Canada
#1 — CBC | Online gambling a risk for provinces: experts
Online gambling experts are warning provinces to brace themselves for hackers, cheats and criminal gangs that target gaming sites.
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#2 — CBC | Arctic sovereignty ‘non-negotiable’: Harper
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declared the protection and promotion of Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic a “non-negotiable priority.”
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#3 — CNews | Cop survey backs gun registry scrap
EDMONTON – An Edmonton police officer believes an overwhelming number of law enforcement officials across the country are in favour of scrapping Canada’s long-gun registry through a survey in a national police magazine.
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#4 — Globe | Rob Ford: The gadfly that Toronto needs
I have the most wonderful new party trick. If you know anyone from Toronto you’d like to irritate, I recommend you give this a whirl.
Simply muse out loud that maybe Rob Ford isn’t so bad, or if you actually live in the city, that you haven’t entirely ruled out voting for him in the looming mayoralty. You don’t have to come anywhere near endorsing the guy. You don’t have to say you like him. You just have to appear to be the tiniest bit on the fence.
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Notes:
“Blatch” wrote this column and therefore all should sit up and pay attention, especially when you get this in the Star. Christie usually has it right but she missed something. Maybe she should have changed the name “Rob Ford” to “Huggie Bear” (LOL). That “pop, pop, pop” you might hear in response would be the sound of Liberal heads exploding all over “Hog Town” — like the popcorn in your microwave.
#5 — LFP | Petition bruin’ for grow-op bears
CALGARY – Word a gang of black bears in B.C. found guarding an outdoor marijuana grow-op might be euthanized is too much to bear for some learning of their potential fate.
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Notes:
They’re going to slaughter “Winnie The Poo“. Over our dead bodies!
#6 — NP | Don’t forget tax rules during gold rush
As the price of gold continues to skyrocket, soaring above US$1,200 per ounce, gold fever is sweeping the nation this summer.
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#7 — FP | Saving the oil sands
Alberta’s oil sands are twice the size of England.
Alberta’s oil sands tailings ponds are, collectively, the size of Washington State.
Alberta’s oil sands help subsidize continued wars of aggression against other oil-producing nations such as Iraq, Venezuela and Iran.
These three statements all make Janet Annesley’s Top 10 list, a David Letterman-inspired collection of the most egregious falsehoods against the oil sands.
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#8 — NP | McParland: Poll shows Canadians are nasty, anti-immigrant SOBs
There’s a poll out that shows Canadian have turned into hard-hearted, immigrant-hating SOBs.
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Which doesn’t mean they hate Tamils. What it does mean is that Canadians have grown extremely distrustful of the immigration and refugee system, and of the politicians who set the rules.
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#9 — OC | It’s time for a national debate on health, new top doctor says
Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, the incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association, will spend much of the next year trying to spark a national dialogue about health care, preferably one that does not focus on the traditional public versus private debate.
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World
#10 — BBC | Australia heads for hung parliament
Australia appears to be heading for a hung parliament, with neither of the two main rivals likely to win the 76 seats needed for an outright majority.
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#11 — BBC | US calls for Lockerbie bomber to return to jail
The White House has called for the man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing to be returned to prison in Scotland.
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Notes:
Good luck with that one.
#12 — BBC | Colombia arrests ‘major cocaine trafficker’
A Venezuelan businessman suspected of being part of a major drug trafficking ring has been arrested by Colombian authorities.
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Notes:
Chavez will “wax hysterical” again. Wait for it.
#13 — BBC | Bolivia declares emergency over forest fires
A state of emergency has been declared in Bolivia as forest fires spread across the country.
Almost 25,000 fires have destroyed about 1.5m hectares (3.7m acres) of land and more than 60 houses.
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#14 — CNN | TRENDING: Study: McCain is a social media ‘genius’
(CNN) – At nearly 74 years old, Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, might not be the first person to come to mind when you’re asked to name a social media “genius.” But according to a new joint study, he is just that–the U.S. senator most adept at using social media.
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#15 –Fox | American Indian Tribe Miffed by Bloomberg Remark Sues to Block N.Y. Cigarette Tax
A Native American tribe that got into an unusual war of words with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the entire state government last week has asked a federal judge to step in and settle a dispute over cigarette taxes.
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Notes:
I laugh when I read this stuff. Canada has been trying to figure out a way to tax our natives for many years and “no cigar”.
#16 — Fox | Official: Moscow Subway Attacks Plotter Killed
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia– The man suspected of organizing suicide bombings that killed 40 people on the Moscow subway in March was killed in a shootout with Russian security forces on Saturday, officials said.
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#17 — DM | Plight of the 1.1million stuck in homes they can’t sell
More than one million homeowners are trapped with homes they cannot sell, research reveals today.
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Notes:
In case anyone has missed the point “McShifty” and his assinine government have devalued homes across Ontario (including mine) by at least $20,000.00 thanks to the HST and “green shit”. It will be several years before the market corrects itself IF we fire this jerk.
IF we don’t we’ll all be living in pup tents in the days to come and you can take that to the bank (not that they will be able to do much about it) — thanks to “Flaherty et al”.
Some days I wonder whether our local “bozo’s” need a kick “square in the nuts” to get their attention.
As a hospital cleaner, Margaret Cummins dedicated years of her life to the Health Service.
She would keep the buildings spick and span - and go out of her way to help the sick and reassure those in distress.
But if she expected a little respect in return when she became a cancer patient, she was very wrong.
Instead, the 74-year-old’s family were told that she could not have a vital scan because that particular unit was closed at weekends.
The locum doctor said: ‘We’ll do it on Monday - if she’s still here.’
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#19 — Telegraph | Britons dig into £4,600 of savings to cover living costs
A third of Britons aged over 65 dig into their savings and investments to help them with everyday living costs, claims a new report.
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#20 — Telegraph | Russia loses?
A Russian arms dealer known as the Merchant of Death, who is accused of fuelling some of the world’s bloodiest conflicts, is to be extradited from Thailand to face trial in the United States.
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