Afternoon Update July 4th, 2012 (10)

CANADA

#1 — CNews | Lotto Max making history with $100M in jackpot prizes 

CALGARY — Who wants to be a millionaire?

Lotto Max will this week make history when it sets a new Canadian lottery record with a total of $100 million to be won.

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#2 — Globe | Insider prompting led Oda to step down ahead of cabinet shuffle: source

Bev Oda, the CIDA minister whose spending habits raised the hackles of the Harper government, announced she was quitting politics after insiders cautioned her she would not survive a cabinet shuffle, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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NP | Ivison: Lavish expenses obscure Bev Oda’s success as a minister

#3 — LFP | Sea Kings reign while Cyclone helicopters stalled

OTTAWA – Aircraft manufacturer Sikorsky is flying into another storm because of the over-budget, long-delayed Cyclone helicopter program.

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#4 — NP | Court rejects ex-Liberal leadership candidates’ pleas for extension on debts

OTTAWA — A top Ontario court has turned down three failed Liberal leadership candidates in their request for an extension to pay their 2006 campaign expenses.

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#5 — OC | Government settles in nurses’ discrimination complaint; settlement could top $200 million

OTTAWA — Ruth Walden speaks softly, but don’t be fooled. Eight years ago, the Ottawa nurse took on the federal government. Tuesday, the government blinked, agreeing to pay Walden and hundreds of other nurses who work for the Canada Pension Plan an estimated $169 million for gender discrimination dating back more than three decades.

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WORLD

#6 — BBC | Pakistan allows Nato convoys to Afghanistan to resume

Pakistan will reopen crucial supply routes to Nato-led forces in Afghanistan after the US apologised for killing 24 of its soldiers in November, Washington and Islamabad have said.

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#7 — CNN | Devastating India floods leave 95 dead, millions homeless

(CNN) – Flooding described by India’s prime minister as the worst in recent times, has left at least 95 people dead and almost 2 million others homeless in the country’s remote Assam state.

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#8 — Fox | Efforts to implement ObamaCare law raise concerns of massive government expansion

With the Supreme Court giving President Obama’s new health care law a green light, federal and state officials are turning to implementation of the law — a lengthy and massive undertaking still in its early stages, but already costing money and expanding the government.

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#9 — DM | Why has China built a ghost town in Africa?

It was supposed to be a state-of-the-art city for 500,000 – but eery footage shows how a Chinese-built urbanisation is at risk of becoming Africa’s first ‘ghost town’.

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#10 — Telegraph | China vows to stamp out food safety scandals

China has vowed to stamp out major food safety scandals in three years after fears surfaced that athletes might underperform at the Olympics because they were avoiding eating potentially contaminated meat.

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