In several Toronto districts, disabled human beings are the target or unnecessary prejudice. Residents of certain communities feel that the introduction of rooming houses, often the only option of housing for disabled people living on their own, will decrease property value, and that the disabled people themselves will decrease the quality of the neighborhood.
Health Canada, without any announcements, decided that any man who had had sex once with another man in the last five years would be banned from donating organs.
The time has come. Obama's first speech to a joint session of Congress takes place tonight at 9 p.m., broadcast on all major television stations. Will he extend a hand towards Iran, following up on his promise to engage in open discourse with President Ahmadinejad? What will he say about health care reform? The economy?
A little while ago, Google Earth users noted something unusual, something off the grid; what seemed to be a collection of streets along the sea floor about 600 miles off the coast of Africa. Experts had said, in the past, that this area was one of a few possible locations for the lost city of Atlantis, something people around the world have been looking for for centuries.
Do you want to hear former U.S. President George W. Bush speak? Probably not. But Australian celebrity agent Max Markson thinks the people of Australia might. That's why he's planning to bring the 43rd president down under, and charge $650 a head and $6,500 per table, to hear W. talk.
Obama's coming up to Ottawa tomorrow and Canadians are in a frenzy. Thousands of people are making their way to the nation's capital, with the knowledge that catching even a fleeting glance of the 44th president will be nearly impossible.
A train chugging through eastern India derailed early Saturday, killing 15 people and injuring 161, the BBC reports.
FINALLY. Wanted, by the International Criminal Court: Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, on charges yet to be named (but we all know what they are).
A Saudi Arabian man gave his 8-year-old daughter's hand in marriage to a 47-year-old man, in an apparent attempt to settle his debts, CNN reports.
The death toll continues to rise in Australia, thanks to raging wildfires that have burned entire towns off the map. Currently at 108, officials say the toll could rise even further as they battle flames and search through wreckage, according to Reuters.
My Journalism professor recently reminded me of an argument I hadn't heard in a while. The notion that media perpetuates negativity in the world, because media professionals and journalists only report negative stories, which they believe to be more newsworthy than stories highlighting triumph or success.
Following in the footsteps of the guy who threw the shoe at Bush, a man at Cambridge University threw a runner at Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao during a speech there, though his aim was a lot worse, he missed Jiabao by about 30 feet, according to the Times.
Explorers combing the depths of the English Channel have found the H.M.S. Victory, a ship that sank during a vicious 1744 storm, possibly carrying four tons of gold coins worth close to $1 billion, the New York Times reports.
So here's the general opinion. Once the human race (that is you and I) stops polluting the earth and saves energy, the effects of global warming will stop and slowly begin to reverse, hopefully so soon that close, future generations will have the right (since it is a right not a privilege to enjoy the world) to bask in the glory of all earth has to offer, in normal climate and normal circumstances.
Authorities have arrested and are questioning a 20-year-old man suspected of carrying out a horrible killing spree at a day care center in Dendermonde, Belgium, the star tribune reports.
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. is planning to buy, well, that other pharmaceutical giant Wyeth for a reported $68 billion, the guardian reports.
So what do you do when there's so much going on in the world that you can't chose what to blog about?
"As I said during the inauguration, we are not going to continue with a false choice between our safety and our ideals," said Obama, IHT reports. "We are going to win this fight but we will win it on our terms."
He spoke of laying the groundwork for a productive and happy tomorrow, one where future generations don't inherit the same worries we face today, to make sure they are able to harness the freedom that is rightfully theirs and to keep its flame lit as it passes from generation to generation.
North Korea says it has "weaponized" more than 30 kilograms of plutonium after declaring an "all-out confrontational posture" on South Korea, according to IHT.
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