Canada Dec. 28th, 2009 (10)

#1 — CBC | Power outages hit E. Ontario, Quebec

An acute spell of freezing rain is being blamed for thousands of electricity outages peppering eastern Ontario and southern Quebec.

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#2 — CTV | Key consumer data could spark stock markets this week

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market looks ready to close out 2009 at or even slightly above its highs for the year after economic data last week strengthened expectations that the U.S. economic recovery is on track.

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#3 — Globe | Courts falling short on effort to keep natives out of jail

All things being equal, Dennis Thibault didn’t have a prayer of getting bail.

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#4 –Globe | Arctic pipeline environmental study expected this week

Even at noon, Inuvik’s weak December sun never seems to light the Arctic community brighter than twilight — no longer night, not quite day.

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#5 — LFP | Difficult year for Parliament watchdog

OTTAWA — 2009 was a “difficult year” but things are looking brighter for Parliament’s budget watchdog.

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#6 — NP | Watchdog: review RCMP’s power to break the law

OTTAWA — The outgoing RCMP watchdog says there should be a major review of a little-known police power to break the law when trying to catch lawbreakers, which he describes as an authorization to “burn the barn” with immunity.

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#7 — NP | Dead workers were migrants

Just before dusk on Christmas Eve, Joseph McDonald leaned out the window of his Etobicoke high-rise apartment to wish a merry Christmas to the five-man crew suspended on scaffolding, working on his balcony.

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#8 — OC | NATO forces have a year to turn Afghan war: official

KABUL — Foreign forces have only a year to turn the tide of the war in Afghanistan and the Taliban have a shadow government in place that could run the country if the West fails, a senior NATO intelligence official said on Sunday.

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#9 — MG | Canada condemns renewed violence in Iran

Canada joined the growing chorus of voices Sunday condemning the violent suppression of antigovernment protesters in Iran that reports say has left at least five people dead.

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#10 — Star | Swamped by teen suicides

Timmins funeral director Mike Wilson remembers when the first teen to commit suicide in the James Bay area came under his care last January.

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