From CBC.ca:

The prime minister of Somalia offered new hope Thursday that Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout, abducted outside Mogadishu almost 10 months ago, could soon be freed.

Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke told CBC News that he didn't want to speak publicly about the situation because it's "still a very sensitive case."

But he said, "I'm very optimistic that in the very near future we will have freed those two journalists."

From CBC.ca:

New Brunswick's only French-language daily newspaper is cutting costs by laying off six workers and cancelling a pay increase that was to go into effect on July 1.

L'Acadie Nouvelle reported in its Thursday edition that the employees losing their jobs include two photographers and a sports reporter.

Francis Sonier, assistant general manager of L'Acadie Nouvelle, said the newspaper has seen a 10 per cent drop in revenue since the economy began faltering.

The staff also accepted a one-week unpaid leave. Otherwise, cuts might have been deeper, said Francis Sonier, assistant general manager of the paper.

A frivolous meme on Twitter tonight was #nicertitle; re-write the title of a film to make it just a little big more pleasant.

Here's my efforts (real name in brackets):

• Unhealthily Obsessive Attraction (Fatal Attraction)
• Romper Tread-Lightly-er (Romper Stomper)
• OK, I Have Some Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (No Sympathy for Lady Vengeance)
• The Unauthorized Diversion of Pelham 123 (The Taking of Pelham 123)
• The Good, the Anti-Social and the Aesthetically-Challenged (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)
• Ichii the Kisser (Ichii the Killer)

Matt McCann, a student journalist at the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal who did a story on faculty and students at the University of New Brunswick protesting the awarding of an honorary degree to Premier Shawn Graham, found himself shitcanned for his efforts.