Canada
#1 — CNews | Extraditing sex suspect difficult: police
WINNIPEG – There’s no guarantee a suspect in an alleged Winnipeg hospital sex assault will soon be returned to Canada from Greece where he’s in custody, city police say.
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#2 — CNews | Camp for kids with disabilities to get facelift
At Camp Woodeden, everyone plays, everyone has fun and nobody stares.
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#3 — Globe | Search continues for missing Quebec float plane with two aboard
An air and water search continues for a float plane missing along the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
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#4 — Globe | Not all hands are up for full-day kindergarten
Four years ago, Nicole Doyon and her family fled from the expense of the Lower Mainland to Vernon, B.C., so that she could stay at home with her two sons.
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#5 — Globe | Harper government begins rollout of maternal-health plan in Africa
Two months after the G8 Summit, the Harper government is beginning to roll out its maternal-health plan in Africa. But one of its most controversial elements – family planning – is nowhere to be seen in the announcements so far.
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#6 — Globe | On other side of the country, herring catches dwindle
Federal scientists are trying to get an accurate picture of herring stocks off Nova Scotia, amid reports of erratic catches that have some fishermen worried.
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#7 — NP | Discovering life at MaRS: Toronto’s premier innovation district
Hours before being anointed as Ontario’s new Innovation Minister on Aug. 18, Liberal MPP Glen Murray gushed that “what IBM is to computers, MaRS has become to synergy and innovation.”
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#8 — MG | ‘Florist’ faces weapons charges
A South Shore man considered by police to hold considerable sway within the mob faces charges that indicate the organization he is alleged to be part of is collectively looking over its shoulder.
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#9 — MG | Asbestos mining resumes for now
The nearly exhausted Jeffrey Mine in the town of Asbestos will resume operations for the month of September in a last-ditch bid to woo foreign investors to a proposed new underground mine at the site.
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#10 — Star | In wake of terror charges, spotlight turns on Montreal mosque
BROSSARD, QC—Its minaret isn’t capped by Islam’s symbol, the crescent moon and star; its brick façade doesn’t overwhelm the landscape. At first glance, the Islamic Community Centre of Brossard is a modest presence on a working class street, opposite a tire shop.
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World
#11 — BBC | Hong Kong protest over Manila hostage deaths
Thousands of people have joined a rally in Hong Kong to express their anger at the Philippines’ handling of last week’s tourist coach hijacking.
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#12 — BBC | First Australian Aboriginal MP elected for Liberals
An Aboriginal man has been elected to Australia’s House of Representatives, becoming the first indigenous MP in the country’s history.
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#13 — BBC | Kidnapped workers for Afghan female MP found dead
The bodies of five people working for a female candidate in Afghanistan’s parliamentary election have been found in western Herat province.
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#14 — CNN | Man fires pepper spray on protesters outside Marine’s funeral
(CNN) — A motorist fired pepper spray Saturday at a group of demonstrators and counter-protesters outside a funeral for a U.S. Marine in Omaha, Nebraska, police said.
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#15 — Fox | Fire at Proposed Mosque Site in Tennessee Probed
Officials say they are investigating a fire that damaged construction equipment at the site where an Islamic center wants to expand its facilities in central Tennessee.
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#16 — Fox | Mexico Launches Federal Probe of Migrant Massacre
MEXICO CITY — Federal authorities said Saturday they will take over the investigation into the massacre of 72 migrants at a ranch in northern Mexico because evidence suggests drug traffickers were responsible.
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#17 — NY Times | Spit, Glue and Maybe Even Chewing Gum
Americans, take heed. Here is what it takes to bring one of the world’s great transportation networks to its knees: a tiny electrical fire in an obscure contraption of levers and pulleys, installed nearly a century ago.
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#18 — NY Times | Upstarts Chip Away at Power of Pakistani Elite
MUZAFFARGARH, Pakistan — In Pakistan, where politics has long been a matter of pedigree, Jamshed Dasti is a mongrel. The scrappy son of an amateur wrestler, Mr. Dasti has clawed his way into Pakistan’s Parliament, beating the wealthy, landed families who have ruled here.
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Middle-class Britain may be forced to wait at least five years before taxes come down, the Coalition Government warned last night.
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#20 — DM | Death of the published dictionary: Oxford English Dictionary to exist solely online
It was first published in sections 126 years ago and is known the world over.
But the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) will never appear in print again, its owners have announced.
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#21 — Telegraph | SAS lose veterans and TA regiment
The SAS is facing the greatest cuts since the end of the Second World War with veterans being forced out and a Territorial Army regiment set to close.
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#22 — Telegraph | Drunk baboons plague Cape Town’s exclusive suburbs
The sun is setting over South Africa’s oldest vineyard and the last of the wine-tasting tourists are climbing onto their buses. But one large family group has no intention of leaving – and there is little the management can do about it.
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#23 — Telegraph | Prince Charles is strange and Prince Philip a radio star claims NZ deputy PM
A former deputy prime minister of New Zealand has reignited the country’s republican movement by demanding an end to the monarchy on the death of The Queen and castigating Prince Charles as “strange”.
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RE #20 a bit of a sleeper article but this is very significant. The very foundation of the English language will be trapped in cyberspace, having equal access and legitimary with user-submitted sites like Wikipedia and the Urban Dictionary. With this change, the vocabulary AND grammatical rule structure of the English lanuage could transform greatly over the next 10-20 years.
So … who knows what a grenade is?
That is positive. Some of these cover letters I’m reading are getting pretty crappy though. Lots of internet language and grammar appropriate only for blog comment posts.