Like many languages spoken by indigenous people, Ayapaneco is dying. Only two people still speak it — and they won't talk to each other.

Spoken in Mexico for centuries, Ayapeneco is one of 68 surviving indigenous languages in the mostly-Spanish speaking nation. The two speakers are Manuel Segovia (pictured on the right), 75, and Isidro Velazquez, 69, and despite living only 500 metres from each other in the village of Ayapa the two men refuse to communicate.

While Segovia denies any ill-will toward Velasquez, others say they have never enjoyed spending time together.

In an interview with The Guardian, Daniel Suslak, a U.S. anthropologist who is working to make a dictionary of Ayapaneco, said the two men "don't have a lot in common," and that Segovia can be "prickly" while Velasquez tends to mind his own business and stay at home.

While Segovia still speaks to his wife and son in Ayapaneco, neither of them can manage more than a few words. Velasquez reportedly barely speaks his native

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Canadians scratched their heads when a B.C. Tim Hortons was used as an emergency room, but now reports of janitors operating an X-ray machine are provoking outrage about the state of First Nations medical centres.

Patients requiring X-rays in Manitoba's Manto Sipi Cree Nation are in the hands of underqualified custodial staffers.

Michael Yellowback, chief of the community, recently underwent an X-ray of his own.

"The doctor did the examination, the nurse took blood and gave an EKG, and then the janitor took my X-ray," he said in a Winnipeg Free Press story.

"I don't mean to laugh, but it's the kind of treatment we get. What does this show you about the state of health care on First Nations?"

Various area residents, along with the janitors, have received training to provide a limited set of X-ray services.

Yellowback believes this is just one example of how the federal and provincial governments continue to fail the residents of northern Manitoba's First Nations.

"This would never be an

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School children across North America look forward to Easter eggs in April. Students at one Seattle school, however, may only be allowed to call them 'spring spheres.'

Reports about a teacher at a Seattle-area elementary school have drawn the focus of several news outlets in the United States, Canada and the U.K.  A teen who volunteered at the school says she was told she had to refer to Easter eggs as 'spring spheres' when she asked the teacher if she could bring them as a special treat for the class.

"When I took them out of the bag, the teacher said, 'Oh look, spring spheres' and all the kids were like 'Wow, Easter eggs.' So they knew," the student said in an interview with MyNorthwest.com, the organization that originally broke the news.

Fox News picked up the story, and seemed outraged at not just the political correctness, but at the teacher's poor grasp of geometry.

When asked about the incident, Seattle Public Schools spokesperson Teresa Wippel said in a Seattle PI blog that

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The U.S. spends the most on health care compared with other developed countries, but has one of the lowest life expectancy rates, a new study found.

It spends about $3 trillion or 16 per cent of its $14.6-trillion GDP on health, but Americans on average only live 77.9 years, states the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

That means total health care spending in the U.S. is around $10,000 per person, whereas in Canada that figure less than half at just under $4,000.

OECD's "Society at a Glance" shows the U.S. spends about five per cent more of its GDP than any other nation with the next closest country being France at 11.2 per cent. Canada comes in sixth, spending 10.2 per cent of GDP. Mexico, the country where people work the most hours per day, spends the least at 5.9 per cent.

But those health care dollars do not add up to life expectancy.

While the U.S. leads in spending, it is 27th on the life expectancy list. Average Canadians can expect to live 80.7 years,

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She was once granted asylum by the Canadian government, but only five years later Sugunanayake Joseph was ordered deported on the grounds she supports terrorism.

Joseph, 74, fled from her native Sri Lanka following the assassination of her husband during a Christmas Eve midnight mass in 2005.

Her husband, Joseph Pararajasingham, was a well-respected politician, a former Sri Lankan MP hailed as a "man of peace" by former foreign affairs minister Bill Graham.

Wounded during the shooting, the widow sought refuge in Canada with a visitor's visa, joining her son and daughter who are Canadian citizens.

But five years after her arrival, the Immigration and Refugee Board has ordered the grandmother deported, ending her Canadian refuge on the suspicion of ties to a Sri Lankan terrorist organization.

"My husband was not a terrorist," said Joseph in a Toronto Star story. "I am also not a terrorist. He was an innocent man. A man of the people."

The suspicions of terrorism began in 2007 when

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Cougar Life, the website aimed at men who want to meet older single women, has a long way to go before it can catch up to the steady stream of free media attention generated by scandal-seeking extramarital affair service Ashley Madison.

While both are owned by the same Toronto-based company, Avid Life Media, the promotion of adultery might have a tough time attracting celebrity endorsements.

"Cooking for Your Cub," however, is a publication designed to draw attention to the appeal of Cougar Life. The authenticity of the venture is provided by longtime "What's For Dinner?" co-host, and mother of two, Mary Jo Eustace.

Eustace hasn't shied from exploiting the fact her Canadian actor husband, Dean McDermott, dumped her five years ago for Tori Spelling. In fact, she even attempted to shop a book proposal titled, "My Husband Dumped Me For Tori Spelling."

The sordid story, which began with a hookup between McDermott and Spelling on the Ottawa set of an instantly forgotten TV movie, "Mind Over

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"They have to start from zero again," said Dave Nicol, formerly known as the presidential face behind President's Choice, when he surveyed the shelves filled with non-food items at a Loblaws store almost five years ago.

Galen Weston Jr., born into the supermarket chain his grandfather acquired in 1947, had just been appointed its executive chairman at age 33 in 2006. Around that time, a story in Report on Business magazine speculated as to whether he could get the job done.

The latest move will position all those inedible offerings as distinct from the groceries that presumably remain the main draw for Loblaw. And, that has meant giving it a slightly futuristic, and slightly retroactive, brand name: everydayliving.

Joseph Mimran, whose Joe Fresh apparel boutiques proved a successful use of existing Loblaw real estate, was recruited to extend his aesthetic to other departments.

Everyday Essentials will be introduced as the brand name for cheap housewares, Tera Gear items will be

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Considering all the damage you can do to the space-time continuum with nothing more than a Delorean and a nutty professor, it seems sensible to restrict time travel.

However, instead of focusing on the prospect of real time tourism, China is cracking down on fictional time machines with an eye toward maintaining social stability in the here and now.

According to the New York Times, the State Administration for Radio, Film and Television has declared that programs featuring time travel "lack positive thoughts and meaning" (full statement in Chinese).

The regulations, which do not ban time travel altogether, are apparently aimed at a slew of popular series which feature characters journeying to ancient China. Female heroes often fall in love with a series of dreamy princes and warriors ("Myth" and "Palace" being the two most notable).

According to The Guardian, Li Jingsheng of the aforementioned Administration said, "Many stories are totally made up and are made to strain for an effect

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