CANADA
#1 — CNews | Frigate returns from anti-terror mission
OTTAWA – The Royal Canadian Navy is set to welcome back HMCS Charlottetown from the Arabian Sea.
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#2 — Globe | NDP MP seeks public’s help with legal bills in robo-calls case
An NDP MP is turning to the Internet to cover his legal bills in the face of a lawsuit for wrongly accusing an Alberta company of electoral fraud.
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#3 — LFP | Corporate handouts costs taxpayers billions
OTTAWA – Successive federal governments have flushed billions of dollars in corporate handouts down the drain, leaving taxpayers paying the tab.
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#4 — NP | Galloway Boys linked to Danzig Street shooting spree, 2011 murder: Toronto Police
Toronto police have linked the Galloway Boys, a notorious Scarborough street gang, to the July 16 block party shooting that killed two people and injured 23 others, as well as to the December murder of a 24-year-old man and six other shootings around the Toronto area.
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#5 — WS | Blanchard: Moroun referendum a ‘huge waste of money’
Former Michigan Gov. James Blanchard believes the upcoming bridge referendum on the November state ballot touted by Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Moroun is irrelevant and a “huge waste of money” since a binational agreement to build the $1-billion government-backed downriver bridge was signed in June.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Mexican police find 16 bodies in van in Guerrero state
Police in Mexico say they have found the bodies of 16 men inside an abandoned van beside a road in the western state of Guerrero.
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#7 — CNN | Trenton, New Jersey, mayor arrested on corruption charges
(CNN) – The mayor of New Jersey’s capital city was arrested Monday on corruption charges after being accused of accepting bribes during an undercover operation, authorities said.
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#8 — Fox | US, Afghanistan locked in dispute over Taliban and terror suspects in prisons
KABUL, Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai welcomed Monday’s handover of the main American-run prison to Afghan forces as a victory for Afghan sovereignty, though he and U.S. officials remain locked in a dispute over the fate of hundreds of Taliban and terror suspects behind bars.
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#9 — DM | Crowd-pleaser Boris grabs a gold for PR
Boris Johnson confirmed his status as the big political winner of the Olympics and Paralympics as he shamelessly upstaged David Cameron at yesterday’s victory parade.
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#10 — Telegraph | France shooting: Murdered Briton ‘was acting strangely in days before attack’
A British man murdered alongside his wife and mother-in-law while on holiday in the French Alps was acting strangely in the days prior to his death, leaving his family alone several times each day before inexplicably switching campsites without notice, it has emerged.
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Re#1. Memories. Navy crews (as do all military on deployment) always count down the months, weeks, days and hours until home. Specific to the navy though is the final traditional naval breakfast at sea before home port, steak and eggs. We used to laughingly refer to it as our ‘stamina’ meal. Eyes glued (for we lucky ones in the Operations Room or on the bridge) for the first long range radar return bouncing back off of our home and native land. When you first see the Canadian coastline, a sweep or three faintly but then stronger until brilliant and solid, brings feelings deep inside that are difficult to describe. Home! As you get closer and closer straining your eyes to catch the first glimpe of loved ones who you know are already there just as excited waiting on the jetty. Another distinct advantage for those working in operations versus those whose duty stations were below decks for sure. Coming home after a long deployment was always equivalent to a dozen Christmas mornings. There’s no life like it. Welcome home lads and lassies of the senior service. You’ve once again done Canada proud. A rather insignificant news piece to some, Jack. Nearly 40 years ago is suddenly but yesterday to others. Thankyou.
Re: Corporate handouts costs taxpayers billions a situation unlikely to change any time soon – political entitlements, patronage, and corporate welfare are political mainstays, regardless of which party is in power.