Jane Chalmers is stepping down as vice-president of CBC Radio, leaving expanded local programming as her main legacy.

Leading U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani has told a whopper about the chances of surviving prostate cancer in the United States versus the socialized medicine hellhole of Great Britain. The NYT's Paul Krugman is wondering why the U.S. political press isn't calling Rudy on his fib.

From the BBC:

With a year to go before the 2008 US presidential elections, young Americans are poised to mark their growing engagement in politics with an ambitious online news site.

The creators of Scoop08.com, which launches on 4 November, say it will be the first to harness the power of students across the US to follow the campaign.

"We noticed there was a void when it came to national, grassroots, student journalism that really could have an impact on issues of importance," said co-founder Alexander Heffner, 17.

Whether the venture sky-rockets or fizzles, its very existence reflects a social shift that candidates and major parties ignore at their peril.

Namely, America's young voters, traditionally seen as apathetic, are becoming more active voters - and there are more and more of them.