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NATIONAL NEWS
Is there a Canadian tradition worth saving? UNESCO doesn't seem to think so. On November 17, the "arty part of the UN" added 63 cultural traditions and ideas worth preserving to their Intangible Heritage Lists. Not one of them is Canadian, reported the Toronto Star. For the "List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding," visit http://tinyurl.com/33zdh5r.
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Forget bedbugs, there's a new bug in town: super superbugs. According to the London Free Press, over 75 cases of a multidrug resistant bug have been detected in 13 European countries. The bug originated in India and was first reported in Britain. The bug, New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase — NDM-1 for short — is one of a number of bugs resistant to even the most powerful type of antibiotics: carbapenems.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Asthma diagnosis rates among Canadian children are decreasing, reported Statistics Canada. The reason? Apparently it's due to less cigarette smoke. The rate of chronic inflammatory diseases between children aged two to seven hit its lowest point in over a decade. The report also stated that because the rates are so low, parental smoking is no longer a primary cause of asthma amongst young children.
Sick of getting phonebooks sent to your door that you don't use? So is 32-year-old Aimee Davison of Montreal. She made a YouTube video about it, delivering the book back to the Yellow Pages Group on October 22. It went viral and she partnered with Kyle MacDonald of the One Red Paperclip project to stop the delivery of unwanted phonebooks in Canada.
— compiled by Jessica Ireland and Erika Faust
Is there a Canadian tradition worth saving? UNESCO doesn't seem to think so. On November 17, the "arty part of the UN" added 63 cultural traditions and ideas worth preserving to their Intangible Heritage Lists. Not one of them is Canadian, reported the Toronto Star. For the "List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding," visit http://tinyurl.com/33zdh5r.
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Forget bedbugs, there's a new bug in town: super superbugs. According to the London Free Press, over 75 cases of a multidrug resistant bug have been detected in 13 European countries. The bug originated in India and was first reported in Britain. The bug, New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase — NDM-1 for short — is one of a number of bugs resistant to even the most powerful type of antibiotics: carbapenems.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Asthma diagnosis rates among Canadian children are decreasing, reported Statistics Canada. The reason? Apparently it's due to less cigarette smoke. The rate of chronic inflammatory diseases between children aged two to seven hit its lowest point in over a decade. The report also stated that because the rates are so low, parental smoking is no longer a primary cause of asthma amongst young children.
Sick of getting phonebooks sent to your door that you don't use? So is 32-year-old Aimee Davison of Montreal. She made a YouTube video about it, delivering the book back to the Yellow Pages Group on October 22. It went viral and she partnered with Kyle MacDonald of the One Red Paperclip project to stop the delivery of unwanted phonebooks in Canada.
— compiled by Jessica Ireland and Erika Faust
