LOCAL
Organizers of Toronto’s Caribbean Carnival say they will scrutinize parade safety after a teenage boy was killed Saturday. Toronto police say Rueshad Grant was standing beside a parade float when he was run over. [National Post]
A Toronto condo developer is saving one of seven Banksy pieces the legendary graffiti artist left behind during his visit in 2010. Before the building was knocked down, construction crews saved the stencil of a policeman holding a pink balloon dog, and it’ll be placed in a new development in a high-pedestrian area. [Toronto Star]
A Toronto man has died after being shot in the torso. Police say it happened outside a “common area” outside housing units near Windermere Avenue and The Queensway shortly before 6pm. [CBC]
NATIONAL
Two young boys in New Brunswick have died after a python escaped from an animal store, slithered through ventilation ducts and strangled them while they were sleeping. The boys, five and seven years-old, did not live in the apartment but were on a sleepover. [Globe and Mail]
A heavy backhoe machine was swallowed up by a section of a downtown commercial street in Montreal after it was called in to repair a leaky water main. The driver is safe after the ground caved in on him after he chipped at the ashphalt. [Globe and Mail]
A 32-year-old man from Montreal is dead after getting hit on the head by a large steel plate that fell from a construction site. Saad Syed was language teacher who worked at a school blocks away from where he was hit. [CBC]
INTERNATIONAL
Amazon Inc. founder Jeff Bezos has agreed to buy the newspaper assets of the Washington Post co. for $250-million. Washington Post’s Chairman and Chief Executive said Bezos’ “proven technology and business genius, his long-term approach and his personal decency” make him a particularly good owner. [Globe and Mail]
The most highly-paid player in Major League Baseball, Alex Rodriguez, was suspended through the 2014 season, a total of 211 games, for using and for covering up his use of numerous performance enhancing. 12 other players were suspended for 50 games each, making this the most sweeping punishment in about 100 years. [National Post]
President Obama warned that the closures of embassies across the Middle-East may continue for another four weeks. In contrast to National Security Agency advocates quick to connect the surveilance debate with the current scare, the White House downplayed any political implications. [The Guardian]
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