My pick of today’s best national stories as broadcast on Take 5, CIUT 89.5 FM this morning Canada talks tough to Iran Prime Minister Stephen Harper is calling the Iranian authorities reaction to peaceful protests against last week’s election results “wholly unacceptable” and denouncing the “use of brute force and intimidation” by authorities. He’s calling [...]
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June 16, 2009
TAKE 5 NEWS: Let’s talk isotopes Harper & Ignatieff; Pink ceiling 4 corporate queers; Citizens militia forms against Iroquois in Caledonia; Zoomer takeover continues
My pick of national news for Take 5 this morning on CIUT 89.5 FM. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is trying to quash any possibility of a summer election by meeting with Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff today for the first time since January. On the table: the isotope shortage and unemployment insurance reform – two major [...]
May 19, 2009
Peak Oil? Pshaw; Kanesatake pot raid; Mulroney’s testimony is urban myth; Olympian bloggers rulebook;
An update on the drug raid happening on a Quebec First Nation reserve this morning RCMP officers have confirmed 300 officers were involved in a drug raid on the Kanesatake First Nation reserve this morning. Officers descended on the Mohawk reserve, 55 kilometres west of Montreal, at 5 a.m. Thirteen homes were searched and sixteen [...]
April 28, 2009
Girl Guides & eating disorders; Big Pharma busted in Ontario; female breadwinners on the rise; Cda to takeover GM?
Here are my picks for National News, written for air this morning on Take 5, CIUT 89.5 FM Big Pharma bilks the system – but Ontario busts them for $34 million The Ontario Health Ministry has busted some pharmacies, drug manufacturers and wholesalers for a scheme where they ordered more drugs than they needed so [...]
April 16, 2009
Freelancers are first to go at New York Times
As a freelance jouranlist, this latest memo from New York Times executive editor, Bill Keller, has me worried: — We expect to roll out a trim of freelance budgets within the next few weeks. Taken together, these moves will save millions of dollars — savings that would otherwise have to come out of payroll. So [...]
