Canada Jan. 7th, 2010 (10)

#1 — CBC | Canada reviewing U.S. air security measures: Baird

Transport Minister John Baird said Canada would have to review a U.S. plan to single out travellers arriving from specific countries for additional screening at airports to see whether adopting it might violate the rights of Canadians.

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#2 — CBC | N.S. Muslim woman refused entry to U.S.

A newlywed Nova Scotia woman hoping to visit her husband in the United States says she wasn’t allowed to board a flight at Halifax Stanfield International Airport this week because she is a Muslim.

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#3 — CBC | Loss of passport over child support challenged

A Montreal man is asking the Quebec Superior Court to strike down a federal law that can see parents who don’t pay child support lose their passports and other licences.

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#4 — CTV | 2nd body found after house fire on Manitoba reserve

Police have discovered a second body inside a home that burned to the ground on a remote northern Manitoba reserve, four days after the blaze.

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#5 — CTV | Glen Murray named Liberal candidate for byelection

Premier Dalton McGuinty has called a byelection for the provincial riding of Toronto Centre, and environmentalist Glen Murray has been nominated as the Liberal candidate.

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#6 — Globe | Senate reform plan sparks standoff with provinces

A handful of eastern provinces are warning Prime Minister Stephen Harper to brace for a battle if his Conservative government attempts to force a controversial Senate reform plan through Parliament.

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#7 — Globe | Terminal operator lost track of ammonium nitrate

RCMP investigators are to meet Thursday with a Vancouver terminal operator to review how the company lost track of its inventory of ammonium nitrate, a highly potent chemical compound used in an explosive that killed 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma bombing and believed to be used in improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan.

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#8 — OC | No troops after 2011, PM says

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says virtually all Canadian soldiers will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2011, making some of his most definitive statements yet on his vision of Canada’s future role there in an interview Wednesday with Canwest News Service.

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#9 — MG | Five Quebecers arrested in Mexico

MONTREAL – Five Quebecers arrested in Puerto Vallarta on New Year’s Eve remain behind bars somewhere outside Mexico City, but it is still unclear why they were detained and handed over to military police, and in which way they were subsequently “mistreated”.

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#10 — Star | John Tory won’t run for Toronto mayor, source says

John Tory won’t run for mayor of Toronto, according to a source close to the former provincial Conservative leader.

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