Afternoon Update July 10th, 2012 (10)

CANADA

#1 — CNews | Justice appointed to head inquiry into Elliot Lake mall disaster 

There are far more questions than answers about what went wrong at Elliot Lake’s collapsed Algo Centre Mall.

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#2 — Globe | RCMP threatens arrests in treaty revote following criticism of earlier inaction

One month after a group of dissidents derailed a B.C. first nation’s treaty ratification vote by erecting a blockade outside the primary polling station, the RCMP says it will make arrests if there’s a repeat performance.

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#3 — LFP | Ontario cops kill cougar

MUSKOKA, ONT. – Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources have confirmed that an animal killed by police on the weekend is a cougar, long believed extinct in the province.

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#4 — NP | Ontario doctors launch constitutional challenge in bid to reverse fee cuts

TORONTO — A group representing Ontario’s doctors launched a constitutional challenge Monday in its ongoing battle to reverse fee cuts imposed by the cash-strapped governing Liberals.

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#5 — OC | Iranian embassy recruiting expats

United Nations — Absent diplomatic relations with the United States, Iran is using its embassy in Canada to recruit ethnic Iranians to “be of service” to Tehran — causing U.S. terrorism experts to warn of a possible attack from north of the border.

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WORLD

#6 — BBC | Olmert convicted by Israeli court

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been cleared of two major corruption charges but convicted of a third, lesser charge.

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#7 — CNN | Russia suspends new arms shipments to Syria

(CNN) – Russia will not deliver new weapons to Syria so long as the situation in that country is unstable, an official at the body in charge of monitoring Russia’s arms trade said Monday, state media reported.

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#8 — Fox | ObamaCare more taxing than RomneyCare? Laws’ differences debated

President Obama’s camp chafes at the notion the health care law’s individual insurance mandate packs the threat of a tax. One way Democrats have been responding to to such criticisms is to point the finger at Mitt Romney and the health care law he signed as governor of Massachusetts.

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#9 — DM | Are we safe from the sun?

The sun is a tempestuous mistress – and her outbursts are becoming more and more violent as the weeks go on.

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#10 — Telegraph | Scientists to breed GM mosquitoes to stop spread of dengue fever

Huge numbers of genetically modified mosquitoes are to be breed by scientists in Brazil to help stop the spread of dengue fever, an illness that has already struck nearly 500,000 people this year nationwide.

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