CANADA
#1 — CNews | Remains found in B.C. mudslide: RCMP
The search for the missing victims of last week’s Johnsons Landing mudslide became a recovery operation after emergency crews found remains Sunday afternoon, RCMP said.
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#2 — Globe | France boldly enters next frontier in space exploration: Timmins
France had a problem. The country’s space agency has been at the forefront of ballooning for a half-century, sending helium-filled balloons high into the atmosphere to study everything from ozone depletion over the North Pole to monsoons in West Africa and the accuracy of satellite solar cells.
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#3 — LFP | Canadian extradicted to U.S. on arson, fraud charges
A Canadian businessman who was once dubbed a successful immigrant to the U.S. is being extradited to Virginia where he is accused of hiring three people to torch his furniture store to collect an insurance policy.
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William Baker Park is like a ghost town. A whole row of empty houses sits with overflowing mailboxes and weathered, unused phone books on the porch. The only sound you can hear other than a passing airplane is the buzz of cicadas and the wind blowing through the thick canopy of mature trees. A deer sits peacefully on the grass between two houses. An emaciated tomcat slinks up a driveway nearby.
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#5 — NP | Politicians warned of Iranian Embassy ‘call to arms’ weeks ago
The Iranian-Canadian activists who blew the whistle on Iran’s alleged recruitment program in Canada say they privately warned numerous politicians and officials of the Islamic republic’s activities in the weeks before government ministers spoke out in reaction to the Citizen’s report on the scheme.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | North Korea military head Ri Yong-ho ‘relieved of post’
North Korean military chief Ri Yong-ho has been removed from all official posts, according to state media.
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#7 — CNN | Protests as Clinton holds meetings in Egypt
Cairo (CNN) – Egyptian protesters threw tomatoes and shoes at U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s motorcade Sunday and shouted, “Monica, Monica, Monica” as she left the newly reopened U.S. Consulate in Alexandria.
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#8 — Fox | Maine lawmaker working to remedy low lobster prices putting pinch on fishermen
The lobster crisis in Maine has reached a boiling point.
As prices for the succulent shellfish drop, a top U.S. lawmaker is calling the situation a “disaster” and said measures must be taken to aid struggling fishermen and reform the lobster industry, which is vital to the state’s economy.
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#9 — DM | Ten to a room and one shower for 75 people
Cleaners at the Olympic Park are being housed ten to a room at a huge temporary compound.
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#10 — Telegraph | Government has ‘plundered’ Armed Forces, senior military officers say
Troops are being drafted in to rescue Olympics at time when Government is ‘plundering’ Armed Forces, military’s most senior commanders say.
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