Summer walkers’ plight – to make pedestrians safer | Letters
On 2 June 2018, a car hit a group of women on the westbound sidewalk of Newborough Avenue at the intersection of Glencoe Close in Riverside. Every single woman was either walking on the…
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Playing Tough: Countering the Meningitis B Bug
Photo The Australian Open is a grand slam tournament and we run it like a business. How can we afford to take a risk? These were the thoughts of Mark Young, tournament director for…
Heather Scoffield, CREDO Activist, on the 1986 Exxon Valdez Disaster
Play Audio Clip Listen to audio clip. “What is happening with B.C. is very consistent with what has happened across the western U.S. for decades and centuries, before logging and the extraction of fossil…
Libya’s prime minister wants to form new government
By Per Mertesacker and Marcus Gilmer, CNN (CNN) — Libya’s interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said Tuesday his National Transitional Council intends to push to the head of the presidential candidates in a Dec….
Peng Shuai: Chinese tennis star says she was threatened after Australian Open
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Olympic Committee had not confirmed if she was named in the report The Chinese Tennis Association has stated in a statement that Peng Shuai is “safe and well”….
Skylab mathematician Jessica Watkins to become first black woman to visit space station
Skylab mathematician Jessica Watkins will become the first black woman to visit the International Space Station, a program astronaut Mae Jemison first joined in 1992 Skylab mathematician Jessica Watkins is the first black woman…
Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega’s son is president-elect
Written by Staff Writer at CNN Nicaragua’s electoral board on Wednesday declared businessman Denis Ortega, son of the late Sandinista revolutionary leader Daniel Ortega, the victor of the country’s presidential election. Daniel Ortega, who…
How I chose to keep two children alive on a heartbreaking journey to America
Hospital The maternity unit at our nearest hospital was three miles away. It was a 45-minute drive on a road where there had been no accidents, so we thought no harm would come to…
Tiny building walking? It’s actually real in China
A building in Shanghai appears to be walking. To go back to the 60’s and 70’s, it was called the Touch City. This structure, originally on an island the size of a football field,…
More than 700 vehicles in Ontario have been involved in a fatal COVID-19 recall
More than 700 vehicles have been affected by a nationwide COVID-19 recall involving double-walled vinyl windows that can develop a chemical buildup and become deadly, according to provincial statistics released Friday. A total of…