BORDER

Harper promises to move forward with border pact [Toronto Sun]

Harper insists security perimeter best bet for Canada [Toronto Star]

Bridge officials says Canadian traffic caused long border backups over Easter weekend [Watertown Daily Times - NY]

Attorney: Whatcom County man shined light at border helicopter, but agents were not in danger [Bellingham Herald - WA]

Man hindered border officer [Telegraph Journal]

Charges dropped in human smuggling case [Watertown Daily Times - NY]

Borders and bears: shared threats, shared futures [NRDC.org]

TRADE

US economic growth slows to 1.8 percent [Washington Post]

Marketing professor receives grant to study trade between US, Canada [Daily Toreador - Texas]

MILITARY

Petraeus would helm an increasingly militarized CIA [Washington Post]

Obama’s Pentagon and CIA picks show shift in how US fights [NY Times]

Panetta comes armed with background in budget fights [NY Times]

Push in UN for criticism of Syria is rejected [NY Times]

Suspected NATO strike kills at least 10 Libyan rebels in Misurata [Washington Post]

ENERGY
Aboriginal health concerns hamper oil sands growth [Postmedia News]

US government begins oil shale hearings in Utah [CP]

Forget oil shale, environmentalists tell BLM [Salt Lake Tribune - Utah]

Megaload report shows plans for ‘high-load corridor ‘ [Spokesman Review]

Keystone XL pipeline comment period underway through June 6 [The Cherokeean]

70-mile transmission line proposed in area (to operate pipeline pump stations) [The Daily Republic - Mitchell, SD]

National groups, Merrick board, weigh in on Keystone XL [Lincoln Journal Star - Nebraska]

Canada is selling itself as the alternative to Middle Eastern oil, but there are better options [The Mark]

Letter: Green jobs needed, not more tarsands [Chronicle Herald]

TransCanada bullies farmers: Friends of the Earth report [foe.org]

BORDER

Prosecution rests in border helicopter spotlight case [Bellingham Herald]

Indian reservation: a smuggler’s playground [globalpost.com]

Commissioners approve Boundary port expansion [Statesman Examiner - WA]

Ex-terror accused loses first bid to sue government [Ottawa Citizen]

Montana US attorney reminds international students of their civil rights [Missoulian]

Navy engineers, scientists support new border protection operational integration center [Southern Maryland online]

US-Canada trade at center of new bridge debate [agmetalminer.com]

TRADE

‘Stop Canadian Trash Act’ to end waste imports into US [waste-management-world.com]

MILITARY

Obama to nominate CIA director Leon Panetta as Defense Secretary [Washington Post]

Afghan pilot kills 9 Americans at Kabul airport [Postmedia News]

Afghan official blames local and international forces for allowing prison break [LA Times]

Harper ‘disappointed’ by Afghan jailbreak [Postmedia News]

Putin brands NATO strike assassination attempt as Libya threatens West [Independent.ie]

ENERGY

Firms to build pipeline rivaling TransCanada plan [Wall Street Journal]

Nebraska country backs Keystone XL pipeline [AP]

Proposed pipeline will not pay off as predicted [Cherokeean, Texas]

Megaloads: A ‘game changer for Alberta’s oil sands developers‘ [The Spokesman Review]

Test megaload travels 100 miles, near Montana border [AP]

Saskatchewan approves carbon capture project [Globe and Mail]

Cenovus gets green light for oil sands expansion [Globe and Mail]