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Kenya: UNDP `staff` arrested with cocaine

Alex Kiarie, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya Cocaine worth over US$1 million was seized at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport over the weekend in Kenya. A female suspect who claimed to be working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is being held for questioning.

Friendly leaves fans injured

By Sally Evans, Times Live At least 20 people and one policeman suffered minor injuries in a stampede at a friendly soccer match between Nigeria and North Korea at the Makhulong stadium, in Tembisa, in Germiston, east of Johannesburg, yesterday.

Lakegate

We are Canada. You know, the country with the greatest bodies of fresh water in the world. Ontario has about a quarter million of them - large and small.

Breakthrough for Coalition

MICHELLE GRATTAN AND PAUL AUSTIN THE Abbott Coalition has broken through for the first time to a clear election-winning lead of 53-47 per cent in an Age/Nielsen poll that will rattle Labor and intensify pressure to change its increasingly unpopular mining tax.

Dark Side Arises for Phone Apps

By SPENCER E. ANTE, Fox News As smartphones and the applications that run on them take off, businesses and consumers are beginning to confront a budding dark side of the wireless Web.

10 Bizarre-but-True Ways Your Home Is Susceptible to Hackers

By John Brandon, Fox News Reality is scarier than fiction -- especially when it comes to what hackers can do. In many bizarre-but-true ways, your home is wide open to hacker attacks. Right now.

Baird as “Bad Cop”, Harper as “Good Cop”? Naw.

Was the nature of the Honourable John Baird's unannounced visitation fulfilling the dictum that Ministers appear before Committees to shield their aides from testifying happenstance or part of an unfolding strategy? Dimitri Soudas has been subpoenaed. Consistency in application of the pronouncement that henceforth masters will represent their servants would necessitate the Right Honourable Stephen Harper appearing in his stead.

The Wait Continues

DCA, a hopeful drug that shows potential to kill cancer cells, is still not on the market. When the first news of DCA’s potential was released by papers across Canada, thousands of ‘cancer’ patients began a desperate search to find it. Since then, it has been reported that research on DCA has continued but at very minimum levels as far as ‘research’ levels go in the ‘research world’. So the wait continues.

Open letter to the President of the Canadian Meteorological and Ocean Society

Dr. Bill Crawford, President – Canadian Meteorological and Ocean Society Research Scientist, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, B.C. Adjunct Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, B.C.

Canada’s lesson

Pittsburgh Tribune Live Opinion To avoid a financial-meltdown rerun, go "back to the future" -- via Canada, whose banks largely avoided the economic fallout of the U.S. housing bust by never abandoning commonsense lending practices.

WHO chief says swine flu is still a pandemic

Associated Press GENEVA – The head of the World Health Organization says swine flu is still a pandemic even though the period of most intense activity appears to have passed.

Correct imbalances in how we determine pensions

The case for removing pensions from convicted serial killers is a strong one. If the state is already housing them free, they 'have' their pension. But the case to give pensions to those who are still out in society serving others well is also important.

Canada Introduces Legislation to Amend Copyright Laws

By Alexandre Deslongchamps (Bloomberg) -- Canada today introduced new copyright legislation that will protect digital locks companies put on DVDs and other content, allow transfers for personal use and free Internet providers of liability for piracy by users.

The Final Farewell!

Castleton Public School ~ slated for demolition in the very near future! There will be a Reunion celebrating the 80 years of the school. An Open House at the school is planned for Saturday, July 10, 2010 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Former students, teachers, principals, support staff & interested community members are invited to return to tour the old school one last time to check out the displays and pictures collected. Send/Bring your graduating class photo & school photos to be scanned for placement in the Memory Book that will be completed after the reunion.

The “let’s wait and see what happens” game is over

Canadian and Global Environmental NGO’s (Non Governmental Organizations) ordered Ontario Liberal MPPs, without public consent, to boldly take occupation of 1.8 million acres of Ontario’s heartland. In perpetuity it’s called "The Ontario Greenbelt Act" of 2005. This Act is forced expropriation without compensation. All future land expansion for urban development within the given area has stopped.

Canadian Red Ensign

Dear Mr. Prime Minister; After studying the rules below you can expect this to become more of an issue. I have nothing better to do than send out thousands and thousands of letters and emails regarding flying the Canadian Red Ensign at the National War Memorial in Ottawa every day forever. I've been at it for thirteen years and quite frankly I think it's pathetic that it's an issue at all. In this new Canada that holds so much of the French culture and language in such "high esteem" (regard,respect,favourable opinion) and the same for every other multicultural special interest group, it's long over due for the government to show some real pride and respect in some of our own Canadian heritage and if it insults someone that the soul of this country is rooted in that which gave birth to English Canada, that's too bad it's only a flag, they'll get over it. It's not too much to ask and it's getting easier to find agreement.

The Grateful Soldier

God and soldier, we adore, in time of danger, not before. The danger passed and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted. - Rudyard Kipling

A Billion Dollar Bill!

Does Stephen Harper really believe that $930 million is an acceptable cost for security measures for the G8 and G20 summits this June? Is he high? With the global economy on the brink of complete collapse how can we allow this idiot to spend so carelessly? The original estimate for these security costs was a mere $179 million only a few months ago.

Make rich seniors pay for drugs, health care report says

Lisa Priest and Karen Howlett, Globe and Mail Affluent seniors being billed for their drugs. Doctors being paid according to the quality and cost-effectiveness of their care. Those are just two of the provocative prescriptions for a crisis in public health costs.

May the Lord Bless Them All

I have to say, this brought thoughts to my mind and tears to my eyes. The years are slipping by and I am making up orders for medals for past comrades in arms who have gone on before. If you value your late buddies you can get some engraved at http://www.nwtmint.com. They look like dog tags, but are much heavier.