Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe gets top spot for song of 2012. It was also Summer Song of 2012 on Billboard.com. 2nd spot goes to Somebody that I
If you have been watching the news, have been on Facebook, or Twitter, you probably have heard of Idle No More. But what is Idle No More? Idle No More began as a Twitter hash tag to show support to Attawapiskat First Nation’s Chief Theresa Spence. Theresa Spence asked to meet Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in mid December to discuss bill C-45. This bill changes laws on water pollution that is crucial to Native Peoples. She was denied a direct meeting with the Prime Minister and was invited to a meeting with the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs John Duncan. Theresa Spence, however, was disgusted by the offer and immediately declined the invitation. She additionally went on a hunger strike until her wants were met. The country was inspired by Theresa Spence’s courage to stand up for her rights and the rights of other native people. Natives and non-natives joined together in flash mobs, protests and demonstrations. The main objective of Idle No More is to make the government aware that the people do not view them as idles if their behaviour and ignorance continues.
On January 4th, 2013, Stephen Harper himself released a statement saying that he scheduled a meeting with Theresa Spence on January 11th, 2013. Even after this announcement, Theresa Spence kept fasting. Many have asked the question, why? Large numbers of protesters thought that the campaign was for a meeting. But what they didn’t realize was that it was for something much larger. As the campaign progressed, expectations increased on the abolishment of bill C-45. The future for Idle No More is unclear. Nobody knows how much progress the January 11th meeting will make or how much longer Theresa Spence’s hunger strike will continue. One thing, however, is for sure; the First Nation’s community is not backing down. Whichever path this campaign takes, all supporters will continue to disgust the Conservative Government. The only clear way that this fight will end is if the government and the people make any decent progress in their meeting. As for now, we can only hope that nothing catastrophic happens during this waiting time period. My opinion on Idle No More is as clear as it can be. The First Nations community needs to continue to fight back and the Harper Government must compromise to the Native People and must accept that their rights and freedoms in the Canadian Charter of Rights are what they are fighting for. Therefore, he, lawfully, cannot fight back. If all people stay united, then we can achieve the freedom of the people and the abolishment of bill C-45. Vancouver has the most traffic in Canada for the third time in a row. The traffic in Vancouver is just as bad as Los Angeles with 34% each. San Francisco (with 33%), Honolulu (32%) and Seattle (27%) are also in the top 5 for worst congestion in North America. Between July and September, the congestion has increased by one percent. According to the company, it takes 34% more time in traffic during the peak hours. Mondays are the best time for motorists while Thursday is the worst time.
Two days a go on the first day of CES (Consumer Electronic Show) Nvidia had a keynote revealing there new products. They came out with some products people knew would come out like the new Tegra 4 chip ( CPU like Intel).
But near the end of the keynote Nvidia Surprised Everyone by releasing... A new product code name Project Shield witch is basically an iPad mini and an Xbox controller combined in a nice sleek package. The on;y difference is the display is better than the iPad mini . The display in 5.5 inches and is a 1080p true HD display. According to our sources shield is really light. The device has LTE connectivity and has a 72 core GPU it can also out put 4k video. witch is incredible 4k is the same resolution they film movies with and that are in iMax theaters witch are twice as good as normal theaters. But wait there's it runs 4.2.1 jelly bean stock android. Last but not least you can stream games from your PC using steam to play on shield. Shield has no price witch makes people believe that it may not come out until 1-3 years from now so it may be completely different. A teenager was caught stunt driving by the police with the teenager driving at the speed near two and a half times of the speed limit.
A Greater Sudbury Police news release says the teenager was stopped on Valleyview Road on Saturday. People believed it was travelling at the speed of 96 km/h in a 40 km/h area. The police say that the driver was 18 years old male driving a car that belonged to his parents with a G2 licence. The driver now lost his licence for seven days and the driver will be seen in court at January 7. There are thousands of vending machines in Canada that still cannot accept the new $20 bills. But half of them can. And the machine owners blame the Bank of Canada. There has been 145 million banknotes in circulation since Nov. 7, 2012. There is John Lockie who is converting 1200 of his machines and still has 300 to go. Lockie blames the Bank of Canada for not giving him warnings about recalibrate their machines. Also Sabbir Kabir says his members are repersenting 9 of the biggest vending machine operaters. It could take 15 minutes to recalibrate 1 vending machine with a technician on a laptop. "As a small business, I am losing money." Ever since Justin Trudeau entered the leadership race, the Liberals' polling number have been rising.
Not surprisingly, a new Ipsos Reid poll, released Thursday, suggests that 69 per cent of Canadians believe Justin Trudeau will be the next leader of the Grits. What is a little surprising, however, is that the survey claims that 56 per cent of Canadians agree with this statement: "The Liberal party, led by the person who wins the current leadership, will some day return to power as Canada's government." Fifty-six per cent? That's a far cry from where party was just after the May 2011 election when pundits and authors such as Peter C. Newman were writing about the death of Canada's 'natural governing party.' So what happened? We are asking you! -Yahoo News Just before midnight on Friday Jan 4, 2012 a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck 102 kilometers west of Craig, Alaska. There was a tsunami warning in place, but was cancelled later. The warning was in place for the BC coast and as far south as Victoria, BC. But the tsunami did spark a brief but not damaging tsunami. There was no reported damage yet. But it was widely felt. There was a few aftershockes like a 4.7 and 4.2. The earthquake was not far from the 7.7 quake that happened in October 2012.
Canada's prime minister will meet with native leaders next week to discuss social and economic issues, an olive branch to an angry aboriginal movement that has blockaded rail lines and threatened to close Canada's borders with the United States.
Stephen Harper made no mention of the aboriginal protests in a statement on Friday announcing the January 11 meeting. But the meeting is a key demand from native Chief Theresa Spence, who has been on a hunger strike for 25 days on an island within sight of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa. -Yahoo News |