Afternoon Update August 31st, 2011 (10)

CANADA

#1 — CNews | Political correctness banned from ‘The Arena’

TORONTO – Controversial author Mark Steyn, who calls his new book “my latest doom-mongering bestseller,” claimed America is on the road to oblivion on Tuesday’s premiere of The Arena, Michael Coren’s new show on Sun News Network.

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#2 — Globe | Jack Tobin gets three years in prison for fatal drunk driving accident

A judge has sentenced Jack Tobin to three years in prison and a seven-year driving ban for his role in the death of a close friend last Christmas Eve.

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#3 — LFP | RCMP seeing red over unreturned uniform

WINNIPEG – It’s a defining symbol of Canada: the Red Serge uniform of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The RCMP say it’s a symbol former Mountie John Harapiak has sullied in repeated protests directed at his ex-employer.

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#4 — NP | Arthritic Labrador ‘up and running’ after stem cell treatment

WINDSOR, Ont. — Misty, an almost 12-year-old Labrador retriever suffering from arthritis, has gone from aging hound in pain to joyful puppy after stem cell treatments at the Essex Animal Hospital, just southeast of Windsor.

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Note:

People with arthritis are going to be impressed “all to hell” when they read this story.

#5 — Star | Walkom: Who will replace Layton? Think Bob Rae

Curiously, the person best qualified to fill Jack Layton’s shoes is not a New Democrat.

Rather, he is Bob Rae, the interim leader of the federal Liberal Party.

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OS | NDP throws out MP’s motion on federal pensions

WORLD

#6 — BBC | Bomber kills 11 outside mosque in Quetta, Pakistan

A bomb attack has killed at least 11 people in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta, hospital officials say.

The suspected suicide car bomb exploded in a parking area as hundreds of people were leaving a mosque after Eid prayers, a senior police official said.

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#7 — CNN | TRENDING: Palin to New Hampshire (again) in Labor Day schedule shuffle

(CNN) – Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will celebrate Labor Day in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire.

The 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee will attend a Tea Party Express rally in Manchester on Monday, the same day former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was due to attend the event.

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#8 — Fox | New Flood Dangers as East Coast Reels From Irene

NEWFANE, Vt. –  As emergency airlift operations brought ready-to-eat meals and water to Vermont residents left isolated and desperate, states along the Eastern Seaboard continued to be battered by the after effects of Irene, the destructive hurricane turned tropical storm.

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#9 — Irish Independent | French politicians turn on Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Martine Aubry, the party’s former leader, has stuck the knife into the former IMF chief just “days” before his return home and amid embarrassing plans by his Socialist supporters to hold a “welcome home” celebrations for him.

“I think the same as most women about his attitude to women,” she said.

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#10 — Telegraph | Briton in divorce with French arms broker husband could hold key to ‘Karachi affair’

A British woman acrimoniously divorcing a French millionaire arms broker could hold the key to the “Karachi affair” that threatens to poison the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.

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