CANADA
#1 — CNews | Suspect head-butts cop on police plane
TORONTO – A suspect head-butted a Toronto detective in the face and terrorized him as they flew on a police aircraft from Calgary to Toronto, a Superior Court heard Wednesday.
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#2 — Globe | In Vancouver, the seller’s market recedes
Vancouver’s housing market is cooling to the point that the balance appears to be shifting in favour of buyers for the first time in years.
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#3 — LFP | Former sex slave applauds stripper visa ban
TORONTO – When Timea Nagy answered an ad in a Budapest newspaper, she thought she was coming to Toronto to work as a nanny for the summer.
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#4 — FP | Corcoran: Maple deal subs rules for competition
At the federal Competition Bureau, they have high standards. No breach of Canada’s tough competition rules — aimed at extracting efficiency, innovation and maximum consumer benefit through open markets — is to be tolerated.
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#5 — OC | Del Mastro lashes out against Elections Canada and the media over expense allegations
OTTAWA — Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro lashed out at Elections Canada on Wednesday, accusing the agency of leaking to the media and saying its handling of an investigation into his 2008 election campaign finances is “very unfair.”
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Syria files: Wikileaks releases 2m ‘embarrassing’ emails
The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks says it is releasing more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and corporations.
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#7 — CNN | In West Virginia, mass feedings planned in wake of storms, heat wave
(CNN) – Governments and charities Wednesday rushed critically needed food and water to thousands of hungry West Virginians whose pantries emptied after storms and an accompanying heat wave.
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#8 — Fox | State Department investigating UN agency for computer shipments to Iran and North Korea
The U.S. State Department is investigating the shipment of computers and other sophisticated equipment to North Korea and Iran by way of an obscure United Nations agency, despite ongoing U.N. and U.S. sanctions against both governments aimed at blocking their development of nuclear weapons.
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#9 — DM | Lost in space: Astronomers left baffled after cosmic dust orbiting star disappears
Of all the things to lose track of, a stretch of space dust measuring hundreds of millions of miles across is surely one of the biggest.
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#10 — Telegraph | Tornado crash: two students and instructor dead
The Defence Secretary has named three airmen who died after their two Tornado jets crashed off the Scottish coast and paid tribute to the trio.
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Re: Del Mastro lashes out against Elections Canada and the media over expense allegations: One has to wonder how long that Harper will continue to defend Del Mastro given that people who took part in this particular funding scheme are willing to step forward and tell all.
One also has to wonder if there will either be another resignation from the political arena, or, at the very least, a new arse warming the back benches.
As for allegations for which there is no process to clear his name – I highly doubt that he will be given absolutely no possible chance of making his case to Elections Canada as part of the investigation, and I also highly doubt that, regardless of what is found, he will not have access to the courts —- probably at our expense.
I wonder if he has any actual proof that Elections Canada is “leaking” snippets of information, or if this is simply a ‘oh woe is me, for I am being unfairly persecuted‘ rhetoric – personally, I lean towards the latter.
There’s more info here, “sl”.
TOUCHÉ !
YIPEE !! and HOORAY beentheredone that!! – your guys are as dirty and dishonest as the other guys….. stand tall and be proud of them!!
Tell me…. has the “the other guy is dirty to” ever worked as a defence in a court of law?
stageleft: O.K., correct when the offences, crimes or lack of ethics are of comparable seriousness, but part of the point is not so much excusing something using ” The other guy does it too ” but that Elections Canada and the reporting by the Media doesn’t treat equally the missteps of each side.
Errors on the Left are looked at through a fuzzy lens while any misstep on the Right is under a magnifying glass with a 10K spotlight on it.
So “Jack”, once again we are shown the lesson so often repeated – dishonesty runs rampent within the parties and the ‘ole ‘oh yeah, so what….. the other guys are dirty to‘ gets pulled out and dusted off as a defence for the latest round of dishonesty.
re: 3 – Former sex slave applauds stripper visa ban.
She was brought over as a nanny. How would this law have made a bit of difference?
Don’t know. Probably “zip” unless we stop to consider that people applying for such jobs should have been warned prior to having their visa’s approved. Maybe that was done.
My view is that we have to start somewhere in dealing with imported “sex slaves” and adjust as we learn. We’ll be awhile.
Re #3: Jack maybe not aware before they left if the ” organization ” offering them a job told them to not worry about the paperwork as they would take care of it and the person involved never saw the paperwork ? Any needed signatures being forged ?
I also wonder about legitimate artists/exotic dancers specializing in burlesque who attend various festivals would they be also barred from coming into the country for a performance: I sense a grey zone here of conflicting definitions of what is a sex worker and what is a genuine artist or dancer ?
Those well known, well paid and not being exploited or likely to be exploited by organized crime ! The entertainers one would see staring at a Los Vegas floor show or a visiting ” Crazy Horse ” cabaret like troop ? Would these also be barred from entering Canada to work since these also are ” sex workers “, in an over-broad definition of the word with some partial or total nudity ?
As I said earlier, Jean. Much to think about and “We’ll be awhile”. But we do have to start somewhere.
Yeah, Jack, everything seems simple until one starts thinking of exceptions to the rules where the application of the rules would’t match the reasons why the rule is these in the first place.
Or, in short: The devil is in the details.