CANADA
#1 — CNews | Pharma fraudster in Miami jail
The Winnipeg man credited with creating Canada’s Internet pharmacy industry is behind bars in Miami, accused in a scheme involving the sale of phony and misbranded medication to unsuspecting customers.
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Margaret Somerville, the founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, says legalized assisted suicide opens the door to legalized euthanasia. Arthur Schafer, the director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba, says it entrenches our rights as humans.
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#3 — LFP | Cops deny mayor’s claim of legal prostitution zone
MONTREAL – Police distanced themselves on Saturday from claims by a borough mayor that prostitution will be tolerated east of downtown Montreal.
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#4 — NP | What was behind Eaton Centre shooting that left two dead?
TORONTO — When they met up inside the Toronto Eaton Centre two weeks ago, Ahmed Hassan was wanted on drug charges, Nixon Nirmalendran had just been released from jail and Christopher Husbands was violating the terms of his house-arrest bail.
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#5 — OC | Judge to rule on whether obesity is factor in man’s fitness for fatherhood
The Royal Ottawa Hospital’s family court clinic, which does court-ordered assessments on parents, is now using obesity as a factor when deciding if they are fit to raise children.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Rio+20 deal weakens on energy and water pledges
Governments are set to weaken pledges on boosting access to water and energy after a new draft negotiating text was issued at the Rio+20 meeting.
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#7 — CNN | Syrian opposition denounces U.N. decision to suspend observer mission
(CNN) – Syrian opposition activists slammed the United Nations on Sunday for suspending its observer mission in the nation, saying it is “unjustifiable and unacceptable” for the international community to fail to protect civilians from attacks.
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#8 — Fox | Conservative bloggers taking precautions over ‘SWAT-ing’ attacks
LAS VEGAS – Conservative bloggers are on heightened alert following a string of so-called “SWAT-ing” incidents and are taking precautionary measures to ensure they don’t fall victim to the potentially dangerous prank as the political blogosphere prepares for a heated election season.
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#9 — DM | Ukraine’s secret shame
It is Ukraine’s secret shame – and it is heartbreaking. Across the country there are 88,000 ‘social orphans’, young disabled children abandoned by their parents and handed over to the state.
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Morning Update June 18th, 2012 (10),The US government has enlisted Britain’s help in a bid to stop a ship suspected of carrying Russian attack helicopters and missiles to conflict-riven Syria, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
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The death debate: Is the assisted-suicide ruling a victory or a dangerous step backward?
Note how Somerville takes two entirely seperate issues and makes them one in the space of three sentences, and then continues to discuss them as the same issue throughout her argument.
If someone cannot make an argument for or against assisted suicide without linking something entirely different they have no argument to make.