Monday, 29 September, 2014 – CBC News Headlines:

Monday, 29 September, 2014 -( 56˚F / 13˚C – & Cloudy right now, scattered clouds later, @ 8:30 am in Ithaca )- { Headlines compiled by douglas j otterson }

Sunset over water with lighthouse on the left. — “Sunset at Peggy’s Cove” From the Weather forecast page.

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Protesters with umbrellas open as tear gas cannisters fly at them. — This was tweeted: “The Umbrella Revolution” under fire in Hong Kong. Those are tear gas cannisters being fired at the protesters. The protesters want free democratic elections, the government wants to contol everything. That’s fascism, not communism.

{ Is it really international coffee day? —> Doug, who’s probably addicted to caffeine . }

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Lead Articles:

-Go Public-Foreign worker paid $25K to get visa, but arrived to find no job { “An Ontario immigration consultant is under investigation for charging foreign clients up to $25,000 to help them enter Canada to work at low-skill jobs. In at least one case, the worker arrived to find the employer no longer existed.” —djo— }

Ottawa providing assistance to imprisoned Canadian in Cuba { }

Luka Magnotta murder trial opens Monday in Montreal { }

Feds criticised for $300K bill to fly EU officials to T.O. { Apparently, Prime Minister Stephen Harper flew a bunch of his European co-horts to Toronto and sent the bill to Canadian Taxpayers. “T.O.” = Toronto, Ontario. —djo— }

Employment Minister Kenney defends reforms to TFW program { “TFW” = Temporary Foreign Workers. Some companies have been accused of hiring Temperary Foreign Workers at the expense of Canadians who wanted those -usually minimum wage- jobs, but the employers wanted to get away with paying the foreigners less than minimum wages, and some were treated as virtual slave labour. The governmental clamp down on the hiring of all TFW’s has hurt some honest businesses by trying to shut the programme down completely. I’ll have to look into whatever changes this guy is talking about. —djo— }

-Exclusive- Stephen Harper gives pricey free ride home to European leaders { “CBC News has learned Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave visiting European delegates a free flight home to Brussels last week, after adding a Toronto reception to their schedule that made it impossible for the visitors to make a planned commercial flight home in time for a Saturday meeting. ” – * There still is some confusion over whether or not the big trade deal actually went through – my conspiracy-investigating buddies called the deal a blatantly overt plot to sell Canada out to the Banksters who want to destroy everybody’s economy and force every government in the world to be totally dependent on the evil banksters. — shrug, I have too little information to totally agree with that- but it certainly looks suspicious. —djo— }

-Photos- Liberia struggles to fight Ebola as newest, largest clinic reaches capacity { }

Vote Compass: What Toronto mayoral cadidate is most aligned with your views? { * If I have time later, I might take this quiz, poll or whatever it might be, I doubt than any of them would be somebody I’d go out of my way to vote for- & I might be taking the quiz half to see if it might be rigged— My friend and co-editor, Jim W, sent me a link a while back to a test to see where in the political spectrum you and your ideals put you. We both scored on the left, between Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. —djo— }

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Peace love and potota salad — “Peace Love & Potato Salad”

“Offbeat”

Free house up for grabs in Ottawa’s Manor Park — but there’s a catch { * You’d have to move the house, probably in two pieces, to another spot and then reassemble it. This would probably cost ‘tens of thousands of dollars’ and Land is more expensive in Canada than I expected. The owners decided it would be cheaper to build a whole new house on their lot than upgrade this one to suit their growing family’s needs. They’re saying it would be a shame if they have to bulldoze it down and cart it off to landfill. —And knocking it down and carting it away would cost real money, Doug interjected— The house has to be gone by October 15th. – It looked like an okay house to me, but I suppose it might be lonely and suffer from separation anxiety — When I read the headlines I thought they were going to say it was haunted. No such luck. —djo— }

Man who raised $55K for potato salad throws party { “An Ohio man who jokingly sought $10.00 US to buy ingedients to make potato salad and got “Tens of Thousands f Dollars” threw a ‘charity-minded’ party with more than 30,000 pounds of potato salad and other food available” – Short article, couple photos of the guy, a tray of potato salad and it looks like a video you can click on. —there’s a definite “tens of thousands of dollars” theme today.— —djo— }

-Repeat- White sided dolphins make rare appearance near Victoria, B.C. { }

-Repeat- Why eating insects may be on the menu of the future { * One ‘scientific predicter of the future’ thought we’d more likely be eating a form of blue-green algae. But don’t go grabbing a bunch of algae and start chomping down on it- some of them are poisonous. —djo— }

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“Most Viewed”

Ottawa police officer Kal Ghadban takes own life at Elgin Street headquarters { There’s a couple Ottawa Help Lines listed below this short article, including one labeled “Mental Health Crisis Line”. We keep losing ex-military and ‘First Responders’ through suicice this year. It’s been an epidemic. “Help! Make it go away – Amen” —djo—}

Brooklyn Honderich, 2, missing in Norwich Township { A two year old wandered from her parents dairy farm near Woodstock, Ontario just before 7 pm yesterday. A helicopter and two canine units are looking for her, as well as a lot of neighbours and friends. They say she’s about three foot three inches talls and weighs about 29 pounds. She was wearing a blue and white striped tank top, tan coloured overalls and grey capri pants, she has light brown hair in ponytails. I don’t feel good about this one, I know I’d be going nuts- my first reaction to the headline was, “Wow, can you imagine a nation wide headline for a child who disappeared from a farm in Iowa or Ohio?” Every parent’s worst nightmare. —djo— }

Ottawa Lotto Max winners say money doesn’t solve everything { * Wisdom at the price of getting what you thought you really wanted? — Meanwhile too many people are going broke buying lottery tickets they can’t afford. gaaaa- —djo— }

Downsizing: Lies, damn lies, and french fries { At least they’re not calling them ‘Liberty Fries’. —djo— }

Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters resist calls to disperse { I don’t feel real good about this one either. —djo— }

-15 photo slide show- George Clooney’s wedding in Venice { I think it was edited down from 22 photos yesterday, yup- so I won’t raise the “Repeat” flag —djo— }

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Other:

International media flurry expected as Luka Magnotta trial begins in Montreal { * What is this? Are various nations competing for the ‘Most interesting murder trial of the year’ award? Gaaaa! —djo— }

-New- Massive police search underway for toddler who wandered from Ontario home { Re-write of an ‘above’ headline? —djo— }

-New- 5 more bodies found after Japanese volcano eruption { }

Trudeau Liberals woo high-profile aboriginal candidates ahead of 2015 { ‘2015’ refers to the scheduled national election. The next national / federal election could come sooner if any more ‘fit hits the shan’ – —djo— }

Ukraine soldiers suffer worst loss of life since ceasefire began { }

5 injured as propane explosion rocks Montreal neighbourhood { My sweetie in Montreal messaged me last night to say it happened in an ‘nice’ area. & She was wondering whether it might have been terrorists, or angry ex-spouses, or a gas leak. —djo— }

Barack Obama has come to grips with thorny Syria strategy { }

Caifornia adopts ‘yes means yes’ bill aimed at reducing sexual assault { }

Canadian’s 15-year sentence in Cuba ‘outragious’, MP says { -A Canadian businessman sentenced in Cuba to 15 years in prison on corruption-related charges should be sent back home, said a Toronto-area MP who called the conviction a “travesty of justice.”- —djo— }

-Analysis- Mulcair’s dilemma: Canadians like him, but will they vote for him? { This headline ran yesterday, and I thought it was a bit less snarky than comments aimed at other political figures. Today I’m wondering if it’s a delayed reaction word-bomb, supposed to make people leaning toward the NDP think twice before voting that way. —djo— }

Mississauga’s mayor leaves office after 36 years { Some friends called her “Hurricane Hazel” and figured she’d still be in office after her hundred and fiftieth birthday. —djo— }

George Clooney keeps rumour mill whirling after Venice wedding { I read a bit of this and I have no idea why they invoked the “whirling rumour mill’ bit. —djo— }

-Must Watch- Japan volcano rescue operation { }

-Must Watch- Cat narrowly escapes alligator attack { }

-Editor’s Pick- The perils of a recovering U.S. economy: Don Pittis { }

-Politics- Russian ship played key role in Canada’s recent Franklin discovery { “Find was billed as expression of Canadian sovereignity in North” & “A Russian-flagged vessel played a key role in Canada’s recent discovery of a sunken ship from the missing Franklin expedition, a scenario that faced a regulatory challenge and gave senior Conservative officials pause. – Prime Minister Stephen Harper has billed the Franklin search as an expression of Canadian sovereignty in the North — particularly in light of the “imperial ambitions” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

– “The mapping and surveying activities that are part of the search are also considered a sign of domestic prowess in the Arctic. – A Russian-owned ship became part of the multi-partner Victoria Strait Expedition after it became apparent that the Canadian alternative, a former coast guard icebreaker, couldn’t carry the private financial donors underwriting part of the search. — * Underline ‘private financial donors underwriting part of the search’: Who were they and what do they expect in return? —djo— }

Spy watchdog’s oil ties prompt B.C. Civil Liberties Association complaint { }

-Business- Encana agrees to buy Texas-based Athlon Energy in $7.1B deal { }

-Business- Japan’s SoftBank in talks to buy animation giant DreamWorks { }

-Business- BlackBerry stamps its Passport, Rockefellers get out of oil: Business Week Wrap { }

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“Local / New Brunswick”

Ex-PM Kim Campbell pitches reform to boost gender parity { She’s suggesting that each riding should run two candidates, one male, one female. I have no idea from reading this article whether she means there should be two candidates from each party, or does she want to limit the election to two contenders and cut out all the other parties? That doesn’t make sense. Kim Campbell took over as Prime Minister when Brian Mulroney escaped before his term in office expired. Most blame Mulroney, but some blame her for the fact that the Progressive Conservative Party went from Number One to a distant 5th party status with only 2 representatives elected to Parliament. * one of my favourite ‘psychics’ believes we’re about to see a similar political blood bath with the next Canadian federal elections. Others are saying that if the Canadian electorate votes for another Conservative Government they will deserve whatever horrendous consequences they get. I have no idea what’s going on up there politically- just reporting what I read. * And what the ex-Prime Minister has to do with local New Brunswick news is beyond me. —djo— }

Today’s weather: Jim Abraham’s synopsis { }

-Repeat- Coastal Red Oak multi-year project aims to boost numbers { }

Slain Moncton Mounties among fallen officers honoured in Ottawa Sunday { }

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“Aboriginal”

-New- Diagnosis education: Sioux Lookout hospital sets up classroom { “The Meno Ya Win Health Centre will again offer classes to children and their expectant moms who have to stay in Sioux Lookout for extended periods.” * I don’t know about this. Unless the program was conceived and run by First Nations individuals, it would seem to me to be way too much like the old indoctrination strategy from the ‘Residential schools’ that were set up to strip the culture from First Nations kids. But, I’m here, and I don’t know who is running the programme, or why it was said to be something good for expectant mothers and their kids, who are taken out of their normal environment and placed in the centre. —djo— }

Oppenheimer Park campers vow to stay as Vancouver seeks injunction { “Vancouver police estimates there are more than 200 tents at Oppenheimer Park.” – “Oppenheimer Park campers say they aren’t going anywhere as the City of Vancouver goes to court today to seek an injunction to have them removed. – Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said last week that living conditions at the site have deteriorated and the campsite is no longer safe.

– “But many of the tenters say they would hate to see the camp go because volunteers there have helped them and others. – “Like when I go to work I need a lunch, they provided me with a lunch,” said camper Ricky Comeau who describes himself as working-homeless. – “You know what I mean? They make sure my stuff is safe when I go to work. I love it!” – Volunteers running a neighbourhood lunch program over the weekend say they’re aware of the controversy, but are impressed with the camp. – “They have some pretty good organization it seems,” said volunteer Wisam Abdulla. – “Sometimes in front of the bottle depot we just kind of get raided, whereas here it was nice and orderly.” -Organizer Swampy Cree says the camp is attracting people from all over the province. She says the region needs a more coordinated approach to homelessness. – Others tasked with maintaining order at the camp express frustration because the camp is attracting people from all over the region. – Organizer Swamp Cree says the region needs a more coordinated strategy to homelessness. —djo— }

Trudeau Liberals woo high-profile aboriginal candidates ahead of 2015 { }

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{ 11:14 am – time to look for typos and get out the crayons again… 11:45 am, I’ve gone blind, but it looks okay. Time to push the “Publish” button. ———djo——— }