being a drag. And on a warm summer evening, the bear is nowhere to be seen as the bankers, in their western gear, guffaw over their Big Rock beers and bid up silent auction heli-ski trips and French villa escapes into the thousands. They seem, too, genuinely pleased to have as their guest Alberta’s newest Minister of Finance and Enterprise, Ted Morton.
[...]
#8 — OC | Ottawa to spend $1.8 B on aboriginal job training
WINNIPEG — Ottawa is pouring $1.8 billion into aboriginal job training over the next five years to help avert a looming Canadian shortage of skilled workers.
[...]
#9 — MG | Daycare fears 2-metre python
MONTREAL-Parents of children who attend a daycare in St. Lazare are worried the python that lives next door could escape – again – and they have started a petition to have the animal removed, or at least tightly controlled.
[...]
#10 — Star | Toronto’s ‘Officer Bubbles’ gains web notoriety
He’s now known as “Officer Bubbles.”
Const. Adam Josephs has gained considerable notoriety after being caught on tape threatening to arrest a G20 protester for blowing bubbles.
[...]