1 POTASH! Brad Wall sez hands off furriners! Murray Mandryk has a good article on the situation! The federal Tories might just leave it all to the free market! Lots of people murmur that Potash Corp should never have been effin’ privatized in the first place. They’re right.

2 PRESS FREEDOM SAYS YAY! Journalists can legally keep their anonymous sources secret as long as doing so can be demonstrated as in the public interest. There was some resistance to this.

3 FORMER CHILD SOLDIER IMPRISONED IN U.S. CONCENTRATION CAMP MIGHT BE COMING BACK TO CANADA, MAYBE There are rumours.

4 U.S. PRESIDENT STICKS UP FOR BULLIED GAY TEENS Good! Now all he needs to do is tell his Justice Department to stop attacking GLBT soldiers and stop defending the bigoted Defense Of Marriage Act and just get it repealed, and things will be on their way to being good. Here’s the video, by the way. And hats off to author, columnist and alt-weekly editor Dan Savage, who launched the It Gets Better Project. We love Dan here.