Entry 13

Intelligence officer charged with passing secrets to foreign interests
Monday, January 16, 2011
 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadian-intelligence-officer-charged-with-passing-secrets-to-foreign-interests/article2304213/
 
     
        Officer Paul Delisle is 40 years old and has been working with the Canadian military for almost a decade now. The officer works as an intelligence officer at the royal Canadian Navy's HMCS center in Halifax. He has just recently been charged with passing government secrets on to the Russians. This charge is the first ever laid Under Canada's rarely used security of information act, which was passed after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The maximum penalty for this charge is life in prison. There is no telling what and how much information The Paul Delisle passed on to the Russians. The place were Paul works gathers and analyses information for warships. The most critical problem here is that were Paul works as a nerve centre for information from Canada and the United states. Its a huge problem and this man will defiantly be serving a long time in prison.

                I really don't know why anybody who has been serving with the military for a decade would share any kind of information with another country. This man should be ashamed of what he did. The government and many other people have trusted him with top secret information for ten years. I am sure that this man will serve a long time in prison, as he should. I also feel that if there were to be any terrorist related attacks in the near future, this man would probably take most of the blame for it. I still cant understand however why he would share any information with the Russians after being so loyal to the Canadians for so long. This man got what he deserved by spending time in prison. He should be ashamed of himself and maybe our military should be more carefully about who we trust with such important information.

Entry 12

Pakistan fires defence secretary, escalating clash between government, military
Wednesday January 11, 2012
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/pakistan-fires-defence-secretary-escalating-clash-between-government-military/article2298665/

      The defence secretary for Pakistan was fired on Wednesday by the prime minister because of a dispute over a memo sent to Washington  that has angered the army. This dispute has escalated a crises putting the civilian government against the powerful military leadership. The Army warned Pakistan about "grievous consequences" as a result of the argument, which is hampering U.S. efforts to rebuild shattered ties with the nuclear armed nation that are needed to negotiate an end to the war in the neighbouring Afghanistan.

     I think that firing the defence secretary was a wise move on the prime ministers part. If the defence secretary has pretty much started a war with another country then he/she deserves to be fired. Hopefully Pakistan can find a way to negotiate this problem and not have a war with the U.S. There is already many problems being dealt with in the Pakistan and Afghanistan region and we don't need another one. It was a smart choice to fire the defence secretary and hopefully things will change for the better.

Entry 11

Bombs kill another nuclear scientist in Iran
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/bombs-kill-another-nuclear-scientist-in-iran/article2298424/
   
     There has been four deaths of nuclear scientist in the past two years due to bombs and terrorism in Iran. The most Recent death of Mostafa Ahmadi has brought much attention from America.

     Mostafa Ahmadi was a Iran university professor working at a key nuclear facility when one day a bomb was attached to his car by two assailants on a motorcycle. The bomb killed the professor and one other person.  It is suggested that these killings were an effort to stop Irans Atomic program. This killing had a very strong resemblance to earlier killings that took place. These killings make it clear to see that some Iran people are not very happy with the Atomic program that is taking place.

   
     I think that killing people and planting bombs to people cars is no way to show that you don't want something to happen. If the Iranians don't want this Atomic program to happen they should pretest or argue for there beliefs. not plant bombs and kill people. I feel awful that these innocent scientists were killed getting in there car to go home from work. Something is seriously wrong in Iran and I think that the Americans or use Canadians should try to help figure out a solution in Iran to end these violent killings.

   

Entry 10

CFB Trenton airman dies in rescue mission in Nunavut 
Friday, October 28, 2011
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20111028/trenton-soldier-rescue-nunavut-111028/

      A soldier who was part of a rescue crew has died trying to rescues 2 boaters. The rescue crew received a call about 2 boaters that had become stranded in a storm off the coast of Nunavut. The rescue crew dropped a radio down to the boaters so that they could communicate with them. Once the crew learned that the health of one of the boaters was not good the realized that this would be tougher than they thought. Once communication with the radio was lost. sgt. Janick Gilbert and 2 other member of the rescue team parachuted out of an aircraft in order to save the 2 boaters. The two boaters and 2 of the rescue men waited for a helicopter to come pick them up and bring them to Igloolik. sgt. Janick Gilbert was lost during the mission and the cause of his death has not yet been determined.
        I have a ton of respect for the man that died trying to save these 2 boaters lives. He lost his life serving his country and in the line of duty. People who are in the army and rescues crews like this are among the bravest people on earth. They know what they will be going threw and they know that they could die any day but the still do there jobs and serve our country. Without people like this in the world nobody would be inspired to do great things. The two boater are very lucky that there were people brave enough to throw themselves into a life threatening position in order to save other peoples lives. This is a very unselfish and brave act. I have tons of respect for people like sgt. Janick Gilbert and i am glade that we have people like this in our world.
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Entry 9

Turkish earthquake survivor trapped for 5 days

Friday, October 28,  2011

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/10/28/turkey-quake-death-toll-survivors.html

          After turkey was struck by a powerful earthquake on Monday, a 13 year old boy was trapped under wreckage from the earthquake. Ferhat Tokay was just discovered today after being trapped for 5 days.  Just a while before the boy was discovered, workers told the boys uncle and relatives to leave the sight and get some rest because there was no chance of finding him. The boy was amazingly able to survive by drinking rain water the would drip off pieces of wreckage. He also put shoes under his had for a pillow and looked threw the crack in the wreckage to see what time of day it was. Amazingly the boy was not even injured once taken out of the wreckage. 

        The earthquake was a 7.2 on the quake scale and it did a huge number on the town. the quake killed 573 people and injured 2,500. The quake destroyed about 2,000 buildings. It left thousands of people homeless.  

        

     I think that this story is some what of a miracle mostly because of the fact that the boy was able to survive while being barred in wreckage for 5 days. This boy is extremely brave for what he did. The boy was obviously terrified for many different reasons. He would have been wondering if anybody would ever come rescue him but he still kept himself alive by persevering. Drinking rain water, using shoes for pillows and peering through cracks of wreckage to see what time of day it is. I cant even imagine living this way for 5 whole days while in the back of your head is always the thought that maybe nobody will ever find you.I also cant imagine how happy and relived  the boys family and relatives must have been once they heard the news that there boy had been found and that he is completely okay. This is truly a remarkable story. 

Entry 8

Hamas frees Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in prisonor swap
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/hamas-frees-israeli-soldier-gilad-shalit-in-prisoner-swap/article2204545/

       Sargent Gilad Shilat has been in captivity for five years as a hostage in Gaza. He returned back to his home in Israel on Teusday morning. The soldier was abducted on June 25, 2006. Gilad Shilat was 24 years old at the time. The soldier was patrolling an area when he was captured. He was released at the very same spot he was captured from on Tuesday.
     
       Sargent Gilad Shilat was brought back to Israel in a pick up truck. When he got out of the truck he looked extremely pale, thin and dazed, which are the results of being under captivity for 5 years. He was extremely happy to get home and see his family and friends again after being away from them for 5 years. He said that he was afraid he would be in captivity for "many more years".

         I think that this would be an awful thing to experience. I cant imagine being locked away from the entire world for 5 years. I bet they barley fed him anything while he was there and he was locked in a room for probably the entire day. My family and friends would worry about me everyday and it would be quite sad.
I can not imagine how happy he would have been when he first saw his family and all  his friends after being away from them for 5 years. I think this would ruin his life, I know it would ruin mine. things just wouldn't be the same if I was in captivity for 5 years.

Entry 7

Global glitch bruises RIM
Wednesday, Oct 1
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/global-glitch-bruises-rim/article2198209/

     Blackberry is facing a very important problem that could leave many user unhappy and frustrated. Starting on Monday in Europe and the Middle  nobody was able to receive any emails or BBM's. On Wednesday this problem spread to Canada. This problem has affected about 40 million BlackBerry users. RIM is working extremely quickly to fix this problem as they are known for the reliability of thee service.

     I personally am pretty frustrated with this problem because I have a BlackBerry. This morning I noticed that I wasn't receiving any recent updates, BBM's or emails. I also noticed that none of my messages were sending. I know that a lot of people are becoming frustrated with this problem. I always thought that BlackBerry's where pretty good and didn't have many problems but after what happened ill probably have a new perspective of BlackBerry's.