Canada
#1 — CNews | Activist camp targets oilsands
EDMONTON — Green activists are huddling in camp to plot their next civil disobedience acts targeting the province’s oilsands industry.
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#2 — CNews | Creba death inspires Urban Games
EDMONTON – Jane Creba’s legacy has come to Churchill Square.
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#3 — Globe | Canadians to stay at Commonwealth Games facilities
Canadian support staff is preparing to move into the athletes’ village at the Commonwealth Games.
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#4 — NP | Black: Sarah Thomson, the woman Toronto needs
There is a strong natural desire to agree with other people who make their living, as I have the last few years, writing opinion pieces (though my cost of living has been unusually low — toothpaste made up about 10% of it when I was in the American Gulag). But there seems to be a strain of imperious political columnizing in Toronto from which I must constructively dissent.
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Star | Persichilli: Mayoral election is about Miller, not Ford
#5 — OC | Memorial for slain officers begins on Parliament Hill
OTTAWA — Thousands of police and peace officers from across Canada arrived on Parliament Hill this morning to honour the seven officers who were slain in the line of duty over the past year.
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#6 — OC | McCann family and friends launch own search for missing couple
EDMONTON — Family and friends of Lyle and Marie McCann began their own ground search for the missing couple Saturday.
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#7 — MG | Crews untangling St. Lazare train derailment
MONTREAL – A cleanup operation to remove the wreckage of a derailed train near St. Lazare will continue at least until Sunday, a CP spokesperson said Saturday afternoon.
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#8 — Star | Waging war on bedbugs
For two days this past week, Chicago was lousy with talk of bedbugs.
The city was host to what was dubbed the BedBug University North American Summit — a sold-out gathering of bug experts and firms in the business of killing bedbugs, which has become very big business indeed.
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World
#9 — BBC | Jewish activists sail to Gaza in defiance of blockade
A boat carrying a group of Jewish activists has set sail from northern Cyprus aiming to breach Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.
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#10 — CNN | TRENDING: House leader says Colbert testimony was ‘not appropriate’
Washington (CNN) – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said comedian Stephen Colbert embarrassed himself last week when he testified before Congress.
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Fox | Boehner: Dems Have Time for Comedy, Not Tax Cuts, in Congress
#11 — Fox | Nervous New England Dems Call on Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton is attending rallies and fundraisers from Connecticut to Maine this Sunday. Democrats hope he will rally a voter base they need to show up at the polls on Election Day, to avoid what many analysts say will be a banner year for Republican candidates.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Two more Australian athletes withdrew Sunday and a South African competitor reportedly found a snake in his room as complaints over cleanliness, security and construction continued to dog the troubled Commonwealth Games a week before the sporting event opens in New Delhi.
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#13 — NY Times | Job Loss Looms as Part of Stimulus Act Expires
Tens of thousands of people will lose their jobs within weeks unless Congress extends one of the more effective job-creating programs in the $787 billion stimulus act: a $1 billion New Deal-style program that directly paid the salaries of unemployed people so they could get jobs in government, at nonprofit organizations and at many small businesses.
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A group of retired U.S. Air Force officers are set to reveal how extraterrestrial visitors have tampered with American nuclear weapons.
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DM | United Nations to appoint space ambassador to act as first contact for aliens visiting Earth
#15 — Independent | Union votes crucial in narrowest of wins for Ed Miliband
Fresh epoch for party begins as younger brother’s victory seals end of New Labour.
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#16 — Independent | Australia faces worst plague of locusts in 75 years
Australia’s Darling river is running with water again after a drought in the middle of the decade reduced it to a trickle. But the rains feeding the continent’s fourth-longest river are not the undiluted good news you might expect. For the cloudbursts also create ideal conditions for an unwelcome pest – the Australian plague locust.
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#17 — Telegraph | British aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan
The Briton was seized at gunpoint along with three fellow workers, thought to be Afghans, as they were travelling in a convoy to visit an aid project in the Narang district of Kunar.
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#18 — Telegraph | Patients to be frozen into state of suspended animation for surgery
Patients are to be placed into a state of suspended animation when they undergo surgery by using a ground breaking technique that freezes their bodies to the point of death.
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The next time these enviowackos try some stunt, leave them up on that roof, and arrest them and throw them in jail. We do not need or want their antics in our province.
If they have a sit in, have a drive over by that machinery, sorry couldn’t see them. If they chain themselves to something give them 15 minutes to get unchained and gone, or machinery will be started, then sue their asses off for all damage caused. Enough is enoug and they have gone too far. Time to quit turning the other cheek.
They are terrorists and nothing else.