#1 — CBC | New conflict unearthed at Ontario health ministry
A trio of senior program managers at Ontario’s health ministry were allowed to set up their own firm, then profit from dozens of ministry contracts worth millions of dollars, according to documents obtained by CBC News.
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#2 — CBC | Troops may stay in Afghanistan after 2011: MacKay
The Conservative government will let Parliament decide what Canada’s future role in Afghanistan will be beyond 2011, two cabinet ministers say.
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#3 — CBC | Bring back health-care premiums, Albertans say
Albertans favour reinstating health-care premiums in the province by a margin of almost two to one, according to a new public opinion poll commissioned by the CBC.
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#4 — CTV | Poll shows few Canadians plan to be vaccinated
TORONTO — Canadians don’t seem to see the H1N1 virus as a personal threat, and few currently plan to get vaccinated against the virus, a new poll indicates.
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#5 — Globe | RCMP probe alleged fraud of B.C. Health ministry
The RCMP are alleging a senior health bureaucrat and a technology contractor schemed to defraud the British Columbia government as it moved to implement its eHealth initiative.
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#6 — Globe | Liberal senators break with Ignatieff on law-and-order bill
Michael Ignatieff’s leadership woes worsened Thursday, after some Liberal senators effectively gutted law-and-order legislation that the Liberal Leader had supported and the Senate adjourned for a week before the problem could be fixed.
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#7 — Globe | Dziekanski’s mother files lawsuits against RCMP, airport
Robert Dziekanski’s mother has filed a lawsuit alleging excessive force and “cruel and unusual” treatment by the four RCMP officers who stunned her son with a Taser.
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#8 — NP | Queen is our head of state, Harper reminds Jean
OTTAWA • Stephen Harper has sent a clear message to Michaëlle Jean, the Governor-General, that she should not call herself head of state.
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#9 — Star | Settlement upsets black postal worker
A black postal worker who complained of being racially discriminated against by Toronto police is unhappy with a $10,000 settlement in his favour.
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#10 — Star | Liberals demand end to Tory ad blitz
OTTAWA — Accusing Prime Minister Stephen Harper of trying to buy Canadians with their own money, Liberal MPs today demanded that the Conservative government remove the current barrage of taxpayer-funded ads promoting the government’s economic program.
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Re Poll shows few Canadians plan to be vaccinated: Count me in with those who are not getting a flu shot. I have seen nothing to convince me that either science or the government have much of a real clue about what they are talking about.
I’m passing on it too, stageleft despite the fact two folks at the building where I work have diagnosed with H1N1. I am washing hands more frequently but that’s about it…