CANADA
#1 — CNews | Bear gobbles up pies at B.C. pizza joint (video available)
CALGARY – Andrea Lawrance is used to customers having growling tummies.
But this unexpected visitor had a bear-size case of the munchies.
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#2 — Globe | B.C. drug injection clinic can stay open, Supreme Court rules
The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday overrode federal objections to a controversial supervised drug injection clinic in Vancouver and ordered that it remain open.
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#3 — LFP | McGuinty marshals troops
With polls showing his Liberals in trouble in Southwestern Ontario, Premier Dalton McGuinty urged supporters in London Thursday night to “fight as hard as you can.”
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#4 — FP | Canada’s economic growth on target
OTTAWA — The Canadian economy continued to nudge ahead in July, led by manufacturing and wholesale trade, pointing to a possible third-quarter bounce back after shrinking in the previous three-month period.
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#5 — OC | Pilieci: No one will like the new copyright laws, so everyone should be happy
OTTAWA —The definition of a good compromise is when everyone walks away from the table grumpy.
By that measure, the federal government’s copyright legislation, Bill C-11, does a very good job of protecting consumer rights while promoting the interests of big business.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Islamist cleric Anwar Awlaki killed in Yemen
US-born radical Islamist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a key al-Qaeda leader, has been killed in Yemen, the country’s defence ministry said.
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Fox | U.S.-Born Terror Boss Anwar al-Awlaki Killed in CIA-Led Drone Strike
NY Times | American Who Waged ‘Media Jihad’ Is Said to Be Killed in Awlaki Strike (second American)
NY Times | American Strike on American Target Revives Contentious Constitutional Issue
#7 — CNN | 90% of Americans say economy stinks
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Three years after a financial crisis pushed the country deep into recession, an overwhelming number of Americans — 90% — say that economic conditions remain poor.
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#8 — Fox | Researchers Hack Voting Machine for $26
Campaigning for the 2012 presidential race has already begun, but what the candidates don’t know is that come election day, hackers could be the ones whose votes have the biggest impact.
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#9 — Independent | Single magic mushroom ‘can change personality’
Forty-five years after Timothy Leary, the apostle of drug-induced mysticism, urged his hippie followers to “turn on, tune in and drop out”, researchers have found that magic mushrooms do change a user’s personality – for the better.
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#10 — Telegraph | Pakistan rebuffs US demands to increase cooperation in war on terror
Pakistan’s political and military leadership closed ranks yesterday, shrugging off intense American pressure to do more to combat militant groups and accusing the United States of using the country as a scapegoat for Nato failures in Afghanistan.
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“US-born radical Islamist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a key al-Qaeda leader, has been killed in Yemen, the country’s defence ministry said.”
He will be getting his 72 virgins now…right…right!!!???
Some where along the line they will be running out of these virgins you’d think. LOL
I’m not buying these reports yet because we know where they are coming from and we all know how that has worked out in the past.
Call me “sceptical”.
Re #2 … Quebec gets their $2 billion for HST, BC voted to pay the $1.6 billion HST back … but … we in BC get to keep our shooting gallery for druggies. We are 1 screwed up country!!
We have a majority government now. And the courts have a problem because we can change the law.
Just saying.
Maybe they could pass a law making those drugs illegal ….. oh ….. wait ….. that’s been done …… and it didn’t work.
Possibly they think addicts dying on the streets is the better option — or maybe the long slow death from AIDS picked up from a dirty needle is their option — I know ! Maybe they can pass a new law allowing the police to round up addicts and force them into treatment programs …. forced treatment should work ‘eh?
Why yes SL here is some change you can believe in. Lets get the state to teach the kindergarten kiddies the safe techniques of mainlining heroin through practice.
Re: #3 — McGuinty is worried. Small wonder because he should be.
Unlike other websites which are concentrating on this situation I am not and I have a reason. Ontario has been full of bad news about “McShifty” for many years now. Nobody needs to review and “remind” Ontario taxpayers how stupid this government has been. All one needs to do is look at their hydro bill and ask why it increased to know the truth.
“McShifty” is a “greenie” and he will bankrupt us all if he has his way. I propose we stop him –now — and I “keep the faith”.
He’s gone and nothing more need be said.
“End of message.”