CANADA
#1 — CNews | Wife of fourth Baumgartner victim ‘cautiously optimistic’
EDMONTON – While three families prepare to say goodbye to victims of Friday’s bloody ABM robbery, one remains “cautiously optimistic” as a fourth victim shows signs of life in hospital.
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#2 — Globe | Magnotta pleads not guilty in body parts case via video link
Making an appearance in the same way he has presented himself so often to the world – on a screen – Luka Magnotta faced a Montreal court for the first time to plead not guilty to the first-degree murder of university student Lin Jun.
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#3 — LFP | Massive line clears way for wind projects
Completion of the biggest transmission line project in Ontario in 20 years clears an important hurdle for a series of massive wind turbine projects in Southwestern Ontario, including eight within 70 kilometres of London.
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#4 — NP | Alberta suffers second major oil spill this month
ELK POINT, Alta. — There’s been another oil spill in Alberta, this time northeast of Edmonton.
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#5 — OC | Voodoo dolls fail to protect fraudster from new charges
OTTAWA — A convicted fraudster out on bail after being sentenced to seven years in prison for forging credit cards had voodoo dolls depicting a judge, prosecutors and police officers, an Ottawa court heard Tuesday.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Haitians abroad get more rights with new constitution
A new constitution has been published in Haiti, giving some two million citizens living abroad the right to own land and run for public office.
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#7 — CNN | Obama asserts executive privilege on Fast and Furious documents
Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama has asserted executive privilege over documents sought by a House committee investigating the botched Fast and Furious gun-running sting, according to a letter to the panel Wednesday from Deputy Attorney Gen. James Cole.
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Fox | Issa pushes ahead with Holder contempt vote despite Obama intervention
#8 — Fox | Professor fired after expressing climate change skepticism
Oregon State University chemistry professor Nicholas Drapela was fired without warning three weeks ago and has still been given no reason for the university’s decision to “not renew his contract.”
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A JetBlue plane was sent careering wildly through the skies for fours after a mechanical meltdown.
The 155 people on board the Las Vegas to New York flight were left terrified as the A320 aircraft lurched from side to side and went into steep turns after its hydraulic system failed.
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#10 — Telegraph | Toulouse siege over as gunman wounded and hostages freed
Morning Update June 21st, 2012 (10),A gunman holding up a bank in Toulouse has been wounded by police and the final hostages have been freed, according to reports.
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Re #7 With executive privilege invoked I began to wonder: Was the Fast and Furious operation an attempt to curtail the second amendment or an attempt to arm drug gangs in Mexico. Obambam is from Chicago ya know and many of his ‘friends’ are more than a little shady ya know so inquiring minds would like to know which was the real motivation.
Magnotta pleads not guilty in body parts case via video link: Why, pray tell, does Harper warrant special mention in all of this?
Professor fired after expressing climate change skepticism: So which is it – was the man fired, or was his contract not renewed?
fired … took away his key!
Seems somewhat ambiguous to me WCT – what is the “has still been given no reason for the university’s decision to “not renew his contract.” about then?
Personally, and most especially in a university setting, I would expect that diverse views would not only be appreciated but fostered – but if the guy’s contract was up, and the institution did not renew it, he wasn’t fired.