31, MAY 2013 EARLY EVENING NEWS E. TIME

31, May 2013     US  NEWS

**Obama administration to blame for jailing of hero Laden doctor, say pakistani report.**

**COLUMBUS, Ohio –  Verbal gaffes by Ohio State University president Gordon Gee have long been a source of amusement and headaches at the school, whether he was calling the state governor a “dummy” two decades ago or more recently likening the challenges of holding together university divisions to “the Polish Army.**

**The former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan called on the White House Friday to announce how many troops it intends to leave in that country after 2014.**

**Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been a public face of gun control for years, but he’s in a new, unsought spotlight after ricin-laced letters were sent to him and a group he helps lead.**

**MOSCOW –  Russia’s MiG aircraft maker said Friday it plans to sign a new agreement to ship at least 10 fighter jets to Syria, a move that comes amid international criticism of earlier Russian weapons deals with Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime.**

31, May 2013    CANADA  NEWS

**An Ontario Superior Court judge has acquitted Toronto police Const. Glenn Weddell on all assault charges arising from the G20 protests nearly three years ago.**

**Crash northern Ontario involving Ornge’s Sikorsky S-76A helicopter.Four people — two pilots and two paramedics — are confirmed dead. The accident happened at about 12:11 a.m. ET departed from the Ornge Moosonee base.**

**Conservative MP Michelle Rempel and Liberal Senator James Cowan on the Senate expenses scandal. Former chief of staffs Keith Beardsley and David McLaughlin on Nigel Wright’s $90,000 gift to Senator Mike Duffy. Plus, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall on his plea to abolish the Senate.**

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• Chinese miner dispute prompts angry letters from public
• The whale that changed the world’s view of marine mammals
• CP Rail sues for mineral, timber rights on B.C. lands
• Morgentaler’s fight not finished for abortion movement
• Which part of Canada has the most smokers?
• Alleged human trafficking of nanny lands couple in court
• Queen Elizabeth’s 1953 coronation, a ‘madhouse on the streets’
• B.C. man accused of duping investors out of $600K
• Community reaction to the death of Dr. Henry Morgentaler
• Alleged Abbotsford abduction leads to arrest
• WW II explosives trigger lawsuit by B.C. developer 

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31, MAY 2013 MORNING NEWS WEST T. EDITION

31, May  2013         CANADA

VANCOUVER

**Health workers were warned Thursday to watch out for potential overdoses involving the drug fentanyl, an opiate often mistaken for heroin that is believed to be linked to 23 deaths so far this year.**

**The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal from a woman who wanted to know the identity of her sperm-donor father.**

**Environment Canada has laid charges or launched investigations into three Metro Vancouver companies linked to the export of electronic waste in violation of an international law designed to protect human and environmental health from dangerous recycling.**

CALGARY

**Co-ops are financially feeding brain health at the Alberta Children’s Hospital with a $825,000 gift as part of $5 million benefiting young patients across western Canada.**

**Last minute disclosure has delayed a freedom bid for a Toronto man accused of trying to smuggle a massive heroin haul through Calgary International Airport.**

EDMONTON

**A request for provincial funding for Edmonton’s proposed $480-million downtown arena project got thumbs up from capital region leaders on Thursday.The Capital Region Board (CRB) voted 17 to seven to approve in principle a collaborative grant application for $25 million to the province for the arena project, which had been short $55 million in funding.**

**The Northern Alberta International Children’s Festival is one of North America’s longest-running children’s festivals. The 100’s of performers attract tens of thousands of children (and adults) over the annual five day festival. This year’s festival runs from May 28 to June 1, 2013 at St. Albert Place and surrounding area. Full details and schedules can be found here:  www.childfest.com **

The Northern Alberta International Children’s Festival –  Photo

31, MAY 2013 MORNING NEWS E.TIME

31, May 2013   US  NEWS

**The US Secret Service confirmed that the White House intercepted the letter, which was similar to the ricin-laced notes sent last week to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.**

**Sen. Tom Coburn wants congressional expenses put under the microscope, now that other agencies are cutting back due to sequester. **

**Congresswoman Michele Bachmann says she will not run for re-election in 2014, ending her tenure as the representative from Minnesota’s sixth congressional district after four terms.**

**At least two congressional panels are planning more hearings next week on the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt  status.**

** In an unusual twist to the Capitol Hill probes into the tax agency, lawmakers have started to challenge the government watchdog who uncovered the wrongdoing **

31, May 2013    CANADA   NEWS

**Weeks after the long-time mayor of Laval was hauled away in handcuffs after resigning in disgrace, his replacement is being implicated in a scheme to disguise illegal political financing.**

**For months, Canada’s biggest banks have been warning of economic headwinds in the domestic market that threatened to shake their retail businesses.**

**The Premier of Ontario is expressing concern about the political consequences of the controversy that is plaguing Canada’s largest city.– Premier Kathleen Wynne warned that she is prepared to intervene in the city’s affairs if necessary.**

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• Large asteroid to zip by today
• Russian arms dealer to supply Syria with new fighter jets
• WW II explosives trigger lawsuit by B.C. developer
• Queen Elizabeth’s 1953 coronation, a ‘madhouse on the streets’
• Millard Air hangar contained stolen vehicles, police say
• Suicide video shown at Winnipeg school enrages dad
• Hands-free texting while driving just as dangerous, says study
• Tornadoes touch down in Oklahoma, Arkansas
• Arthur Porter changes mind and will fight extradition, lawyer says
• Could this be Amelia Earhart’s plane?

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30, May 2013 EARLY EVENING NEWS E.TIME

30,  May 2013    US  NEWS

**James Comey, the man President Obama is likely to nominate as the new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, may be a Republican, but he’s near and dear to the hearts of many liberals in Washington.**

**Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee was set to join the Democratic Party — a switch the former Republican-turned-independent has said could boost his chances of winning a second term and one that could set up a primary confrontation with two of the state’s most popular leaders.**

**Meteorologists have been tracking the thunder storms moving through the Oklahoma City region on Thursday.**

30, May  2013   CANADA  NEWS

**Toronto Mayor Rob Ford told reporters Thursday that he’s not stepping aside and plans to run in the next election, while ignoring calls to provide answers to the latest questions about an alleged drug video that he denies exists. 5:05 PM ET **

English: Rob Ford, Toronto City Councillor and candidate for Mayor in 2010. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

**Six months after he was appointed to the Senate, Mike Duffy was in consultations with Conservatives about an expanded role in the party, including his own suggestion he be named a minister without portfolio to get a car and staff, according to an email exchange obtained by CBC News. 5:17 PM ET **

**Parts from stolen vehicles have been found in an airplane hangar owned by Dellen Millard, the Toronto man charged in the slaying of Tim Bosma, Hamilton police say. 4:08 PM ET **

**Arthur Porter has changed his mind and will now fight extradition back to Canada to face fraud charges, lawyer Ricardo Bilonick Paredes says. 3:38 PM ET **

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30, MAY 2013 CANADA MORNING NEWS WEST TIME EDITION

30, May 2013   CANADA MORNING WEST NEWS EDITION

VANCOUVER

**Vancouver taxis can continue zipping down bus lanes within the city limits following a year-long trial aimed at clearing congestion.**

**TransLink executives had the same response Wednesday to a flurry of determined public questions on such issues as full buses not stopping, the lack of a Surrey bus stop for a new route, or the downsizing of HandyDART.**

**The Vancouver Pride, Vaisakhi and Lunar New Year parades all stand to get a major boost from the city after council voted Wednesday in favour of granting special designations to those specific events.**

**While five of her male co-accused were convicted in a Vancouver kidnapping, former realtor Naz Mirhadi was acquitted Wednesday.**

**Vancouver civic politicians will be hosting nearly 2,000 of their counterparts from across the country on “field trips” this weekend at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference.**

**TransLink is spending nearly $40 million to upgrade its fleet of Mark I SkyTrain cars on the Expo and Millennium Lines beginning this fall.**

WHITEHORSE

**The seventeenth Bratton Hilly Run took place on Saturday 11th May, with the number of runners up from last year’s event.**

**OVER 100 performers, bands, artists, and speakers will take to the stage as festival Sunrise takes place at the end of this month.**

**Wiltshire Council is expected to ask more staff to consider taking voluntary redundancy, as it seeks to save a minimum of £4million from staffing costs by cutting 340 full-time jobs.**

**The Yukon government this morning announced an out-of-court settlement with Norcope Enterprises over a two-year-old contract dispute involving the Whistle Bend subdivision.**

**Environment Yukon is reminding all Yukoners that bears are out and about and looking for food from any source.**

**The fifth annual Boogaloos event was quite different from the first four.There was a change in name – from Boogaloo to Boreale – sparked by a slight change in the course. In previous years the race started or ended at the Boreale Mountain Biking compound.This year the event started and ended at the Magnusson trail parking lot on Grey Mountain Road on Saturday, but still used a lot of the Boogaloo trails.**

**Chieftain Metals Inc. is on schedule to build a mine at the Tulsequah Chief site near Atlin, B.C., despite continued financial problems and First Nations opposition, company president Victor Wyprysky insisted this week.**

BRITISH COLUMBIA

**The RCMP on Salt Spring Island is investigating after a three-year-old girl succumbed to injuries sustained during a car accident Tuesday.**

**A former BC Conservative candidate given the boot mid-campaign hasn’t ruled out running for them again after a party official admitted he shouldn’t have been fired.**

**A new face has arrived in the interim to replace B.C.’s outgoing auditor general John Doyle, who has left for Australia following his six-year tenure as the province’s financial watchdog.**

**Vancouver travellers aren’t the only ones inconvenienced by the collapse of a Washington state bridge.**

**Record rain and a late snowmelt caused an unprecedented landslide — unlike anything experienced in the southeastern B.C. Interior for the past 12,000 years — that killed four people last July, according to a report on the Johnsons Landing mudslide.**

30,May 2013 MORNING NEWS EAST TIME

30, May  2013     US  NEWS

**Republican James Comey opposed some of President Bush’s disputed tactics in the war on terror, making him acceptable to Democrats.**

**The two letters contain threats related to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control campaign and an oily pinkish-orange substance.**

**An advocacy group demands an investigation into the death of Ibragim Todashev amid reports he was unarmed when the FBI killed him.**

**US weapon systems hackead  by China- see image

30, May 2013   CANADA  NEWS

**Former employees at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited say they witnessed potential wrongdoing in procurement practices at the Crown corporation, with managers receiving gifts from suppliers, favouritism toward certain suppliers and deliberate leaks of information. 5:45 AM ET**

**TORONTO – Certains directeurs de banques à charte canadiennes figurent parmi les dirigeants bancaires ayant profité des plus fortes rémunérations versées en Amérique du Nord en 2012.**

**TORONTO – La commissaire à l’information et à la protection de la vie privée de l’Ontario, Ann Cavoukian, est préoccupée par des informations voulant qu’on ait ordonné de supprimer les données concernant les appels téléphoniques et les courriels de trois anciens collaborateurs du maire de Toronto.**

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• Canadian CEOs among top bank earners in North America
• China baby rescued from sewer returned to grandparents
• Canada’s disability savings fund called a ‘fiasco’
• Syria says it’s received Russian missile shipment
• Harper goes on attack as Duffy questions mount
• Rob Ford ducks questions on drug video as new ones emerge
• Letters containing ricin sent to NYC Mayor Bloomberg
• Rocky Mountain snowpack loss foreshadows water woes
• Ikea monkey’s owner in court today seeking animal’s return
• Arthur Porter won’t fight extradition from Panama
• Quiz: You vs. the spelling bee champs

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29,May 2013 EARLY EVENING NEWS EAST TIME

29, May 2013    US  NEWS

**Months after a secret e-mail search controversy at Harvard College, Evelynn M. Hammonds announced that she will step down as dean.**

**Tornado watches stretched from the Texas Panhandle to central Nebraska on Wednesday as another wave of storms put portions of the Plains states and Midwest squarely in the bull’s-eye again.**

**Storm-battered Oklahoma City area added to watch zone**

29, May 2013   CANADA  NEWS

**Dr. Henry Morgentaler, who led the abortion movement in Canada, has died at age 90, more than four decades after breaking the law at the time and opening the country’s first abortion clinic in Montreal.**

**The former CEO of Montreal’s McGill University Health Centre has indicated he doesn’t intend to fight extradition back to Canada from Panama to face fraud charges. 5:33 PM ET **

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• Omar Khadr moved to Edmonton jail after threats on life
• Ex-Saint John councillor pleads guilty to 46 counts of child exploitation
• City of Montreal sues for return of public funds
• Canada bans all imports, exports with latest Iran sanctions
• Air Canada ruling called small step in battle for passenger rights
• Saskatoon mom upset assault video posted online
• Al-Qaeda letter indicates $1.1M paid to free diplomats Fowler, Guay
• Tortured cat videos earn B.C. man 17-month sentence
• Beer returns to Kuujjuaq after near 20-year absence
• Halifax boy, 14, charged with making child pornography
• Bank of Canada cries fraud on $90K ‘Duffy buck’ cartoon
  

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29, May 2013 NEWS MORNING EAST TIME

29, May 2013    US  NEWS

**More than $6bn in criminal cash was laundered by the Liberty Reserve digital cash service, US prosecutors allege.**

**A cargo train carrying chemicals hits a lorry and derails in the US state of Maryland, injuring the lorry driver and causing a huge explosion.**

**U.S. defense officials push back on reports that China compromised security by accessing secret information on the design of advanced U.S. weapons.**

**A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS).**

**Oakland — A banker who serves as president of a merchant association in Oakland’s upscale Montclair District has been charged with bilking at least seven clients out of $1.4 million.**

**Walmart agreed Tuesday to pay $82 million after pleading guilty to criminal charges that the company improperly dumped hazardous waste at stores across California.**

**California– A small explosion Tuesday in a Disneyland trash can that appeared to be caused by dry ice in a bottle brought evacuations but no damages or injuries, officials and witnesses said. The blast was reported at about 5:30 p.m. in the Mickey’s Toontown area of Disneyland, Anaheim police spokesman Sgt.Bob Dunn said.**

**Dr. Tracy Manuck, left, gives a baby present to Guillermina and Fernando Garcia after a news conference Tuesday, May 28, 2013, at the University of Utah hospital, in Salt Lake City. A team about 40 medical personnel led by eight doctors helped ensure a Utah couple’s newborn quintuplets were born healthy. Guillermina and Fernando Garcia welcomed their five babies — three girls and two boys — over the weekend at the University of Utah hospital in Salt Lake City.**

**A freight train carrying hazardous chemicals and a variety of other materials collided with a truck northeast of Baltimore on Tuesday, injuring the truck driver and sparking a fire, authorities said.**

**Trips within the U.S. are relatively simple: sunscreen, hats, bug repellent and a good book. Going farther afield – to the Caribbean, Asia, South America or Africa – requires a bit more preparation.The bigger worries are the new strain of bird flu in China and coronavirus in the Arabian Peninsula.**

29, May 2013   CANADA NEWS

**The Senate committee on internal economy has voted unanimously to send the matter of Senator Mike Duffy’s expense claims to the RCMP.**

**Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s staff was told days ago about the potential location of an alleged crack cocaine video that has threatened his administration, according to a pair of reports today.**

**Ottawa– The federal government removed some oilsands projects from a list of those requiring environmental screenings, after being told in an internal memorandum that this form of industrial development could disturb water sources and harm fish habitat.**

**Nanoose Bay- – The theft of a unique velociraptor on Vancouver Island threatened to wipe out the species, but Jurassic justice prevailed and the ripped-off raptor has been returned.**

**Ottawa— The federal government, which has always said it did a careful analysis of the potential public safety risk of shutting down the Canadian Coast Guard station in Kitsilano, says it has no report showing the review’s findings.**

**Yukon- Another increase in electrical rates is on the horizon, in addition to what has already been approved for Yukon Energy.**

**Yukon Environment, with the help of the public, released 4,500 rainbow and 5,000 koknanee salmon into Hidden Lake #1 last Saturday. The fish were raised in the Whitehorse Rapids Fish Hatchery.**

29, May 2013     SPORTS  NEWS

**  Novak Djokovic survives a first set scare from Belgian David Goffin as he books a place in the second round at Roland Garros after a day of intermittent rain disrupts the French Open.**

**Today	8:30 PM	Scotiabank Hockey Tonight
	9:00 PM	2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs on CBC: Detroit at Chicago Game #7
May 30	12:00 AM	Hockey Night in Canada on CBC: Chevrolet Post Game Show
Jun 1	12:37 PM	ITU Triathlon World**

**Hockeynight–Kings advance to Western Conference final, edging Sharks 2-1 in Game 7**

  

**Indiana Pacers win –Roy Hibbert finished with 23 points and 12 rebounds, Lance Stephenson added 20 points, and the Pacers closed the game on a 16-6 run to pull away from the defending NBA champs for a 99-92 victory.**

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• Bumped Air Canada passengers to get more compensation
• Probe urged into senator’s role in offshore account
• Defending champion Kings edge Sharks in Game 7
• Tim Bosma slaying suspect Millard’s farm searched again
• 9 ways to avoid counterfeit polymer bills
• Canadian once set for execution freed from Saudi prison
• Harper faces sharp questions over Duffy-Wright affair
• New crew arrives at International Space Station
• Asteroid flyby expected Friday
• Push on for petroleum coke study before Keystone pipeline gets OK
• Ex-McGill hospital boss Arthur Porter has 15 days to fight extradition

• Gangs talk truce in world’s murder capital
• 2 U.S. officials shot in Venezuela nightclub, hospital says
• Passengers ‘terrified’ by cruise ship fire
• Australian PM dismisses report of Chinese hacking
• Gunmen fire on polio workers in Pakistan
• Prosecutors: Ex-president used office as ‘his personal ATM’
• Wave of attacks rock Iraq | Q&A: Sectarian tensions
• 14-year-old accused of hacking family to death
• Suu Kyi criticizes two-child limit on Muslims
• Skateboarder repels cougar attack

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28,May 2013 EARLY EVENING NEWS

28, May 2013    US   NEWS

**Recent security changes at New York City’s Ellis Island and Liberty Island were under scrutiny as summer started and tourists looked forward to the reopening of two of New York’s historic landmarks. **

** The sports company has already ended its personal sponsorship of Livestrong founder Lance Armstrong amid his doping scandal.**

**Fire on Royal Caribbean Cruise ship in Bahamas, Thousands of passengers are being flown back to the US as an investigation is launched.**

English: MS Majesty of the Seas, one of Royal Caribbean International’s Sovereign class cruise ships, anchored off Coco Cay, Royal Caribbean’s name for Little Stirrup Cay, an island located in the Bahamas. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

28, May 2013 CANADA  NEWS

**Unionized federal public servants will have to undergo annual performance reviews that will lead to more of them being fired, the Harper government announced Tuesday.**

**Edmonton,A male cyclist and a female pedestrian are in hospital with serious injuries after separate, unrelated traffic collisions late Monday along 118th Avenue.**

**Toronto homicide detectives are at Dellen Millard’s North Dumfries farm near Cambridge today to execute a search warrant in connection with the disappearance of Laura Babcock and the suicide of Millard’s father, Wayne, police have confirmed.**

28, May 2013   CANADA  SPORTS

**Top headlines

Stanley Cup Playoffs: Tuesday’s Need To Know The Sharks look to break the home-ice trend in Game 7 against the Kings, the Bruins and Penguins pat each other on the back**

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• Rob Nicholson not worried mental-health crime bill will fuel stigma
• Push on for petroleum coke study before Keystone pipeline gets OK
• Ex-McGill hospital boss Arthur Porter awaits extradition
• Clement to bring in public sector job performance reviews
• Trudeau suited up in unauthorized menswear ad

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28, MAY 2013 MORNING NEWS E. TIME

28, May 2013     US   NEWS

**Senator John McCain, a leading voice for US calls to arm Syrian
insurgents, has visited the war-torn country to meet rebels, his office
tells the BBC.**

English: John McCain official photo portrait. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

****New York launches its bike share programme, with 6,000 bikes across
Manhattan and Brooklyn, 10 months after it was scheduled to start.**

** More than 2,200 passengers prepare to fly home from the Bahamas after a fire aboard their Royal Caribbean-operated cruise ship.**

**A passenger on a US flight has been arrested for allegedly trying to open an emergency exit, after making “unusual statements,” says the FBI.**

28, MAY 2013     CANADA  NEWS

**Arthur Porter, a man accused of being at the heart of a scandal involving the $1.3 billion McGill University Health Centre mega-hospital project in Montreal, has been arrested in Panama. **

**Toronto Mayor Rob Ford told reporters Monday that it is “business as usual” at city hall, despite the abrupt departure of a handful of his senior staff and lingering questions about a still-unseen video that allegedly shows him using crack cocaine.**

**Published Monday, May. 27 2013, 9:30 PM EDT   Canada is among the best places in the world to live, according to a new quality of life measure from a leading international organization that compared rich industrialized nations.**

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• Newborn infant rescued from sewer pipe in China
• Australian police scale back search for missing Canadian
• Harper not in question period to address Senate scandal
• Troubled First Nation school’s TV course aims to spark interest in education
• Canadian definition of ‘local’ food greatly expanded
• Gawker hits fundraising goal to buy alleged Ford crack video
• Parked BMW X5 rolls away twice on its own
• Ontario transit proposal could cost each household $477 a year
• No sign of cougar after Banff man says skateboard stymied attack
• B.C. moms sue province for halting babies in jail program

28, MAY 2013    WORLD  NEWS

**Chile and Argentina order the evacuation of some 3,000 people living near the Copahue volcano, which has been showing increasing signs of activity.**

**The Catholic Church in Venezuela says it is running out of wine to celebrate Mass, because of renewed shortages of basic products.**

**Traditional Chinese medicine remains popular in China, but companies at the forefront of bringing them to the West face a central problem: How do you get a centuries-old remedy into mainstream acceptance?**

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• Thousands flee California wildfire
• Deadly attack on Pakistan polio workers
• Australian PM denies Chinese hacking
• Baby rescued from China sewage pipe
• Suu Kyi criticizes Muslim two-child limit
• Ex-leader accused of laundering millions
• Teen accused of family massacre
• Elderly pair slain, toddler assaulted
• Marine killed in Texas shooting spree
• U.S. pilot ejects over Pacific Ocean
• German blow to EU action against China
• Man charged in killing 6-month-old girl
• Passenger tries to open airplane door
• Two foreigners kidnapped in Yemen
• Dozens killed in Baghdad bombings
• Iraq still divided on sectarian lines
• Samsung to tease new products
• Tennis: Berdych out of French Open
• Skateboard repels cougar attack

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