Canada
#1 — CNews | More dead ducks in Syncrude pond
EDMONTON – Less than a week after being nailed for $3 million following the deaths of 1,600 ducks, Syncrude Canada is under investigation again after more waterfowl landed on one of its tailings ponds Monday night.
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#2 — CNews | RCMP linked to controversial conference
OTTAWA – A Muslim imam deemed too controversial to speak at National Defence headquarters in Ottawa will speak on Thursday at another event promoted by the RCMP.
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#3 — CNews | Killer mail-order bride seeks parole
EDMONTON – A former Edmonton mail-order bride sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 25 years for slashing her ex-boyfriend’s throat as he slept wants a crack at early freedom.
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#4 — Globe | House prices top pre-slump peak by 6.6%, growth slows
House prices in Canada stand 6.6 per cent above their pre-recession peak, but growth is slowing, a fresh measure shows.
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OC | Most Ontarians wrongly believe HST applies to home resales: Survey
#5 — Globe | Will Michael Ignatieff bury his own MP’s mining bill?
A Liberal private member’s bill is the buzz of Parliament Hill as the Tories tries to score political points on its back, Michael Ignatieff distances himself from it and Liberal Whip Marcel Proulx tells caucus members to stay away from the vote on Wednesday.
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#6 — Globe | Complainant drops second suit in case involving Manitoba judge
A man who claims he was pressured to have sex with a Manitoba judge and shown explicit sexual pictures of her may be running out of options to pursue his case through the courts.
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#7 — NP | McParland: Carolyn Parrish wears out another welcome
Carolyn Parrish has an amazing way of wearing out her welcome.
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#8 — NP | Three orphaned grizzly cubs whose mother charged officer get stay of execution
Three grizzly cubs caught in a trap on British Columbia’s West Coast have been given a stay of execution.
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#9 — NP | Opposition ready to grill Stelmach on health care
CALGARY — Alberta MLAs returned to the legislature Monday for the start of a likely rancorous fall session that has opposition parties targeting the Stelmach government over eroding emergency room care and changes to health legislation.
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World
#10 — BBC | Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner dies
Argentina’s former President, Nestor Kirchner, has died after suffering a sudden heart attack, doctors say.
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#11 — BBC | Building collapse kills Afghan wedding guests
At least 60 people have been killed after part of a building collapsed on guests at a wedding in northern Afghanistan, officials say.
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#12 — BBC | French MPs adopt pension reform
France’s National Assembly has voted to raise pension age by two years after weeks of industrial action across the country.
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#13 — CNN | Heavy Snow Blankets Northern Minnesota
The storms that brought strong winds and heavy rain to much of the Midwest yesterday have now added snow to the mix for much of Northern Minnesota.
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#14 — Fox | Up to $1 Billion in U.S. Aid Winds Up In Taliban Coffers
As much as $1 billion in U.S. aid has been diverted from programs meant to stabilize Afghanistan and has wound up in the hands of the Taliban and other insurgency groups, war analysts and government auditors say.
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Telegraph | Nato ‘has failed to inflict significant damage on Taliban’
#15 — Fox | U.N.’s Corporate Wooing a “Major Risk,” Watchdog Reports
The United Nations, which has aggressively pursued financial partnerships with private businesses over the past ten years, has no conflict of interest rules covering all staffers involved in those relationships, nor does it have any effective way to protect against the corporate misuse of their association with the U.N.’s name, according to a report by an internal watchdog agency.
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#16 — NY Times | The Global View of the Tea Party
The midterm elections are at a fever pitch, and the loud rhetoric – especially from Tea Party candidates — is reaching across the globe.
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#17 — DM | The Hundred Year Starship
Nasa is planning an audacious mission to send a manned spacecraft on a one-way trip to permanently settle on other planets.
The ambitious idea is known as the Hundred Years Starship and would send astronauts to colonise planets like Mars, knowing they could never come home.
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#18 — DM | 75% of incapacity claimants are fit to work
Three-quarters of people who applied for new benefits for the long-term sick failed tests to prove they were too ill to work.
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DM | 12million to be caught in cruel £41,000 pension apartheid
#19 — Independent | LimeWire ordered to shut down
Lime Group, whose LimeWire software has allowed people to share songs and other files over the internet, received a federal injunction to disable key parts of its service.
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#20 — Telegraph | Daley: US liberal media stamps on free expression
In New York last week everybody – and I mean everybody, not just the self-obsessed media crowd – was talking about the sacking of Juan Williams by National Public Radio. The significance of this saga seemed to encapsulate all the major points of contention in the political commentary wars which have become such a feature of American public life.
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Re:#1. So the greenies are all over the bad bad Alberta tar sands for killing birds huh? 1,600 dead ducks is enough to send greenies and the scared witless Natural Resources Minister into therapy? Well then a whopping number of 275,000+ dead birds killed by windmills should cause them to do an actual recreation of jonestown should it not? But it won’t because they’re a bunch of shameless hypocrits.
“This is a double standard that more people—and not just bird lovers—should be paying attention to. In protecting America’s wildlife, federal law-enforcement officials are turning a blind eye to the harm done by “green” energy. ”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574376543308399048.html
What is being ignored by most media is that the ducks ‘landed’ during an ice storm ignoring all the scarecrows, noise makers etc. The next morning people driving the highway noticed non oil covered dead ducks on the side of the road. People in the area are speculating that the ducks on the side of the road died because of ice on their wings since they never made it to any trailing pond.