Saku Koivu of the Habs was signed by the Ducks this past week, after being captain for nearly ten years. Jack Todd, writing for the Montreal Gazette, said it best: “to our eternal credit that some of us were able to recognize what a rare individual Koivu is and to celebrate with him his greatest triumph, the return from cancer.” Koivu overcame non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and returned to the ice a mere seven months after being diagnosed in 2001. “This city, Saku, will never be the quite same without you.”

Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen (R), showing her support for uraniam mining by claiming that the Earth is 6,000 years old (it’s through uraniam decay that we know the Earth is much, much older).

This is my Dad and the first house he lived in after leaving India, a small boarding house in the Westmount district of Montreal.