that canadian girl

Category: In the News

  • Product Placement on TV

    The BBC Magazine brings up an issue that has been bobbing around quite a bit recently… Advertising has creeped into every part of our life. We don’t even blink anymore when a movie’s plot is centered around a commercial product.…

  • 30-hour Famine

    Support Darren in his attempt at fundraising $1000CDN before the end of March! This will be enough to feed three children for a whole year and save them from malnutrition and famine. And you don’t have to be Canadian to…

  • Free Mojtaba and Arash Day

    I only just found out that today is meant to be some sort of no-blogging day. “[The Committee to Protect Bloggers] is calling on the blogsphere – the name for the worldwide community of bloggers – to do what it…

  • You want snow?? I'll give you snow!

    Weather forecasters are starting to raise alarms over potential “heavy snow” over the next few days. *smirks* The expected temperature for the next three days will hover around the zero degrees *snickers a bit* There are red alerts over the…

  • Look me in the eye when you're talking to me

    Before his death, Ivan Noble received his fair share of bad news from doctors. “He felt strongly that the medical profession needed to work on its techniques for breaking bad news – what he called ‘the shoe problem’.” Dr. Kettlewell,…

  • IKEA Stampede

    If this was Ananova, it would fit in the quirky news section, but the BBC keeps a straight face telling the story: Several people were hurt in the crush as thousands flocked to the midnight opening of Ikea’s newest store.…

  • Trillium

    I spotted this bit of news on a fellow Canadian’s website. Good to see the Ontario government is spending its funds and time resources wisely. The McGuinty Government, in what has got to be the biggest money-waster of their term…

  • The Siesta Syndrome

    This BBC Article on the habits of employees in the British workplace made me smirk since my office mirrors the syndrome so well. The findings of catering firm Avenance aren’t surprising; the better we eat, the more we take healthy…

  • Ivan Noble (1967-2005)

    I just read on the BBC that Ivan Noble, the BBC News journalist who has been writing about his treatment for a brain tumour for the past two years, has died aged 37. As Ivan’s last entry was posted on…