The Day's News...

• As if you needed another reason to never travel by Greyhound: Ontario health officials are searching for 27 people who may have been exposed to tuberculosis while travelling on a Greyhound bus from Toronto to Windsor on Aug. 31. There's a "moderate risk" they contracted the disease, public health officials said Thursday. This comes after the recent beheading on a Greyhound bus, also in Canada.
  

• This is a crazy story that must be read in full: In a move that could be right out of a Hollywood movie, a brazen crook apparently used a Craigslist ad to hire a dozen unsuspecting decoys to help him make his getaway following a robbery outside a bank on Tuesday. He then made his escape in an inner tube on the Skykomish River.

• Jobs are vanishing at the fastest pace in more than five years with pink slips likely to keep stacking higher in the months ahead, an urgent signal the country may be careening toward a deep and painful recession just as Americans prepare to elect a new president. Increasingly skittish employers dropped the ax even harder in September, chopping payrolls by 159,000 -- more than double the cuts made just one month before. It was the ninth straight month of job losses. A staggering 760,000 jobs have disappeared so far this year.

• C.S.A. Strategy Quote Of The Day: "While participating in noRNC demonstrations, I wrestled with a range of conflicting emotions: exhilaration, frustration, rebellion, trepidation, inspiration, helplessness and even sadness. Since we so rarely witness conflict over the fundamental assumptions of nation-state, this moment was evocative. It was about people taking to the streets, enraged at a political system that continues to wreak premeditated damage, disillusioned with the ineffectual permitted marches and disposed to take direct action to challenge the status quo."--Kirsten Brydum