Chinese man's poem lands him 7 years in jail.

A man in China was sentenced to 7 years in prison for writing a poem. The poem was about getting people to, "the square" in order to protest the government. Another two victims were sentenced nine and ten years in prison for similair reasons. The authorities are able to arrest citizens after repealing a criticized law on counterrevolutionary activities.

Personally I think it is very stupid to inprion a person for simply something that they wrote, no actions were taken by citizens after the peom was read. Also the defendant has said that he did not even make the poem public that he had only sent it to his friends through emails.

This law should be opposed by anyone who is able to change it, it is taking away from peoples' free speech and this is agaisnt human writes. Somthing needs to be done and the victims of these cases should be released as soon as possible. 

Woman accidentally pronounced dead finally gets her disability pay.

An Ottawa Citizen and cancer fighter named Susan Campbell had two months of her disability pay cut off. She contacted the federal office to find out why, and the reason was that she was legally dead. After two long months of scrambling to pay her rent and food Campbell recieved her much needed money. Even during the time while she was waiting she contaced Gail Shea the minister in charge of Revenue Canada saying, "I did ask at that time, whether things were going to go quicker". The response by Gail was a no. The problem seems to have been because of the 30 year old computer system which was recognized that needed an overhaul in 2010.

This story is very surprising, that it would take two months to fix a glitch causing a woman in such need to wait for so long to be able to pay for her regular life needs. I think the problem definitely should have been fixed a lot quicker then it was, or that Campbell should sue Revenue Canada for such a big mistake.

The computer system is being updated and there is $250 million being put towards the improvement of the computers.This updating should have been started in 2010 as it is said it will take nine months to complete. The worst thing to be cautious about now is wether the system will have any other glitches within the 9 month period causing a lot of problems for Canadian Citizens which should be addressed as soon as possible.