LOCAL
Police are investigating a death at one of Toronto’s newest parks after a man was killed late Sunday night in what they’re calling a misadvenure. The man was performing tricks on his BIXI bike without a helmet. [CBC]
A 67-year-old man was charged with first-degree murder after shooting a man dead at a family barbeque at Dundas and Ossington. The two men had tension for years after a small-claims court deal went bad. [CBC]
Bryan Colangelo’s tenure as General Manager of the Toronto Raptors is finished. The long time GM will likely remain somewhere at MLSE, but away from basketball. [Toronto Star]
NATIONAL
The Harper government is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on advertising a jobs program (the federal Canada Jobs Grant for training workers) that does not yet, and may never, exist. It is a proposition that still needs to be fleshed out with provincial agencies and employers, but publicly funded commercials for it are appearing during the NHL playoffs. [National Post]
The family of a BC man is desperate for information regarding their son who is missing in Mexico. They now believe that the man, 22-year-old Diego Hernandez,, has been kidnapped. [National Post]
Canadian singer Alexis Normand apologized for butchering the American national anthem on Saturday’s Memorial Cup game. Normand usually sings in French, a fact which becomes painfully obvious if you watch the video. [National Post]
INTERNATIONAL
An activist group, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory For Human Rights, claims that 23 elite fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group were killed in Syria, fighting with the regime against the rebels. Hezbollah has a vested interest in the survival of the Syrian regime, and has sent fighters to aid government forces. [Toronto Star]
Outspoken Tunisian feminist Amina Tyler, who posted topless photos of herself online in March, was arrested Sunday and may be charged for conducting “provocative acts” at a centre where police prevented hardline Islamists from holding their annual conference. She scrawled the word “Femen,” the name of her feminist group, on the wall, and was going to hang a banner but she was hustled away and thrown into a van by police after an angry crowd shouted at her to leave. [The Guardian]
A wave of car bombings and gunfire attacks hit cities across Iraq Monday night, killing at least 64 and wounding 170. The attacks have sharpened concens that the country is heading towards the kind of spike in violence last seen in 2006-07, before the withdrawl of American forces. [The New York Times]
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