After a harrowing week for the people of Boston and an extensive manhunt involving thousands of law enforcement officials, the 19-year-old suspect wanted in connection with Monday's marathon bombing is finally in custody -- and the city is rejoicing in a very big way.
After a harrowing week for the people of Boston and an extensive manhunt involving thousands of law enforcement officials, the 19-year-old suspect wanted in connection with Monday's marathon bombing is finally in custody -- and the city is rejoicing in a very big way.
The bombings that killed three people at the Boston Marathon on Monday
were gripped the attention of this week's Generation Why contributors.
Roughly half of all the entries this issue highlight CBC News coverage
of the attack and the fast-moving investigation that put an entire city
in lockdown.
Members of the MIT community are reeling from the death of 26-year-old campus police officer Sean Collier, who was shot and killed Thursday night in the line of duty.
"While visiting our grandchildren in Calgary, I took this picture of our Grandson looking through an opening in a boulder on his sister's school grounds," wrote Imelda Darwish of Somerset, NS. "Through the eyes of a child...a wonderful angle at which to see the world."
Our over-50 social media cohorts go digital to respond to a CBC article analyzing the rise in seniors' presence online. 
As police and military officials continue their search for the last suspect connected to the Boston Marathon bombings, ordinary Bostonians are going to social media to communicate with the outside world as the city continues to be under complete lockdown.
Early this morning Boston police stormed in and locked down a neighbourhood there in search of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. The whole operation, including an explosive shootout that ended with one dead suspect, was caught on camera and social media by local residents. It continues to play out online as police broaden the search, looking for a second suspect.
A 19-year-old Seattle programmer has funded a project that helps seniors find assisted living residences by auctioning off a portion of her income to investors for the next 10 years.
This week on CBC Live Online, host Lauren O'Neil will spoke to special
guests about what the refusal to be terrorized looks like, and how well
it fits with calls for justice.
Boston held interfaith "healing" service Thursday morning, with Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and President Barack Obama both speaking. Many of Obama's lines from his speech ended up on Twitter, including on the president's own feed and that of the White House.
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