Canada
#1 — CBC | B.C. forest fires burning massive areas
This fire season in B.C. hasn’t been as expensive to fight or as destructive to homes, but more than twice the normal amount of forest has gone up in flames.
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#2 — CNews | Fugitive doctor in sex case held in Greece
WINNIPEG — After a year on the run, a doctor accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy at Winnipeg’s Children’s Hospital has been arrested in Europe, confirming widespread belief he fled overseas.
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#3 — Globe | In telecom, a new battle for Quebec
Pierre Karl Péladeau sits beneath a bronze bust of his father as the skyline of Old Montreal gleams outside the towering windows of his enormous corner office.
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#4 — Globe | Blatchford: If nothing else Ontario’s Court of Appeal made it a great day for Scotland
Once in a while, even this great generous country, with its multiple safeguards of individual rights and various levels of appeal, catches a break.
So it was in the case of Regina versus B.R.C., until the Ontario Court of Appeal stepped in and promptly wronged a right, as it were.
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#5 — NP | The Pain Enigma: The more scientists learn, the more mysterious it becomes
Ken Prkachin, a psychologist at the University of Northern British Columbia, knows what pain looks like. His research shows that the facial reaction to pain involves four distinct muscular actions. The eyebrows lower and are drawn in; the muscles around the eye contract, narrowing the eye and producing crow’s feet; the muscles in mid-face contract, wrinkling the nose and raising the upper lip; and the eyes often just close.
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#6 — FP | Saturday Interview: What Mohawks want
Q Why did the Mohawks get into iron working?
A I was an iron worker myself. It all came about in the late 1880s when the head of Dominion Bridge noticed that our teenagers used to play on the bridge near the reserve. He noticed how good they were at the heights and balancing so he said let’s get these guys into iron work if they want to make a lot of money. They didn’t worry about looking down, they just looked out.
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#7 — OC | Trip promotes Arctic sovereignty: PM
Prime Minister Stephen Harper rejected accusations Friday his week-long trip to Canada’s North is nothing more than an expensive and politically self-serving photo-opportunity.
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#8 — OC | Reject terrorism, violence, Ottawa Imam tells Muslim youth
OTTAWA — The imam of Ottawa’s largest mosque has appealed to Muslim youth to reject terrorism and not import Middle East conflicts to Canada.
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#9 — MG | Body of U.S. climber who perished 21 years ago found on Alta. glacier
EDMONTON — After 21 years buried under ice and snow at the foot of Alberta’s Mount Snowdome, the body of American William Holland was found this month perfectly preserved in his full climbing gear, spiked boots on his feet and rope slung over his shoulder.
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#10 — MG | Police chiefs are cooking the gun stats
Why should anyone believe anything that politically motivated police chiefs say about the gun registry?
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#11 — Star | Ford’s vote for sole-source contract called hypocritical
Rob Ford is being called a hypocrite by political opponents after voting in favour of a deal that is being compared to the Beach’s controversial Tuggs Inc. contract.
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World
#12 — BBC | Special Chile mine rescue tunnel drill assembled
The special hydraulic bore which will be used to drill an escape shaft down to 33 miners trapped in a Chilean mine is being assembled at the site.
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#13 — CNN | U.S. diplomats told to send their children out of Monterrey
(CNN) — The State Department told U.S. government employees in Monterrey, Mexico, on Friday to send their children elsewhere because of heightened security risks related to drug violence.
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#14 — Fox | 14 militants, 2 policeman killed in shoot-outs in Russia’s restive North Caucasus
NALCHIK, Russia (AP) — At least 14 suspected militants and two police officers were killed during security raids in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus, police said Saturday.
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#15 — NY Times | Sudan Leader Travels Despite Warrant
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan arrived in Kenya on Friday to participate in a ceremony inaugurating the country’s newly minted constitution, flouting international demands for his arrest on genocide charges.
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Trigger the Friesian was only a day old when his farmer aimed his shotgun at him – and because he did not want any more males he intended to kill the baby calf.
But neighbour Shaun Layton stepped in, saved his life and now Trigger is 6ft 5in – and still growing!
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#17 — Independent | Seeing red: Unseen images from China’s lost decade
There are many monikers attached to Mao Zedong. Mao the supreme leader; Mao the chairman; Mao the messiah; Mao the manipulator; Mao the one-time acceptable face of communist tyranny. By contrast, his balding pate was rendered in propaganda images with little variation. In badges, posters, paintings, wood carvings: the same half-smile, the sagging throat, the splash of red.
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#18 — Telegraph | Riot police tackle missiles at English Defence League protest in Bradford
Riot police moved in as English Defence League protesters rained bottles, stones and smoke flares on counter-demonstrators in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
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#19 — Telegraph | L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt writes photographer out of her will
The celebrity photographer accused of abusing the trust of L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, France’s richest woman, has been written out of her will – depriving him of an estimated 1.25 billion euros.
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#20 — Telegraph | American colonel sacked after Afghan rant
A senior American staff officer has been sacked after publishing a rant against the bureaucracy and endless PowerPoint briefings at Nato’s Kabul headquarters.
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Notes:
Read the offending article in the “related” link. Sellin has me laughing because I can see this. I refer my visitors to a book I read many years ago and I recommend people pick it up and read it because his article is like an echo from the past.
That would be Vietnam and we all know what happened there.