3 August - Pale Moon START Page - MSM Canada

• Trump wants Sessions to end probe into Russia interference in 2016 election 2 days ago  –  U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether there was any co-operation by his campaign with Moscow.
• Calgary man accused of killing girlfriend, then mother and stepfather 6 days later
• Border guards have 'wide open' rights to search your smartphone, B.C. civil liberties group warns
• Controversial talk show host Alex Jones to seek dismissal of lawsuit by Sandy Hook parents
• Lawsuits against Soulpepper Theatre co-founder Albert Schultz 'resolved,' lawyers confirm
• Serial killer nurse gave police only first names of murder victims, Wettlaufer inquiry hears

• The time to take advantage of a low Canadian dollar may be now: Don Pittis a day ago  –  It's starting to feel like 2014: If oil is rising, can the Loonie be far behind?
• A Tory blue GTA in 2019? What the riding 'lean' tells us about the next federal election
• Why Canadians talk about boycotting the U.S. but are actually travelling there more
• Ontario minister admits government broke promise on basic income project
• 'Gilligan's Island crew' of puppies rescued from uninhabited northern Manitoba island
• Airliner has close call with drone, 4,000 feet over Edmonton
• Quebec labour tribunal sides with employer in cat-bereavement spat
• Saudi Arabia arrests sister of imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi
• Don't say 'oligarchs': Manafort trial judge
• Thought steel tariffs were hard? Just wait for car tariffs
• It's OK to cry in the courtroom even if you're a judge, law professors say

• Triage system for border crossers in Montreal, Toronto shelters won't be ready until September 19 hours ago  –  A long-promised triage system aimed at redirecting illegal border crossers from crowded shelters in Montreal and Toronto will not be in place until as late as the end of September.
• 'Cancel your carbon tax,' Ontario PC ministers tell Justin Trudeau
• 'Good progress' being made on Parry Sound 33 fire due to change in wind direction
• Teen girl gets maximum youth sentence in schoolmate's beating death
• 6 killed in Zimbabwe election protests as nation awaits results of presidential vote
• 2 Hamilton paramedics charged in 2017 death of Good Samaritan
• Artificial intelligence is on the rise — but not without help from humans
• HempWorx cannabidiol oil sales in Canada put on hold… again
• 'It's not news': Doug Ford's Ontario News Now attempts to muzzle media, experts say
• Doug Ford — wasting taxpayer money to own the libs: Robyn Urback
• Sears board members have earned more than $600K since retailer's demise — and are still being paid

• Irregular migrants acting as 'anchor relatives' to help get family into the country: CBSA 13 hours ago  –  Canadian border officers are reporting a phenomenon of irregular border crossers acting as “anchor relatives” for those making refugee claims at official border points.
• 'It's ridiculous. It's Picasso': Facebook reviewing anti-nudity policy after blocking Montreal museum ad
• Family says Calgary woman allegedly killed by boyfriend was 'admired and loved'
• Early days of Manafort's fraud trial reveal his fashion crimes
• U.S. officials raise alarm about election interference ahead of midterms
• 'I could feel my tongue going a bit numb': McDonald's has served cleaning fluid to customers more than once
• Mexico plane crash survivor describes harrowing plummet to ground
• Ivanka Trump says she was 'very vehemently' opposed to separation of families
• Apple hits record $1 trillion US stock market valuation
• Canada urged to do more as UN funding crisis deepens in Gaza
• Man who swiped shark says he's an 'activist, not a criminal'

• Halifax man charged with violating Syria sanctions continues to conduct business in war-torn country an hour ago  –  A Halifax man who is the first person charged with violating Canada's economic sanctions against Syria is back in Damascus doing business there, CBC News has learned. Nader Kalai, a Syrian national with permanent residency in Canada, is known to be a close associate of Syrian President Bashar al-...

  Halifax man charged with violating Syria sanctions continues to conduct business in war-torn country an hour ago  –  A Halifax man who is the first person charged with violating Canada's economic sanctions against Syria is back in Damascus doing business there, CBC News has learned. Nader Kalai, a Syrian national with permanent residency in Canada, is known to be a close associate of Syrian President Bashar al-...
• (  Does anybody know why Canada has economic sanctions against Syria ? Just the usual 'me too' with US and UK would be my first guess. After all, how much sanctimonious outrage is appropriate for unproven allegations where site inspections were interrupted by US bombs ?  You really have to wonder how much good 'pressure on Syria' is going to do when they are not so much the cause of violence as the victims of it )
• How Doug Ford can use taxpayers' dollars to fund Ontario News Now
• Canadian patients should have online access to their medical records, some doctors say
• NASA will name 1st astronauts to fly commercial spacecraft to International Space Station
• Ford government ditched basic income pilot project before any data landed, researcher says
• On screen and in real life: we pathologize fatness, even as we pretend to accept it
• Trump's 'disgusting media' rhetoric finds willing ears from a charged audience
• Justin Trudeau is losing the argument on border crossings, poll suggests
• The National
• Emmerson Mnangagwa declared winner in Zimbabwe's election
• German tourist shot in head while driving family west of Calgary