Khadr payoff update

The Conservatives are dismissing Liberal suggestions their cross-border campaign against the taxpayer-funded multi-million dollar settlement payout to Omar Khadr will impact upcoming NAFTA negotiations.  Tory Leader Andrew Scheer says the two issues are not connected, and that he’s not about to play politics when it comes to trade talks with America.

OJ Simpson to get out of jail

OJ Simpson has been given parole.  He’s spent almost nine years in prison for a Las Vegas armed robbery, and could be out as soon as October 1st.  The 70-year-old’s defenders have said the sentence was out of proportion to the crime, and that he was being punished for the acquittal in the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman.