The new president is older than his university. Well-respected engineer, researcher and academic administrator Mamdouh Shoukri will probably be the next president of York University. The author of more than 100 papers for academic journals and symposiums is 59-year-old. Can this young university, which will meet his 50^th anniversary in 2009, move out from the shadow of the University of Toronto with a new leader?

It's easy to criticize anybody; it's harder to suggest something instead. Together with 600 delegates at the Manitoba NDP's annual convention in Winnipeg federal NDP Leader Jack Layton "attack" Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Tories. But I haven't heard anything besides the criticism.

Is the world getting warmer? In December, when Torontonians usually meet the first blast of winter, we saw was unseasonably warmth, averaging nearly 2 degrees above zero. 2.500 scientists around the world are sure that the world is getting warmer day by day and year by year.

Can Green Party get 10% of Ontario vote? According to a new SES Research poll obtained by Sun Media – yes. Can popular modern theme such as climate change and other environmental issues double their digits? I am not sure. If your look at digits more carefully, you'll notice, that the % of "green supporters" is higher among the social groups that are less political active.

Omar Khadr, the only Canadian imprisoned in the Guantanamo Bay prison, who is he? Now he faces charges of murder. It's a real "law trick" to declare that US military is fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan not with army, but with "militant groups" whose members accordingly can't have the legal rights as prisoner of war. Now it's one way road, but what will be later?

If they are not physically handicapped, it doesn't mean that don't need special care. Yesterday the group of parents of autistic children tried to force the Ontario government to pay for their children's treatment, which costs parents between $30.000 and $80.000 annually for one child.

The way to the ski resort has moved children to hospital. Quebec police investigate the crash of the bus that was transporting 45 young skiers from a Montreal Road Ski School to the Laurentians. None of the children nor the staff people on board were seriously injured. The only victim is a bus driver.