Alan Eustace, 57 years old, is an executive at Google. On Oct. 24, he jumped out of a balloon from a height of more than 41 kilometres.
Month: October 2014
Not Your Typical School Cafeteria
There are moist carrot cake muffins. Subs made with homemade buns.
Fresh baked banana bread. Even the sausage on the pizza is made by hand.
And the most expensive item on the menu is $6, including tax.
Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School does not have a typical cafeteria.
Volunteers Preparing For Life On Mars
Six people are about to find out what it would be like to live on Mars – without ever leaving the Earth.
Three men and three women will spend eight months
Toronto Elects John Tory As Its Next Mayor
Torontonians have elected John Tory as the next Mayor of Toronto.
Tory won with more than 40 per cent of the vote.
He beat Doug Ford, who came second with 34 per cent of the vote. Olivia Chow came third with just 23 per cent of the vote.
The Queen Sends A Tweet
The Queen of England is on Twitter.
She posted her first tweet recently, about an exhibit she had just officially opened.
Canada Bands Together In Grief, In Strength
Note: This article contains information that may not be suitable for very young children.
The main entrance to Canada’s government–Parliament–is housed in a clock tower known as the Peace Tower.
It was built as a monument to the people who gave their lives for Canada during the second World War.
Russia Closes Down Nine McDonald’s Restaurants
People in Russia remember waiting more than eight hours to taste their first Big Mac. The line-up was hundreds of people long, snaking back and forth along the sidewalk. That was 1990, when the first McDonald’s restaurant opened in Russia, in Moscow’s Pushkin Square.
German Company Launches Drone Delivery Service
Germany has become the first country in the world to introduce a drone delivery service.
A drone is a small, unmanned aircraft that is guided by remote control. It can be used to reach places that are hard to get to by any other method.
Canada Sends Troops To Middle East
Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien doesn’t often speak out publicly, these days.
Recently, however, he wrote a newspaper column suggesting that Canada should send help, not fighters, to the Middle East.
How To Talk To Kids About Ebola
10 Tips for Talking to Kids About Ebola By Joyce Grant, TeachingKidsNews.com The news about the Ebola crisis in West Africa is everywhere—kids can hear and see the information on it every day from many different news sources. That’s why we published our […]
