Selection of Top Online Keywords - Canada (a selection of keywords, hashtags trending on Twitter)

• Hostages (US Navy SEALs free 2 western hostages from Somali pirates)
• @jsource (Wilf Dinnick of @OpenFile has been named The Canadian Journalism Project’s Newsperson of the Year)
• Privacy (today is Data Privacy Day – to increase awareness of privacy and data protection issues.  … Ontario’s privacy commissioner says web users have a false perception of their privacy and anonymity online … also, if you have anything you want to wipe off your Facebook wall before Timeline kicks in, you have until Jan. 31 when it becomes mandatory for 800 million users)
• Katz (CRTC appoints Leonard Katz as interim chairman, as Konrad von Finckenstein’s term ends)
• Nycole Turmel (in speech to NDP caucus, Turmel says Harper’s focus on MPs pensions is misguided and that she is promising the ‘fight of her life’ over the federal budget)
• #Davos (tweets from/about the World Economic Forum)
• Demi Moore (she’s been hospitalized. TMZ broke the story)
• Lego (Toronto teens launch Lego man into space)
• #RobbieBurnsDay

In Toronto: Backyard hens debate is popular. People also weighing in on CTV Toronto’s Facebook page.

Most read stories of the day so far on CTVNews.ca 

1. Cruise line public relations 'disastrous' expert says
2. Martin to Harper: Stop studying issues, go to a reserve
3. Danish, American hostages freed in Somalia raid
4. Japan kept alarming nuclear crisis report secret
5. Harper meets Canadian business leaders in Davos

Emerging:  Shafia son's lawyer: Crown's theory is 'preposterous'

Online video:

• Chinese boy stuns with apparent ability to read in complete darkness.
• Soldiers with the People’s Republic of China pass around live grenade in military training exercise
• 8-yr-old Zoe tears through a solo on a Stratosphere, gets metal guitarist John Petrucci’s attention
• Bulldog survives after leash caught in elevator doors
• Crosswind landings during a storm at Dusseldorf airport. Why airline pilots get the big bucks

 CTVNews.ca:

• Hockey rink roof collapses in Slovakia
• CTV BC’s story on the $100 hot dog
• The best in Canadian commercials