Ignatieff's Promises 


   Ignatieff, the leader of the Liberal party, has been making different promises about what he is going to do once he gets in power. His biggest promise is that he is giving out a billion dollars for students going into college or university. This would allow students to get  $1000 per year for their university. Lower income families could get up to $1500 for every year of university or college.

   I like this idea by the liberals. I think that it is a good way for students to have a bit of help in college, and allow them to get a further education. This will also look good for the Liberals. It will allow more students to go to college, so it can make it seem that when the liberals were in power, more students were getting post secondary education. I wonder how they are going pay for all of this, but if it comes out of tax payers money I still think it will be worth it for the students. I think that this is a good promise by the liberals, and I hope that they will keep this promise.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/963381--liberals-promise-1b-to-help-students-pay-for-school

Fire Truck hits car


   Police are still trying to figure out why a woman in her car was hit by a fire truck. It was due to the stop lights not working right. Usually they turn green for the oncoming fire truck, but this time the lights didn't switch on time and a 42 year old woman was hit and killed. Police are still trying to figure out who's fault it was, but they can't figure out until they know what colour the light was. Once they know that they have to judge if there was enough time for either person to stop on time.

   I think this is just at fault of both the drivers relying too much on the stop light and not relying on what they can see and their own driving skills. I think that timing the stop lights can really help in case of an emergency, but it can't make all the decisions for you. The drivers of the fire trucks still need to look out for different cars, and the drivers of the other cars need to know when a fire truck is coming. I think that this is nobody's fault it is just a case of two people relying on something that isn't 100% effective. The stop lights aren't the answer to people's driving they need to look out for themselves.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/950243--sensor-system-at-fatal-intersection-was-working-say-investigators?bn=1

Star athlete dies after hitting game winning shot
  A high school boy from Michigan died after hitting a game winning shot to end a 20-0 season. The team had just completed a perfect season when they saw their start player collapse. Ambulance came in and brought a defibrillator. They couldn't save him on the spot so they took him back to the hospital. This still couldn't help him because when he got to the hospital. They doctors just couldn't get the boys heart to beat. The boy died later that day.

  This is a mystery to everyone, even the doctors couldn't find anything wrong with the boy. There is nothing that could have caused the death, he just collapsed. This is a shock to everyone. The student was  a great athlete in basketball in football. He led both of the teams to a championship and had an all state honorable mention. You never hear of this happening a lot to anyone his age, especially all state athletes. There was nothing that the doctors could find that could be wrong with him, but he still collapsed and died. This rarely happens and that probably won't change, but its just so surprising that it could happen.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/948777--high-school-star-dies-after-hitting-game-winning-basket?bn=1

Man Robs Store with a sword

   The clerk in the store is usually prepared for a lot, but he would have never thought he would have been in danger by someone with a sword. They say the  men came in carrying a gun and a sword. They told the clerk to give them money and his laptop, then get to the ground. No one was hurt, and now they are trying to find the men who came in and robbed the store. They have suspects, but the police are still looking for them.

  

   I was shocked when i heard this story. There's two things that really make me question this story. The first thing is where would you get a sword to rob the store. I don't know if you can find them in other countries, but I've never heard of people selling sharp swords to use a weapons. The other thing I question is why would you use the sword when you have a gun. I guess if you didn't want to hurt anyone then it wouldn't mater, but I don't understand why you would use a gun. Overall I think this was just a crazy situation, and another stupid reason to get caught for a crime. 

http://livenews.thestar.com/Event/Toronto_Now_-_March_2_2011

   

Pirates Hijacking again? 


   Pirates along the Indian ocean have captured a 5 people from Denmark who were on a sailboat. The 5 of them were a family sailing across the ocean when they were stopped by a pirate ship in the ocean. The pirates hijacked their ship. Usually the pirates won't take children, but this time they have. They just have the children as hostages to try to get money from the family or country. The country is going to try to save them after seeing their distress signals. This is the second hijack in the past week. Last Monday they hijacked a Greek cargo ship with 23 crew members on board.

   Every time I hear about this it just sounds like its a make belief story that your being told when your a kid. I can't imagine pirates starting to steal things again but they are. These attacks started 6 years ago, and we still aren't able to stop them. I think it maybe because we're still surprised about what's happening. Even though it has happened multiple times people must still think that there is no way that they could get hijacked by pirates. These attacks will get worse if we don't do something and someone's going to have to stop it, but it just so awkward to be having problems with pirates again.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/pirates/article/946095--pirates-hijack-danish-family-s-sailboat?bn=1

Seniors Scammed out of Millions


   A group of people scammed hundreds of different seniors in U.S.A out of  3 million dollars. They said that they were a grandson that was arrested on Vacation. They phoned the Senior and told them that they got arrested, and they got someone else involved in the crime to say that they were the police or a lawyer to make them sound more official. They made 200 calls per day on average, and the usually were able to get 2,500 to 6,000$ out of 15 to 20 seniors every day.

   I think this is terrible. I don't understand why someone would ever do this. Scamming anyone out of money is wrong, but scamming seniors out of money pretending to be a grandson is even worse. Although it is a terrible crime these people were fairly smart about it. They made themselves sound like they were actually in trouble and they did a good job of tricking the seniors. Using an off shore bank account was also smart because then it is harder to track by the American police. Although they did a good job, you can never do a good enough job, because if you are going to commit a crime your going to get caught.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/943843--seniors-targeted-in-grandson-scam?bn=1

Can't dodge a bullet, Or a Car

    Yesterday night at 8 P.M. a man was seen running into traffic as he was running away from the police after they had seen him in an apartment building and was hit by a car. Once he was hit the person who hit him got out of their car looked and say that the man also had a bullet wound in his chest. He was taken to hospital and it appears that he is going to recover. The police are investigating what happened and they might be charing the man. Two other people from the apartment were taken to hospital with minor injuries. 

   This man is extremely lucky to be alive. After being shot in the chest you think that you would be dead, and definitely if you were hit by a car too, but this man somehow managed to survive. It really shocks me how he got that lucky an inch to the left or right from the bullet, or if he was hit by the car in a different way he could have died. It just goes to show you that running away from the police never helps. Most of the time it leads to you getting injured (usually not by getting hit by a car) or you just get caught and then you have more than one crime that you are going to be charged for.  

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/942805--man-hit-by-car-after-being-shot?bn=1