CANADA
#1 — CNews | Arrest made in barbecue bloodbath
TORONTO – A 19-year-old man is charged in Monday’s barbecue bloodbath that left two party-goers dead and 23 others wounded at an east end public housing complex.
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CNews | Man found dead in schoolyard linked to deadly BBQ: Source
#2 — Globe | Redford’s energy vision gains traction with premiers
Alberta Premier Alison Redford is quietly building support among her provincial colleagues for a national energy strategy, saying Canada’s prosperity hinges on forging a united front to exploit the country’s vast resource riches.
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NP | Chief Atleo sends blunt warning to Ottawa, provinces over national energy plan
#3 — LFP | Inmates hustled out
Dozens of inmates at London’s troubled provincial jail are being shipped out and the place is being cleaned up, possibly to improve conditions before a visit from high-ranking provincial Corrections officials, sources tell The Free Press.
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#4 — NP | DND’s $23M cluster bomb stockpile will cost $2M to junk
The national defence department spent upward of $22.7-million buying cluster bombs that Ottawa now says it wants to ban and destroy at a cost of another $2-million — a job that will inevitably be outsourced because no Canadian company is capable of disposing of the controversial weapons, the National Post has learned.
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#5 — OC | New military outposts key to more overseas missions
OTTAWA — For the past two years, Canada has been quietly working to establish small military outposts in places such as the Caribbean, East Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Syria conflict: Rebels seize Turkey and Iraq border posts
Syrian rebels have captured a number of positions on the country’s borders with Turkey and Iraq.
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#7 — CNN | Fundraising for taunted bus monitor surpasses $680,000 as it nears end
(CNN) – An online fundraiser for a New York bus monitor taunted by middle school students ends Friday after a month and hundreds of thousands of dollars beyond expectations.
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#8 — Fox | 14 dead, at least 50 injured in shooting at Colorado movie theater, police say
URGENT: At least 14 people have been killed and up to 50 injured after a mass shooting at a showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” at a suburban Denver movie theater, police say.
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Note:
I’ve been following this situation closely all day but I’m still waiting for the dust to settle. A twenty-four hour “pause” sounds about right. I’ll have a lot more on it tomorrow.
A US deep-sea exploration company says it has recovered about 48 tons of silver from a British cargo ship that was sunk by a torpedo during World War II.
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#10 — Telegraph | ‘Purged’ North Korean military leader may have been killed in gun battle
The sacked Commander-in-Chief of the North Korean forces may have been among the 20 or 30 North Korean soldiers killed during a gun fight when the incoming commander attempted to carry out orders to sack him, according to a major South Korean news website.
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Telegraph | North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to experiment with economic reforms
#4 I thought that the weapons techs in the CF would be qualified to dismantled these bombs and disposed of the individual bomblets. This is another prime case of lack of foresight and planning by government. If our forces ever need area denial weapons, what are they going to use? I thought the whole idea of mines and cluster bombs was it was a force multiplier in both defense and offense. Sure as shootin” if it comes down to it, we’ll learn the hard way that the other side kept theirs and we will be in a world of hurt. Far as I’m concerned, rules of war are silly and unenforceable, we see the rules broken all the time. Rant mode off. mid island mike