Posts Tagged as ‘alternative’

March 26, 2009

Teen sex, HST in Ontario and Hunting the Seal Hunters: March 26 ’09 Headlines

My pick of the day’s national news, written for broadcast on Take 5, CIUT 89.5 FM. HST – it just rolls off the paycheque Ontario is blending its Provincial Sales Tax with the GST to make HST – a harmonized sales tax.  The new tax will cost Ontarions more because they’ll pay PST on more [...]

March 4, 2009

4 March 2009: The Headlines

Once a week (usually Tuesdays, this week, Wednesday) I’m the national news reader and writer on Take 5 – a current affairs morning show on Toronto public radio, CIUT 89.5 FM. I trawl the internet for hours the night before and in the early AM to find under reported stories that fit our public radio [...]