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 Thursday, 31 October 2002
 < 11:43:19 PM>.
Afghan pregnancy death rate soars. Warnings have been issued about the soaring maternal death rates in Afghanistan after it was revealed that 50 women die each day. [BBC News | WORLD] 'Peter Huff-Rousselle, the head of the UNPF in Kabul, said: "In Afghanistan every day, 50 women die of complications related to pregnancy.
"Virtually all these deaths are preventable."
He added: "In my own country Canada, with a somewhat larger population, it would be a national scandal if 50 women died of these causes in a year."'
< 11:16:29 PM>.
Canadian teachers included in free OS X deal [The Macintosh News Network]
< 11:12:18 PM>.
Queen Street will never be the same
The BamBoo closes tonight after 20 cool years. REBECCA CALDWELL reflects on the reggae, Pad Thai and relaxing vibe it brought to the hippest street in Toronto
By REBECCA CALDWELL
-- Winter has at last come to the home of Toronto's eternal summer. Tonight, once the last bottle of Tusker beer is drained and the final bouncing refrain fades into a low hum, there'll be no more jammin' at the 'Boo. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
< 10:30:08 PM>.
U.S. backs down on photographing, fingerprinting some Canadians
Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham said on Thursday that all Canadian
citizens will be treated the same by U.S. border officials regardless of
where they were born.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
< 10:20:21 PM>.
Bell Canada to install WLANs: Bell Canada will build robust, authenticated enterprise WLANs for businesses. They're another entrant into the WLAN services market, which IBM Global Services and a division of HP are already ostensibly producing 7-digit revenue from. [via Alan Reiter [80211b News]
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