CANADA
#1 — CNews | Engineering firm said Elliot Lake mall was ‘structurally sound’
SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. — A northern Ontario engineering firm that has been named in a class-action lawsuit regarding the deadly June 23 mall collapse in Elliot Lake said in a report earlier this year the building was “structurally sound.”
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#2 — Globe | Star of YouTube motorcycle stunt faces charges
A British Columbia man has been charged in a hair-raising motorcycle ride along a Vancouver Island highway that reached speeds of 300 kilometres an hour.
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#3 — LFP | Londoners launch full-throttle attack on pest
Beetlemania, no. Beetlephobia, yes.
Gardeners, property owners and others are rushing to garden centres to equip themselves to wage war with Japanese beetles who are munching their way through the region’s greenery.
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WINNIPEG — Canada’s prison population has not exploded, contrary to opposition critics’ dire predictions about the government’s anti-crime laws, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Wednesday.
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#5 — OC | Supreme Court: No tariffs for downloading music
The Supreme Court of Canada has lifted a tariff for Internet service providers who offer users the ability to download music from the Internet.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Nigerians die in fuel tanker fire
More than 100 people have died in southern Nigeria after a tanker carrying petrol crashed.
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#7 — CNN | Think it’s hot? Imagine living here
(CNN) – For many Americans, the past month has been miserably hot.
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#8 — Fox | Report by former FBI director finds Penn State concealed child sex abuse
PHILADELPHIA – Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno and other senior Penn State officials “concealed critical facts” about Jerry Sandusky’s child abuse because they were worried about bad publicity, according to an internal investigation into the scandal.
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David Cameron signalled last night that Nick Clegg will have to accept a major watering down of his plans to reform the House of Lords.
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#10 — Telegraph | Police piece together heiress Eva Rausing’s final days
Detectives are piecing together the final days of Eva Rausing, one of Britain’s richest women, as her arrested husband continues to receive medical treatment.
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Report by former FBI director finds Penn State concealed child sex abuse: Ain’t that too often the case – hopefully those actively involved in concealing the abuse find their way into small cells with small windows in order to better contemplate the error of their ways. One can also hope that Penn State itself is brought to legal task.
In related news the Irish Government is removing the clery’s hitherto sanctity of the confessional defence – good on ‘em says I, and a pox on the “persecuted for our faith” and “government attacks on the church” crowd who I are probably even now digging out the ashes and sack cloth.