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Friday, 03 October, 2014\u00a0 -( 58\u02daF \/ 14\u02daC – & cloudy right now\u00a0 @ 8:45 am in Ithaca )-\u00a0 { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson }<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Wild<\/a>

A wild pig in Australia is credited with stealing 18 beers from campers, got drunk and picked a fight with a cow? >>—-> From Twitter
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{ We\u2019ve been doing this because we believe the CBC may be more honest and more respectable than Media in the U.S.A., & 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. }<\/h6>\n
{ & 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.<\/a>\u2014 & You can also find a link to the web cast of the most recent broadcast of “The National” the CBC’s ‘flagship nightly newscast’ under the “Must Watch” heading on their main page. — Thanks. — & Jim W convinced me to take credit for this, above.\u00a0 \u2014\u2014\u2014djo\u2014\u2014\u2014 }<\/h6>\n

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\"Kenojuak<\/a>

Kenojuak Ashevak’s The Enchanted Owl, created in 1960, was featured on a Canadian stamp and has permeated Canadian culture. (West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative Ltd.\/National Gallery of Canada)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Lead Articles:<\/span><\/p>\n

-Analysis- How ISIS and Syria drove a stake through the Arab Spring: Nahlah Ayed<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Clashes break out between Hong Kong protesters, residents<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Commons to vote on combat mission against ISIS Monday: PM<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Patient being tested for Ebola in Toronto hospital\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> { “As a precaution” it says elsewhere. \u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n

Ebola vaccine doses promised to Africa remain in Canada\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Could Ebola vaccine delay be due to an intellectual property spat?<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { -Wouldn’t it be a son of a gun if badly needed vaccine was withheld because some corporation was afraid it might lose a couple dollars over ‘intellectual property’ issues?- If that’s really what’s going on here.\u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n

-Analysis- Brazil’s suddenly too-close-to-call presidential election\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Live Chat- The Ebola crisis in Africa\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

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“Offbeat”<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Your breath smells like a fart’: Mean toddler video goes viral\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> { Yesterday they said it went ‘ultra-viral’ —djo— }<\/p>\n

Orphaned polar bear cubs settling in at Winnipeg zoo<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Converted ambulance to take couple to South America\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Repeat- Sabre discovery linked to decades-old murder mystery\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

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“Most Viewed”<\/span><\/p>\n

Gang rape warning issued for St. John’s sex workers\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Gone Girl: Film Review\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 { }<\/p>\n

Doug Ford talks taxes, transit on CBC’s Metro Morning\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Ebola test on patient in Toronto hospital a ‘precaution’<\/span> \u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Justin Trudeau says PM ‘hasn’t even tried’ to make case for expanded Iraq role<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

[U.S.] teens accused of killing more than 900 chickens with a golf club\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Nelson Hart’s Mr. Big appeals legal bills topped $553K\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-14 photo slide show- The symbols of Hong Kong’s ‘umbrella revolution’\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Blog- Caffeinated underwear won’t help you lose weight, U.S. government confirms\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

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\"Bansky<\/a>

The mural by graffiti artist Bansky featured pigeons holding up signs directed at a more colourful bird. One banner reads ‘migrants not welcome’, while another reads ‘keep off our worms’. (Banksy.co.uk\/AP Photo)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Other:<\/span><\/p>\n

-Updated- Doug Ford talks race for mayor with CBC Toronto\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

NBC News cameraman diagnosed with Ebola in Liberia<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Trudeau: Canada can’t just ‘whip out our CF-18’s’ for Iraq mission\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Harper to reveal ISIS mission plan today ahead of Monday debate\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Australia expected to join anti-ISIS airstrikes\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Rob Ford cites 50\/50 survival rate for his cancer, but stays optimistic\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Celebrities in nude photo hack threaten Google with $100M lawsuit<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Magnotta trial sees security footage showing Jun Lin’s final hours<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Guilty: Red Scorpion gangsters convicted in Surrey 6 murders\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Video- Liberia’s health workers battled ‘unknown enemy’ in Ebola, president says<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Eugenie Bouchard qualifies for WTA Finals later this month<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Must Watch- Rob Ford on cancer, the election\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Must Watch- How the U.S. man got Ebola\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Editor’s Pick- New pictures of Franklin expedition’s HMS Erebus\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Editor’s Pick- Meet the teen mastermind of Hong Kong’s ‘umbrella revolution’<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Repeat-Editor’s Pick- Kroger grocery chain allows guns\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Politics- Jason Kenney says no to easing new temporary foreign worker rules\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Politics- Delay in Iraq mission debate raises ire of Tom Mulcair, Justin Trudeau\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Politics- Quebec minister talks about possibly re-opening Constitution<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Business- Hard-hit loonie getting vote of confidence from central banks\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 { “The Loonie” is the Canadians’ own nickname for their one dollar coin, which features a loon, usually casually floating in place, on an implied lake. In at least one year’s special edition the loon taking off into flight.\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Business- Falling oil prices drive down TSX again\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Business- U.S. Sears dumps stake in Sears Canada<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Business- U.S. energy giant NRG buys Toronto-based solar firm<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Business- 23andme genetic testing service raises ethical questions\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 { Some people fear that governments might some day reveal that their dna is copyrighted or somehow become the ‘property’ of that government and then either tell its citizens that they cannot legally reproduce or dictate who they can and cannot reproduce with.\u00a0 —djo }<\/p>\n

-Health- Canadarm robotics technology performs breast cancer biopsies\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Arts & Entertainment- Bansky mural removed by embarrassed UK council\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> { The Mural is copied and pasted above this section.\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Arts & Entertainment- Imagine Dragons announced as Grey Cup headliners\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Technology & Science- Hong Kong protests: China may be spying with smartphone apps\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 { I mentioned yesterday that smartphone apps that the demonstrators were using were described as having apotential security problem. Looks like I might have been correct.\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Technology & Science- Pluto and beyond: Widening views of what makes a planet\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

-Technology & Science- Google announces project to get Canadian kids coding\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> { Google, after Wikileaks leaked information that the company is spying on everybody and turning information over to agencies like the NSA etc, wants to train your kids to be good little cyber spies? }<\/p>\n

-Community- Facebook apologizes to drag queens over ‘real name’ policy<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { *Facebook’s chief product officer has apologized to drag queens, transgender people and others in the LGBTQ community because its real-name policy caused their accounts to be shut down. -In a post on the social networking site, chief product officer Chris Cox extends his apology to “members of the LGBT community for the hardship that we’ve put you through in dealing with your Facebook accounts over the past few weeks.” – Last month, Facebook announced that its users would be mandated to use their legal names on profiles and suspended the accounts of users<\/a>who didn’t comply.\u00a0 -Many of the drag performers and others whose accounts were disabled pledged to leave Facebook and join an emerging social media site called Ello<\/a>.* —djo—}<\/p>\n

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“Local \/ New Brunswick”<\/span><\/p>\n

David Alward’s Tory deputy ministers face unclear future\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

NB Power eues cheaper refurbishment plan for Mactaquac dam<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Moncton rooming house shut down by fire marshal\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

FIFA Moncton visit overshadowed by turf war<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

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“First Nations”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Google<\/a>

Inuit Artist Kenojuak Ashevak was honoured by Google with this doodle on what would have beeh her 87th birthday.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

-New- Kenojuak Ashevak gets posthumous birthday Google doodle\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> { “Google’s doodle pays tribute to Kenojuak Ashevak. The late Inuk artist, best known for her Enchanted Owl, would have turned 87 on Friday.”\u00a0\u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n

Kellie Leitch announces $1.1M to prevent cyberviolence against women, girls<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { “The federal government is spending $1.1 million to fund eight new projects to combat cyberbullying against women and girls, Status of Women Minister Kellie Leitch announced today.” —djo—\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

McMaster Hospital defends court action to treat aboriginal girl\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 { “McMaster Children\u2019s Hospital in Hamilton is defending its plan to separate an aboriginal girl with cancer from her family so she can resume chemotherapy.”\u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n

Federal government to stop funding payments to Sask. Metis\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 { “The federal government says it is going to stop funding Metis Nation-Saskatchewan. – A letter dated Wednesday from Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt said the group failed to hold an assembly by the end of September “due to ongoing internal governance issues.” – He said the group was required to do so under its funding agreement. – All payments are to be halted Nov. 1. – “It is my hope that Metis Nation-Saskatchewan finds a way to effectively and efficiently give the Metis people of Saskatchewan the governance that they deserve \u2014\u00a0one which is transparent, accountable and democratic,” Valcourt wrote in the letter addressed to the Metis group’s president, Robert Doucette. – “I also firmly believe that taxpayer dollars are to be used wisely and for the benefit of all Canadians.” – Calls to the Saskatoon office of Metis Nation-Saskatchewan were not answered. – Protesters picketed last year outside the office calling for Doucette’s resignation. At the time, the group’s vice-president said several council members were concerned about an overhaul of the\u00a0group’s governance structure and that Doucette was acting secretive.”\u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n

N.W.T. Tlicho cancel fall caribou hunt, unable to find any\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n

Ottawa committee approves rezoning on sacred aboriginal site\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> { “Dozens of people crowded into Ottawa’s planning committee meeting to weigh in on the future of a former industrial site on the Ottawa River in an area considered sacred to First Nations people.” & [*] Ottawa’s Planning Committee\u00a0unanimously approved a rezoning request for the massive redevelopment of a former industrial site on the Ottawa River considered sacred\u00a0to First Nations people.<\/p>\n