Sunday, 31 August, 2014 -( 76˚F / 24˚C & Mostly Cloudy over Ithaca @ 5:30 pm ET )-
{ & again, these are not links. If you want to read these stories, listen to sound clips, or see any video -if there is any video- go to CBC dot CA/news. —Thanks. ———djo——— }
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{ I’ve been doing this because I believe that the CBC may be more honest and more respectable than Media here in the U.S.A., AND not a lot of people in the U.S. may know that or have access to anyone who might point them toward the CBC & their web site. }
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Lead Articles
Strike by teachers to keep B.C. schools closed on Tuesday { }
Putin calls for talks on ‘statehood’ in southeast Ukraine { }
WHO says equipment needed to contain Ebola in Senegal { }
Germany to send Iraqi Kurds weapons for 4,000 fighters { }
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“Offbeat”
Greedy thief caught by waiting police in Happy Valley-Goose Bay { Goose Bay is in Labrador. A ’19-year-old thief’ returned to a house he had allegedly broken into to get stuff he had allegedly left behind and the RCMP grabbed him. }
An enormous enchilada { An enchilada more than 84 meters long and weighing one ton did not break the world’s record. 84 meters = 275 feet +7 &3/32nds inches. }
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“Most Viewed”
Health Canada pulling last of citronella-based bug sprays { * Health Canada says there is an absence of adequate safety data. People who know there are issues with DEET based insect repellent and scientists who had tested citronella and found it ‘basically safe’ are ‘confused’ by Health Canada’s decision. There is a video “How to make a non-DEET bug spray with essential oils” with the article at >>—-> Link to Health Canada Article Page —djo— }
B.C. teachers strike:$40-a-day parent pay registration opens {* The premier of B.C. says he will not interfere with the strike by legislating back-to-work orders. The Mediator who volunteered to help gave up and walked away. There were signs that teachers were carrying that called this a ‘lock out’. I don’t know any more than that. —djo— }
Girl, 7, dies after falling off farming tractor in Tweed, Ontario { 🙁 }
Shania Twain on P.E.I. concert: ‘I just feel at home here’ { }
British boy with tumor found in Spain getting treatment { }
D.A.D.’s Bagels owner Kashmir Randhawa heartbroken over closure { * The bagel shop was credited with reviving a neighborhood that most people had given up on. After 20 years of being there and attracting the kinds of residents who cleaned up the neighborhood and brought up property values- the shop’s landlord evicted them in favor of getting some higher rent tenants. —djo— }
Bardarbunga volcano: Iceland lowers aviation warning after no ash detected { * This almost sounds like a stupid plot from a “B” movie about black ops idiots trying to use a volcanic eruption to cover their shenanigans and the volcano refused to co-operate. —djo— }
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Other
China rejects open nominations for Hong Kong leadership { }
4 killed in likely gas leak explosion in Paris suburb { }
Israel calls on region to rebuild, disarm Gaza { }
Bolivian bus crash kills 10, injures 1 Canadian { }
NATO pushes for bigger crisis response brigade as Canada mulls opportunity { }
Iraqi and militia forces break 6-week siege of Shia town { }
While ISIS destroys, University of Toronto team battles to preserves historic texts { Sounds suspiciously like a headline written by a propaganda agency- but maybe there’s a University professor or two who deserve a pat on the back. —djo— }
Texas abortion rules unconstitutional, judge rules { * “Tough new Texas abortion restrictions are on hold after a federal judge found Republican-led efforts to hold abortion clinics to hospital-level operating standards unconstitutional in a ruling that spares more than a dozen clinics from imminent closure.” —djo— }
-Must Watch- Sand-Diego’s amazing sculptures { }
CN train cars derail near Edmonton { }
Drones and dinosaurs { Scientists are using drones to map ‘one of the world’s most important fossil sites’ —djo— }
Conservative fund raising runs into roadblock in Quebec { 30 out of 75 ‘Conservative riding associations’ reported no donations at all to the Conservative party in 2013. – ‘Riding’ = voting district – Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, has sent his ‘Quebec lieutenant’, Denis Lebel, around the province on a whirlwind end of summer tour to generate interest and dollars. —djo— }
EPA says smog rules should be up to 20% stronger { * This is the U.S. EPA that’s being reported on here. —djo— }
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“Local / “New Brunswick”
Trinity Western approval causes N.B. lawyers to speak out { Trinity Western University is a ‘faith-based university’. The Law Society of New Brunswick voted in June to accredit the law program of that school while other Provinces in Canada do not accept lawyers into their bar associations if they graduated from that school’s program. Some lawyers are worried that law school graduates from that university might have a very slanted view of human rights that might be “Un-Canadian”. —djo— }
Moncton RCMP fund gets boost from Confederation Bridge fundraiser { }
Drone captures bird’s-eye-view of Bathurst { * Drones video-capturing images of people in their own homes and interfering with commercial airlines’ flights have been controversial lately. —djo— }
Halibut-tracking test hopes to prove quota increase needed { }
NDP’s Dominic Cardy proposes local government overhaul { }
Brian Gallant struggles to articulate campaign message { * Now this sounds extraordinarily slanted to me- —djo— }
Arts funding needed despite financial crisis, ex-Lt-Gov. says { A couple days ago the ex-Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick was quoted as saying that Artists fuel innovation —djo— }
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{ 7:47 pm -after dealing with one barking dog, ready to check for typos and colorize this thing. ———djo——— }
