according to Statistics Canada, Canada’s crime rate is the lowest since 1973, as the volume of crime dropped five per cent in 2010 from the year before.
The Crime Severity Index, which measures the severity of crime acts, has also fallen six per cent and reached its lowest point since 1998. Police reported about 7,200 fewer crime acts in 2010 than in the previous year.
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Many USA cities are suffering heat waves during this summer and a lot of the cities from Lansing, Mich., to Boston are sending out street patrols with cold containers with water and opening cooling centers to make sure homeless residents are cared for during the heat wave.
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President Barack Obama is ending on Sep 20. the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military. This will end a 17 year old policy of “dont ask, dont tell” .
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In Denmark, an anonymous donor has left almost $200,000 in a clothes recycling container located just outside a charity shop run by the Red Cross.
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As part of The Paradigm Project, Greg Spencer and Austin Mann, have decided to distribute five million low cost cook stoves in developing countries by 2020 and impacting the lives of 25 million people by doing so.
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Charlie Ross he is an 88 years old man who started competing at the age of 70. Since then he has won 8 gold medals and 7 silver ones.
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Alison and Sam, best friends for the last 16 years from Bristol, England, discovered after Alison traced her birth mother and found out the name of her birth father, which was the same of her best friend’s. A DNA test confirm it.
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2 weeks ago, china, a country with over 300 million smokers, launched a ban on smoking in bars, restaurants and all public spaces.
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Jon Bon Jovi, originally from New Jersey, contributed this week a new homeless shelter for teens and young adults in Philadelphia.
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Few weeks ago, thousands of Macedonians took the day off to plant 3 million trees in order to revive the nation’s forests after fires ravaged an estimated 35,000 hectares of greenery.
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