CANADA
#1 — CNews | Heat driving farmers buggy
A horde of insidious insects has been poisoning crops and using the drought to cover the crime.
Potato leafhoppers, usually rare in Ontario, are ravaging alfalfa crops.
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#2 — Globe | John Baird’s Mideast trip to boost Canadian role in Syria crisis
Foreign Minister John Baird flies to the Middle East Friday on a hastily organized mission intended to show Canadian support for two countries inundated with refugees fleeing the raging conflict in Syria.
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#3 — LFP | Judgement day looms
His minority government battling holdout teachers unions and school boards over its wage-austerity drive, Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals also face a pair of crucial byelections next month. But the Liberal leader, in London Thursday, says he’s confident the government will prevail.
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#4 — NP | Doctor stuck with $70,537 legal bill after losing battle over $31 parking ticket
In what might go down as the country’s most expensive parking ticket, a Toronto doctor who lost her epic battle over a $31 fine by launching a class-action lawsuit on behalf of aggrieved motorists has been ordered to also pay the city’s $70,537 legal bill.
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#5 — OC | Ottawa staff sergeant pleads guilty to personal use of police databases
OTTAWA — An Ottawa police staff sergeant could face a seven-month demotion after she pleaded guilty Thursday to accessing police databases for personal use 169 times in three years.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Sinai: Egypt tribes back offensive against militants
Bedouin tribal leaders in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula have agreed to help restore security in the lawless border area with the Gaza Strip and Israel.
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#7 — CNN | ISAF: Man in Afghan security uniform kills 3 US troops
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) – A man in an Afghan military uniform killed three U.S. troops Friday in southern Afghanistan, a day after the United States condemned a suicide bomb attack that left four Americans dead.
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Telegraph | Afghan police chief kills US soldiers invited to dinner
#8 — Fox | Romney campaign claims Obama aides caught in ‘lies’ over controversial ad
The Romney campaign charged Thursday that President Obama’s aides just got caught in a lie, after an Obama spokeswoman acknowledged the campaign knows the man in a controversial ad despite claims to the contrary a day earlier.
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#9 — DM | France declares war on illegal migrants
French police were yesterday breaking up gipsy camps and deporting illegal immigrants found in them.
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Britain’s alleged role in supplying information used by the US military to establish “kill lists” in Afghanistan has been made the subject of a legal challenge.
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Re#2. “…..with refugees fleeing the raging conflict…..”
This sentence could jusifiably read “…..with refugees/Canadians of convenience fleeing the ragin conflict…..”
Canadian Foreign Affairs is already gearing up. Spare no expense. Not rumour, fact. The only lesson the government learned? Shhhhhh. Try and keep it as quiet as possible. Déjà vu. Note: the numbers of evacuees ended up to be approx. 40,000 I believe.
http://bit.ly/MIekE8
The costs that the doctor has to pay should be a lesson for all those trying to get out of a problem by blaming others. Lawsuits are not cheap. Think of the amount those trying to overturn election results must- put up or shut up. I hope they have to pay before the trial goes on.
Re: #4 — This is interesting for me. The US is the most litigiousness society I know of and there’s a reason for that. People can sue and if they’re wrong “Bob’s your uncle”. There is no monetary penalty for crazy accusations that I know of.
Quite unlike the US, Canada has a different system. “You lose, you pay” — everything!
The difference is amazing when you stop to consider that Canada has a lot less “frivolous litigation” unless you factor in the idea that bogus lawsuits “up here” can get very expensive very quickly. And maybe that is the entire point.
I think our law is far better than exists in the US and maybe they should have a closer look. The only people I see winning “down there” are the elected lawyers WHO have created all those US Constitutional amendments over the years which work for them and nobody else.
And they are winning big.
I don’t want Canada to go there and I do want our Constitution suspended until such time as we sort our mess out. I may be wrong but I don’t think so.
Looking at the US this day I can see our future and I don’t like it. Far to many lawyers being elected and not nearly enough farmers (or lumberjacks).