Canada Oct. 12th, 2009 (10)

#1 — CBC | Springvale man wins annual pumpkin weigh-off

Alen Aten is the proud winner of the 16th annual Great Pumpkin Weigh-off in Springvale, P.E.I.

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#2 — CTV | Harper asks Canadians to think of troops at Thanksgiving

CALGARY — Prime Minister Stephen Harper asked Canadians Sunday to think of the troops in Afghanistan as they celebrate Thanksgiving.

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#3 — CTV | Speculation Rae undermined Ignatieff ‘nonsensical’

Liberal MP Bob Rae is denying that he orchestrated a move by a group of Liberal senators to amend a crime bill in an effort to undermine Michael Ignatieff’s leadership.

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#4 — Globe | Girl finds dead mother hawking cure-all on Facebook

In an extraordinary case of invasion of privacy, a teenaged girl in Nova Scotia was shocked to log onto Facebook to find her deceased mother hawking a supposed cure-all.

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#5 — Globe | Follow Europe’s lead on climate change, conference host tells Canada

It’s time politicians in North America began taking the type of politically risky measures to cut carbon-dioxide emissions that their counterparts in Europe have already initiated, says the Danish minister playing host to the coming United Nations conference on climate change.

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#6 — NP | Supreme Court case to test ‘Internet luring’ law

OTTAWA – Nobody disputes that Craig Legare was being a creep when he had online sex chats with a 12-year-old girl who called herself “babystar.”

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#7 — OC | Thanksgiving in Afghanistan

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Padre Normand Cholette sees Thanksgiving in Afghanistan as a chance for soldiers to pause and consider how blessed their lives are compared to the hardships Afghans face.

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#8 — MG | Top court ends bid to recoup municipal taxes

The Supreme Court of Canada yesterday dismissed the appeals of three Montreal-area taxpayers who wanted to launch class-action lawsuits to force municipalities to refund millions of dollars in taxes.

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#9 — Star | Ottawa’s $19 billion reversal of fortune

OTTAWA–Any day now, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government will acknowledge a grim watershed – last year, for the first time in more than a decade, Ottawa spent more money than it collected from taxpayers and wound up with a budget deficit on its hands.

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#10 — Star | 4 killed flying home for Thanksgiving

A plane crash in Algonquin Park has left two Sudbury families in mourning this holiday weekend.

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