CANADA
#1 — CS | RCMP kill pitbull after Calgary woman attacked
RCMP killed one pitbull and seized another after a woman was attacked at a home in Sundre, Alta., early Saturday, sending her to hospital with “severe injuries.”
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#2 — Globe | Bill to impose teachers’ contract will not be a confidence motion, McGuinty says
Legislation to impose new contracts on Ontario teachers will not be declared a confidence motion by the minority Liberal government, meaning its defeat would not trigger an election, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Friday.
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#3 — LFP | First Tory leader dies at 82
MONTREAL – John George Lynch-Staunton, a former senator and the first leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, has died.
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#4 — NP | Mulcair touts Canada’s oil and oil sands as an ‘important’ resource
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair is touting the benefits of Canada’s “important” oil resources, but he said the federal government needs to work hard on supporting spinoff jobs and ensuring proper environmental protection.
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#5 — OC | Minister says new research healing wounds of Dieppe
New research about the disastrous 1942 raid of German-occupied Dieppe on the French coast will “heal the wounds” that linger 70 years later, Veterans Affairs Minister Steven Blaney said Saturday.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | India blames Pakistan for exodus of migrant workers
Threatening messages sent by mobile phone and over the internet that triggered an exodus of migrant workers from southern Indian cities mostly came from Pakistan, Indian officials say.
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#7 — CNN | Source: At least 20 ‘Tonight Show’ staffers laid off, Leno’s salary slashed
Los Angeles (CNN) – Between 20 and 25 employees of NBC’s “The Tonight Show” have been laid off and host Jay Leno has taken a substantial pay cut, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told CNN on Saturday.
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#8 — Fox | US missiles kill 7 militants in Pakistan, officials say
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani intelligence officials say missiles fired from unmanned American spy planes have hit two vehicles near the Afghan border, killing at least seven militants.
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#9 — DM | Will Michael Phelps LOSE his medals?
As the most decorated Olympian of all time, it was only a matter of time before Michael Phelps landed a major fashion endorsement.
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#10 — Telegraph | Libya: Saif Gaddafi to go on trial next month
Libya’s newly-elected government intends to put Saif al-Islam Gaddafi on trial next month in the mountain town of Zintan, after striking a deal with the independent militia which caught him trying to escape across the desert last November.
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