#1 — CBC | Prairies punched by winter storms
Manitoba and Saskatchewan are in for a weekend of stormy weather as two nasty systems move through the region.
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#2 — CBC | Thousands protest Parliament’s suspension
Thousands of people attended rallies in towns and cities across Canada on Saturday to speak out against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to suspend Parliament until March.
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#3 — CTV | Ex-ambassador passed info to CIA while in Iran
TORONTO — Sitting in a Toronto hotel room Ken Taylor is casual as he chats about the days when he used to funnel information to the CIA in the midst of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979.
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#4 — CTV | Expert predicts mild winter ahead thanks to El Nino
TORONTO — Canadians who endured two tough winters and the “summer that wasn’t” may be heartened to hear that the mild January weather seen in much of the country may set the trend for the rest of this winter.
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#5 — Globe | The next stop for the Roma: Canada?
Once or twice a month, three-year-old Mate Csorba disappears from his family house on the edge of a Hungarian village. When his worried relatives find him wandering in the forest, he tells them he is searching for his father and his older brother, who are out hunting.
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#6 — NP | On illness and incarceration
In the midsummer of 1996, an act of sexual intercourse took place on the medium secure forensic ward of a downtown Toronto psychiatric hospital, where 20 people were held on orders of a criminal court: 19 men and one woman.
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#7 — NP | Alberta Tories too left, says party advisor leaving for Wildrose Alliance
Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives lost another of their own this week, when a member of the party’s executive resigned on Thursday to lead policy development for the Wildrose Alliance.
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#8 — OC | B.C.’s privacy office frozen, leaked letter says
VANCOUVER — Operations at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner have ceased, leaving British Columbians with no independent office to hold the government accountable, says a leaked letter marked “Extremely Urgent” to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
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#9 — MG | Deadly Manitoba crash leaves 12 children orphans
WINNIPEG — Twelve Manitoba children were left orphaned when both their parents were killed in a car crash near Winnipeg Saturday morning.
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#10 — Star | Construction workers at high risk
The tragedy of four workers who fell to their deaths on Christmas Eve has exposed a secret – 405 construction workers have lost their lives in Ontario since 1990.
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12 children now orphans because their Mom and Dad weren’t wearing seatbelts.
When I read that is the paper this morning I said right out loud those *&%#* stupid fools!!!!! I know I know, don’t speak ill of the dead but the odds are overwhelmingly in favour of survival of horrific crashes if only people would buckle up. Today’s motor vehicle passenger compartments are engineered to provide incredible protection to the occupants but they have to be restrained in the vehicle at the time of impact. 12 orphans that in all probability needn’t be, all because of stupidity. Even if one of the parents had survived! Me, Jack and others here have had to pull enough dead bodies out of vehicles and with but a very few exceptions the vast majority didn’t have to die, if only they’d worn their seatbelts. Now don’t get me going on parents who don’t buckle their children in and then get into a collision and the children get killed, that’d be too many bad memories for the one day.
A terrible tragedy, BTDT. Both parents killed. Hard to take. A recent book has come to my attention. It may help many. “Shaken, not Shattered.”