Kids Current Events in Canada: 2013

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

SNAIL HATCHES IN BOY'S KNEE!

Check out this story!!!

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sea-snail-grows-hatches-boys-knee-20005546

This story is about a boy who went camping and cut his knee. They cleaned it up and put a bandaid on. About a week later it started to swell and looked infected. Doctors said he might have a deadly infection called staff. Three weeks later worrying about it they noticed it turning black so his mom decided to drain the wound. When she drained the wound she saw a little thing that looked like a rock. She turned it over and realized it was a snail!!! They were so relieved that he did not have staff. This is one story that he will share with his children.

If I had a fly hatch under my skin that would be disgusting and I would probably be sick. The coolest thing to hatch under my skin would be a snail. I would not keep it. I didn't think that anything could live under your skin except for germs.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Amazing Transplant Device

Check it Out!

http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=955107&binId=1.1203428&playlistPageNum=3

In hospitals the number of donor lungs and organs is critical, about 25 Albertans die waiting for donor lungs. But thanks to a new technology Doctors can repair lungs that before were deemed unusable. The new technology can repair these lungs and can even make them better than average lungs. Before the new technology was created the lung would usually be put on ice but sometimes the ice could damage the lungs before they got to the patient. One in four donor lungs are currently usable but with the new technology one in two lungs can be usable. It take about 10 hours to repair the lungs with this new technology. They repaired the lungs by not keeping them on ice but instead kept them at body temperature and moisture, and they kept the lungs ventilated.

Friday, August 9, 2013

Killer Snake

Check out this video.

http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=979567&playlistId=1.1393024&binId=1.1203428&playlistPageNum=3

I think that the two boys deaths is tragic. This snake was kept illegally in the pet store below their house. It went in the ventilation and fell into where the boys were sleeping. The reason the snake killed is because they had other animals in the house and the snake thought the boys were animals. The owner of the snake was put in jail because the rock python is the second largest snake in the world and it's very violent for a snake. The snake was put down and the guy was put in jail because the python was illegally kept and not aloud in Canada, only in zoos.

Friday, August 2, 2013

Humane Society Full

check it out

http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/video?binId=1.1203428

http://www.weddingbycolor.com/summerbride0926/milestones/104160

I think that the people should adopt more animals. Most of the animals there are kittens or puppies. I think that it is unfair that animals that they have to sit around and not be adopted and have no family to look after them. There are too many pets because too many pets have been donated during breeding season. If I could adopt I would adopt a kitten because they are so little and cuddly. When people adopt a pet they should think if they have food, water and a place to live. They need to consider that they go to the bathroom. Pets are long term commitments.

Monday, July 22, 2013

Royal Baby Coming Today!

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Check it out at : http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=710809&binId=1.1203428&playlistPageNum=1

I like this because I thought they'd have a baby sooner than later. I think it is a bit crazy everybody is just jam packed around the computer watching the video feed outside the hospital. It's pretty cool that Royalty is having a baby. That hasn't happened in a long time.

We will update this story as it progresses!

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Kitten Rescued!

Check out this story from CTV news!

http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?binId=1.810401

Here are my thoughts

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Financial Help for Calgary and High River Residents

Check out this interesting article from CTV News in Calgary

http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=957176

Here are my thoughts

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Calgary Clean-Up

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/06/24/calgary-flooding-downtown-water-nenshi-status.html

Today I watched a Calgary Clean-up video and the Mayor of Calgary is devastated. He said that it could take over ten years to clean up all of Calgary. Most people are focused on the Stampede Stadium because in 11 days the rodeo starts. The rodeo brings jobs and money to the city. Two people came to one guys house and said can we help you clean up? And they helped him remove about seven feet of water from the basement by bucket.

Our family in Calgary is safe and their evacuation has been lifted. There was a little water in the furnace room but other than that the house was perfectly okay. When the power went out the sump pump stopped working. Another way the flood effected them was that all their food went bad because the power went out and the flood forced the government to shut off power. If water and electricity mix they can kill you.