Canada
#1 — CBC | Ont. auto insurance reforms hurt consumers: critics
Changes to Ontario’s auto insurance that take effect Wednesday will provide less coverage for the same cost, critics say.
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#2 — CBC | U.S. charges Canadian with stealing trade secrets
A Canadian scientist accused of illegally sending trade secrets worth $300 million US to China and Germany was ordered detained Tuesday on rare charges of economic espionage.
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#3 — CBC | Ottawa to appeal Abdullah Khadr ruling
The Canadian government is appealing a court ruling that stayed extradition proceedings to the U.S. against Abdullah Khadr.
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#4 — CNews | B.C. ‘Bear Dude’ rankles neighbours
CALGARY – At least with crazy cat ladies, all you need to worry about is the smell.
A home next door to a guy who regularly feeds wild bears, on the other hand, is a property filled with fear.
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#5 — Globe | Blair’s memoir reveals how Chrétien-Martin fuelled his split with Brown
While it’s no surprise that Tony Blair likens his fraught relationship with Gordon Brown to that between their Canadian counterparts Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, the British Prime Minister’s newly published memoirs put a new, conspiratorial spin on the ruptured world of prime ministers and their finance-minister successors.
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#6 — Globe | Authorities seize child of man targeted in terror probe
A massive probe into terrorist activity in Canada has taken a strange twist, detouring from the criminal courts to family court.
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#7 — Globe | First Nations girding for showdown over Far North Act
First Nations leaders are girding for a showdown with the Ontario government over its Far North Act.
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#8 — LFP | Sher linked to Montreal foundation
OTTAWA — A foundation that appears to have several links to the alleged terror plot in Ottawa has issued a statement saying it’s shocked by the arrests and denounces terrorism.
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#9 — LFP | Fantino turns over OPP command
TORONTO – Ontario’s retired top cop completed his last inspection of OPP officers Tuesday “with mixed feelings.”
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#10 — NP | The Online Trial: New insight into terror suspect comes from Web footprint
A week after he turned 21, a Montreal student logged on to a Muslim Internet forum and posted a link to a propaganda video called “Operation Iraqi Freedom.”
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#11 — OC | Emerald ash borer spreads far, fast
OTTAWA — The emerald ash borer has spread more quickly than expected across Ottawa.
It was believed that it would take five years for the destructive insect to reach the Central Experimental Farm, but it did it in only two, according to Pierre Huppé, the chief of grounds maintenance at the farm.
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#12 — MG | Cross examination of Bellemare continues
QUEBEC – The cross examination of former justice minister Marc Bellemare has resumed at the Bastarache commission in Quebec City.
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#13 — Star | Hurricane Earl weakens as it moves toward Canada
Hurricane Earl will likely affect weather in Atlantic Canada this weekend, but it’s too early to predict its full impact, the Canadian Hurricane Centre said Tuesday.
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World
#14 — BBC | Sweden reopens Wikileaks founder rape investigation
A senior Swedish prosecutor has ordered the reopening of a rape investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
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#15 — BC | West Bank attack overshadows new Middle East talks
Palestinian security forces have mounted a huge operation in the West Bank to catch the killers of four Israeli settlers shot on Tuesday.
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Fox | Israelis to Break Freeze on West Bank Construction to Protest Palestinian Attack
Telegraph | Benjamin Netanyahu rules out extension on settlement freeze
#16 — CNN | Stocks surge over 2% on manufacturing data
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — A rally on Wall Street accelerated Wednesday morning after a report showing an unexpected rise in U.S. manufacturing activity added to earlier optimism over China’s strong manufacturing report.
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#17 — NY Times | Trying to Buck Odds, Obama Takes On 3 Big Mideast Tasks
President Obama is attempting a triple play this week that eluded his predecessors over the past two decades: simultaneous progress on the most vexing and violent problems in the Middle East — Israeli-Palestinian peace, Iraq and Iran — in hopes of creating a virtuous cycle in a region prone to downward spirals.
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#18 — DM | ‘I know who took Madeleine McCann’
A paedophile suspected of being involved in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann ‘confessed’ to knowing what happened to the little girl on his deathbed, it has been claimed.
Raymond Hewlett wrote to his estranged son denying he played a part in the three-year-old’s abduction, but claimed he knew she had been ‘stolen to order’ by a gypsy gang.
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#19 — DM | Fore… I mean FIRE! Spark from golfer’s club causes 12-acre brush blaze
A golfer’s errant shot sparked a 12-acre forest fire in Southern California.
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#20 — DM | Financial scandal reaches to the very top of government
The luxury home of France’s richest woman was raided by police today as the financial scandal swirling around Nicolas Sarkozy’s government intensified.
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#21 — Telegraph | Six dead in Mozambique riots over food
A private television station in Mozambique says six people have been killed as police shoot at protesters.
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