CANADA
#1 — CNews | Judge spanks AWOL lawyer
OTTAWA – A Superior Court judge stripped an Ottawa lawyer of his practice and assets Tuesday amid allegations he vanished overseas with hundreds of thousands of his clients’ cash.
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#2 — Globe | RCMP cash crunch puts squeeze on organized-crime investigations: audit
The RCMP is cutting back on organized-crime investigations, border security, drug enforcement and money-laundering probes as it struggles to manage its ever-rising costs.
A review of Canada’s national police force by the Auditor-General found that even with rising funding from Parliament, the RCMP overspent its original annual budget for the last five years running.
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#3 — LFP | Not told about H1N1: nurse
A few hours before she died, Laura Straughan fell out of her bed onto the cement floor of her cell at the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre.
Her cellmate, Tracey Robertson, called guards who got Straughan back in bed, then put mattresses on the floor in case she fell again.
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#4 — NP | MPs to vote on Libya extension: MacKay
BRUSSELS — The Canadian government plans to extend until the end of September a Libya mission that will have by then cost Canadian taxpayers about $60 million, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Thursday.
He also said Canadian MPs will debate and vote on a motion next week to extend the mission until early autumn.
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#5 — Star | Conservatives misled Parliament over G8 costs: Auditor General
OTTAWA—Stephen Harper’s government misled Parliament and skirted spending guidelines as it sprinkled tens of millions of dollars across Muskoka to provide a G8 legacy, an independent probe has concluded.
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WORLD
#6 — CNN | Squatter Nation: 5 years with no mortgage payment
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Charles and Jill Segal have not made a mortgage payment in nearly five years — but they continue to live in their five-bedroom West Palm Beach, Fla. home.
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#7 — Fox | Unemployment Aid Applications Stuck at High Level, Suggesting Slowing Job Market
WASHINGTON — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits hardly changed for a second straight week, stuck at a high level that points to a slowing job market.
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Politicians and Whitehall mandarins are pandering to global warming ‘alarmists’ and consigning Britain to a future of inflated fuel bills and economic misery, the former head of the Civil Service warned last night.
Lord Turnbull – who served Tony Blair as Cabinet Secretary from 2002 to 2005 – accused MPs and civil servants of failing to challenge the ‘climate change consensus’.
He suggested that by blindly following the green agenda, the Government had hit hard-working families with a range of costly policies.
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#9 — Irish Independent | Central Bank to give pre-crisis directors initial written warning
THE Central Bank will next week write to directors of bailed-out banks asking them to confirm if they intend to “still be in place” by January and warning them of the new powers to remove bank bosses who contributed to their institutions’ collapse.
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#10 — Telegraph | Carswell/Hannan: David Cameron must hand power to the people before it’s too late
Seven years ago, a small group of Conservative modernisers began to meet discreetly to set out a radically different programme for the party. Whereas Tories had traditionally sought to wield power from Whitehall, we localists wanted to diffuse and democratise power, to have decisions taken as closely as possible to those they affected.
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…..”the RCMP overspent its original annual budget for the last five years running.”
The RCMP didn’t overspend, it is underfunded and has been for as long as I can remember. Yet we give the CBC so much money that it can afford to bid on the Olympics. A state owned agency bidding against private enterprize. What the hell is up with that? Now, where could a billion dollars be better spent, buying among other things the broadcast rights to the Olympics or adequately funding our National Police Force? Not rocket science.
Exactly so. The RCMP are like our military. Starved for funds until very recently and in the RCMP case no respite in site yet. It’s a total pissoff in my mind and needs to be fixed but I’m probably dreaming in technicolor.