CANADA
#1 — CNews | Native leader beaten to death aiding wife
MIDLAND, Ont. – Georgian Bay Native Friendship Centre president Andrew Mixemong died after a brutally beaten Friday night at the rear of a downtown restaurant when he went to the aid of his wife, who was being harassed by two men.
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#2 — Globe | Supreme Court to hear overturned Etobicoke election case
A Conservative MP desperate to hold on to his riding and a Liberal runner-up who went to court to get the razor-thin result overturned will make their cases to the Supreme Court of Canada this week.
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#3 — LFP | Canada pledges aid for Afghan women
OTTAWA — Canada is vowing to keep helping the women and girls in Afghanistan now that its military’s combat role has ended in that country.
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#4 — NP | World economies should look to Canada for success, Stephen Harper says
CALGARY — Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a gathering of party supporters that other nations hoping for economic success in the future, must “become what Canada is today.”
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#5 — OC | Scientists unite to protest ‘death’ of research
Budget cuts are only partly to blame for Canada’s loss of federal science, say the scientists who do the research. They also say politics is undermining the research that governments need to make decisions.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Nigeria violence: Plateau politicians die at funeral
Two Nigerian politicians have died during an attack on a funeral for victims of communal violence that led to at least 37 deaths on Saturday.
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#7 — CNN | Officials search for more clues in disease killing Cambodian children
Phnom Penh, Cambodia (CNN) – Health officials continued on Monday to investigate the causes behind the mysterious deaths of 64 children in Cambodia after saying they had made an important discovery over the weekend.
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CAIRO – Egypt’s top generals are holding an “emergency meeting” to discuss newly-elected president Mohammed Morsi’s decision to defy military orders and reconvene the country’s dissolved parliament, its official news agency says.
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Fox | Egypt’s top court says ruling on parliament final
AT | Spengler: The economics of confrontation in Egypt
Telegraph | Egypt brace for new showdown between Islamists and military
Rebel Tory MPs will push the Coalition into ‘uncharted territory’ if they wreck plans for Lords reform tomorrow night.
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#10 — Telegraph | Hospitals ‘letting patients die to save money’
Hospitals may be depriving elderly patients of food and drink to hasten their deaths as part of cost-cutting measures to free up bed space, leading doctors warn.
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Clegg’s fury at Tory rebels as Lords reform vote threatens to bring about first Government defeat: Gee, imagine that, back benchers with spines as opposed to their subservient Canadian counterparts who ever so meekly sit down, shut up, and do what they are told, when they are told, by their party leader.
Re#5. Oh no….there’s no political angle. Trust us. Wasn’t it the scientific community that fabricated and perpetuated the man made global warming scam and many of them are still at it? Of course it was. How much did that cost? I’d guess plenty. The legitimate ‘death’ of important research or compelling these people to do more with less just like other government agencies/departments have had to do. Some for decades already e.g. the military, the RCMP, border security (to name but 3)? Scientists consider themselves more important? Probably. Can’t afford another ’round table’? Horrors. Try a teleconference. Maybe it’s just the distress at seeing the receding tail lights on the gravey train’s caboose? I’d say they can do what they are doing now with less, if they care to try. I may be wrong but I would suggest they at least make an attempt to get’er done before launching into the Chicken Little routine. But right at this moment…no political angle. Poppycock.
While we are miles apart in opinion on climate change accelerated by human activity you do make a point regarding how some scientists (as well as some of the more
radicalenthusiastic high profile proponents – names like Gore, Suzuki, and activist groups like Green Peace come immediately to mind) have presented the issue. We have not yet seen the potentially more dire effects of human accelerated climate change that some predicted so it is not unreasonable that the population would start to question their conclusions.We also disagree on whether or not there is any sort of political agenda regarding scientific research – but we’ll save that one for another day, right now I’d rather bask in the glow of the common ground we just established