CANADA
#1 — CNews | Ice hampers search for missing canoeist
ORILLIA, ONT. – Ice conditions prevented Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) divers from searching for the body of a 23-year-old man who has been missing since his canoe capsized Tuesday on Lake Couchiching.
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#2 — Globe | In Ontario, ominous warnings of tough times ahead
Even for a finance minister trying to get a handle on his province’s troubled books amid global economic turmoil that has blown up his own assumptions and expectations, it was an unusually stark warning.
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#3 — LFP | Tories to enter 2012 with financial headache
OTTAWA – There’s a push for the Conservative government – that created record budget deficits and allowed the civil service to swell by thousands – to make a New Year’s resolution to change its fiscal colours from red to black.
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#4 — NP | McParland: The cementhead generation runs into a debt wall
One of the more obvious lessons of life is that if you borrow more than you can pay back, you will eventually land in trouble.
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#5 — OC | Man climbing from one balcony to next falls to death in Toronto
A man fell 12 storeys to his death Wednesday night as police tried to make an arrest at a Toronto apartment building.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Nigeria Christians ‘to defend churches from Boko Haram’
Nigerian Christians will have “no other option” but to defend themselves if attacks by Islamist militants continue, church leaders have said.
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#7 — CNN | FCC scrambles to cope with data avalanche
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Smartphone companies and carriers are desperate for network capacity to provide souped-up service, but they’re hard-pressed to find it. The latest attempt: a government effort to use the staticky space between television channels.
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#8 — Fox | Petraeus Nearly Quit Over Afghan Drawdown, Book Claims
WASHINGTON – Four-star general-turned-CIA director David Petraeus almost resigned as Afghanistan war commander over President Obama’s decision to quickly draw down surge forces, according to a new insider’s look at Petraeus’ 37-year Army career.
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#9 — DM | ‘I am shooting people’
The father responsible for the Christmas Day shooting in Texas that left seven dead told a 911 dispatcher ‘I am shooting people’ while cries of ‘help, help’ were heard in the background, police say.
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#10 — Telegraph | Hacking ‘threat to train network’
Hackers could attack the train network and disrupt services because of a shift to new signalling technology, a security expert has warned.
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