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Below are your top Digital Journal reports, top news photos, top stories in the media and top blogs, as decided by you and the community.
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Top Digital Journal Reports
Eating the Amazon – demand for cheap meat fuels deforestation (Includes interview) by Lynn Morris
Europe’s demand for cheap meat is dramatically changing the landscape of the Amazon.
Toronto city council’s ‘new style of politics’ gets underway (Includes interview) by Andrew Moran
Toronto’s new city council met in the council chamber for five and a half hours on Wednesday to voice their concerns over committee appointments, community and ward representation and budget schedules.
Snow buries London, Ontario, area (Includes first-hand account) by Ken Wightman
Londoners are saying they haven’t seen this much snow in decades. Many claim the city hasn’t been buried like this since 1977 when the highest 24-hour snowfall ever for London was recorded.
Opinion: Beauty and the Beast takes stage in Toronto (Includes first-hand account) by Bryen Dunn
Ross Petty Productions presents the premiere production of Beauty and the Beast – The Savagely Silly Family Musical. For 15 consecutive years the elegant Elgin Theatre is once again the venue for Petty’s annual holiday hijinx.
Opinion: Crystal Bowersox’s extraordinary new album out Dec. 14 (Includes first-hand account) by Vlad Bourceanu
“Halfway to crazy, not far from sane” are the first few words of Crystal Bowersox’s song, Farmer’s Daughter, which is the title track of her eponymous album, available to pre-order from her official website and released to the world on Dec. 14.
Top Images
In the Media
WikiLeaks splits, world leaders protest Assange arrest by Paul Wallis
Things are warming up away from the Assange-based media events. WikiLeaks has now split, with a new site called Openleaks to start up as a leak-manager rather than handler. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has protested the arrest of Assange in the UK.
Opinion: Sweden: The pornographic, democratic, monarchy by Michael Werbowski
A look at the country seeking with great zeal to prosecute and extradite Wikileaks’ director, Julian Assange. Is it an Inquisition?
Opinion: Wikileaks is committing suicide in the name of tabloid gossip by Michael Cosgrove
No amount of lofty hype about working in the public interest will change the fact that Wikileaks has failed to do that, but it has succeeded in force-feeding the world with tittle-tattle and gossip which may result in its downfall. What a waste.
Prison fire in Chile leaves 81 inmates dead, scores injured by Igor I. Solar
Eighty-one prisoners died, dozens are injured and more than 200 were evacuated in a horrendous fire that affected the fourth floor of block five of the Prison of San Miguel in Santiago de Chile.
Police fury after woman dials 999 because her snowman was stolen by Kev Hedges
Kent Police in southern England have blasted a woman who rang the emergency services number 999 to report the theft of her snowman. The woman has been described as “completely irresponsible” by the force in Chatham.
Shrien Dewani fingered in wife’s murder by Abram Mahlaba
The Western Cape High Court has heard today that Shrien Dewani plotted the murder of his wife.
Zola Tongo, 31, has in his plea bargain agreement told the Western Cape High Court that Shrien has conspired with him to have his wife killed.
Facebook cartoon campaign ‘nothing to do with us’ says NSPCC by Kev Hedges
The campaign sweeping across Facebook which sees users change their profile pictures to cartoon characters from their childhood has ran into controversy after The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children said they are not involved.
Archaeologist says ancient Americans practiced cannibalism by Christopher Szabo
A report in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology shows ancient Puebloan Indians, also called Anasazi, practiced cannibalism, a claim seen as taboo by many.
Coronation Street meets Doctor Who for ‘tram crash’ spectacular by Mathew Wace Peck
British viewers are today gearing up for the long-awaited Coronation Street tram crash, heralding a week-long celebration of the ITV soap’s 50th anniversary.
Top Blogs
Color me Confused by Janet Browne
After reading my friend Renee Wilson’s blog I got to thinking about this issue myself. I remember the days, when I was…
Just When I Was Ready To Give Up by Renee Wilson
Unfortunately I see a lot of rudeness in people everywhere I go these days. Mainly speaking about manners; saying…
Homeless Aren’t Restricted To Two Legs by Ellen Geer
The category of ‘homeless’ tends to bring to mind the image of a man or woman on a side street with essentially no more…
