The University of Winnipeg is banning the sale of bottled water. The move comes after a vote last week, in which three quarters of students said they were in favour of ditching the bottles from campus. The move will mean 35 thousand fewer water bottles in Manitoba landfills this year alone.
We told you about this story yesterday. Defence Minister Peter MacKay got the apology he demanded from Fox news. Host Greg Gutfield and his panel, faced some blistering criticism from right across the country, for recently mocking the Canadian military’s efforts in Afghanistan. After getting a call from Ottawa yesterday, Gutfield said sorry and that no harm was meant.
Yesterday, Suncor Energy and Petro-Can announced they were merging. Today, Liberal MP Dan McTeague says that could mean higher gas prices for all of us. McTeague who’s known as the gasoline guru, thinks the joining of the two will reduce refinery capacity, and that’ll put upward pressure on gas prices.
It took some time, but, David Letterman has finally married his longtime girlfriend, Regina Lasko. Apparently, the two got hitched at a courthouse in Montana last week. In announcing the nuptials on his show last night, Letterman joked that when he began dating Lasko in 1986, he told her they should see how the relationship was going in about 10 years.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of one of the world’s worst environmental catastrophe’s in human history. It was on this day in 1989 that the Exxon Valdez hit a reef and dumped 41 million litres of crude oil into the pristine waters off the coast of Alaska.
Health Canada officials are reminding parents today that, the safest way for a baby to sleep is on its back, in a crib. And it says the baby should be covered with a blanket only up to its chest. The warning comes after two babies died, sleeping face down in playpens.
You can thank public outcry maybe for this one. Apparently, some people who got some of those massive bonuses from AIG, are now lining up to give the cash back. New York’s attorney general, Andrew Cuomo says workers who got 9 of the top 10 bonuses, are promising to pay back the money in full.
