■ Canada
Harper snubs AIDS summit
A record number of delegates were expected to attend an upcoming global AIDS summit -- including Bill Gates and former US president Bill Clinton -- but the prime minister of the host country will not be among them, organizers confirmed on Monday. The 16th International AIDS conference will bring some 24,000 scientists, world leaders and others to Toronto, but Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declined an invitation and will instead send Governor General Michaelle Jean and his health minister. "Unfortunately, the prime minister will not be able to attend," Craig McClure, executive director of the International AIDS Society, told journalists.
■ Canada
Police pursue pedophile
Police in Whitewood, Saskatchewan, searched on Monday for a convicted pedophile suspected of kidnapping a 10-year-old boy while already with another missing child. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police issued a warrant for Peter Whitmore, 35, for the abduction of 10-year-old Zachary Miller of Whitewood, who disappeared on Sunday. Mounties said Whitmore was also believed to be traveling with 14-year-old Jordan Bruyere, who was last seen on July 22 in Brandon, Manitoba.
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