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CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 11

CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 11. MARGARET THATCHER, BRITAIN’S IRON LADY DIES. Margaret Thatcher, one of the most important British politicians of the 20th century, died Monday morning after suffering a stroke. She was 87.

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CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 11

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  1. CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 11 MARGARET THATCHER, BRITAIN’S IRON LADY DIES • Margaret Thatcher, one of the most important British politicians of the 20th century, died Monday morning after suffering a stroke. She was 87. • Thatcher was the first woman to become U.K. prime minister and Britain's only prime minister of the 20th century to win three consecutive terms. • After leading the Conservatives to victory in the 1979 election, Thatcher shook Britain to its economic roots in a relentless battle to restructure the country. • http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/ID/2374116169/ Margaret Thatcher become Britain's only prime minister of the 20th century to win three consecutive terms.

  2. CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 11 • She ran for Parliament in 1950, the youngest person seeking a seat. She lost — and lost again the next year. • At the end of 1951 she married Denis Thatcher, a wealthy, divorced businessman she met in 1949. • Since graduating, Margaret had been working as a research chemist. She returned to university and earned a law degree in 1953. A multi-tasker, she gave birth that year to twins and continued to be politically active. • After being called to the bar she specialized in patent law and then tax law, until 1961. • In 1959 she was elected as the MP from Finchley. Two years later then prime minister Harold Macmillan named her parliamentary secretary to the minister of pensions and insurance.

  3. CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 11 • That kind of approach earned her the nickname the Iron Lady, which she wore proudly. That description originated in the Russian media after she harshly denounced Soviet expansionism and questioned the long-standing Western policy of detente with the Soviet Union in 1976. • Thatcher continued to forge ahead with her policies, known as Thatcherism. She succeeded in curbing union power, especially with the defeat of mineworkers in 1984-85. • In 2002, she announced she was retiring from public speaking, following a series of minor strokes. In 2003 her husband Denis died. • In 2008 her daughter Carol confirmed that Thatcher was suffering from dementia.

  4. CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 11 NEARLY 25% OF NURSES WOULDN'T RECOMMEND THEIR HOSPITAL • Nearly a quarter of nurses wouldn't recommend the hospital where they work to their family or friends, a survey by CBC News has found. • More than 4,500 registered nurses from at least 257 hospitals responded to the survey asking about how nurses felt on a range of topics from hospital resources to quality of care. • Registered nurses in Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario and British Columbia were the least likely to recommend the hospitals where they work, while those in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Alberta were the most likely to do so. Few nurses responded from Manitoba, Quebec and the northern territories.

  5. CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 11 • About 60 per cent of nurses responding to the survey said there was not enough staff for them to properly do their jobs. • Constant short-staffing can lead nurses to burn out — a state that nearly 40 per cent of respondents said they suffered from to a high degree. • Lacking the supplies, materials and equipment necessary to do their job was also an issue for 36 per cent of respondents. • More than 360,000 regulated nurses work in Canada, making them one-third of the national health-care workforce. Constant short staffing caused by layoffs and cutbacks can lead nurses to burn out. http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/ID/2373823933/

  6. CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 11 TRANSATLANTIC ROWERS IN GOOD SPIRITS AFTER CAPSIZING ENDS VOYAGE • A Canadian Olympian, part of a four-man team rowing across the Atlantic, says he is glad to be on dry land after a rogue wave capsized their boat about 600 kilometres north of Puerto Rico. • "We alive, we're safe, we're well fed, and we've had a full night's rest," said Adam Kreek of Victoria, who won gold at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games in men's eights. • Location of capsize (approx.)The four endurance rowers — Kreek, Markus Pukonen of Tofino, B.C., and Jordan Hanssen and Pat Fleming of Seattle — were 73 days into a 6,500-kilometre journey from Dakar, Senegal, to Miami that was expected to take roughly 80 to 100 days. • They were trying to become the first to row unassisted from Africa to North America.

  7. CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 11 • On Saturday morning, their nine-metre ocean rowboat, the James Robert Hanssen, was hit by two rogue waves and capsized, tossing Hanssen and Pukonen, who were on shift, into the ocean. • The OAR (Ocean Adventure, Rowing and Education) Northwest team would have been the first crew to row from Africa to North America had they completed their journey successfully. • http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/ID/2373426762/ The four-man crew of the James Robert Hanssen ocean rowboat were 73 days into a 6,500-kilometre journey when they capsized

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