CANADA
#1 — CNews | Via train derailment sparks $10M lawsuit
TORONTO – Two days after Via Rail train 92 derailed in Burlington, Ont., killing three engineers and sending 45 passengers to hospital, the paperwork has been filed for a $10-million class-action lawsuit.
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#2 — Globe | Ornge lacks clearance to fly over U.S.
Ornge cannot transport patients in need of medical care to U.S. hospitals by helicopter because it does not have the go-ahead from regulators to fly the air ambulance over the United States.
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#3 — LFP | Greater local voice in the wind for turbines in Ontario
As wind turbines multiply like rabbits across Ontario’s countryside, the provincial energy minister’s assurances of greater local voice over where they’re located is being met with a mixture of optimism and doubt.
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#4 — NP | Jonas: Supreme Court puts the final nail in the coffin of religious freedom
God isn’t ecumenical. He spells out exactly what he is, in Exodus 20: 4-5. “You shall not make yourself an idol,” he tells prospective worshippers, “for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God.”
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#5 — OC | Canadian dating website sued over dead U.S. soldier’s picture
A Canadian firm being sued by the family of a U.S. war veteran killed in Iraq says it was not directly involved in the unauthorized use of the dead man’s picture in an advertisement that appeared on its dating website.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | US ‘ties North Korea food aid to nuclear progress’
A senior US military official has said that the issue of food aid for North Korea is now linked to political conditions.
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#7 — CNN | Interpol arrests suspected ‘Anonymous’ hackers
(CNN) – Police in Europe and South America have arrested 25 alleged members of the “Anonymous” hacking group, Interpol said, amid a suspected attack on its own website by the group’s supporters.
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#8 — Fox | Romney wins Michigan, Arizona primaries
Mitt Romney landed a victory Tuesday night in his home state of Michigan, fending off Rick Santorum in the Republican presidential primary contest and preventing what could have been a major upset for his campaign going into Super Tuesday.
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#9 — DM | ’It came so close it sniffed his hoodie’ (video)
It must have sounded like the experience of a lifetime – an opportunity to observe Alaska’s grizzly bears in the wild.
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#10 — Telegraph | ECHR needs major reform, leaked British plan argues
Morning Update February 29th, 2012 (10),The European Convention on Human Rights need to be substantially rewritten in order to give national courts, including those in Britain, are much greater say in local laws, leaked documents have concluded.
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