#1 — CBC | Canada muzzled handling of Afghan prisoners: report
The testimony of a Canadian diplomat before a parliamentary committee Wednesday is likely to provide disturbing information about the government’s handling of Afghan detainees, CBC news has learned.
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#2 — CBC | CBC backs compensation for signal at hearings
The conventional TV business has changed dramatically in the past 30 years, and without access to new streams of revenue, stations will continue to close and local programming vanish, Canada’s public broadcaster argued in Gatineau, Que., on Tuesday morning.
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#3 — CTV | McGuinty: ‘Dalton Days’ a figment of media’s imagination
TORONTO — Less than a week after floating a trial balloon about unpaid days off for Ontario public sector workers, Premier Dalton McGuinty shot it down Tuesday, accusing the media of playing guessing games and warning that “guesses are usually wrong.”
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#4 — Globe | Harper government plans to move G20 summit to Toronto
Stephen Harper’s decision to invite the world to Canada is proving to be too much for Ontario’s cottage country.
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#5 — NP | Native crates may have held AK-47s: Caledonia man’s testimony
HAMILTON — David Brown, the Caledonia resident whose house was trapped on the native side of the blockades during the fiery aboriginal occupation in Caledonia, found himself crawling through the swampy tree line at the edge of the contentious site to investigate noises that had frightened his elderly neighbours, court heard on Tuesday.
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#6 — OC | McGuinty Liberals on downhill slide: poll
TORONTO – Successive scandals, a historic deficit and an unpopular new tax have taken a heavy toll on Ontario’s Liberal government, according to a poll released Tuesday, which shows support plummeting.
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#7 — OC | Parliamentary Restaurant adds seal to menu
OTTAWA — Chew on this: The Parliamentary Restaurant will soon serve seal meat to anyone with a taste for game, and controversy.
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#8 — MG | Feds can’t promise H1N1 shot for all Canadians by Christmas
OTTAWA — If every Canadian heeds the advice of public health officials to get the H1N1 shot, there will not be enough vaccine available by Christmas as the federal government has been promising, the chief public health officer acknowledged Tuesday.
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#9 — MG | Canadians turning to food banks in record numbers
OTTAWA — An increasing number of Canadians, many of whom have jobs, are turning to food banks to help ward off hunger, according to a new report that says usage jumped by a record 18 per cent in 2009.
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#10 — Star | We are India’s nuclear ‘friend,’ Harper says
NEW DELHI–On a crisp Monday morning in May 1974, Canadians woke up to startling front-page news: India had secretly used Canadian technology to develop a nuclear weapon, a bomb nicknamed “The Smiling Buddha.”
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