Afternoon Update September 28th, 2010 (20)

Canada

#1 — CNews | Cop skips court for marriage; drug suspects walk

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. – Ten people nabbed last summer in a drug sweep in this northern Ontario city walked free Monday on the first day of what was to be a two-week trial.

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#2 — CNews | Slain teen’s Facebook memorial vandalized

DELTA, B.C. – Flowers and tributes are starting to pile up for Laura Szendrei at Delta’s Mackie Park.

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#3 — CNews | Edmonton soldier gets funeral he deserved: Wife

OTTAWA — A Canadian soldier injured in Afghanistan finally got a military funeral with honours Sunday — 10 long months after his death.

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#4 — Globe | Canadian-Iranian blogger sentenced to 19 years in prison

An Iranian news website said Tuesday a court has sentenced a well-known Canadian-Iranian blogger to more than 19 years in prison.

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#5 — Globe | Thomson ends mayoral bid

Sarah Thomson has ended her long-shot mayoral bid.

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Star | James: Smither-math: Spend more plus freeze taxes = savings

#6 — Globe | Seeking immigration review, new centre focuses on ‘moral contracts’

Political correctness is stifling debate over a dysfunctional and dangerous immigration system, some influential political thinkers have concluded, and they mean to get that debate started.

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#7 — LFP | Energy board forced changes despite problems

TORONTO – The Ontario Energy Board forged ahead with smart meters and time-of-use pricing even though electricity distributors said it was a stupid idea to rush.

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#8 — LFP | No appeal in Mountie killings

EDMONTON – The two men who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2005 shooting deaths of four Mounties near Mayerthorpe, Alta., have had their sentence appeals rejected.

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#9 — NP | McParland: Shawn Graham starts the dominos falling

The Liberal didn’t just lose in New Brunswick, they got creamed.

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#10 — NP | George Galloway loses bid to quash Canada’s ban on him

A year and a half after he was barred from Canada over his defiance of Israel’s blockade of Gaza and his alleged support for the terrorist group Hamas, rabble-rousing British MP George Galloway yesterday lost his appeal of the government’s controversial ban.

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#11 — OC | Cameron gets first look at Alberta oilsands

FORT MCMURRAY — James Cameron likened the destruction of Brazil’s rainforest to the impact of oilsands development on Alberta on Monday.

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#12 — MG | Ignatieff tears into sovereignists

Michael Ignatieff accused Quebec sovereignists of subjecting Quebecers to “a form of tyranny” by wanting to push them to making a choice between Quebec and Canada that they really don’t want to have to make.

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World

#13 — BBC | Landslide buries 300 houses in southern Mexico

Up to 300 houses have been buried by a landslide in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, officials have said.

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CNN | 1,000 people could be trapped in Mexico landslide, governor says

#14 — BBC | Speculation mounts over Obama aide Rahm Emanuel

There is growing speculation in the US media that Barack Obama’s chief of staff will leave the White House and run to be Chicago’s mayor.

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#15 — CNN | IRS: No more tax forms in the mailbox

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Electronic filing of tax returns has become so popular that the Internal Revenue Service will no longer automatically mail a traditional paper form.

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#16 — Fox | EXCLUSIVE: Pedophiles Find a Home for Social Networking — on Facebook

The world’s largest pro-pedophilia advocacy group uses Facebook to connect with its members throughout the world; to find and exchange photos of children; to hone its members’ predatory behavior; and to identify, target and reel in child victims, an investigation by FoxNews.com reveals.

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#17 — NY Times | Israel Stops Jewish Activists From Entering Gaza

TEL AVIV — Israeli navy commandos peacefully commandeered a catamaran sailed by an international group of Jewish activists on Tuesday trying to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza.

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#18 — DM | Man on death row who tried to commit suicide to avoid ‘utterly terrifying’ lethal injection is put to death after appeal fails

The man on Death Row who tried to kill himself last week just hours before his execution was put to death last night.

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#19 — Independent | US testing its cyber-defences

The United States is launching its first test of a new plan for responding to an enemy cyber-blitz, including any attack aimed at vital services such as power, water and banks.

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#20 — Telegraph | Iran ‘launches radar-evading flying boats’

Iran’s state television says the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard has received its first three squadrons of radar-evading flying boats.

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