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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
The famous Manchester United soccer team has waited two years to sign Charlie Jackson to the team.
That’s because he was only three years old—they waited until he was five.
Coaches at United say that Jackson is going to be a superstar player.
Even at three years of age, he impressed talent scouts with his ability to handle and control the ball.
The car maker, Subaru Canada, has had to take one of its radio ads off the air.
The ad tells people that “roads are an unpredictable place, so drive with confidence.”
It then tells people that Subaru cars are very safe.
To demonstrate what it means by “unpredictable place,” the ad describes a truck driver who hasn’t slept in two days and is nearly asleep at the wheel.
The trucker is also described as eating a bag of ketchup potato chips while he’s driving.
The New Democratic Party (NDP) is going to elect a new leader.
The NDP is Canada’s official opposition party.
The leader of the NDP was Jack Layton. He passed away last August from cancer.
It will be hard to fill his shoes, because he was well respected and liked not just by members of his own party, but by Canadians across the country.
There are nine candidates vying to be leader of the NDP.
On Sunday night they held a leadership debate.
A debate is when candidates talk about the issues, and say why they think they’d make the best leader.
When Xenia Benivolski heard about the problems in Attawapiskat, she wanted to do something to help.
The people in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat are living in terrible housing conditions, often without heat or running water.
Temperatures there drop to -20C at night.
The community has declared a “state of emergency.”
Benivolski set up a Facebook page, asking people to donate items to help the community.
“Then people started Tweeting it… and it just kind of snowballed,” says Stephanie Guthrie, a friend who is helping with the drive. “You see something (like this) happening and you just can’t not do anything.”
Rhinos are being poached in South Africa.
“Poaching” is when people (“poachers”) illegally kill a wild animal.
This year so far 341 rhinos have been poached in South Africa.
That’s the most, ever, for one year.
Rhino horns are believed by some people, particularly in Asia, to be able to cure ailments like nosebleeds and fevers.
No one knows if this is actually true.
Students at the Etobicoke School of the Arts had a special guest at their anti-bullying assembly last week.
Lady Gaga sent the Toronto school a specially recorded video message.
The student council president, Jacques St. Pierre, is a huge fan of Lady Gaga.
He had sent emails to several celebrities, asking them to help launch the school’s anti-bullying campaign.
He was thrilled when Lady Gaga read his email and responded.
St. Pierre was the only student at the school who knew about the video until the assembly.
Nearly a month ago, the northern Canadian First Nations community Attawapiskat declared itself to be in a “state of emergency.”
This week, as winter sets in and snow is on the ground in the remote community, they are finally getting some attention–and some help.
In Canada, a state of emergency is normally declared when something terrible happens to a place, such as an earthquake, flood or large fire.
It’s a signal to the country’s government that “we need help, immediately.”
In this case, the state of emergency is that the people of Attawapiskat, in northern Ontario are living in conditions that are worse than those in many third-world countries.
One reporter described going to Attawapiskat as, “like stepping into the fourth world.”
There are good passwords, and then there are passwords that are easy for hackers to crack.
But the worst password to use on the Internet is: “password.”
Many websites on the Internet require users to enter a password in order to use them. A password is a secret combination of letters, numbers and symbols.
“Hackers” are people who try to break into websites, in order to steal information or vandalize the site.
Hackers don’t guess at passwords. They use special computer programs that try tens of thousands of letter combinations very quickly to uncode a password.
When a person uses a simple password, the hacker can figure it out very quickly.
The Bank of Canada introduced a new $100 bill recently – and it has a window in it.
It’s Canada’s first “polymer” (a type of flexible plastic) bill.
The new $100 bill features a picture of Sir Robert Borden, who was the Prime Minister from 1911 and 1920.
The back of the bill celebrates innovation in medical research, including the Canadian discovery of insulin, which is used to treat diabetes.
Canadians — whether they were hockey fans or not — were glued to their TV sets on Monday night.
One of the sport’s greatest players was making his comeback.
Sidney Crosby had been off the ice since early January after suffering two blows that left him with a concussion.
On Tuesday night, the Pittsburgh Penguins’s captain came back into the game. And boy, did he put on a show!
Crosby scored a goal in the first five-and-a-half minutes of the game against the New York Islanders, flipping a backhander over the glove of goaltender Anders Nilsson.
The Penguins ultimately won 5-0 against the lacklustre Islanders.
Crosby took home four points, with two assists and then another backhand goal in the third period.
Not bad for a guy who hadn’t played in 10 months.
