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CURRENT EVENTS MAY 24

MIKE DUFFY SAYS HE WANTS TO GIVE CANADIANS 'THE WHOLE STORY'. CURRENT EVENTS MAY 24.

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CURRENT EVENTS MAY 24

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  1. MIKE DUFFY SAYS HE WANTS TO GIVE CANADIANS 'THE WHOLE STORY' CURRENT EVENTS MAY 24 • Senator Mike Duffy said Thursday he wants a "full and open inquiry" to answer the many questions Canadians have about the spending scandal that prompted him to leave the Conservative caucus and now has the RCMP asking the Senate for more details about spending rules. • Duffy said he has not been contacted by the RCMP and that he will co-operate with anyone who is doing an investigation into his travel and housing allowance claims. • "I think Canadians have a right to know all the facts and I'm quite prepared in the appropriate place and time to give them the whole story," Duffy told reporters as he left the Senate and walked to his car. "There are bits and pieces out there, it should all be put together in one place and there will be some place to do that."

  2. CURRENT EVENTS MAY 24 • Duffy is now sitting as an Independent senator along with Pamela Wallin, who recused herself from the Tory caucus on Friday while her travel expenses remain the subject of an external audit. •  Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff Nigel Wright had written a cheque for more than $90,000 so Duffy could pay back housing allowance expenses that he says he may have claimed in error. Nigel Wright resigned as the Chief of Staff once the $90,000 cheque became public http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/ID/2386894855/?page=2

  3. CURRENT EVENTS MAY 24 SELF-HARM HOSPITALIZATIONS HIGHER IN POORER AREAS • People living in poorer neighbourhoods are at higher risk of being hospitalized for incidents of suicide and self-harm compared with those in the wealthiest neighbourhoods, but strong community care could help close the gap, a new report suggests. • Thursday's report on 15 health indicators from the Canadian Institute for Health Information focuses on inequity for two main areas: • Self-injury hospitalization rates, such as for attempted hanging, drug overdoses and cutting. • Ambulatory-care sensitive illnesses," such as Type 2 diabetes.

  4. CURRENT EVENTS MAY 24 • Highlighting the warning signs of self-injury in schools and increasing awareness and access to community care might reach people before the critical point that it requires hospitalization • Self-injury hospitalization rates were highest in Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick, at 86 and 85 per 100,000, respectively. • They were lowest in Ontario, Alberta and Quebec (63, 59 and 59 per 100,000, respectively), but those provinces also showed room for potential improvements. More than 18,400 Canadians, or about 67 per 100,000, were hospitalized for self-injury in 2011-12, the institute reported.

  5. MAN, 80, CLIMBS MT. EVEREST WITH 81-YEAR-OLD HOT ON HEELS CURRENT EVENTS MAY 24 • An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he called "the world's best feeling" even with an 81-year-old Nepalese climber not far behind him. • Yuichiro Miura, a former extreme skier who also climbed the 8,850-metre peak when he was 70 and 75, reached the summit at 9:05 a.m. local time, according to a Nepalese mountaineering official and Miura's Tokyo-based support team. • It was a moment Japanese news agency Kyodo captured on video from 10 kilometres away, using a camera crew at 5,500 metres elevation on another mountain. • Miura and his son Gota made a phone call from the summit, prompting his daughter Emili to smile broadly and clap her hands in footage shown by Japanese public broadcaster NHK.

  6. CURRENT EVENTS MAY 24 • The previous oldest was Nepal's Min BahadurSherchan, the 81-year-old on Miura's heels. • Miura conquered the mountain despite undergoing heart surgery in January for an irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia, his fourth heart operation since 2007, according to his daughter. He also broke his pelvis and left thigh bone in a 2009 skiing accident. • He skied down Everest's South Col in 1970, using a parachute to brake his descent. The feat was captured in the Oscar-winning 1975 documentary, The Man Who Skied Down Everest. He has also skied down Mount Fuji. Yuichiro Miura, 80, right, and his son, Gota, pose at their South Col camp before they climbed the world's tallest mountain http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/05/23/80-year-old-man-climbs-everest.html

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