Toronto School Bans Balls

Students at Earl Beatty Public School in Toronto aren’t allowed to play with balls in their school playground any more.The school has banned balls – including soccer balls, footballs, baseballs and tennis balls – from its playground.Kids can only play with soft, foam balls such as Nerf balls.The ban was put in place after a parent was hit in the head with a soccer ball and suffered a concussion.The school’s principal, Alicia Fernandez, said kids were often getting hurt by...

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Justin Bieber Is Home For The Holidays

Justin Bieber came home for the holidays on Wednesday night - to Canada.The Stratford, Ont.-born teen idol spread plenty of good cheer while visiting Toronto.One of the first things he did on arriving in the country was to hold a benefit concert and raise $500,000 for Bieber’sBelieve charity, for the Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada, Sunnybrook Foundation and Project Medishare.The concert, held at Toronto’s historic Massey Hall, was taped for a TV special that aired...

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Maple Leafs, Raptors, and TFC Sold

Some of Toronto’s most popular sports teams including the Maple Leafs, Raptors, and Toronto Football Club have new owners.They have been bought for more than $1-billion by Rogers Communications and Bell Canada, two Canadian companies that sell phones and TV and internet services. Bell and Rogers also own the country’s two main sports-only channels, TSN and Sportsnet.The new owners would be happy if the hockey team could win a Stanley Cup or two. It would be the first time since 1967....

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Baghdad - A string of deadly bombings

Baghdad - A string of deadly bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Thursday have triggered fears that the country is sliding toward a civil war after US troops completed their withdrawal.More than 70 people were killed in the apparently coordinated bombings that hit mostly Shiite neighbourhoods in the morning rush hour. Shops were closed and streets were almost empty as many Iraqis feared more attacks were on the way.'The timing and location of the explosions show they have a political agenda...

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Google Offers Holiday Easter Eggs

If you type the words “let it snow” (without the quotation marks) into the search engine Google.com or Google.ca*, you probably won’t be surprised when Google gives you back a list of links to the classic Christmas song.What might surprise you, however, is that it will also start snowing on your computer screen!Eventually, so much “snow” will fall that your screen will fog up. But don’t worry, you can click on Google’s “defrost” button to clear it again. You can also use your mouse to “wipe” the...

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Gap Between Rich-Poor Growing: OECD

Canada’s rich people are getting richer and the country’s poor people are getting poorer.That’s because the gap — or distance — between the amount of money the richest and poorest people earn at their jobs is widening.The richest Canadians earn 10 times more than the poorest. That means if the average rich person earns about $100,000 a year, the poorest earns only about $10,000 for a whole year.A new report by an international organization called the OECD* said the same thing has been happening...

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Two Earth-Sized Planets Discovered

Two planets have been discovered, about 1,000 light years away from Earth.Both of the planets are about the size of Earth. Kepler-20e is slightly smaller, and Kepler-20f is slightly larger than Earth.The surface of the planets are too hot for water to exist on them; it would not be possible for life to exist on them either. They are hot because they orbit close to a star very much like our sun.Kepler-20e has a termperature of about 760 degrees Celcius. (In contrast, Earth’s average surface temperature...

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Harper And Obama Agree On A New Border Plan

Canada and the United States are working together to make it easier for people to travel across their common border.This week, U.S. President Barack Obama and Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, agreed to a “cross-border plan” to make it easier and quicker for Canadians to travel to the U.S. It will also help companies in both countries to do business together.Harper has agreed to a “common perimeter”–a type of border all around North America–so more careful checking can be done on who and...

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North Korea’s Kim Jong-il Dead

The ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, passed away on Saturday.He died, at age 69, of heart failure.North Korea’s people know him as “Dear Leader.” They went into the streets to mourn his passing.However, his death creates a lot of uncertainty about what will happen in North Korea. Many world leaders are concerned about the situation there now.One reason is that North Korea has nuclear weapons, so nearby countries like Japan and in particular South Korea, reportedly have their military...

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WWII Bomb Successfully Defused In Germany

A whole town in Germany had to be evacuated earlier this month, while an enormous bomb was successfully diffused.Diffused means dismantled so it wouldn’t blow up.The bomb was from World War II (WWII). It had been dropped on Germany by the Allies (the coalition of countries, including Canada, that fought Germany in the war) in the mid-1940s.There are many unexploded bombs in the country, but this one – at 1.8 tonnes – was one of the biggest. There was another, smaller, bomb there too, which...

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New Canadian Dollar Bills

The Bank of Canada has introduced a new Money design look for the public coming soon in 2012 - 2013. The Bank of Canada has released a picture of the $100 design look. 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. The new “bank notes” (or bills) are better for the environment than paper bills...

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Website released to the public.

We have finally released our website to the public on Twitter and Facebook. Viewers may now read pages, news/updates, and view our social pages. We would like to also give this thanks to Trainman1405 for helping us with a bit of coding, fixing up, and others. Enjoy exploring the wonders of the site. -Administra...

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