Daily Brief Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

In The News – 2008/08/23

Local, regional, national, and international. Whatever catches my attention and interests me. Updated throughout the day!

Disclaimer: I regret that I can only ensure the validity of these links at the time that the articles are published. The (unscrupulous?) practise of some media outlets to subsequently redirect links to advertisements is completely out of my control and beyond my capacity to monitor.

Canada/Ontario/London

Acquisition of Coves floodplain land
Police Media Releases
Potentially fatal West Nile virus found in London
Raid on Lickety-Split Ranch and Zoo
Struggling to survive in the Thames River

Canada/Ontario

Conservative leader accuses Liberals of having put Ontarians at risk
Hostages of their Bridlewood cars
Native demonstrations treated with judicial ‘kid gloves’
Where do e-bikes belong?

Canada/Other

Do federal Conservatives want to scrap food labelling?
Ephedrine warning!
Federal Privacy Commissioner is going too far
‘Fixed election dates’ scam
Operation Nanook
Organized environmental crime

International

Alaskan mineral deposit endangers Pacific salmon
“Toronto 2009, Non!”
Canada ID’d as major exporter of illegal Ecstasy drug
Newspaper readers deserve respect
The bad-faith Olympics
The cellphone-cancer link

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