Here's my World AIDS Day note to the Prime Minister. Please consider sending a similar note ( Read more... )

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When will Canada act on AIDS?

Dear Friends,

I need your help.

It has been three months since the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto and the Government of Canada has yet to announce its plans to combat the pandemic.

The fight against AIDS and the struggle against poverty are intimately linked. Without doing our part to fight AIDS, we ( Read more... )

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I called home this evening. Couldn't talk for long, as I am not exactly rolling in the dough these days and I am spending too much money on credit for my phone (stupid MTN). My father picked up. "Hi, dad, it's Zoe." Honestly, my father hasn't sounded this happy to talk to me in years. Every time I call, which isn't very often, he says exactly the ( Read more... )

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see of no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.A year ago yesterday (it's after midnight here), I left Ottawa on a bus to Toronto. A year ago today, I flew out of Toronto and flew to London. It's hard to believe it's been a whole year since I left Canada. ( Read more... )

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I sent a text to one of my former colleagues at PPFA-Intl this afternoon. He has family and friends in Sokoto, where the plane that crashed yesterday morning was headed. He replied that two of his friends died in the crash, one of which was "a neighbour of over 25 years. he died along with his two children and mother." Na wa o! So sad. It's times ( Read more... )

I just read an article about the plane crash written by someone I know. One of my friends was quoted:

"The smell is something you don't want to remember," said Steve Noble, a British diplomat at the scene.

Christ ...

More information from Reuters (Abuja)The director of Abuja's National Hospital, speaking on state television, said seven survivors ( Read more... )

Sunday 29 October 2006

About 100 people, including the leader of Nigeria's Muslims, were killed when an airliner crashed moments after take-off from Nigeria's capital, Abuja.An Aviation Development Company (ADC) official said 105 people were on board the scheduled flight to the northern city of Sokoto when it crashed into a field about 2km from ( Read more... )