CANADA
#1 — CNews | Modular homes arrive in Slave Lake
EDMONTON – The homes have started to arrive in Slave Lake.
All that’s left to determine is who will live inside them.
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#2 — Globe | Effusive John Baird wraps up China visit with praise for ‘strategic partner’
John Baird is hailing a “new era” in relations with Beijing, saying there will be “honest differences of opinion” with China on human rights but relations on trade and other issues will move forward.
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#3 — LFP | Citizenship fraud cleanup ‘about time’
TORONTO – The federal government’s clean sweep of revoking the citizenship status of 1,800 people should be swift, a Toronto immigration lawyer says.
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#4 — NP | Doctors see fewer patients in move to end fees
Doctors in P.E.I. reacted indignantly this month when the provincial government sent many of the island’s salaried physicians an unusual letter, informing them in no uncertain terms that they had to see more patients.
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Star | Maternity-care system on brink of collapse, warns physician
Star | Girl in Kenya receives Canadian cornea as Scarborough woman waits
#5 — Star | City user fees poised for big jump
Toronto’s tradition of heavily subsidizing recreation and other programs from general tax revenues is drawing to a close, with city staff set to recommend an unprecedented jump in user fees.
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WORLD
#6 — Fox | Foreign Aid Bill Would Make Pakistan, Other Nations Pass New Tests to Receive U.S. Funds
A House panel is considering a bill Wednesday that would suspend billions in foreign aid to several entities in the Middle East and beyond until the Obama administration can certify they are not controlled by groups hostile to the United States and its allies.
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#7 — DM | Why the French lost the Battle of Agincourt
It was a large scale medieval-day equivalent of David and Goliath. On the battlefields of Agincourt, the French outnumbered the English by up to six to one with a massive army of 36,000 soldiers.
Yet despite their numeric superiority, being better equipped and fighting on home turf the French could not triumph over Henry V and his 6,000 longbow archers, dismounted knights and men-at-arms.
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#8 — DM | ‘At least I’ve never seen Rebekah in her pyjamas’
David Cameron today came out fighting as he defended his relationship with Rebekah Brooks in an extraordinary exchange in the House of Commons.
During an emergency debate on the phone hacking scandal which has engulfed Westminster, the prime minister was asked whether his friendship with New International’s former chief executive was appropriate.
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NP | ‘You don’t make decisions in hindsight,’ Cameron tells U.K. parliament
DM | News Corp investors demand ‘doddery’ Murdoch quits… despite shares rising 6% after grilling
#9 — Independent | CIA trains covert units of Afghans to continue the fight against Taliban
Covert forces of CIA-trained Afghan paramilitaries are being built up to continue the US-led war on the Taliban as thousands of US troops prepare to leave the country.
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#10 — Telegraph | Electric car scheme fails to excite motorists
Afternoon Update July 20th, 2011 (10),The £400 million drive to persuade motorists to buy electric cars is proving a costly failure, according to the latest Whitehall figures.
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Re#3. “Everyone knows our courts are very backlogged,” lawyer Guidy Mamann said Tuesday night. “So 1,800 number is an enormous amount. There’s no way of overstating that. It’s about time and we know there’s a lot of citizenship fraud going on. It sets a pattern on how (these people will) behave here forever.”
Here’s a solution. There sits unused in Winnipeg a once-abandoned suburban warehouse that underwent a $3.3-million transformation into a new ultra-modern never used courthouse. It was originally constructed to handle a huge gang trial that never happened. Open this court up (thus no extra burden on the regular and overloaded criminal courts). Assign a judge or two, a couple of prosecutors and focus entirely on expediting these cases. Oops, just pinched myself and woke up. Back to reality. Ho hum, yawn whatever.
Re: “There sits unused in Winnipeg a once-abandoned suburban warehouse that underwent a $3.3-million transformation into a new ultra-modern never used courthouse.”
Who knew (until now)?
Get your buddy Tom on this story. It’s a dandy and you are correct.
“Get your buddy Tom on this story.”
Good idea. As a matter of fact just waiting from him to call. I texted him yesterday telling him I got some A&W coupons in the mail so we’ll be getting together soon no doubt. Gotta love retirement. LOL
Re#7. Tip to the RCMP when deciding the composition of the newly recommended body armor. Do NOT even think about forcing the members to wear this shit even if you can get it cheap because it is made out of recycled Toyotas.
RE: Electric Cars. I think it occurs to most reasonable people that if a measurable number of drivers went electric, there wouldn’t be enough power left in the grid to run your doorbell. If you have to get somewhere – on time – gasoline is the answer. Also, we are in that time of the year when there is some warmth out-of-doors. We call it a heat-wave or something, and low and behold we have a New Record as far as electricity demand! Who would have believed it!!! I wonder if the influx of new residents may have something to do with that record demand… Naw, can’t be!