CANADA
#1 — CNews | Firefighter killed on the job in Montreal
MONTREAL – A 39-year-old city firefighter died on the job after his own pumper truck struck him during an emergency call.
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#2 — Globe | ‘Stampede OK, rodeo no’: Activists demonstrate after chuckwagon horse deaths
Animal rights activists set up cardboard tomb stones and held up placards across the road from the Calgary Stampede grounds on Saturday — two days after three horses died at the chuckwagon races.
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OC | Animal rights activists mostly ignored by Stampede-goers
#3 — LFP | A deadly day at the beach
Once again, Lake Erie’s unpredictable waters have taken two more young lives.
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#4 — NP | Toronto city council votes to join battle to keep federal gun registry
Toronto city council has instructed its legal staff to seek leave for intervenor status in a court battle over the defunct federal long gun registry.
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#5 — OC | Rae seeks middle ground on oilsands development
Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae waded into the oilsands debate Saturday suggesting that, while Alberta’s booming development is an important part of Canada’s economy, the discussion about how best to use it has been polarizing and unproductive.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Syria unrest: UN to resume Tremseh killings probe
UN observers plan to return to the Syrian village of Tremseh to continue their investigations into an attack on Thursday that killed up to 200 people.
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#7 — CNN | Weather warning: London Olympics’ biggest threat?
(CNN) – London has spent billions preparing to host the 2012 Olympics, constructing state of the art stadiums, overhauling transport links and installing anti-aircraft missiles to beef up security.
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#8 — Fox | Feds OK Florida’s access to citizens list, Scott declares ‘victory’ for voters
Florida GOP Gov. Rick Scott on Saturday lauded the Obama administration’s new announcement that gives the state access to a federal database, but he also called the standoff-ending decision a “significant victory” for Florida.
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#9 — DM | Earth’s friend, Man’s enemy
Living on the moon is surely humanity’s goal as we make our first baby steps into space.
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#10 — Telegraph | Terrorised Chicago residents plead for police crackdown as gang war murders soar
Residents of the mainly black South Side want stop-and-search tactics brought back as gang murders plague President Barack Obama’s home city.
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Re:#2. “Animal rights activists set up cardboard tomb stones and held up placards across the road from the Calgary Stampede grounds on Saturday.”
I think these same people could better spend their time camped out across the street from one of our Canadian abortion clinics. Unlike chuckwagon horses unborn fetuses have no rules to protect them. So let’s compare the casualty lists. During the last 6 months approximately 50,000 (no rules) human fetuses have died while only about 3 (protected by rules) horses have died. Difference? The first group were deliberate, the latter by accident. Somebody besides me see something wrong with this picture?
I do. You’re grafting abortion onto yet another debate.
Pro-lifers are relentless. If they were this diligent about protecting life of the born, imagine how nice this world (or at least this continent) would be.
As hard as it is to discover I’m sure there’s slippery (and very steep) slope argument to be made in there somewhere Cy, just where is the big question…….
There is no conspiracy here guys, there are some things I guess I just don’t get.
You get them BTDT … others might not … they just post “silly stuff”!!
Never claimed there was one. But anti-abortionists are relentless in turning every discussion into one about abortion. I merely opined that if they showed the same concern for the ill / injured / bombed who are here right now, this earth might be more pleasant.
However it is probably easier to shout at already emotionally fragile women going into a clinic.
Nice generalization there Cy to bad its not true. Most anti abortionists never mention abortion unless the subject is brought up. I am anti abortion and I hardly ever talk about it. I recently discovered several young ladies were anti abortion when they saw a pro abortion thing by the Progressives in the newspaper. I didn’t know what their views were before.
….”emotionally fragile women going into a clinic”. The naivety of that statement is mind-boggling. Now that’s generalization……..to the enth degree.
La fin.
How would you describe them? Jubilant? Nonchalant? There are entire books and articles dedicated to post-abortion depression and guilt.