LOCAL
Toronto police are probing the role Rob Ford’s driver played in the attempt to retrieve alleged crack video. Alessandro (Sandro) Lisi was behind the wheel when Mr. Ford appeared at the Garrison Ball, and when news of the alleged crack video came out Lisi was there again, this time running interference with reporters. [Globe and Mail]
The policeman who killed Sammy Yatim is expected to turn himself in to SIU custody Tuesday after he was charged with second-degree murder. Constable James Forcillo will appear before a justice of the peace at old city hall, August 20. [Globe and Mail]
The Ontario Press council will hold hearings next month about articles written by the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail about Toronto mayor Rob Ford and his brother Councilor Doug Ford. The council is considering whether the papers have “engaged in irresponsibly unethical investigative reporting” in coverage of the Ford family. [Globe and Mail]
NATIONAL
Stephen Harper is planning to prorogue parliament until October. The commons was originally scheduled to reopen on September 16. [Globe and mail]
A Canadian man accused of masterminding an international pennystock fraud totalling $140-million was arrested in Thailand. The FBI alleges the victimes hailed from 35 countries, including Canada, the US, Australia, and elsewhere in Asia, South America, and Europe. [CBC]
Controversial R & B singer Chris Brown won’t be performing in four Canadian cities after he was dropped as the headliner from the Energy Rush festival. The show stoked outcry as as soon as it was announced that Brown, convicted of assaulting his then girlfriend pop star Rihanna in 2009, was performing. [CBC]
INTERNATIONAL
Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who wrote stories based on leaked documents from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, was defiant after London police detained his partner in Heathrow Airport for 9 hours. David Miranda, who is in a civil union partnership with Greenwald, was detained under anti-terrorist legislation for nine hours, about the maximum amount of time legally allowed. [CBC]
An unemployed Palestinian programmer is receiving job offers after hacking into the Facebook profile of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. After discovering a privacy bug, Khalil Shreateh tried to alert Facebook, seeking the $500 bounty for voluntarily exposing its glitches, but after he was ignored twice, he wrote, despite not being Facebook friends with Zuckerberg, “sorry for breaking your privacy” on his timeline. [National Post]
The former Disney star Lee Thomson Young is dead at 29. There is no official cause for death, but his manager said that he “tragically took his own life.” [Toronto Star]
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