#1 — CBC | Summit costs audit requested by Liberals
The Opposition Liberals have asked federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser to conduct an audit into the government’s cost estimates of $930 million for security measures at the upcoming G8 and G20 summits.
[...]
CNews | Violence expected at G8/G20 summits
Globe | Budget watchdog probing summits’ $1-billion price tag
#2 — CBC | Snowfall warning issued for Calgary area
Calgarians are scrambling to cover their plants and gardens as another spring storm is forecast to bring 10 to 20 centimetres of snow to the area overnight into Friday morning.
[...]
#3 — CBC | Mayors want greater share of tax revenue
It shouldn’t take a global economic meltdown for municipalities to get the fiscal help they desperately need, big city mayors said Thursday as they called on all levels of government to enter into a new funding partnership.
[...]
#4 — Globe | Mexico’s president pushes Ottawa to act on climate change
Mexico’s president, in Ottawa as Stephen Harper’s guest, has taken a whack at his host’s wait-for-the-U.S. policies on climate change.
[...]
#5 — Globe | Ontario aims to put more physicians on salary
The Ontario government is warning doctors that it plans to radically overhaul how they are compensated by paying more of them salaries – the latest salvo in its efforts to rein in the biggest contributors to ballooning health-care costs.
[...]
#6 — LFP | Gun-registry program costs drop
OTTAWA – Facing opponents to the gun registry that are upset over wasted public money, Auditor General Sheila Fraser says that her last audit showed that the program’s cost had lessened.
[...]
#7 — NP | Recruitment of doctors in rural communities backfiring
Like hundreds of other places across Canada, the Saskatchewan town of Wakaw has gone all out to recruit doctors, recently luring two South African physicians to the community with free housing, car allowances and financial bonuses.
[...]
#8 — OC | Fight against bogus Mexican refugees carries price: Harper
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday that Canada is paying a price for imposing visa requirements on Mexicans, but said there is no other way to halt “a torrent of bogus applications” for refugee status until after a proposed new law is enacted.
[...]
#9 — MG | Questions raised by 2007 PQ donations in names of Marois’s children
QUEBEC – Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois Thursday morning found herself on the defensive on an ethical question after it was revealed her children, at a very young age and while not yet employed, made substantial financial donations to her 2007 leadership campaign.
[...]
#10 — Star | Refugee door pried open for Haitian women fearing rape
A groundbreaking Federal Court ruling has opened doors to Haitian women who are seeking refugee status in Canada because they are afraid of being raped in their own country, where sexual violence is a growing problem.
[...]
Re# 10: If we do all that we can to right all the wrongs of the world we shall be swamped… and unable to help anyone, including ourselves.
Re# 4: “In Mexico, we cannot wait.” OK Filepe… you go ahead without us then. I recon anyone still pushing the AGW band wagon is really really stupid / ill informed or has a hidden agenda. Like maybe… unelected, unaccountable world governance. Did anyone notice that PMSH is not real good at hiding his emotions when his country is insulted…. At least there was no standing ovation.