The National Hockey League board of governosr announced on Tuesday that it approved the sale of the Atlanta Thrashers to True North Sports Entertainment.This means they will relocate to Winnipeg and be the league’s seventh Canadian franchise.  

*Editor's Note: This article marks the begining of a weekly travel blog by Natasha P, a CJLO correspondent currently on exchange in Beijing, that will cover her experiences training in Beijing Opera and living in China.*

8 months of training, 4 performances, 6 hours of paperwork, 14 hours in transit and now I find myself sitting in a hotel room on the other side of the world looking out over Beijing.

In northwestern Russia a passenger plane crashed late Monday night on a highway just short of a runway where fog lights had failed to turn on. The crash killed 44 people, only eight survived.

The RusAir plane was on its way from Moscow to the city of Petrozavodsk when it made a crash landing two kilometers before the runway, breaking apart and lighting on fire. At the moment it is unclear if the plane attempted to land on the road, or weather it just fell there.

Petrozavodsk is near the Finnish border 640 kilometers from Moscow.

Plastic money will replace the paper bills you have in your wallet. The Bank of Canada unveiled the new bills on Monday, which are apparently among the most secure in the world. The bills made of plastic polymer material are not easily counterfeited. They are also more durable. Canadians will spend 9 cents more on each bill.

Polymer bills are now used in 32 countries around the world. But don’t start snooping in your friends’ wallets for the new bills just yet. They aren’t set to hit the market until 2012.