CANADA
#1 — CNews | Ontario, Quebec clean up after killer Sandy
Post-tropical storm Sandy weakened as the system moved inland and blew itself out Tuesday, and residents of southern Ontario and Quebec were left to pick up the pieces.
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#2 — ES | Proposed Alberta whistleblower legislation could carry fines as high as $100,000
Some new whistleblower Alberta legislation is touted by the Tory government as the key to safe disclosure of public wrongdoing, but critics say it falls short of protecting those who cry out.
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#3 — LFP | London mayor Joe Fontana invoking the poppy ripped in the House of Commons
More fur flew about Joe Fontana in Parliament on Tuesday, with two Conservatives accusing him of hiding behind the poppy amid an RCMP investigation.
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OTTAWA — The Conservative government’s widely criticized online surveillance legislation may be on the back burner, but another bill that would expand police access to Internet users’ data is about to resurface.
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#5 — WS | Ont. ombudsman wants fines, jail for illegal council meetings
Politicians who prefer sneaking behind closed doors to discuss municipal affairs that should instead be dealt with openly in public would be fined or even sent to jail if Ontario’s ombudsman had his way.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Storm Sandy: Eastern US gets back on its feet
Businesses and services in the north-eastern US are expected to start re-opening on Wednesday after two days of closure forced by storm Sandy.
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#7 — CNN | Probe of Antarctica’s hidden lakes may yield clues to extraterrestrial life
London (CNN) – A bold project to explore an ancient lake trapped beneath an Antarctic glacier for up to half a million years may reveal the limits at which life can exist.
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#8 — Fox | Hurricane Sandy and the politics of disaster funding
In a break with recent history, the Federal Emergency Management Agency says it has enough money to cover the initial response to Hurricane Sandy. But that doesn’t mean FEMA is out of the woods — and it certainly doesn’t mean the storm will be an exception to the politics of disaster funding.
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#9 — DM | Minister signals end of the wind farm
The relentless march of onshore wind farms is at an end, a minister declared last night.
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#10 — Telegraph | £10 million in aid to Uganda ended up in bank accounts of PM’s aides
Millions of pounds given as aid to fund development work in Uganda has reportedly been siphoned off into the private bank accounts of aides to the country’s prime minister.
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