Nurses at St. Boniface General Hospital will take a strike vote today. Contract talks with the province stalled last week. Seniority, and overtime concerns are the main issues. A strike deadline is expected to be set following the vote.
Not often you hear one like this. A robber hit the Subway store in St. Boniface on the weekend. Now, not only did he want cash, but, he also asked for cookies…..macadamia nut by the way. Turns out though, he didn’t get to enjoy them, as police nabbed him about 5 minutes later. A 23 year old man is now facing numerous charges.
Details on Toyota’s gas pedal fix will be revealed this morning, as the Japanese auto giant tries to reassure concerned owners. More than 2.5 million vehicles sold in this country and the U.S., and several more million world wide, are being recalled because they could have the sticky accelerator problem.
Cheaters will have a tougher time getting away with it, at this month’s Olympics in Vancouver. Organizers will run 2 thousand anti doping tests during the Games….nearly double the number run in 2006. Everything from high tech blood enhancers to garden variety cold medicines will be looked for.
Don’t know if you’ve heard about this or not….but, there’s a 16 year old girl who is trying to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone. Abby Sunderland left Marina Del Ray on January 23rd…..but has run into some trouble with her solar panels and wind generators….so she says she’ll have to make port in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico….and that would end her goal of making no land stops during the voyage.
U.N. officials are revamping the way they distribute food in Haiti. The World Food Program and its partners are now handing out coupons to mainly women, the elderly and the disabled, to be redeemed for bags of rice. Officials targeted women because they’re the primary caregivers in most households and are less likely to be aggressive in aid lines.
Getting to space is about to be outsourced. The Obama administration’s new budget will propose billions of dollars to encourage private companies to build, launch and operate spacecraft for NASA and others. The government would buy its astronauts a ride into space, just like hopping into a taxi of sorts.
It looks like a happy ending for Charles Gon-sah-lin, the man who almost died sneaking across the Canadian border to see his Internet girlfriend. It’s been 5 years since he tried to walk from North Dakota into Manitoba, and hop a bus to Quebec to meet Jennifer Couture. Gon-sah-lin got lost however. He spent 100 hours in -20 degree weather before being arrested and losing several fingers and toes to frostbite. But, Gon-sah-lin persisted, and says he and Jennifer are now talking marriage. The couple still live on opposite sides of the border, but meet regularly in the States, because Gon-sah-lin is barred from Canada due to a 1984 robbery conviction.
