Nov 2 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from
selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these
stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
** Suncor Energy Inc SU.TO is plotting a regulatory
challenge to Canadian Oil Sands Ltd 's COS.TO new shareholder
rights plan while pressing a case that its takeover target risks
being left without an offer as time wears on. Suncor Chief
Executive Steve Williams said the board of Canadian Oil Sands
had a more valuable bid from his company to consider last spring
and dismissed it without taking it to its investors.
** The catastrophic break-up high over the Sinai Peninsula
of a Russian airliner filled with returning Red Sea vacationers
was consistent with an explosion or massive structure failure.
The Airbus 321 was torn apart, with all 224 on board the St.
Petersburg-bound flight killed on Saturday, less than 24 minutes
after a predawn take-off as the twin-engined jet neared its
cruising altitude above the remote, mountainous, central Sinai.
** Prime-minister-designate Justin Trudeau has picked a
small cabinet that will leave a number of Liberal veterans on
the back benches, opting for a group of ministers that more
accurately reflects Canada's diverse population, sources said.
The choices were made last week in a federal building that
houses the Canadian Forces Recruitment Center in downtown
Ottawa.
NATIONAL POST
** The Liquor Control Board of Ontario is destroying the
personal information of wine, beer and spirit club members that
the privacy commissioner said it was wrong to collect - but only
after putting up a legal fight that cost more than a quarter of
a million dollars.
** The Art Gallery of Ontario announced on Friday it will
join a global movement to collect Lego for dissident Chinese
artist Ai Weiwei's next project. Ai planned another of his
massive, trademark installation pieces for an Australian
gallery, but the Danish company that makes the tiny plastic
bricks refused the order over concerns the piece would further a
"political agenda".