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IIHF World Hockey Championship Dept: Sports: It was a good week for homegrown baseball fans, but not so stellar for hockey buffs. The Blue Jays trounced the New York Yankees with four home runs and an incredible final score of 8-1 on Wednesday night. A day later, Canada was eliminated from the IIHF World Hockey Championship after a painful 4-3 surprise loss to Slovakia, which scored two goals in the last seven minutes of the game, according to The Star. Economy: The cradle of ancient civilization was down and the virtual world was up this week. On fears their country may default from its debts and be forced out of the eurozone, Greeks hit ATMs to the tune of hundreds of millions of euros in the days following their May 6 elections. Meanwhile, Facebook s hyped IPO saw the company s shares reach a high of $38. Tweeted comedian Andy Borowitz: With its IPO, #Facebook is now officially a waste of time AND money and politics: The New Democrats and other opposition parties tried but ultimately failed in their attempt to break up a 425-page Conservative omnibus budget bill, which they claimed was too hefty to be thoroughly debated in Parliament. The Conservatives used their majority to send the bill to be reviewed by committee. The massive bill contains revisions to 70 laws, including immigration reforms, changes to the way environmental assessments are done, and probably a few other things, too we ll never know. Culture: The 65th Cannes Film Festival kicked off this week and opening-night film Moonrise Kingdom by childlike auteur Wes Anderson polarized critics, some of whom saw it as all obsessive, primary-colour style but little substance which would make it much like his The Darjeeling Limited . But observers hoping for newsworthy bombshells equal to last year s a silent film The Artist making the biggest splash, for example, or Lars von Trier making a fool of himself with ill-judged comments about Nazis were disappointed thus far. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.