How about posting your local newspaper headlines so we can see what is considered newsworthy in the different areas? It should give a good overview of canadian life.

So for Peterborough ON today we have:

"Peterborough This Week" Free paper
CAUSE STILL UNKNOWN
this is about the death of 24,000 carp in the local lakes

WELCOME TO THE NEW EX
Peterborough Exhibition (Fair) is on this weekend.

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"The Peterborough Examiner. " Daily paper
QUALITY OF LIFE
Liberals announce better food, better beds for seniors residences
MHLTC will be improving the standards in seniors residences (Provincewide) The $$ for food has been increased from $5.57 per person per day to $7

WHATS KILLING THE CARP
Apparently an answer is close, but the answer could be " I dont know"

Orangeville Banner "Crime Rate Down Again".

Interestingly, a reduction in the number of "indecent acts" accounted for the overall fall.

This is yesterdays headlines from the Red Deer Advocate (daily paper)- The website for the express(weekly paper) has still got last weeks stories....But will no doubt run the more important stories the Advocate has already printed, sad about the boy who drowned.

River a recreational ‘gift from God’

A parking and launch site plan is needed to provide safe and convenient access to the Red Deer River, says a river naturalist. (Jul 31 2007)

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Tragic, but rare Drowning at Bower Ponds a first; emergency agencies debrief over responses

City of Red Deer staff, including Emergency Services personnel and RCMP representatives, will review Sunday’s tragic drowning of a 13-year-old boy, says the city’s community services director. (Jul 31 2007

Windsor Star -

Imeson caught
The manhunt for Windsor's Jesse Norman Imeson, wanted for the murder of three people, ended Tuesday

Smog advisory issued

Utility slow to correct billing
It took months and three calls for customer to rectify (wow, 3 whole calls!)

River bistro license rapped
A handful of residents gathered Tuesday at a liquor licence hearing to object to booze being served at the new Bistro at the River in the Windsor Peace Beacon.

Today we have:

Cool off in a public building »
Local News - 8/1/2007 Updated @ 2:25 PM
Area municipalities are extending an invitation to residents to cool their heels as the mercury has crept past 30 C.

Smog advisory issued »
Local News - 8/1/2007 Updated @ 12:07 PM
The Ontario Ministry of the Environment has issued a smog advisory warning for the Quinte region. Shortly after 11 a.

Recovery of funds unlikely: Ellis »
Local News - 8/1/2007 Updated @ 2:05 PM
Contrary to some radio reports, Mayor Neil Ellis reiterated today that he stands by his comment in an interview Tuesday that it is unlikely the $475,000 advanced as a loan to the Belleville Family Medical Centre will be recovered.



Yesterday would have been about a 5 year old who was missing for 36 hours in a cornfield near Picton being found safe and well.

The Oakville Beaver (I kid you not, that's really the name of our local organ) has

Curtain Closes on MASS (the demise of a local arts cooperative, Music and Shared Space)

Officer Fires Shots During Police Pursuit (police are searching for a stolen Cadillac Escalade - honestly, the criminal underclass has no taste...)

Preventing Weeping over Old Willow (this is quite a cute human-interest story about a Lithuanian lady battling with the city authorities to save a willow tree on her property. She recently met the elderly man who had planted it as a young soldier before taking ship to Europe in WWII; she emigrated to Canada as a young girl and is grateful to Allied soldiers who battled to liberate her country. "And here I am, living under this soldier's tree since 1975. This is a story that should be told every Remembrance Day.")

Assuming we're talking printed paper rather than internet (as that will now be full of Chantal and flooding), the St. John's Telegram front page leads with:

"Marching out of History" - Signal Hill military tattoo keeps history alive.

"Battle of the Bans" - Feds launching WTO challenge of Belgian seal embargo.

"Province calls the shots - Williams remends Crosbie" - all to do with a flap over whether Grenfell College in Cornerbrook should become a University.

All quite dull really. Tommorrows will be more dramatic I'm sure.

In Winnipeg

"Three shotguns, a magazine and ammunition were seized this morning by Winnipeg police at a Redwood Avenue home. "

"Winnipeg Blue Bombers receiver Milt Stegall was named the CFL’s offensive player of the week on Wednesday. "

"A man shot in the buttocks by Winnipeg police two weeks ago has been hit with a new charge of trying to grab an officer's gun as he lay injured on the ground, according to court documents obtained by the Free Press. "

"Children at a Charleswood housing co-operative will watch their dreams for the ultimate playground get built in a day. "


For all those planning to live here, the crime we have is very contained in certain neighbourhoods, and those are the ones where one would not want to live. Most areas are beautiful and safe

The headline on the front page of the Bromley News Shopper isn't very news-worthy, so I picked a page at random and it was page 3:

"Dead hamster left outside charity shop"
apparently someone left the hamster still in its cage outside the local Oxfam. However, "thanks to Ms X, the hamster was given a decent burial in the communal gardens at her home".

"Jailed for setting mantrap"
Local man was fed up being burgled so he set some mantraps to catch the burglars and got 18 months in prison.

Oh, and the Elmstead craft club is meeting on August 13..."Try your hand at teabag folding or making a personal card".

Flossie

Headline in this weeks Banff Crag & Canyon

Elk getting birth control

Tuesday July 31, 2007

They may make camera-toting tourists happy, but the over population of elk in and around Banff has caused Parks Canada officials to take what some might call drastic measures -- injecting them with birth control.

Parks will test a vaccine on 10 elk cows over a two-year pilot period beginning in August -- if the environmental assessment is approved -- a Parks Canada spokesperson confirmed.

THE COCHRANE EAGLE

Rack 'Em - How long will deer like this buck be able to lounge around the fields that surreound Cochrane as the cummunity continues to grow ? We humans chew up more land with subdivision ... (Cue picture of large deer with huge antlers poking head up in green field)

Emissions cuts felt locally - Cochrane industrial plants must cut emissions - Alberta recognizes we need to deal with climate change - we are the largest producer in Canada ...

Cochrane immune to scarcity of doctors - blah blah shortage of 1000 doctors in Alberta .. blah blah ... but 12 out of 17 family doctors in Cochrane are accepting new patients ....

Come on, now that was simply fascinating and stimulating and zzzzzzzzz

from today's Calgary Herald:


Video shows brutal attack on man
Questions about the safety of homeless Calgarians and the police response are being raised after a frenzied attack near the Calgary Drop-In Centre last weekend -- captured by shelter security cameras -- that saw three assailants batter a man with large rocks, kicks and punches before the bloodied victim shuffles out of view.

Drop-in centre executive director Dermot Baldwin said he is extremely worried about the condition of the man, unidentified, but believed to be homeless.

Also Human remains found on banks of Bow River

and
Two in hospital following shooting incident
Calgary Herald
Published: Wednesday, August 01, 2007
A man and woman are in hospital, after they were discovered at the scene of a reported shooting spree this morning in the 300 block of Riverfront Avenue S.W.

Nice eh?

In yesterday's La Revue, the front cover and inside back page are given over almost entirely to a teenage girl who's quite good at archery.

<slips into coma>

Todays Belleville Intellegencer:

Fisher attack startles woman
Local News - 8/2/2007 @ 10:00
The gashes and scratches on Kyla Jones' arms and legs are healing but bear grim testimony to a nasty encounter with a fisher at her home last week.

Baby, it's hot out there
Local News - 8/2/2007 @ 10:00
It's been a scorcher and the scorching is going to continue, at least for today. Temperatures soared, people all over Quinte beat a hasty retreat for shade and municipalities reminded residents they have "cooling zones" open for those who need to beat the heat.

Bewildered by attention, grateful for son's return
Local News - 8/2/2007 @ 10:00
The Mennonite family of a five-year-old boy is overcome with both, bewilderment and gratitude after the outpouring of concern following their son's disappearance Sunday afternoon.

From Nottingham, UK - Evening Post Morning Edition:

DUO DENY SAMURAI STABBING

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/di...pNodeId=133951


then the Evening Edition headline was

GUNN FOUND GUILTY (for several shootings, killings and lots of other crimes)

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/di...pNodeId=133951


On the positive side, there's always something to talk about. Hmmm.