CANADA
#1 — CNews | Soldier collapses, dies
PEMBROKE, Ont. – A Base Petawawa, Ont., soldier collapsed during a sporting event Tuesday and later died in hospital.
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#2 — LFP | Winnipeg biker gangs in ‘active war’
WINNIPEG – Shots fired into a Winnipeg home – the second straight day a southeast Winnipeg home was shot up – are the result of an “active war” between rival gangs, sources say, and it’s feared the violence will escalate.
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#3 — MacLeans | Lawful Access: spyware for cops
When I caution people about the coming Lawful Access spying laws, there’s often some confusion. Many assume that spying on the Internet is like putting a wiretap on a phone. So the police will be able to listen to my Skype calls and read my emails?
Sure. But it’s much worse than that.
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#4 — NP | Competition Bureau takes aim at fine-print advertisements
Melanie Aitken, the federal competition commissioner, has sent a shot across the bow of virtually any Canadian company that uses an asterisk in its advertisements after fining Bell Canada Inc. $10-million for misleading consumers in its own marketing this week.
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#5 — Star | Supreme Court agrees to review legal definition of ‘terrorist activity’
OTTAWA—The country’s top court has agreed to hear an appeal on the legal definition of “terrorist activity.”
The appeal was launched by Momin Khawaja, an Ottawa software developer and the first person ever charged under Canada’s anti-terror laws.
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WORLD
#6 — CNN | Official: Tribunal issues indictments in Lebanese PM Hariri’s killing
(CNN) — Two of the four people indicted in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri are senior members of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, multiple sources in the region told CNN on Thursday.
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#7 — Fox | Houston Veterans Claim Censorship of Prayers, Including Ban on ‘God’ and ‘Jesus’
Veterans in Houston say the Department of Veterans Affairs is consistently censoring their prayers by banning them from saying the words “God” and “Jesus” during funeral services at Houston National Cemetery.
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#8 — Guardian | Electricity companies switch from gas to coal
Britain’s electricity generators have been beefing up their use of coal and turning their back on more carbon-friendly gas, in moves that undermine government efforts to fight global warming.
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This may seem like a surprising statement, but the world’s supply of fresh water is finite. As global population rises, the demand for food – and the water that produces it – grows inexorably. Globally, farming accounts for 70 per cent of our withdrawals from this fixed “bank account”, this in the face of ever-greater domestic and industrial usage.
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#10 — Telegraph | Coughlin: It’s time for Britain to merge its Army, Navy and Air Force
In years to come, when our heirs reflect on the events that led to the merger of Britain’s Armed Forces, they will identify Liam Fox’s announcement this week of wide-ranging reforms to the Ministry of Defence’s structure as the moment when the demolition of our proud military traditions began in earnest.
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