LOCAL
Police charged 27-year-old Shannon Everett with assault for throwing a glass of juice at Mayor Rob Ford Saturday during the Taste of Little Italy. He and brother Doug laughed it off during the radio show Sunday, saying Rob got a “little shower.” [National Post]
Drake and Classified picked up two MMVAs Sunday. Psy, the South Korean pop sensation, hosted the evening, and also won, in what is not at all surprising, the award for the Viral Video of the Year. [Toronto Star]
An annual relay race will return to Southern Ontario next year, even though a robbery with a pellet gun occured. Two teenagers confronted the runners and asked for money, grazing a woman’s nose with a BB gun, but all the other shots missed. [Toronto Star]
NATIONAL
Prime Minister Harper made a strong denunciation of Russia’s position concerning Syria. “Mr. Putin and his government are supporting the thugs of the Assad regime for their own reasons that I do not think are justifiable, and Mr. Putin knows my views on that.” [National Post]
Justin Trudeau has offered to pay back all the money he received from speaking engagements while he was an MP. There’s a simmering controversy over the way he charged for speeches from 2008-2012, including one financially troubled senior oganization that he charged $20,000. [Toronto Star]
A Sarnia couple were digging in their back yard to install a fence when they came across a 400-year-old skeleton of an aboriginal woman. They were ordered to hire an archaelogist and were saddled with a $5,000 bill, but members of the provincial government are doing what they can to ensure they aren’t on the hook for the cost. [Toronto Star]
INTERNATIONAL
Dublin and many cities around the world honoured Bloomsday, a celebration of James Joyce’s modern masterpiece Ulysses, where the action of the entire tome is set on June 16, 1904. Actors staged scenes, people ate iconic food from the novel (burned kidneys, a breakfast Leopold Bloom cooks parodying Homer’s burnt offerings), and people listened to marathon readings of the tome. [Irish Times]
Police in Turkey used teargas against protestors while the PM used the opportunity to speak to thousands of supporters about a so-called foreign conspiracy. Protest organizers called for a million strong, but the area was cordoned off by police, making access impossible. [The Guardian]
Iran has newly elected Hassan Rouhani as President. The West is worried, or cautious, that any real change still needs to be authorized by the harline religious leader Ayatollah Khameinei. [The Guardian]
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