The Bloc will support the Stephen Harper motion to recognize Quebec as a distinct nation within Canada. In other news: Pope Catholic, bears poop in woods, General Franco still dead.

Also under predictable news: Jim Flaherty promises that interest savings from federal debt reduction will be used for tax cuts.

Cops busted six and a half million dollars worth of marijuana grow-ops yesterday. Of course, what they're not telling you is that two million dollars of the value was actually old Bob Marley and the Wailers records.

With the purchase of a dump near St. Thomas, Toronto's citizen panel is wondering how to deal with the city's garbage issues.

Vancouver is opening the country's first fully private emergency room next week. American opponents of public health care will mention this probably seven or eight million times.

And file under "groups you never expected to rise up en masse in furious anger": Chinese acupuncturists threaten to organize half a million people against the Ontario Liberals in next year's election.