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\u2018There\u2019s nowhere safe in Gaza’: Strike near UN-run school kills 10, official says<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cLead stories\u201d<\/p>\n Nelson Mandela was \u2018completely intolerant of dishonesty,\u2019 says former secretary<\/span><\/p>\n From Tony Clement to Homer Simpson: Who #StephenHarper follows on Twitter<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n \u201cOffbeat\u201d<\/p>\n Carousels and ferris wheels, from New York to Gaza<\/span>\u00a0 { This is the only new story under offbeat so far today }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n \u201cMost Viewed\u201d<\/p>\n Boonstock festivalgoer dies of suspected drug overdose<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { The Boonstock Music Festival relocated from Gibbons, Alberta to Penticton, B.C. for its 10th year. It\u2019s billed as a major music festival and they expect about 8,000 people to show up. }<\/p>\n Ebola outbreak: Kent Brantly, infected U.S. aid worker, walks into Atlanta hospital<\/span><\/p>\n Carribbean Carnival parade route stabbing victim in stable condition<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { The Caribbean Carnival in Toronto is a HUGE event. People in the parade dance the whole route wearing costumes that often sport twenty feet wingspans and maybe fifteen feet tall headdresses. This is also a good chance for Mayor Rob Ford to get in some cute photo ops with half naked dancers. }<\/p>\n Newborn dies days after crash in London, Ont. Costco store killed sister<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 }<\/p>\n Burlington Skyway crash: Cleanup begins, closure continues<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n \u201cOther\u201d<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Bertha unleashes heavy rain, wind on Caribbean<\/span><\/p>\n August long weekend 2014: What\u2019s open and what\u2019s closed<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { One Canadian told me they really needed a Holiday in August so they created one. I think Saskatchewan (( or one of the western provinces )) is calling this Holiday (( Monday, August 4th )) \u201cTerry Fox Day\u201d }<\/p>\n Kwikwetiem band councillor calls for resignation of Chief Ron Giesbrecht\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 { I don\u2019t know all the details, but I\u2019m tempted to think that this Chief must be doing a good job of people are trying to generate a huge fuss over the fact that he collected some kind of \u2018$800,000.00 Bonus\u2019 for playing an important part in an $8,000,000.00 Land sale }<\/p>\n Toxins from Lake Erie algae suspected of fouling Toledo, Ohio tap water<\/span><\/p>\n Ottawa looks to \u2018protect taxpayer money\u2019 after chief\u2019s $1M pay<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { Like I said yesterday, if politicians really wanted to \u2018protect taxpayer money\u2019 they would admit that they do not need to collect taxes, that they have defrauded every single taxpayer since world war two, and that they could stop collecting taxes and deliver much better public services if they all of a sudden had an acute attack of honesty. Again, read CAFR1 dot com<\/a> ( <\u2014\u2013 Link, & be prepared to have to read through a lot of stuff there). }<\/p>\n Cree actor Michelle Thrush heads to Arctic with Greenpeace<\/span><\/p>\n Veld, Osheaga promise good parties but few female DJs in rotation<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { \u2018Veld\u2019 is a music festival in Toronto, \u2018Osheaga\u2019 is a music festival in Montreal. \u2018Montreal DJ Misstress Barbara explains why there are so few women DJs on deck.\u2019 (( I think a fellow editor\/writer for this news blog told me his ex-girl friend was DJ-ing to supplement her income around the time Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cThriller\u201d was topping the charts )) }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n \u201cMust Watch\u201d (( videos on the site ))<\/p>\n CBC News was there: Oka Crisis<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { Oka was the site of a land dispute between Police and Mohawks in 1991 }<\/p>\n First World War soldiers\u2019 art<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { A rare historical collection of soldiers\u2019 sketches and other art work was reported on last November, & is posted here as a video. \u201c\u2026reveals untold stories from the First World War\u201d\u00a0 There are currently a lot of reporters talking about the First World War, a couple are calling it another \u201cHundred Years War\u201d }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n \u201cNew Brunswick\u201d<\/p>\n Saint John\u2019s 1st cruise ship of the season a \u2018relief\u2019 for tourism<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { Saint John, New Brunswick often becomes confused for Saint John\u2019s Newfoundland (( Newfoundland and Labrador are lumped together as one province, \u201cN.L.\u201d for short. Although \u201cNewfies\u201d are seen as a whole different subspecies of Canadians ((( \u201cHoly Jumpin-\u201d )))\u00a0 Donald Sutherland is from St John, N.B.\u00a0 &\u00a0 Great Big Sea, the highly popular Celtic\/Folk Rock band is from N.L. and its members are more likely to hang out around St John\u2019s than St John. Confused? My job is done here\u2026 \ud83d\ude09<\/span> }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n <\/p>\n { Headlines chosen and a couple explanations in at 11:34 am EDST <\u2014 Do we still use that Eastern Daylight Savings Time acronym? }<\/p>\n { 12:13 pm, ready to hit the \u201cPublish\u201d button\u00a0 \u2014\u2014\u2014djo\u2014\u2014\u2014 }<\/p>\n ====================================================================<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday, August 2, 2014. -(74\u00b0F \/ 23\u00b0C & Clear @ 10:00 am in Ithaca )-<\/p>\n Here are this morning\u2019s headlines from CBC News<\/a>. :<\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n \u201cOff Beat\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bikini-wearing mom calls out body shaming bullies<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { A 33-year-old mother of 5 went sunbathing [ doesn’t say where ] for the first time in 13 years when 2 men and 1 woman, pointed, laughed, and pretended to kick her. She posted a photo of herself on facebook. (( For perspective, she was not what I would have called \u2018obese\u2019 \u2013 I\u2019ve seen much more \u2018flab\u2019 on young women wearing \u2018middy\u2019 blouses in a local mall.)) ((( & I\u2019m not positive whether this happened in Canada or in the U.S. -But- We need a non lethal ray gun that will freeze bullies in the act of looking grotesque and making complete \u2018arses\u2019 of themselves.))) }<\/p>\n Not cool for cats: Buffalo area island dwellers say ‘scram’ to abandoned felines<\/span>\u00a0 { Tonawanda Island in the Niagara River (an 85 acre island) \u2013 a marina owner complained that the cats were making a mess of the land \u2018and even got into boats\u2019 at his marina \u2013 \u2018hundreds of abandoned cats\u2019. A woman is \u2018trapping the cats & having them spayed or neutered by vets, returning the adults to the island and putting the kittens up for adoption. }<\/p>\n Love at first flight: \u2018Katie from Nova Scotia\u2019 sought by Irish Romeo<\/span><\/p>\n School fires blogger over post about homophones, citing \u2018gay agenda\u2019\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 { \u201cTimothy Torkidson was recently let go from his position as a social media specialist at the Nomen Global Language Center in Provo, Utah after writing an educational blog post called \u201cHelp with Homophones\u201d.\u201d (( Homophones, in case you forgot your grammar, are words that sound alike but mean different things, like flew and flu, red and read, see and sea, mail and male\u2026 )) He was fired by a school administrator for allegedly promoting \u201csome kind of gay agenda\u201d. }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n \u201cMost viewed\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reputed gang leader Ducarme Joseph fatally shot in Montreal<\/span><\/p>\n Missing N.B. man found dead in Alberta, closing 19-year-old case<\/span><\/p>\n Tory MP Eve Adams quits after bitter nomination race, cites health<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { This has been followed by Canadian News outlets for some time. Eve Adams was accused of using inside influence to win a nomination from the Conservative Party of Canada. Part of the controversy behind her nomination and election stemmed from the involvement of her fiance, a former Conservative Party executive director, who, if I remember right, resigned over that controversy. I think she got the nomination and won the seat. Her \u2018riding\u2019 ( district ) was newly created in the Oakville-North Burlington area, west of Toronto, or part of the Toronto area, depending on who you listen to.\u00a0 Ms Adams claims she is resigning for health reasons after falling in a slippery doorway in Ottawa. The creation of her\u00a0 riding ( U.S. people would call it a district ) was at least mildly controversial with opposition politicians claiming it was created after careful research to assure the Conservative Party another representative in Parliament. There is a related story entitled, \u201cConservative nominations raise odds of early 2015 election\u201d I\u2019ll let you go to the CBC web site if you want to dig deeper into this one. }<\/p>\n How Marc Emery turned to marijuana activism<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { One link to an interview involving Marc Emery says, \u201cHow he went from \u2018Boy Wonder\u2019 to become Canada\u2019s \u201cPrince of Pot\u201d. He became an activist in 1968 and worked to help elect Pierre Trudeau to the Prime Minister\u2019s Position (I almost wrote \u201cPrime Ministership\u201d) and he\u2019s spent the past five years in U.S. Prison for trying to get marijuana use legalized. ( I believe he wants to see it legalized in both the U.S. and Canada.) He changed political party affiliations a couple times, Ran as a Libertarian Party candidate for a seat from London, Ontario. And he ran for a seat in British Columbia in 2001 as the Marijuana Party of B.C.\u2019s president and candidate. He also helped form the Freedom Party of Ontario. ((( And I\u2019ve spent way too much time researching this one. ))) }<\/p>\n Israel-Hamas conflict: Paul Hunter\u2019s 7 days in Gaza<\/span><\/p>\n Burlington Skyway closed all weekend as engineers assess damage<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { My friend in New Brunswick sent me photos of the crash after I posted yesterday that I couldn\u2019t tell where the accident happened, it happened on the bridge (?) or at least in the elevated section of the highway, not on the ground, not someone slamming into a bridge support. }<\/p>\n Huge waves detected in Arctic waters for 1st time<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Doug Ford is lying,\u2019 Toronto police chief says, threatening lawsuit<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { Doug Ford is the Mayor of Toronto\u2019s brother and an elected member of the Toronto City Council. Rob Ford is Toronto\u2019s Mayor. }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n \u201cOther\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Peter MacKay skipping Canadian Bar Association\u2019s annual conference<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { Peter MacKay is the \u2018Minister of Justice\u2019 who has gotten in trouble for calling his ex-girlfriend a dog (after she left the Conservative Party to join the Liberals) and, more recently, some people were upset about the wording he used when he sent Holiday messages to Federal Employees (Mothers on Mothers Day and Fathers on Fathers Day). Those who were upset thought he was telling them that Fathers were more important than Mothers, that mothers were good at changing diapers and washing dishes and fathers had the responsibility of seeing that their children were properly educated and brought up right to assume a decent, productive role to contribute to the future of their country and this world. }<\/p>\n When Canada went to war: The story behind our involvement in WWI<\/span><\/p>\n China factory blast kills 68 at car parts facility<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018I could have killed him,\u2019 Bill Clinton says of Osama bin Laden in 2001 recording<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { In a recording made \u2018less than 36 hours before al-Qaeda hijackers would board four airliners for attacks on the World Trade Center\u00a0 and Pentagon.\u2019 Bill Clinton said he passed on an opportunity to take Osama bin Laden \u201cout\u201d because the attack would have destroyed a small town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and probably killed 300 innocent civilians. [ I better bite my tongue on this one. Pilot friends tell me those hijackers could not have possibly flown those jets with such precision and there is a LOT of evidence that the hijacking was a “slight of hand” cover story meant to lead us away from the real cause of the buildings’ collapse, but have it blamed on ‘terrorists’ so evil men with a manipulative agenda could get people to voluntarily surrender their legal rights & …. ] <\u2014> Don\u2019t get me started. }<\/p>\n Ordinary Russians back Putin, Kremlin\u2019s view of Malaysia Airlines MH17 tragedy<\/span><\/p>\n Why Texas Gov. Rick Perry may run again for president<\/span><\/p>\n Soccer goal death of Ontario teen adds to calls for tip-proof nets<\/span><\/p>\n More time driving increases obesity risk, study suggests<\/span><\/p>\n Put down that pop, junior \u2014 it could affect your memory<\/span><\/p>\n B.C. teachers\u2019 strike: CBC readers slam government $40 a day per child offer<\/span><\/p>\n First Nations Transparency Act may do more harm than good: Hayden King<\/span><\/p>\n Legendary Ojibwa sniper unsung hero of WWI<\/span>\u00a0 { Ojibwa [ “O- jibway” ] is the name of a First Nations Tribe. WWI is that horrible mess created in 1914 that some claim led us down the road of ruin to where we are today\u2026 }<\/p>\n Controversial \u2018Caucasians\u2019 shirt becomes a hit on native reserves<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { See photo of shirt copied and pasted from CBC article }<\/p>\n Pope Francis\u2019s happiness tips resonate with CBC readers<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { \u201cRid yourself of negative things quickly\u201d and achieve \u201ca healthy sense of leisure\u201d. Looks like followers of CBC news on Twitter tweeted in favor of this message. }<\/p>\n Toronto teen gets over ex-boyfriend by photoshopping Beyonc\u00e9 into their photos<\/span><\/p>\n Reggae, eh? Canadian band Magic! breaks No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Hot 100<\/span><\/p>\n Batman creator\u2019s comic book collection up for auction online<\/span><\/p>\n World\u2019s largest crow shark fossil surfaces in Manitoba<\/span><\/p>\n Amazon tribe\u2019s 1st contact with modern civilization revealed in video<\/span><\/p>\n Tesla stock soars after Elon Musk pledges 100,000 cars a year<\/span><\/p>\n Mortgage apathy, Twitter stock soars & \u2018Minuum\u2019 taps into a trend: BUSINESS WEEK WRAP<\/span><\/p>\n Wind Mobile keen for investor with deep pockets<\/span><\/p>\n Cereal sales get soggy as breakfast tastes evolve<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { I was happy to see that one huge manufacturer \/ packager of cereal went away from G.M.O. ingredients recently. I did see that, didn\u2019t I? }<\/p>\n Polar bear wins tug of war with Nunavut man over beluga<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { Nobody in their right mind would argue with a polar bear unless they were safely inside some kind of bunker or hovering 20 feet above the animal with a machine gun or grenade launcher. \u2014 A First Nations fisherman hooked a beluga whale and a swimming polar bear came along and grabbed the small whale and swam off with it. There is video. My Flash Player crashed so I don\u2019t have to watch this. }<\/p>\n Ottawa looks to \u2018protect taxpayer money\u2019 after chief\u2019s $1M pay<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { If politicians want to \u2018protect taxpayer money\u2019 they should admit that they have been stealing from taxpayers all along, that they could stop collecting taxes and deliver more and better services than they currently claim are supported solely by taxpayer money. Read CAFR1 dot Com<\/a>\u00a0 <\u2014- Link. }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n \u201cNew Brunswick \/ Local\u201d\u00a0 (( In my research this morning I discovered that more than one page had local news from different Provinces \/ sections of the country. Maybe I get this feed because I clicked on \u201cNew Brunswick\u201d from a menu of areas, provinces and districts and not because of a cookie that might still be active in this browser since I was visiting up there with this laptop in tow. ))<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2 dogs dead after horrifying off-leash attack in Fredericton<\/span><\/p>\n Blueberry growers feel squeezed after N.S. company gets land<\/span><\/p>\n N.B. auto insurance rates higher than accident prone N.L.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n (( With no comments or research this would have been done at 11:22 am ))<\/p>\n ((( Not bad \u2013\u00a0 I started late, put up more headlines than usual, did not comment on everything and finished here at 12:45 pm )))<\/p>\n (((( Finished proofreading and everything that went with this at 1:11 pm ))))<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014djo\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ====================================================================<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"](\"http:\/\/radiofreeearthnews.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/clevelancaucasians.jpg?w=225&h=300\")
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