#1 — CBC | Water bomber crashes fighting B.C. wildfires
A water bomber helping to battle more than 300 wildfires burning across B.C. has crashed south of Lytton in the Fraser Canyon.
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#2 — CBC | Ont. young drivers face alcohol ban
Ontario’s new zero blood-alcohol level policy for young drivers takes effect at midnight Saturday.
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#3 — CNews | Lifting the veil on airport security
OTTAWA – Frequent flyers know the drill: take off your shoes, surrender your tweezers and pack your shampoo in those little plastic baggies before lining up for the naked body scanners. But lift your niqab? Apparently not.
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#4 — Globe | Going for broke: Anti-HST campaign unfazed by shrinking war chest
Coffers of the anti-HST campaign are down to about $8,000 from about $118,000 raised for the effort to overturn the unpopular tax, but a strategist says he expects no problems raising money for future activism.
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#5 — Globe | Number-crunchers’ Vancouver convention set to hail Statscan’s ex-chief
He ran the U.S. census in 2000 and built a long career on stats, but John Thompson is the first to admit the world’s biggest confab of number crunchers can get awfully dry.
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#6 — LFP | Prison system under stress
OTTAWA — One in five is serving a life sentence for murder.
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#7 — NP | Some Afghan soldiers missing from U.S. base are in Canada
At least eight members of the Afghan military wanted by U.S. authorities after fleeing a Texas air force base have attained permanent resident status in Canada or are awaiting decisions on refugee claims.
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#8 — OC | The End of Forgetting
Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption “Drunken Pirate.”
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#9 — MG | Oil-spill relief well off Canada’s Arctic coast would take three years: regulators
OTTAWA — Drilling a relief well in the ice-infested waters of the Beaufort Sea would take at least three years, leaving an oil spill off Canada’s Arctic coast to gush until the job is done, Canadian regulators warn in newly released documents.
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#10 — Star | Litigious killer files another appeal
William Imona-Russel needs no introduction around Osgoode Hall.
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