Canada July 29th, 2010 (10)

#1 — CBC | RCMP dealing with management ‘issues’: memo

Senior RCMP officers, including Commissioner William Elliott, say they are working through their issues, following complaints about Elliott’s management style, according to an internal memo.

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CBC | Missing Mountie presumed drowned

CNews | Ex-RCMP boss loyalists blamed for chaos

Globe | Pace of reform is at the heart of RCMP tensions

NP | RCMP commissioner’s future unclear as criticism grows

#2 — CBC | B.C. man gets 11 years for child sex tourism

Kenneth Klassen, 59, of Burnaby, B.C., was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for committing sex tourism with children and importing child pornography.

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#3 — CBC | Sask. to pitch MS trial to other provinces

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says he will raise his proposal to fund clinical trials of a controversial multiple sclerosis treatment with other premiers next week.

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#4 — CNews | Ontario teen’s Cuban ordeal ending

CAMAGUEY, Cuba – Cody LeCompte’s tropical island nightmare has finally come to an end.

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#5 — CNews | Ontario woman survives U.S. bear attack

LONDON, Ont. – A London woman who awoke to a bear chewing on her arm survived by playing dead during the animal’s violent late-night rampage through a U.S. campground Tuesday.

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#6 — Globe | Ottawa praises three provinces set to introduce cap-and-trade system

The federal Conservative government says it is pleased to learn Canada’s three largest provinces are working independently with two U.S. states to introduce a cap-and-trade system that would put a price tag on greenhouse-gas emissions.

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#7 — NP | Public safety trumps privacy in Ottawa HIV case

Should police release information about a person who is alleged to be spreading HIV through unprotected sex, but has not been convicted of a crime?

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#8 — OC | A child can drown in 20 seconds, expert warns, as death toll rises

OTTAWA-That’s how quickly a child can drown, how fleeting the margin between life and death can be.

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#9 — MG | Oka freezes controversial land development

MONTREAL – Chief Gordon Oke of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake late Wednesday welcomed a move by the municipality of Oka giving it the power to freeze development on a parcel of contested land near ‘the Pines.’

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#10 — Star | Charge mysteriously disappears for G20 accused

The only person charged under a controversial G20 regulation appeared in court Wednesday only to discover his charge has mysteriously disappeared.

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