CANADA
#1 — CNews | More legal guns mean less violent crime: Report
WASHINGTON, D.C – Toronto’s lefty city councillors looking to ban guns and bullets as a panacea for violent crime should pedal their bikes south of the border.
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#2 — Globe | Head of RCMP getting power to fire rogue Mounties
RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson is getting new powers to fire rogue Mounties who engage in sexual misconduct and other types of misbehaviour that have recently dragged down the reputation of the national police force.
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#3 — LFP | Opposition parties press government on TPP talks
OTTAWA – Opposition parties grilled the government Wednesday to find out if the feds gave something up to get in on key Asia-Pacific free trade talks.
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#4 — NP | Gurney: Ontario Tories accidently end up looking good
It would seem — seem — that Ontario voters will be spared a snap summer election, or at least so much chaos and politicking at Queen’s Park that they would wish for one. The provincial Liberals and NDP, having theoretically agreed to pass the budget together (the minority Liberals lack the votes to do it themselves), ended up almost coming to blows after the NDP decided to rip 13 sections out of the budget during the committee stage, with Tory support.
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#5 — OC | Obese father loses children to adoption on judge’s order
OTTAWA — An Ottawa man whose obesity played a factor in whether he was fit enough to be a father has lost custody of his children after a judge ruled Wednesday that his two boys will be put up for adoption.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Anders Behring Breivik trial enters final stage in Oslo
The trial of Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted killing 77 people in Norway last year, has begun hearing closing arguments from prosecutors.
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#7 — CNN | Fighting rages in Syria; 66 more reported killed
(CNN) – At least 66 more civilians were killed Wednesday across Syria in the latest fighting of the 15-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s government, opposition activists said Thursday.
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#8 — Fox | Police chief fired in wake of Trayvon Martin shooting
Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee has been fired in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, sources inside the Florida city’s government tell MyFoxOrlando.com.
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Aung San Suu Kyi today told how happy memories of life at Oxford University helped her cope during her 15 years under house arrest in Burma.
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#10 — Telegraph | Senior member of Zetas drug cartel captured
Afternoon Update June 21st, 2012 (10),A senior member of the Zetas drug cartel who is a close confidant of the leader Heriberto Lazcano has been detained in north Mexico.
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