Sunday, 17 August, 2014 – CBC News Headlines –
Sunday, 17 August, 2014. -( 66°F / 19°C & cloudy @ 11:30 am near Ithaca, NY, USA )-
{ & 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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“Lead Stories”
7 protesters arrested for breaking Ferguson Curfew { }
Head of Atlantic Charters ID’d as pilot killed in NB crash { Klaus Sonnenberg was in an air ambulance that crashed very close to the end of a runway on Grand Manan Island off the coast of the southern New Brunswick mainland. }
Marc Emery, ‘Prince of Pot’, returns to Vancouver { }
Fears of new infections as Ebola clinic looted in Liberia { }
Ukraine says rebels shoot down fighter jet over Luhansk { It’s a Sunday, I wrote that exactly as I saw it. Another link to the same story is more easily understood }
Justin Trudeau’s aboriginal candidate caught in crossfire { The National Chief for for the Assembly of First Nations, Ghislain Picard, said in a letter that it’s up to the Assembly of First Nations whether they to keep Jody Wilson-Raybould on their payroll while she campaigns for the Liberal Party. }
Scotland’s pro- and anti-independence camps weigh the lessons of Quebec { }
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“Offbeat”
Justin Bieber pays for monkey business { He paid a $10K fine for trying to bring his monkey into Germany }
English Premier League season begins, chaos ensues { This is soccer, a fan invaded the playing field at one ‘match’, disrupting a free kick. If you have no idea what I just said, you’re probably ‘USAtian’ and you’re not alone. }
-and a couple repeat stories from yesterday were here-
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“Most viewed”
Canada’s doctor’s decline to join anti-marijuana campaign { }
Amish girls sexually abused in N.Y. abduction : prosecutor { A link on the side under “More Headlines” inserted the word ‘allegedly’ ahead of ‘sexually’. }
Michael Brown shooting: Police deploy tear gas to impose curfew { }
Gunshots fired on McCarthy Road in south Ottawa { }
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“Other”
Liberian slum residents go on shooting spree at Ebola clinic { }
Kurdish forces retake parts of Iraq’s largest dam { }
Mount Polley mine: sediment near spill may harm fish { This is an on-going story about the collapse of a levee around a huge tailings pond. }
Diver’s ‘Very Significant’ find leads to charges in Alberta family slaying { This is the case in which a 38-year old has been charged with killing his parents and sister. He says he had nothing to do with it and his sister is still missing. }
Montreal pride parade revellers ready to show their true colours { * I had to check, yes it is a ‘Gay Pride’ event, not a ‘Montreal Pride’ city-praising event. }
Orange is the new black actress nabs Emmy award { I bet she won the award, & did not perform a snatch and run robbery in front of zillions of people. }
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“Local” / “New Brunswick”
Swimmers Crossing Northumberland Strait for Brigadoon { }
N.B. fracking protest raised fears of copycat rallies { Federal officials paid close attention to an RCMP raid on First Nations protest against shale-gas exploration in New Brunswick, “at one point raising concerns it could spawn another wountrywide movement like ‘Idle No More'” }
Pre-shale gas water quality to be studied { This may not be as positive a development as it sounds- A team from the Canada Rivers Institue at the University of New Brunswick are set to study water conditions in areas where shale gas development is ‘likely to take place’. }
Cybercriminals capitalize on oversharing on social media { }
Moncton offers free FIFA transportation after complaints { }
Port Saint John gets ‘smart’ weather bouy { *And Last night on Coast to Coast am, John Gray of ‘Men are from Mars-” fame reported that ‘Smart Meters’ are constantly sending microwave signals back and forth to and from Electric Utilities, -and can receive instructions to throttle down or cut off electricity to any ‘smart appliances’ or cut off power to the whole house, -a practice that killed elderly house bound citizens in Texas cities when a power company remotely turned off air conditioners during a heat wave- He said that more and more people are developing problems, like an inability to sleep and hyper sensitivity to the Electro Magnetic Field Emissions because of these devices. “Smart” = “Not good” when referring to meters, appliances, and too many other technological ‘advances’ }
Arson suspected in fire at Fredericton home { }
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{ It’s a Sunday – Fewer stories than usual, and it only took me1 hour instead of 4 or 5. I had a second, older computer beside me with the CBC pages displayed in an “OmniWeb” browser. I didn’t know there was such a browser until Jim sent me a link when I complained about the dearth of browser availabilty with features I liked. – 12:39 pm EDT ———djo——— }
