Morning Update August 7th, 2012 (10)

CANADA

#1 — CNews | Ont. man mysteriously injured back home

CALGARY – Left in a coma and fighting for life, an Ontario man who endured a long, lonely recovery in a Calgary hospital is back home.

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#2 — Globe | Veterans ask for audit of food amidst complaints about quality of meals at hospital

Some elderly residents of a veterans hospital in Halifax are asking that someone take a closer look at the food they’re being served, claiming it is bland, overcooked, hard to eat and low on nutritional value.

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#3 — LFP | Three from Quebec killed in Penn. crash

Three people from Quebec are dead after the driver of a car fell asleep and lost control of the vehicle early Saturday on Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania, local police said.

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#4 — NP | McParland: Pipeline time bombs are ticking down to next election

There was a time when people rolled their eyes at Canada’s determination to fritter away its political energies in a seemingly endless, eye-glazingly tedious debate over constitutional minutia. Having escaped that trap, you’d think we’d look for something a but more exciting to argue about instead. But no: it’s entirely possible we’ll spend much of the next few years taking sides on the equally esoteric matter of … pipelines.

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#5 — OC | Friend or foe, people do what they want with these politicos

People buy Gabe Thirlwall’s political finger puppets for all kinds of reasons. Then they send her photos and videos of the things those puppets have done.

And the things that are done to the puppets.

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WORLD

#6 — BBC | Syria Prime Minister Riad Hijab defects

Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab has defected from President Bashar al-Assad’s government to join “the revolution”, his spokesman says.

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#7 — CNN | Knight Capital gets $400 million rescue deal

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Knight Capital Group will live to see another trading day, but its investors are not pleased.

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#8 — Fox | Millionaire buys every foreclosed home in Michigan county for $4.8 million

MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. –  A Michigan millionaire decided to go into the real estate business with a bang last week by buying every tax foreclosed property offered at a recent county auction.

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#9 — DM | Humiliated Nick Clegg forced to announce plans to reform House of Lords have been killed off because of the Tories

A humiliated Nick Clegg was today forced to confirm that his plans to reform the House of Lords have been killed off.

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#10 — Telegraph | Egypt’s army threatens ‘revenge’ after Sinai attack

Egypt’s army promised “revenge” on Monday after Islamist gunmen killed 15 of the country’s soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula and then launched a failed attack on Israel.

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