#1 — CBC | GG-designate visits Queen
David Johnston, Canada’s governor general-designate, paid a visit to Balmoral Castle in Scotland on Sunday for his first official audience with Queen Elizabeth.
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#2 — CBC | Last chance to catch Fraser River sockeye
The banner-year West Coast salmon run isn’t done yet, but the race is just about over for British Columbia fishermen to haul in as many wild sockeye as they can muster from the biggest return in nearly a century.
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#3 — CNews | Ontario reviewing eco fee programs
TORONTO –The Ontario government is considering overhauling its television and electronic waste program after scathing complaints from industry stakeholders who contend that much of the material still ends up in the dump despite the eco fees charged to the public.
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#4 — CNews | Tories promise new law on human trafficking
OTTAWA – The federal government intends to tackle human smuggling and trafficking as one of its first orders of business when Parliament resumes later this month, QMI Agency has learned.
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#5 — Globe | Immigration Minister calls on India, China to root out immigration fraud
The Harper government is going straight to the source of most of Canada’s immigration to attack fraud in the system, encouraging officials in countries such as India, China and the Philippines to consider following its steps to crack down on crooked consultants.
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#6 — Globe | Banks struggle to boost loans as demand ebbs in weak rebound
The head of Canada’s largest bank says the sputtering economic rebound has dealt the industry a tricky dilemma: how to boost lending when solid borrowers are increasingly hard to find.
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#7 — NP | The long-gun registry — a cautionary tale
“Criminals don’t register their guns” is one of the most enduring and most plausible arguments against the long-gun registry. As such, the single most bizarre thing about the evaluation report on the RCMP’s Canadian Firearms Program, released last week — this was the document that was supposed to change everyone’s mind — was that it didn’t even touch on how many registered weapons are used in crime.
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#8 — OC | Hundreds of federal employees remain in limbo
OTTAWA — Hundreds of federal compensation advisers in Ottawa are braced to see if the government will abolish their jobs and recruit new employees after consolidating their work at a new $300-million pay centre in Miramichi, N.B.
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#9 — MG | Quebec City inches closer to Nordiques rebirth
MONTREAL – Quebec City might be getting a new arena and maybe its old hockey team back, too.
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#10 — Star | Was Rob Ford underestimated? ‘A big resounding yes’
Don’t panic, folks, it’s only Labour Day.
So goes the public line from Rob Ford’s opponents: Nobody pays attention to the mayoral race in Toronto until after the last holiday of the summer. Besides, Ford may be leading the polls but, remember, David Miller was trailing at this point in 2003, and won.
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