16, JULY 2013 MORNING NEWS E. TIME

16 July, 2013

16,July 2013 CANADA NEWS

**Stephen Harper is girding for the next election with a huge cabinet shuffle that enlists and promotes younger ministers, He’s kept the core of his economic team intact. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said he believes nothing has really changed. It is clear that the only minister who has any power in this government is the Prime Minister. **

**Court delays in Alberta have been reduced thanks to streamlining measures introduced by the province. Three months after the measures were introduced, the initiatives have made significant progress in cutting down judicial delays, Justice Minister Jonathan Denis said Monday. Prosecutors have proceeded by direct indictment in three high-profile Edmonton-area cases recently. Statistics provided by Alberta Justice showed the average time to go to trial in provincial court dropped slightly in June 2013 over the previous year in Edmonton and Calgary. Preliminary inquiries have historically been used to determine if prosecutors have enough evidence to proceed to trial. Eliminating preliminary inquiries may save time in provincial court, but DePoe predicted it will result in longer dockets in the province’s superior trial court.**

**Weather warnings blanketed Saskatchewan on Monday, but by the end of the day the deadly weather had missed many centres. Environment Canada confirmed tornadoes had reportedly touched down southeast of Regina near Kronau and Gray, west of Yorkton and north of Humboldt sometime between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. There were also unconfirmed reports of a tornado near Hague.**

16,July 2013 US NEWS

**Differences between the Senate and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives have centered on border security and a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, And bill the Senate passed in June includes ambitious measures to eliminate green card backlogs and create a new merit program, based mainly on education and job skills, to expand and streamline future legal immigration. None of several smaller measures recently approved by House committees deal with fixing the visa system, and a bipartisan House bill similar to the Senate’s has stalled. Congress has imposed caps on the number of visas issued to each country each year. As a result, immigrants from some countries can wait a decade or more to get their visas after approvals. Most foreigners are waiting outside the United States.**

**The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first medical scan that can help diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children by measuring the frequency of two standard brain waves known as theta and beta waves. Diagnosing ADHD is a multistep process based on a complete medical and psychiatric exam, said Christy Foreman, director of FDA’s Office of Device Evaluation, in a statement. The American Psychiatric Association states that it affects 3 to 7 percent of school-aged children.**