Canada
#1 — CBC | Conrad Black appeal set for Sept. 29
The date has been set for Conrad Black’s appeal to be heard of his 2007 convictions on three counts of fraud.
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#2 — CBC | U.S. businesses join anti-oilsands campaign
It’s another hit to the bottom line of Alberta’s oilsands industry.
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#3 — CBC | Long-form census supporters flock to committee
A parliamentary committee is hearing from a slew of witnesses opposed to the federal government’s move to replace the mandatory long-form census with a voluntary survey.
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#4 — Globe | Third terror suspect appears in court
The third suspect to face terrorism-related charges after a year-long investigation by police and security services appeared in court Friday.
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Mr. Sher is a McGill University graduate who is an anatomical pathologist at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital in St. Thomas, Ont., just south of London.
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LFP | Fourth suspect believed arrested in terror case
NP | RCMP identify six terror bomb plot suspects; accused of financing weapons
NP | Goodspeed Analysis: For terror investigators, all roads lead to Pakistan
#5 — Globe | Governments collect almost $14-billion from Canadian gambling, report
Net revenue from government-run lotteries, video lottery terminals, casinos and slot machines not in casinos totalled $13.75-billion in 2009, essentially unchanged from $13.67-billion the year before.
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#6 — Globe | Record sockeye run strains fish-processing capacity
Thirty million sockeye salmon are making their way back to the Fraser River, rivalling the great run of 1913, the Pacific Salmon Commission is expected to announce on Friday.
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#7 — LFP | Feds moved to revoke 227 refugees for lying
OTTAWA — In the past 20 years, while more than 41,000 Sri Lankans have been granted refugee status in Canada, the federal government has only applied to send a fraction of the country’s Sri Lankan diaspora packing because they think the applicants lied.
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#8 — NP | Assignment Kandahar: Villagers flee as campaign against insurgents intensifies
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Worried Afghan villagers are packing up their belongings and fleeing unstable districts around Kandahar city as Canadian, U.S., and Afghan forces intensify a long-planned campaign against insurgents in the area, local sources have told Postmedia News.
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#9 — MG | Happy 103rd, and happy retirement
After 27 years of service, Lucille Pacaud is hanging up her smock and calling it quits.
She will no longer be working as a volunteer at the Montreal General Hospital, where she trolled the hallways with her rolling cart selling chocolate bars, magazines, gum and toiletries to bed-ridden patients. Instead, she’s getting ready to celebrate her birthday Friday.
She’s turning 103.
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#10 — Star | Liberal MP, NHL player drop trash-talk lawsuits
OTTAWA-NHL player Shane Doan and longtime Liberal MP Denis Coderre have reached an out-of-court settlement to bring an end to their defamation dispute.
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World
#11 — BBC | UN urges France to avoid Roma deportations
A UN committee has urged France to avoid collective deportations of Roma (Gypsies) to Romania.
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#12 — BBC | Nails removed from ‘tortured’ Sri Lankan maid
Doctors have removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan housemaid who said her employer in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body.
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#13 — BBC | Facebook alternative Diaspora eyes launch date
An open alternative to Facebook will be launched on 15 September, the developers of the project have said.
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#14 — CNN | Car bombs explode near Mexico TV station, transit office
(CNN) — At least two car bombs exploded Friday near the television studios of Televisa in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas state in northeastern Mexico, the station and the government-run news service reported.
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#15 — CNN | U.N.: Flooding displaces 1 million more in Pakistan
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Flooding has displaced an additional 1 million people in Pakistan’s Sindh province in the past two days, according to new UN estimates released Friday.
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Notes:
I wonder whatever happened to Haiti?
#15 — CNN | TRENDING: Palin’s full speaking contract revealed
(CNN) – So just what does it take to get Sarah Palin to speak at your fundraising gala?
A “deluxe” hotel suite, a first class ticket or a private jet (“Lear 60 or larger”), pre-selected audience questions, and “bendable” straws – not to mention the $75,000 in cash.
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Notes:
Sarah needs some heavy duty financial advice. She’s worth three times what she’s charging.
#16 — Fox | Katrina Five Years After: Hurricane Devastated Political Futures as Well as New Orleans
Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf region, killing nearly 2,000 and displacing more than 250,000 others from Louisiana to Florida. This week, in a series titled “Hurricane Katrina: Five Years After,” FoxNews.com looks back on the costliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States.
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#16 — Fox | Paterson Vows to Collect Cigarette Taxes From Native American Stores
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. David Paterson on Thursday promised to finally start collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by Native American stores, despite state police warnings that such enforcement could result in “violence and death.”
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Notes:
Perhaps David should give Fantino a call before he makes a final decision.
#17 — NY Times | Acrimony Behind the Scenes of Gulf Oil Spill
HOUSTON — Richard Lynch was walking down the hall in BP’s crisis command center in early May when some engineers rushed up, bearing bad news.
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#18 — DM | Brit stupidity never ends
A hero soldier who lost a leg in Afghanistan has been denied a disabled parking badge three times by council bosses.
Lance Corporal Johno Lee has clocked up £800 in fines for parking in disabled bays in his home town of Newark, Nottinghamshire, on days when he uses a wheelchair or feels unable to walk very far.
When he first applied to Nottinghamshire County Council for a blue badge, he was advised he was young and ‘may get better’.
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Curling up on the sofa, nuzzling his owner’s hand and teasing the neighbourhood dogs, Panjo acts just like any other family cat – except he is a 23st Bengal tiger.
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Added Note:
The gentleman doe not have locks on his doors. Instead they are equipped with panic bars.
#20 — Independent | How did rebels rape 200 women just miles from UN base in Congo?
The UN Security Council yesterday condemned the mass rape of almost 200 women by rebels in eastern Congo as the organisation’s top officials struggled to account for the failure of peacekeepers to prevent the attacks.
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#21 — Telegraph | YouTube adds movies on demand
Video service YouTube is adding more than 400 full-length films and starting a new movie category that it ‘hopes will grow in time’.
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#22 — Telegraph | Britain faces new terror wave
Britain faces a new wave of home grown terrorists as 800 radicalised Islamist prisoners are released from jail, a leading security expert warns.
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Re: #4. Last sunday we had a visiting preacher speaking about Islam. He really sugar coated everything. Islam is a religion of peace, the average muslim doesn’t support violence or jihad,
allah is the same as Jehovah or Father God of the new testament. It was so disgusting I got up and left part way through. I would like to send him this story and ask him if this is one of the “regular joe” muslims he was referring to. After al Sher is well educated, works as a pathologist in a hospital in St. Thomas, loves to play hockey, even competed on Canadian Idol. If this is the average “joe” then spare me the radicals please. How are we supposed to tell which is which. Just saying.
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