CANADA
#1 — CNews | Police officer killed in GTA
TORONTO – A police officer was killed after being struck by a vehicle near Newmarket, north of Toronto, early Tuesday.
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NP | York Region police identify officer killed at traffic stop
#2 — Globe | Ottawa to sell AECL to SNC-Lavalin
The Harper government is set to announce the sale of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. to Montreal-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin Group (SNC-T55.860.090.16%), a major gamble that Canada’s nuclear program can stand on its own amid growing global resistance to nuclear energy.
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#3 — NP | Pacific species migrating through warmer Northwest Passage
Set loose by an ice-free Northwest Passage, an invasion force of Pacific sea creatures are moving east to Atlantic waters.
Researchers at the U.K.-based Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science have called the discovery of a microscopic west coast plant on the east coast a “harbinger of an inundation of the North Atlantic with foreign organisms.”
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#4 — MG | New legislation to facilitate mega-trials in Canada
MONTREAL – Federal legislation to speed up the execution of mega-trials has received royal assent on Sunday, making it law. Bill C-2, the Fair and Efficient Criminal Trials Act, proposed amendments to the Criminal Code to better manage complex and drawn-out trials involving organized crime, terrorism, drug trafficking and white-collar crime.
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#5 — Star | Uncertain future for Canada Post
The mail is moving again, but the labour dispute at Canada Post raises questions about how the service can find its footing in a world dominated by email.
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WORLD
#6 — CNN | Slavery report names weak link nations
A U.S. Government anti-slavery report published Monday throws the spotlight on countries it says are not meeting minimum anti-trafficking standards.
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#7 — Fox | Kalley: An FDA Panel Is Deciding Life or Death For My Wife
December 16, 2010 will forever be the day that changed my life. I had just received a news flash across my monitor that the FDA had confirmed its advisory panel’s decision to ”de-label” the drug Avastin for breast cancer patients. The practical implication of this was that my wife Arlene was now at mortal risk.
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‘Undesirable’ and ‘dangerous’ immigrants who have committed serious crimes in Britain cannot be deported if they face ‘ill-treatment’ at home because it is against their Human Rights.
The convicts can never be sent back – regardless of how bad their crimes are, European judges ruled today.
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#9 — Telegraph | Spain cuts high speed ‘ghost train’
Spain’s state-controlled rail operator has been forced to axe one of its newest high speed train services after it emerged that the only nine passengers were using it each day.
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#10 –Telegraph | New San Francisco bridge built in China to be shipped to US
First, China made cut-price clothes and knick-knacks. Then it learned how to make mobile phones and iPads. Now it is making a 2,050ft-long bridge spanning the San Francisco bay.
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Re:#3. “Scientists came to a startling conclusion ” Yikes, more scientific conclusions! “Highly-venomous jelly fish closer to British waters as global warming causes biggest shift of marine life in two million years.” Hmmm, more ‘heavily researched fact based’ material borrowed from a Green Peace pamphlet? After all the global warming BS revealed coming from ‘scientists’ why does a statement like that make a fella think…really? “Scientists came to a startling conclusion that it must have wandered across the normally icebound route above Canada, where warm weather had briefly opened a clear channel three years earlier.” Hmmm, more ‘heavily researched fact based’ material borrowed from a Green Peace pamphlet? After all the global warming BS revealed coming from ‘scientists’ why does a statement like that make a fella think….really? These yahoos have got a lot of lost credibility to earn back before I’m gonna go rushing off to the vendor on their say-so.
Another sad day for another Ontario Police Dept. My thoughts are with this officer’s family and his fellow officers. RIP my friend.