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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
The penny has been dropped from Canada’s currency.
On Feb. 4, the Royal Canadian Mint stopped sending pennies to banks and businesses.
The government decided that pennies cost too much to make and distribute. They estimate the country will save about $11-million by eliminating the penny.
Without a one-cent coin, many business transactions will change.
The Canadian government told businesses they can “round” cash sales to the nearest five-cent mark.
On Wednesday, the general manager of the Toronto Raptors basketball team took care of some unfinished business.
Bryan Colangelo made a huge trade, to get superstar player Rudy Gay.
It all started back in 2006. At that time, Colangelo held the “number-one overall draft pick.” That meant he could choose any eligible player and add them to his team.
He travelled around the world, looking for the perfect person to add to the Raptors.
Keller Laros is a professional scuba instructor who lives in Hawaii.
The shores of Kailua-Kona, on The Big Island of Hawaii, host some of the world’s most diverse and interesting aquatic life.
Laros estimates he has made more than 10,000 dives in his career.
On Jan. 11, he led a group of videographers and divers on a “Manta Ray Night Dive.”
However, the tour would be unlike any other trip he had ever been on before.
At nine years old, Quvenzhane Wallis is the youngest person to ever be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
The Academy Awards (nicknamed “The Oscars”) are given to the best work in movies each year.
Best Actor and Best Actress are perhaps the most prestigious awards an actor can win.
Wallis was just five when she tried out (or “auditioned”) for the role of Hushpuppy in the film Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Everyone wants to work somewhere that’s interesting and fun.
The people at Google have taken that concept to an extreme.
Their new Canadian headquarters in Toronto, Ont. have some features that make everyone want to come to work.
Google is the Internet’s most popular search engine (the software program that helps you find websites you’re looking for).
The company also makes many other software products such as Google Maps and Google Chrome.
Google also owns many Internet companies including YouTube and Blogger.
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Have a great holiday season, and we’ll see you in the new year.
This beautiful, snowy image is by Canadian artist Rocky Green. (Copyright Rocky L. Green.)
Women’s soccer superstar Christine Sinclair has won the 2012 Lou Marsh Award.
The award is given out each year to Canada’s outstanding athlete. She is the first soccer player to win the award.
Sinclair, 29, is from Burnaby, British Columbia; she is captain of Canada’s women’s soccer team.
She led Canada to a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics.
She played a spectacular tournament, scoring an Olympic-record-setting six goals.
Who knows why something “catches on” through the Internet?
Somehow it sparks the collective imagination and before you know it, it’s gone “viral.”
That’s what happened last week with the “Ikea monkey.”
Bronwyn Page was in an Ikea (furniture store) parking lot in North York, Ont. on Dec. 9 when she saw something unusual.
A little brown monkey wearing a diaper and a tiny, expensive-looking coat.
Skier Lindsey Vonn continues to dominate her sport.
Vonn, is an American ski racer with the United States ski team. She recently had a great weekend in Canada. She raced at Lake Louise in Banff, Alberta.
She ended up winning all three races that were held that weekend.
Vonn earned her 14th career win at Lake Louise.
A tourist was visiting Times Square in New York when she witnessed a “random act of kindness” she—and thousands of other people—will never forget.
A homeless man was begging for change. He had no shoes or socks on, in the frigid November evening.
As the tourist, Jennifer Foster, watched, a New York police officer approached the man.
The policeman said, “I have these size 12 boots for you; they are all-weather. Let’s put them on and take care of you.”
