1 NOW WHAT? There’s no peace in sight for Syria. The ceasefire is kaput. The army is shelling refugee camps in Turkey. Here’s Al Jazeera’s Syria blog.
2 TESTING NUKES AND LAUNCHING ROCKETS Oh North Korea, you silly rogue state.
3 IT DEPENDS WHAT COSTS YOU ACTUALLY LOOK AT Canada’s Defence minister knew the glitchy F-35s would be more expensive than he’d told Canadians, but Peter MacKay says his numbers — which don’t include maintenance and personnel costs — are reasonable.
4 CALL OF THE WILD (ROSE) The Globe has a nice, readable feature on the Wild Rose party’s prospects in Alberta’s provincial election campaign. Also, did you hear the one about the Tory candidate who was roughed up by a Wild Rose supporter? Hahaha!
5 SPEAKING OF ALBERTA, THERE’S GONNA BE A GLOW-IN-THE-DARK DINOSAUR QUARTER Coooool.
6 AND THERE’S OTHER NEWS STUFF Rest in peace, Mike Wallace, The Canadian navy might have murdered a killer whale, Obama’s Supreme Court politicking gets scrutinized, Newt Gingrich is a loser who won’t quit, here’s an update on autism research, a Conservative MP says ignorant and vicious things about transsexuals, meanwhile, gays and lesbians are getting murdered in Brazil and self-appointed moralists pick on a video game for not being bigots like them. Ugh, that’s depressing. Here, have a video!
