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"Parliament and Layton's passing"
By Rob Winters - Published on Monday, 22 August 2011 20:11
In the coming days Parliament will work out how it will pay tribute to his accomplishments, as well as acknowledge and fill the vacancy his death creates in the House of Commons.
First, the tributes: late Monday morning, the flag on the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill was lowered to half-mast. It will remain there until Layton's state funeral on Saturday. The timing and details of such a service have not been finalized.
Impromptu memorials -- from flowers to notes, and even a can of "Orange Crush" soda -- have already been left on Parliament Hill, at Layton's Toronto home and his Toronto constituency office. And politicians past and present started offering their memories and condolences as soon as the news broke."
Montreal youth speak about Jack Layton - You Tube Video
By admin - Published on Monday, 22 August 2011 19:53
"The life and times of Jack Layton"
By Rob Winters - Published on Monday, 22 August 2011 19:48
"Jack Layton died after a months-long battle with cancer in the early morning hours of Monday, August 22. He was 61. Below is Maclean’s post-election cover story on the charismatic NDP leader, originally published on June 16, 2011. For more on Jack Layton’s life and his fight against the disease that would eventually take it, click here.
The Hudson Yacht Club, founded in 1909, doesn’t look like a promising spot for a young left-winger to get his first real taste of rebellion. The sailboats bob at their moorings near a sandy beach on the shore of Lake of Two Mountains, formed by the widening of the Ottawa River before it empties into the St. Lawrence just west of Montreal."
Read more: http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/06/17/the-making-of-jack-layton/
"Grief as we have never known it"
By Rob Winters - Published on Monday, 22 August 2011 19:45
"What causes sadness when you are over 50? Harm to a child obviously, or to a spouse. Perhaps the diagnosis of an illness, or the sound of distant thunder at a summer party, as Philip Larkin called impending old age. But there is another source – and more and more of us face it.A wave of desolation came over me the other day when I passed a shop on a slightly down-at-heel street near the centre of the city of Bath. The shop sells computer games; they are displayed on wooden shelves. The same dark wood has been used on the outside, crenellated to make it look like a stone column – the kind of stone column that the Romans built. To modern day passers-by the effect is mildly odd – we are pretending to be Roman! – but to me the wood has meaning."
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8713354/Grief-as-we-have-never-known-it.html
"For a few, no HIV drugs needed"
By Rob Winters - Published on Monday, 22 August 2011 19:41
"A small number of people with HIV have the ability to control the infection without therapy by priming their immune system to target the virus.
They don’t develop clinical disease, are less likely to transmit HIV to others, and the number of key infection fighting cells in their immune system remains stable.
How does this small minority of so-called HIV “controllers”—about one in 300 people infected with HIV—keep the virus in check? An international team of investigators may have found the genetic basis for the answer."
Read more: http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/for-a-few-no-hiv-drugs-needed/
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