Luckily Canadians have CNN and the BBC

9:30 AM, Pacific Time on Saturday, 20 September 2008.

I see via the Google News aggregator that a bomb had gone off in Islamabad, Pakistan, in front of the Marriott Hotel there.  Scores are dead.  Many injured.

A major event in the world today.

I go to CNN and BBC to read the story.  I go to the CBC....no word of it yet and it has been 1.5 hours since the blast.  Wake up Canada.

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