Canada
#1 — CNews | Canadians bringing relief to Pakistan
It’s raining in Pakistan. This monsoon season is the worst in history.
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#2 — CNews | Grits dismiss stimulus update as PR stunt
OTTAWA – The Conservative government plans to fend off calls to extend the deadline for infrastructure stimulus projects by releasing data Monday showing 97% of stimulus projects are on track.
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#3 — Globe | Canadians set for Commonwealth Games arrival
The first Canadian athletes are set to arrive in New Delhi for the troubled Commonwealth Games.
First to land will be the men’s field hockey team, the women’s table tennis team, several shooters, the gymnastics team and the last of the Canadian mission staff.
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#4 — Globe | N.B. prediction: It’s bad news for Shawn Graham
Voters in New Brunswick make their final decision Monday on what some have called a nasty campaign without any driving issue or compelling narrative. Instead, the provincial debt and the proposed – but since abandoned – sale of financially troubled NB Power have dominated the campaign, despite the two main parties’ lack of a detailed plan on how to tackle either problem.
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#5 — LFP | Cops bust gangsters in Northern B.C.
The Game Tight Soldiers’ stranglehold on organized crime in Prince George has been loosened during a recent police sting.
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#6 — NP | Rob Ford suggests Toronto should end its love affair with street marathons
Forget about the bike lobby for a minute: Mayoral candidate Rob Ford may also be at risk of losing the runner vote.
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#7 — OC | Home ownership costs continuing to climb despite slowing activity: RBC
The cost of owning a home in Canada rose for the fourth consecutive quarter despite the slowdown in the resale market, according to a housing report released Monday by RBC Economics Research.
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#8 — MG | Bellemare has found missing agenda
QUEBEC – In another twist at the Bastarache commission, former justice minister Marc Bellemare has found his personal agenda for the years he was minister.
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#9 — Star | DiManno: City scrambles as victims of St. James town fire remain homeless
Kay Rennie is 84. Aphrodite Pedia is 91.
Both are unable to walk, relying on scooter and wheelchair.
Yet these aged, frail women spent the weekend being hauled from pillar to post among the evacuees of the chaotic St. James Town fire on Wellesley St. E.
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World
#10 — BBC | China police investigate ‘black jails’ for protesters
Chinese police are investigating claims that a security firm colluded with officials to detain protesters in secret prisons, known as “black jails”.
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#11 — BBC | Palestinian leadership delays decision on peace talks
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says there will be no quick decision on whether to continue talks with Israel.
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#12 — Fox | Senate Power Could Shift This Year
At least three Senate victors could be seated immediately after the November elections, raising the possibility that Democrats could see their majority cut for the end of the year as Congress deals with several key pieces of legislation.
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#13 — NY Times | Lazio Drops Out of Governor’s Race
Former Representative Rick A. Lazio has agreed to have his name removed as the Conservative Party’s candidate for governor, in a decision that bolsters the candidacy of the Republican candidate, Carl P. Paladino.
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#14 — DM | Tycoon who took over Segway firm dies in freak accident
The multi-millionaire owner of the Segway company died in a freak accident yesterday when he rode one of the high-tech two-wheel machines off a cliff and into a river.
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#15 — DM | Massive volcano ‘wiped out the Neanderthals 40,000 years ago’
European Neanderthals may have been wiped out by a catastrophic volcanic eruption over 40,000 years ago, according to new research.
A new study says that a massive explosion caused the onset of a ‘volcanic winter’ that devastated their population.
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#16 — DM | Viagra branded a flop for more than half of male users
Viagra doesn’t work for half of all men who take it, leading doctors warn.
They say the NHS is wasting tens of millions of pounds every year on tablets which don’t treat the cause of problem.
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#17 — DM | Aliens ‘hit our nukes’: They even landed at a Suffolk base, claim airmen
It may sound like a Spielberg movie plot, but if senior U.S. airmen are to be believed, this scenario is not science fiction.
They claim that since 1948, aliens have been hovering over UK and U.S. nuclear missile sites and deactivating the weapons– once even landing in a British base.
Furthermore, they warn, our governments are hushing the activity up.
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A British unmanned plane that uses jets of air to fly instead of conventional ‘flaps’ has made aviation history.
The experimental unmanned air vehicle (UAV), called DEMON, uses blown jets of air to control the plane’s movement in flight rather than conventional mechanical elevators and ailerons.
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#19 — Independent | MS treatments doctor ‘should be struck off’
A doctor who exploited the desperation of multiple sclerosis patients by injecting them with “pointless” stem cell treatments should be struck off the medical register, a disciplinary hearing was told today.
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The significance of Barack Obama’s deadline to start withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan next summer has been ”overstated”, the top British general in Kabul said.
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#21 — Telegraph | North Korean military backs succession of Kim Jong-un
North Korea’s powerful military has given its tacit backing to the dynastic succession plans of Kim Jong-il after electing his youngest son as a delegate to a historic ruling party meeting, it has been claimed.
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#22 — Telegraph | Hamid Karzai’s brother in US corruption probe
The brother of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai is under investigation by US prosecutors as part of a corruption probe that could complicate Washington’s dealings with Kabul.
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#23 — Telegraph | Romanian gipsy gang ‘snatched 200 children from homes to use them as beggars’
A gang of Romanian gipsy child-snatchers stole almost 200 poor children from their families and brought them to Britain to pick pockets, a court heard.
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Notes:
Pay attention to Madeleine McCann as you read this story. Please note that although her appearance has obviously changed a great deal since her abduction she is still readily identifiable if you can get close enough for a good look.
#24 — Telegraph | 95 defendants pack into court for one of Spain’s biggest corruption trials
Almost 100 defendants, including two former mayors, have appeared in court in the Spanish city of Malaga for the first day of one of the country’s biggest ever corruption trials.
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