If you are going to talk about it, read about it first -  * CBC Headline News: The Ontario Provincial Police will hold a funeral Friday for the officer fatally wounded Monday in a shootout in southwestern Ontario.  Link to Article: Funeral for slain OPP officer to be held Friday  - 10 Mar 2010 at 1:12pm   * CBC Headline News: Interest rate increases will drive the Canadian dollar back up to parity with its U.S. counterpart by this summer, economists say.  Link to Article: Loonie at par by summer: economists  - 10 Mar 2010 at 12:44pm   * CBC Headline News: More than 45,000 Canadians could be recognized as status Indians under changes the federal government plans to make to the Indian Act, CBC News has learned.  Link to Article: Indian status coming for thousands of Canadians  - 10 Mar 2010 at 1:11pm   * CBC Headline News: NHL general managers have developed the framework for a new rule punishing hits to the head.  Link to Article: NHL GMs develop blind-side hit rule  - 10 Mar 2010 at 2:08pm   * CBC Headline News: Dr. Nash Denic has resigned as head of laboratory services at Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority after a drug-testing fiasco in which lab officials are accused of reacting to the problem too slowly.  Link to Article: N.L. lab head quits after drug error fiasco  - 10 Mar 2010 at 12:27pm   * CBC Headline News: A 35-year-old Canadian who uses a wheelchair has been beaten in Sydney, Australia, and is in hospital in serious condition, according to police reports.  Link to Article: Canadian wheelchair user beaten in Australia  - 10 Mar 2010 at 2:17pm   * CBC Headline News: Oil and gas companies were poised to spend hundreds of millions of dollars Wednesday on what is shaping up to be one of the biggest land sales in Alberta's history.  Link to Article: Alberta petroleum rights sale could be record  - 10 Mar 2010 at 12:56pm   * CBC Headline News: Tuberculosis remains a serious health problem in Canada's North, with the infection rate among Inuit 185 times greater than for others born in the country, a national analysis shows.  Link to Article: Inuit TB rate 185 times higher  - 10 Mar 2010 at 2:33pm   * CBC Headline News: Quebec will ban religious instruction in provincially funded daycare centres, Family Minister Tony Tomassi said Wednesday.  Link to Article: Quebec to ban religion in public daycares  - 10 Mar 2010 at 1:20pm   * CBC Headline News: Canadian actor Corey Haim, an actor who had struggled with drug addiction, died at age 38 early Wednesday in Los Angeles. Police say the exact cause is unknown.  Link to Article: Haim a 'tormented soul': Corey Feldman  - 10 Mar 2010 at 9:20am   * CBC Headline News: Mailouts from MPs, exorbitant Nova Scotia MLA expenses and a Toronto homeless audit are all cited at a tongue-in-cheek awards ceremony meant to highlight questionable government spending.  Link to Article: Taxpayer watchdog doles out waste awards  - 10 Mar 2010 at 11:02am   * CBC Headline News: The owner of a convenience store in western P.E.I. has decided to close for good after a break-in the night after his wife's funeral.  Link to Article: Grieving shop owner quits after break-in  - 10 Mar 2010 at 2:23pm   * CBC Headline News: Yorkshire pudding makers push to have the renowned roast beef side-dish given "protected food" status in the EU, like Champagne and the Stilton cheese name.  Link to Article: Yorkshire pudding makers seek name rights  - 10 Mar 2010 at 1:28pm   * CBC Headline News: A Canadian diplomat with extensive experience in Afghanistan says she raised the possibility that detainees transferred from Canadian to Afghan custody were at risk of torture back in 2005, but her concerns were ignored.  Link to Article: Afghan detainee torture risk raised in 2005  - 10 Mar 2010 at 1:21pm   * CBC Headline News: An international team of astronomers has confirmed that the universe, at least within a distance of 3.5 billion light years of Earth, obeys Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity."  Link to Article: Astronomers back up Einstein  - 10 Mar 2010 at 2:00pm