Canada Dec. 6th, 2009 (10)

#1 — CBC | Hong Kong to accept Canada’s beef: Harper

Canadian beef exporters have regained access to the Hong Kong market following a meeting between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the former British colony’s chief executive.

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#2 — CBC | First Nations school system urged for Saskatchewan

The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations says the time has come to create a separate school system for aboriginal youth.

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#3 — CTV | Alta. lawyer fined for abandoning horses in snow

An Edmonton lawyer has been fined $1,000 and sentenced to 12 months probation for abandoning two horses in deep snow in central British Columbia last year.

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#4 — CTV | Snowstorms hammer southern Alberta for second day

Southern Alberta continued to feel winter’s wrath Saturday as storms pelted the region for a second straight day.

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#5 — Globe | This test can spare women from chemo. But they can’t get it here

A molecular test that analyzed a piece of Coree Hanczyk’s breast tumour told her something no oncologist in the Canadian health-care system could – she didn’t require chemotherapy after all.

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#6 — Globe | Quebec unmoved in standoff with doctors

The Quebec government is resisting calls for a moratorium on the development of uranium deposits in the province despite threats by doctors in Sept-Îles to quit over plans to open a mine near the town.

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NP | Twenty doctors quit in protest over plan to build uranium mine in Quebec

#7 — NP | Alberta judge rules in favour of author of anti-gay letter

Remarks by a youth pastor who wrote about declaring war on the “homosexual machine” were “jarring, offensive, bewildering, puerile, nonsensical and insulting,” but not hateful or extreme, an Alberta judge ruled on Thursday.

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#8 — OC | Is Canada really a climate ‘villain’?

When a clearly frustrated United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon took an undiplomatic swipe at Canada last week, it was a clear signal all was not going well behind closed doors where Commonwealth leaders were struggling for consensus on climate change.

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Star | Canada ‘Darth Vader of G8′

#9 — OC | Experts call for end of vaccination program

With H1N1 poised to enter history as the least deadly of four global flu pandemics, some experts are calling for an end to Canada’s mass vaccination program.

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#10 — Star | Minor hockey referees fear for game, own safety

When a Toronto teen lifted his stick and took a baseball-like swing at an opponent’s leg during a minor hockey tournament in January, it was only the warm-up act.

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