AMY DEMPSEY [DOT] CA

NEWS FEATURE: Meet the babies the ROM doesn’t want you to see. A pair of 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummified infants usually kept from display are making a rare appearance on a History Television series called Museum Secrets.

NEWS: Team Russia was kicked off an early morning Delta Air Lines flight for “unruly behaviour” after an all night victory party that followed Wednesday night’s world junior hockey championship game. The Russians stole a three-point lead to beat a stunned Team Canada.

POLITICS: With Adam Giambrone’s short-lived bid for the mayoralty gone up in flames, this ward is wide open. Meet the candidates: Kevin Beaulieu, former assistant to the disgraced Davenport Councillor, and Ana Bailao, who lost this seat to Giambrone by 1,200 votes in 2003.

NEWS FEATURE: With tired eyes and sunburned cheeks, 2-year-old Jolie looked at her mom and uttered five heartbreaking words. “I want to go home.” The toddler has been living out of an RV with her parents, grandparents, three siblings, an aunt and two cousins since wildfires tore through her town.

He has traipsed across all seven continents, orbited the planet in a NASA space shuttle and walked the red carpet with Clint Eastwood on Oscar night. Well aware of the little man’s big accomplishments, I felt incredible pressure when Josh, my 8-year-old cousin picked me to host a Flat Stanley.

FEATURE: If Martin Laws went to William McKinley High School, he would have been paint-balled, hit in the face with a frozen drink or thrown into a dumpster by now. That’s because in the world according to Glee — Fox’s blockbuster TV series about high school show choir — football players shalt not sing.

MULTIMEDIA: Out of Nets is the story of children who are sold into slavery in the fishing industry on Ghana’s Lake Volta, and some of the people trying to save them. It is about difficult choices people make when they live in extreme poverty, and local visionaries who are trying to create new choices.

BLOG: It was my third day in Rwanda and my second time on a motorcycle taxi. I settled into position behind the driver and gripped the metal handle on the back of the seat, one hand on either side. Ready. The driver revved the engine and we lurched forward. And then I felt a force pulling me back.

PROFILE: Canada lags behind other countries in the fight against modern-day slavery within, beyond and across our borders. Meet Benjamin Perrin — the University of British Columbia law professor who has devoted his life to making human trafficking a national priority.

AUDIO: Jeff Marier’s mother asks him the same three questions every morning.
What day is it?
Where do I go?
What do I do?
That’s how their day begins.

AUDIO: On a mission to be a more conscious spender, I swore off shopping malls for the holiday season and made a promise to myself: all the Christmas gifts I purchased would be homemade or second-hand. I was surprised to discover many others were on the same mission.

AUDIO: It’s just past noon, and the midday sun is glaring as a bus winds up the rocky path and squeals to a halt. They’ve waited more than two hours for the pack of actors to arrive, and now the people of Nyabitare will enjoy an afternoon of live skits, games, and a frank discussion about sexual health.

NEWS FEATURE: Meet the babies the ROM doesn’t want you to see. A pair of 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummified infants usually kept from display are making a rare appearance on a History Television series called Museum Secrets.

NEWS: Team Russia was kicked off an early morning Delta Air Lines flight for “unruly behaviour” after an all night victory party that followed Wednesday night’s world junior hockey championship game. The Russians stole a three-point lead to beat a stunned Team Canada.

POLITICS: With Adam Giambrone’s short-lived bid for the mayoralty gone up in flames, this ward is wide open. Meet the candidates: Kevin Beaulieu, former assistant to the disgraced Davenport Councillor, and Ana Bailao, who lost this seat to Giambrone by 1,200 votes in 2003.