April 29, 2019

There’s a Blood Donor Clinic at the Ken Houston Memorial Agricultural Centre (Dresden) tomorrow from 5-8.

New donors and walk ins are welcome. Book your appointment now at blood.ca, use the apps or call 1-888-2-DONATE.

Avengers: Endgame is even bigger than expected bringing in a $350 million across North America at the box office in it’s debut this weekend.

It made $1.2 billion worldwide. Both those numbers shatter the previous records, which were both set by Avengers: Infinity War last year.

The superhero movie — the 22nd in a series from Disney’s Marvel Studios — was the #1 movie in at least 54 countries.

We’re officially on Royal Baby Watch. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are expecting their first child any day now.

An ambulance and a helicopter are parked outside their home so they can whisk her to the hospital once she goes into labour.

Prince Harry was out cheering on runners at the London Marathon over the weekend, we’re assuming with a cell phone close by!

A transplant organ has been delivered by drone for the first time.

They did it at a hospital in Baltimore ten days ago, and it was a kidney. It flew through the city for three miles, a little after midnight. The University of Maryland put it together, and the cops and the FAA signed off.

They’re calling it a pioneering breakthrough, because 2,700 kidneys get thrown out every year because they can’t get them to patients fast enough.

The kidney went to a 44-year-old woman who’d been on dialysis for eight years. She was released from the hospital four days later.

For the first time ever, a drone delivered a human organ for transplant.

The doctor who performed the kidney transplant surgery explains to @MartinSavidge why it’s such a big deal. pic.twitter.com/JOHtvZQj7x

— CNN (@CNN) April 27, 2019

The Simpson’s episode, titled D’Oh Canada, aired last night.

In one scene, Lisa is recovering in a Canadian hospital with an RCMP officer in uniform at her bedside. He tells Lisa that while in Canada she would be “assigned her own hockey team.” Lisa responded by crossing her fingers and repeatedly praying “please not Ottawa,” before the Mountie put a Senators cap on her head and apologized for the disappointment.

The episode highlighted many Canadian sports stereotypes including a shot of children with curling brooms, and featured another scene with a Stanley Cup-designed lamp sitting on a sidetable and a rug covered with Quebec Nordiques logos.

The Simpsons visit Niagara Falls and, through a series of mishaps, Lisa goes over the powerful flow of water that separates Ontario and New York. She lands on the Canadian side and is admitted to hospital, where she is made an honourary Senators fan while learning about Canadian healthcare coverage.

Marge is going places. Tag along on her journey to the frozen north: https://t.co/W71efo62cO #TheSimpsons pic.twitter.com/e2YYY3qhwH

— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) April 29, 2019

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This post was written by Chris McLeod