CANADA
#1 — CNews | MPs should publish spending online: Watchdog group
OTTAWA – The feds maintain former cabinet minister Bev Oda paid back Canadians after a string of inappropriate expenses but a taxpayer watchdog group says MPs should be forced to publish spending details online – a policy that will soon to apply to provincial politicians in Alberta.
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#2 — Globe | Tugging a long-lost ship back to its Norwegian homeland
At long last, the Maud will float home.
After years of trying to persuade Ottawa to allow Norway to reclaim the famed schooner sailed by legendary polar explorer Roald Amundsen – and which is currently resting partially submerged in Nunavut’s Cambridge Bay – Norwegians have set their plans to retrieve the ship from its resting place of 82 years.
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#3 — LFP | B.C. forest fire forces 1,550 people to evacuate
CALGARY - About 1,550 residents of Peachland, B.C., were forced to flee their homes when a forest fire erupted near the Okanagan town Sunday.
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#4 — NP | Controversial anti-strike bill for Ontario teachers headed for final vote
TORONTO — Controversial anti-strike legislation that reins in wages and cuts benefits for Ontario teachers will come to a vote early this week.
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#5 — WS | Elections Canada deregisters Tory association in Ottawa-Vanier
Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand has deregistered the Conservative riding association in Ottawa-Vanier for failing to file financial reports as required by law.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Yemen ‘kills key al-Qaeda leader Said al-Shihri’
Security forces in Yemen have killed Said al-Shihri, described as the second-in-command of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), government officials say.
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#7 — CNN | The little green bean in big fracking demand
Rajasthan, India (CNN) – Rajinder Kumar has a spring in his step and a big smile on his face these days.
The 35-year-old farmer from Sri Ganganagar, a district in Rajasthan, northwest India, says life has never been better.
It’s all because of what he grows in his fields — a desert crop called guar.
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NY Times | In Tiny Bean, India’s Dirt-Poor Farmers Strike Gas-Drilling Gold
#8 — Fox | Romney, Ryan sound bipartisan tone on taxes, health care
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are moving to define what they plan to do and what they stand for on the hot-button issues of health care and taxes, after enduring a week in which Democratic convention-goers tried to define that for them.
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#9 — DM | The ‘even larger’ hadron collider
After discovering the smallest particle that could ever exist, the team at Cern is now considering scaling up – with a brand new collider.
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#10 — Telegraph | Richard III search: archaeologists ‘tantalisingly close’ to finding king’s body
Archaeologists searching for the remains of Richard III say they are ‘tantalisingly close’ to finding his final resting place.
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