16, JULY 2013 MORNING NEWS E. TIME

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.**

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• Panama seizes N. Korean ship
• Violence in LA over Zimmerman
• Strike brings Greece to halt
• Pakistani Taliban join fight in Syria
• Uproar over orangutan racial slur
• U.S. meets Egypt leaders amid crisis
• Morsy supporters hit with tear gas
• Bachmann wants to ‘spank’ Obama
• Apple to probe phone charging death
• Spieth: U.S. golf’s new kid on the block
• Chris Brown’s probation revoked
  

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26, JUNE 2013 EARLY EVENING NEWS E. TIME

26, June 2013       CANADA   NEWS

  **Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has suspended his director of operations and logistics, David Price, for a week without pay, the Toronto Sun reports. after D. Price called the Sun’s city hall bureau to complain about a headline but refused to identify himself, the newspaper reported. **

**EDMONTON – Former city hall executive assistant, Terry Demers, enters Edmonton council race for third time. Her campaign focus is on community safety, communication between council and residents and basic transportation services.**

**MONTREAL—French authorities have opened a front in the round-the-globe inquiry into corruption and bribes paid by Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin, Reims, company’s European headquarters, discovered a mysterious $13.5 million payment that had nothing to do with any of the company’s European contracts, according to the newspaper l’Union.
French authorities were alerted in July 2012 and quickly opened an investigation that involved local police in Reims as well as the country’s financial crime-fighting force, who began looking into whether the money was a kickback paid in order to secure contracts.
Last November, police executed search warrants at SNC-Lavalin International’s offices, reportedly seizing documents related to the awarding of a gas-plant contract in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. No charges have been laid against any SNC-Lavalin employees in the investigation. Revelations about the French inquiry put renewed focus on the ever-expanding probe of the Canadian company’s business conduct around the globe.
French investigators say they are working in concert with the RCMP, who have already laid criminal charges against several former SNC-Lavalin executives in Canada, as well as Swiss authorities, who are holding former vice president Riadh Ben Aissa in Geneva on suspicion of corruption related to contracts the company won in Muammar Gadhafi’s Libya. Most recently, Algerian authorities raided company offices as part of a judicial inquiry into suspicions of bribery paid to officials in that country.
Research on the case around the world begin.**

26,June 2013      US   NEWS

**Across the South, Republicans are working to take advantage of a new political landscape after a divided U.S. Supreme Court freed all or part of 15 states, many of them in the old Confederacy, from having to ask Washington’s permission before changing election procedures in jurisdictions with histories of discrimination. officials in Texas and Mississippi pledged to immediately implement laws requiring voters to show photo identification before getting a ballot. North Carolina Republicans promised they would quickly try to adopt a similar law. Florida now appears free to set its early voting hours.
Before the ruling, the formula required reviews for all of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia; and parts of California, Florida, Michigan, New York, North Carolina and South Dakota. In Mississippi, the secretary of state said her office would begin enforcing a pending voter ID law for primaries in June 2014. North Carolina Republicans said they plan swift action on a pending voter ID bill.**

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• Mandela’s former surgeon visits
• Germany queries UK-U.S. surveillance
• Egypt braces for mass protests
• BP fighting ‘inflated’ Gulf spill payouts
• Huge flood rescue effort in India
• Tourists survive Arctic ice break-away
• Obama to begin Africa trip
• Sharapova stunned at Wimbledon

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13, JUNE 2013         CANADA    NEWS

EDMONTON

**Former city councillor Mike Nickel announced Wednesday he’s trying for a comeback as a candidate, this time for Ward 11.**

**Coun. Jane Batty announced Monday she’s retiring after 12 years on city council. The Ward 6 councillor, first elected in 2001, said she talked to her two daughters over the weekend and decided to make way for new blood in the central Edmonton district.**

**All four oilsands mining companies working in Alberta failed to meet standards set in 2009 requiring them to reduce toxic tailing ponds, according to a new report from the province’s Energy Resources Conservation Board.**

**Alberta’s growing group of midwives has signed their first formal compensation deal, a three-year agreement hailed as the final step in recognizing the profession as an integral part of mainstream health care.**

  Shaw, Blackhawks beat Bruins in triple overtime in game 1 of Cup Final .

CALGARY

**A new program aims to cut Calgary’s high school dropout rate in half in the next five years. **

**City police want to remind Calgarians of the dangers of drinking and driving and are using a tragic example to drive the point home in a new campaign.**

**Wolf chases Banff motorcyclist on local highway **

YUKON  AND  NORTHEASTERN  

**Close to 50 of Whitehorse’s policy wonks and politicos gathered Tuesday evening at the Yukon Arts Centre to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Yukon Act and muse about the territory’s future. **

**More than seven months after being elected, city council members have adopted what’s essentially been deemed a roadmap for its term that will run until October 2015.**

**SWEET SOUNDS – Shanti Bremer with Sweet Lowdown performs last Sunday in the Yukon Arts Centre Gallery during the annual Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival.**

**A new alliance of charter air companies plans to bid for lucrative charter business in western Nunavut. Kitikmeot Air Ltd. announced June 12 the conclusion of a long-term contract that will see Nolinor Aviation of Montreal provide aircraft for charters from bases in Cambridge Bay**

                   

**The Iqaluit fire department got the city’s approval June 11 to expand its firefighter training grounds, with councillors approving a motion that helps clear the way for an upgrade to a facility where firefighters can train.**

**Telesat Canada, the satellite communications company, will make a donation to the Inuit Broadcasting Corp.‘s Nunavut Media Arts Centre fundraising campaign.**

**INUVIK – Celebrating teacher longevity is among the more pleasant tasks for Stan Anderson in his role as chairperson of the Rankin Inlet District Education Authority. **

VANCOUVER

**Westside-Kelowna residents will be lining up at the polls again, less than two months after they decisively voted in former MLA Ben Stewart.**

**B.C. New Democratic Party MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert was re-elected in Vancouver-West End by almost 5,000 votes Tuesday night after campaigning to address affordability and trans rights.**

**Sixteen more accused rioters are now charged nearly two years after the night of downtown mayhem that followed the Vancouver Canucks’ 2011 Stanley Cup final loss. A total of 229 people have now been charged with crimes including participating in a riot and 149 of them have pleaded guilty.**

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12, JUNE 2013 EARLY EVENING NEWS E. TIME

12, June 2013       CANADA    NEWS

**The NDP was defending its decision to nix a series of Liberal motions designed to shed light on MPs’ expenses, dismissing them as a “stunt.” 2:05 PM ET **

**The legal arguments over the constitutionality of Canada’s Royal baby bill didn’t end when it became law in March. In fact, they’re heating up just as Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrives in London to meet Queen Elizabeth. **

English: Stephen Harper, Canadian Prime Minister (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

**Canada is adopting a G8 initiative that would require companies to disclose any payments they make to foreign governments, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Wednesday in London at a meeting with oil, gas and mining executives. **

**Dalton McGuinty officially resigned today as MPP for Ottawa-South, with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne defending his legacy and saying he should not be defined by the gas plant cancellation scandal that sped his exit from politics. 12:12 PM ET **

**Former city councillor Mike Nickel will run for a seat in Edmonton’s Ward 11 now up for grabs with incumbent Coun. Kerry Diotte making a bid for the mayors chair. **

**Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne sacked the entire board of Alberta Health Services on Wednesday. 1:47 PM ET  **

**An Edmonton-based engineering firm has been granted an order to seek up to $180,000 in assets from a Nunavut diamond mine owner. **

**CBC news correspondents detained in Turkey Sasa Petricic and Derek Stoffel, who were detained by police in Istanbul, Turkey, amid ongoing protests in the country, both say they doing fine, and the Turkish ambassador to Canada says they’re expected to be released shortly. **

12, June 2013       US   NEWS

**The U.S. Justice Department says Rhode Island and the city of Providence violated the rights of the developmentally disabled by unnecessarily segregating them at a city school and a state-licensed employment program.**

**On June 1, the Atlantic hurricane season officially began. According to a report released earlier this week, an estimated $1.1 trillion in property are at risk of hurricane damage. More than $658 billion of those homes are located within just 10 metropolitan areas. **

**The government says the U.S. budget deficit widened in May by $139 billion, but the annual deficit stayed on track to finish below $1 trillion for the first time since 2008. **

**In response to Newton shootings, some states move to put guns in classrooms. In Ohio, Buckeye Firearms Association, a gun rights PAC, has launched a program to educate teachers on how to take down a gunman. Gun rights groups have sponsored classes for teachers in a number of states from Texas to Ohio. For 12 years, Utah’s concealed weapon law has permitted a person to have, on his or her person or in a secure lockbox, a weapon inside a school. As concealed firearm permit holders, they are not required to tell parents or school officials. **

SPORTS HEADLINES

• Report: Kidd, Nets negotiate; Shaw not out
• Parker’s MRI reveals strain, hopes to play
• Goodell letter: Redskins’ name is ‘positive’
• Source: Celts’ Rivers hints ‘time for change’
• Jets mulling read-option package for Smith
• Jackson: Eagles want to know QB
• T.O. still hoping team will give him a chance
• USGA won’t change ball rules for rain
• Tebow: Will ‘be a lot of fun’ on Pats 
• Shaq attack: O’Neal thinks Howard ‘too nice’
• Olney: Machado belongs with Harper 

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• Rehtaeh Parsons yelled during alleged strip-search, say witnesses
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• Rival hockey brothers plan Stanley Cup trip of a lifetime
• Canada set to concede to EU on takeover, investment rules
• ‘Leaked’ video showing PM’s lighter side lights up Youtube
• Ashley Smith’s doctor outraged by guards’ orders to stay out
• Hamilton MMA fighter Elochukwu died in the ring from a heart malfunction
• Canada not targeting offshore tax cheats, analysis shows
• Quebec police raid of Hells Angels drug ring nets 28 arrests
• Fort McMurray floodwaters wash out roads, power
• Quebec tables bill on medically assisted death
• Mark Carney farewell bash’s pricetag could exceed $30,000
• Woman’s legs severed in Montreal freight train accident
• Neil Macdonald: Obama’s whistleblower conundrum
• Royal baby law challenge could end up at Supreme Court
• Defence hints at plea in Ohio kidnapping-rape case
• NSA whistleblower Snowden says he’s not avoiding justice
• Rehtaeh Parsons yelled during alleged strip-search, say witnesses

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12, June 2013        CANADA    NEWS

ALBERTA

**The satndoff between the Tory government and the superboard it put in place to run’s Alberta’s health-care system is one more sign that AHS needs to be scrapped, say critics.**

**Crews are cleaning up and investigating after a pipeline leak in northwestern Alberta. An unknown amount of water that had previously been used in an oil well spilled June 1 from a line owned by Apache Canada Ltd., near the hamlet of Zama City. **

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** FORT MCMURRAY – Residents are trying to clean up the damage after high waters on the Hangingstone River flooded this northern Alberta city’s downtown core and evacuated  residents. **

EDMONTON

**Hundreds of Edmonton high school students walked out of class Tuesday to gather at the Alberta Legislature in protest of budget cuts to education.**

**The city has axed the idea of a sandy beach in Hawrelak Park and will move forward with a $2.9 million design for a water play area instead. The budget for the beach project outlined in a report presented to the city’s Community.**

CALGARY

**A high-stakes showdown erupted Tuesday between the Redford government and Alberta Health Services board after directors refused to spike executive bonuses.**

**Olympic hockey star and University of Calgary student Hayley Wickenheiser received her bachelor of Kinesiology degree.**

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11, JUNE 2013 MORNING NEWS W. TIME

11,June 2013      CANADA   NEWS

VANCOUVER

**The Transportation Safety Board is expected to recommend Canadian rail carriers adopt a new system of automated signalling and braking to help prevent runaway trains and fatal derailments. 5:01 AM ET**

**More than 11,000 cyclists who were issued tickets in Vancouver over the past five years for not wearing a helmet refused to pay their $29 fine.**

**Gregor Robertson wants Vancouver to become a high-tech oasis; by 2020, the greenest and cleanest, most sustainable patch of urbanity in the world.**

CALGARY

**City council voted Monday in favour of developing the Paskapoo Slopes, despite advocates arguing against it.**

**The city has hired a new top bean counter, Kathy Palmer new city auditor.**

**Mounties and search and rescue crews will continue Tuesday morning to look for two young men, including one from Alberta, missing since early Sunday along a B.C. forestry road.**

EDMONTON

**The City Centre Airport redevelopment is in jeopardy unless the city reaches a deal to take over land where the province stores and flies its airplanes **

**The city auditor has found serious problems with the operations of a group set up to improve the quality of life for aboriginal Edmontonians.**

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7, JUNE 2013 MORNING NEWS W. TIME

7, June 2013      CANADA   NEWS

BRITISH COLUMBIA

**VANCOUVER- The Okanagan wine producer who is giving up his seat for Premier Christy Clark to run in a by-election hopes the Liberal government sticks to its plan to improve liquor and alcohol laws.**

**B.C. regulators have accused a former financial adviser of improperly advising clients to buy $65-million of securities without being registered to do so, and allege he committed fraud in misleading his clients about why he gave up his registration to work in the securities industry.**

**Canada’s foreign service officers are targeting Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s trip to Europe next week as a part of a bold tactic to rejuvenate stalled contract talks.** 

CALGARY

**Alberta MP Brent Rathgeber said the control exercised by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Office over backbench MPs was preventing him from representing his constituents and is one reason he had to quit the Tory caucus.**

**Residents of a northwest Calgary community are being asked to chip in to fight plans to redevelop their local shopping plaza. **

EDMONTON

**Edmonton member of Parliament Peter Goldring will rejoin the Conservative caucus after being acquitted of not giving a breath sample in a drinking and driving case.**

**It’s been a strange year for mosquitoes, according to the City of Edmonton’s mosquito expert Mike Jenkins. “Overall, the mosquito population this year has been a little bit unusual,” Jenkins said Thursday, referring to the timing of this spring’s mosquito hordes. **

MANITOBA

**Police are at the scene of a possible shooting in Winnipeg’s North End. 7:33 AM ET **

**Several Winnipeggers brought their dogs to a Point Douglas park on Thursday afternoon, in an effort to drive out drug dealers who have set up shop there.**

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