international
Clarification on Ticket-King story from SHNS
EDITORS: A November 19 article slugged TICKET-KING by the Toronto Globe and Mail and distributed by the Scripps Howard News Service described how much money Jet Set Sports paid to secure ticket monopolies from VANOC and the U.S. Olympic Committee. This information should have been attributed to the Seattle Times newspaper.
Canadian tries to solve global hungre with better breed of rice
In a humid faux-tropical haven set in a Toronto basement and lit with near-blinding artificial sunlight, Herbert Kronzucker has begun to save the world.
Flamboyant millionaire becomes Olympics' ticket king
VANCOUVER - A flamboyant, wheeler-dealer millionaire is the undisputed ticket king of the Olympics.
For millionaire Sead Dizdarevic, it's a brand-new, above-board world
Couple convince school to end homework for family
CALGARY, Alberta - Sherri and Tom Milley were exhausted by the weepy weeknight struggles over math problems and writing assignments with their three school-aged children. They were fed up with rushing home from soccer practice or speed skating only to stand over their kids tossing out answers so they could finish and get to bed.
Innu tribe in Canada breaks hunting ban, kills caribou for food
A Canadian Indian tribe in Labrador says they have killed 64 caribou in an area closed to hunting in what some call a brazen assertion of their traditional rights.
China's one-dog policy spawns plots to hide extra pups
GUANGZHOU, China - For decades, China's citizens have lived with the controversial one-child regime imposed on them by the government. Now, pet lovers in this southern factory city are frothing over the latest official intrusion into their lives: a one-dog policy.
China equates Tibetan traditions with U.S. slavery
BEIJING - Was Mao Zedong the Abraham Lincoln of China?
In an attempt to convince President Barack Obama of its claim to Tibet, the Chinese government has likened the 1959 Communist takeover of the area to the American Civil War, inferring that Mao freed Tibetans from slavery much as Lincoln ended slavery in the United States.
Afghan shopkeeper stacks 'Obama Market' with chow
KABUL - First came the Brezhnev Market. Then the Bush Market.
Now Afghans are beginning to call their notorious bazaar full of chow and supplies bought or stolen from the vast U.S. military bases by the name of the current American president, a modest counterweight to his Nobel Peace Prize.
Cuba drops potato from ration books, signaling shift
The humble potato has become the symbol of a new revolution sweeping Cuba.
The vegetable has been eliminated from the thick brown ration books that Cuban nationals relied on for nearly 50 years to purchase government-subsidized groceries, part of the socialist country's attempt to ensure equal access to such staples as rice, beans and cooking oil.
New activist ship set to harass Japanese whalers
Whalers, beware -- the Ady Gil is hardly your typical environmental activist vessel.

