1. Honorary Canadian: Prime Minister Stephen Harper will present youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai with an honorary Canadian citizenship in Toronto today. The 17-year-old captured hearts around the world when she survived a Taliban shooting in Pakistan and emerged as a global advocate for female education. CTVNews.ca will be livestreaming the event starting at 2:45 p.m. ET.
2. Soldiers attacked: The RCMP shared startling new information Tuesday about the hit-and-run attack on two soldiers in Quebec, revealing that the 25-year-old suspect was being tracked after expressing "radical thoughts" on social media and was even arrested last summer when he tried to leave the country. There wasn't enough evidence to charge Martin Couture-Rouleau with a crime, but the Mounties tried to intervene by meeting several times with him, his family members, and a local imam.
3. Who was Martin Couture-Rouleau? Three days before his car struck two Canadian soldiers, killing one and injuring the other, Couture-Rouleau posted an image on Facebook showing two doorways: one to heaven, and the other to hell. It was the last disturbing image he posted to promote a perverted version of Islam that many had tried to dissuade him from following. Read our profile of the suspect.
4. Ebola outlook: Offering a glimmer of hope, a top Red Cross official says he is confident the Ebola epidemic that has killed thousands of people in West Africa can be contained within four to six months, but it will require "good isolation, good treatment of the cases which are confirmed," and "safe burials" of those who die from the disease.
5. Freed in North Korea: Nearly six months after he was taken into custody for leaving a Bible at a nightclub, American Jeffrey Fowle has been released and is expected back in Ohio today. U.S. officials have said little about the details of his release except to thank the government of Sweden, which has an embassy in Pyongyang, for its "tireless efforts."
