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Mystery cash, Obama’s shark fin soup mistake and first native saint among most read stories last week
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Daily Brew
Who doesn't get excited over $26,000 of mysterious origins? Clearly, very few. This week's story of one extra-lucky American—the man who found a wad of cash in a sealed old safe he bought on eBay for $122.93—became most shared, most commented and most viewed on Yahoo! News Canada. Can you stay opinion-free as you read that the seller flipped the safe without checking its content? He now wants his share of cash back. But does he have a right to it?
As you grapple with that moral dilemma, here's another one from top readers' pick. Barack Obama craved some Chinatown-made dim sum last week. But a surprise visit to San Francisco's Great Eastern restaurant cost the U.S. President dearly. Apparently, aside from round dumplings, the restaurant offered controversial shark fin soup to patrons. White House spokesmen said Obama didn't get any. But that wasn't enough to appease red-faced environmentalists. This photo, showing the president paying for take-out, became just as popular as the story itself.
The highest clicking video this week is a lot less political: Denmark's Princess Mary busted a state guest for seemingly staring at her cleavage mid-dinner. His wife, Finland's president, probably wasn't amused.
On the home front, the now-closed VikiLeaks30 account on Twitter made a splash last week. In response to the proposed legislation affecting personal privacy online, VikiLeaks30 shared personal details of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews' life. A sneaky Ottawa Citizen investigation traced the account to an IP operating from inside the House of Commons. The government is now looking for the digital troublemaker(s).
Recently, Gallup released the results of a new survey measuring American love for other nations. A story of how the neighbours "really, really like us" became another popular Yahoo! News Canada read this past week. Turns out that a whooping 96 per cent of Americans approve of Canadians. Since Gallup introduced the poll two decades ago, no other country has ever gotten such love from the United States. Iran and North Korea, however, aren't feeling much American affection, according to polls. Looks like many Americans really, really don't like those two.
Later this week, as one Toronto archbishop became an elite cardinal, another Vatican story became a web hit. A Mohawk woman buried in Kahnawake, Que., will become the first aboriginal saint for Catholics. She'll be canonized in October. Check out the article to find out what miracles Kateri Tekakwitha had reportedly performed.
Other popular reads last week covered Whitney Houston's funeral, former First Nation chief complaining to Iran about human rights violations in Canada, late reports of Degrassi star Neil 'Wheels' Hope's death and a mysterious 'nodding disease' killing African children.
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