Must-see TV Barack Obama meets Thursday with congressional leaders in an effort to revive health-care reform legislation - live on television
Happy birthday, Mohammed Mawlid an-Nabi, birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, marked by many Sunni Muslims, begins Thursday at sundown - though some feel the celebration is against the Prophet's own traditions
An apology at last British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will apologize on Wednesday for a policy that, for centuries, saw more than 150,000 children shipped to the colonies to work as unpaid farmhands and domestics
MONDAY
A verdict is expected in Allan Schoenborn's trial for murder in the death of his three young children. Mr. Schoenborn testified that he killed his three children in April, 2008. But B.C. Supreme Court Justice Robert Powers will decide if he is guilty of first-degree murder, or if he cannot be held criminally responsible for his actions due to a delusional disorder or schizophrenia.
TUESDAY
The United Nations peacekeeping mission to East Timor, which includes police officers from Canada, is on the agenda for the meeting of the UN Security Council. The mandate for the mission expires Feb., 26, and renewal is expected, with a smaller operation and a more focused role.
WEDNESDAY
Peter Fonteece, of Waterloo, Ont., whose wife, Yanisa, committed suicide in a Thunder Bay motel, will be sentenced after pleading guilty in December to criminal negligence causing death. After Ms. Fonteece lost her job, they were to move to B.C., but their car broke down in Thunder Bay a year ago. The court heard that a despondent Ms. Fonteece told her husband not to intervene until after she was dead.
THURSDAY
The Ontario Liberal Party will hold its flagship fundraising dinner at the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto, where attendees will pay $950 apiece to dine on local fare and listen to Premier Dalton McGuinty talk about tightening belts. He will give his audience a taste of what to expect in next month's budget - a sobering topic for a province facing a record deficit of $24.7-billion.
FRIDAY
It's the penultimate day of the 19th annual International UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nev., with lectures on crop circles as a form of extraterrestrial communication, and exopolitics - the political implications of extraterrestrials. At night, there's a screening of Beyond 2012: Evolving Perspectives On the Next Age, which presents perspectives on the next age of global consciousness.