Canada
#1 — CBC | Be Earl ready, Nova Scotians urged
Nova Scotians are being urged to prepare for a hurricane, though it’s still unclear what effect Hurricane Earl will have on the province.
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#2 — CNews | Housing bubble threatens in six cities: Report
A perfect storm has created a housing bubble in Canada that could lead to a drop in property value of nearly 40% in some markets, according to a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
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#3 — CNews | Veteran bikers shaken by grisly road death
WHITBY, Ont. – Avid motorcyclists say they are haunted by a grisly weekend hit-and-run fatality on Hwy. 401 in Whitby.
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#4 — Globe | It’s a good time to bring U.S. franchises north
I wrote the past two columns on international franchise expansion from cafés in Istanbul and Cairo. What better places to consider the worldwide expansion, through franchising and licensing, of well-known brands? The two cities are so unlike their counterparts in North America, you gain a new perspective on international business.
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#5 — Globe | Imagine there’s no havens
Sri Lankan Tamils in need of protection should not have to hide out for days in Bangkok safe houses, and pay $50,000 to smugglers to board a dilapidated fishing trawler to Canada.
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#6 — Globe | Military’s decision to scrap historic ship provokes legal broadside
The military’s decision to scrap one of the first major naval ships designed and built in Canada has provoked a legal broadside.
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#7 — LFP | Alberta targets gun registry
EDMONTON — Canada’s controversial long-gun registry should be shot down, say a pair of Alberta government ministers, arguing the whole exercise has been a waste of cash.
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#8 — NP | Quebecers quick to dismiss Charest
The noon-hour political talk show on RDI, the CBC’s French-language news network, had a simple question for its viewers on Monday: “Bastarache Commission: Is your mind already made up?
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#9 — OC | Canada’s economy slows in Q2
OTTAWA — Canada’s economic recovery slowed in the second quarter of this year as consumer spending weakened.
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#10 — Star | Manitoba town gets surprise visit from polar bear
SHAMATTAWA, MAN.—It doesn’t have quite the same shock value as a polar bear appearing on the tropical island in the TV show Lost.
But a sighting of one of the white creatures amidst the relative greenery of Shamattawa, Man., has caught everyone in the community off guard.
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Notes:
A nice picture available with this story.
#11 — Star | Good news for smaller Internet service providers
OTTAWA-Canada’s established telecom carriers must allow smaller Internet providers access to their high-speed fiber networks at the same speed they offer to their own customers, the telecom and broadcast regulator ruled Monday, but it said they can charge a 10 percent mark-up for doing so.
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World
#12 — BBC | Eight die as bar is ‘petrol-bombed’ in Cancun Mexico
At least eight people died when petrol bombs were reportedly thrown into a bar in the Mexican resort of Cancun.
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Fox News Poll: Would you consider Mexico as a vacation destination?
#13 — BBC | Spain breaks up male-sex trafficking ring
Spanish police say they have broken up a sex trafficking ring which brought mostly young Brazilian men to Spain to work as prostitutes.
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#14 — CNN | TRENDING: Palin returning to Iowa for major GOP fundraiser
(CNN) – Sarah Palin is set to headline the Iowa Republican Party’s annual Ronald Reagan Dinner on September 17, the former Alaska governor’s first political visit to the leadoff caucus state since she traveled there as John McCain’s running mate in 2008.
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#15 — Fox | EXCLUSIVE: VA Spends Millions to Maintain Vacant and Hazardous Buildings
The Veterans Affairs Administration is spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars every year to maintain hundreds of buildings – most of them vacant – that have fallen into such a state of disrepair that many of them are considered health hazards, an investigation by FoxNews.com reveals.
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#16 — NY Times | They Crawl, They Bite, They Baffle Scientists
Don’t be too quick to dismiss the common bedbug as merely a pestiferous six-legged blood-sucker.
Think of it, rather, as Cimex lectularius, international arthropod of mystery.
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“I’d like to take some of these groups and lock them in an apartment building full of bugs and see what they say then,” Dr. Potter said of environmentalists.
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A-five-year old girl died of a drug overdose after mistaking her dad’s pain killers for Jelly Beans, an inquest heard today.
Hanna Collins swallowed the fatal dose of Tramadol after taking the packet from a cupboard in the kitchen, where she went to fetch herself sweets and chocolate.
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#18 — DM | Has the lost treasure of the Tsars been found at the bottom of the world’s deepest lake?
A Russian mini-submarine may have found billions of pounds worth of lost Tsarist gold on the floor of the world’s oldest and deepest freshwater lake in Siberia, it was revealed yesterday.
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#19 — Telegraph | Top Russian spy’s body washes up ‘after swimming accident’
The body of one of Russia’s top spies has washed up on the Turkish coast after he disappeared close to a sensitive Russian naval facility in neighbouring Syria.
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#20 — Telegraph | Man blows himself up trying to kill a spider
A man suffered flash burns after he accidentally blew himself up trying to kill a spider.
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