Posts Tagged as ‘national’

October 27, 2009

Take 5 News: Voice for missing Aboriginal women under threat; Toronto tap water now with extra bacteria; Jarvis now Ted Rogers Way; Tory Senator ties to Quebec funding scandal; All-day kindergarten costs another $400 million in Ontario

Don’t turn out the light on missing women Federal Liberal critic for women’s issues, Anita Neville, is calling on the Conservative government to guarantee a renewal of the five-year mandate for Sisters in Spirit. The national organization has become the main voice for the epidemic of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada. Neville’s call [...]

October 14, 2009

Take 5 Newscast: Why the Swiss are afraid of minarets; Stimulus funding goes to conservative ridings; Alberta faces up to Aboriginal education gap; Hunting blockade in B.C.

Well, after a long hiatus due to a two-week workshop at the Banff Centre for Emerging Aboriginal Writers (super awesome, check out the pics here), and a cold, I’m finally back on Take 5 News.  Here is my selection of world and national news for Wednesday, October 14th. And a hot tip:  We interviewed filmmaker [...]

March 31, 2009

$11.5 billion to care for Afghan veterans; Media gets Vancouver’s Eastside Wrong; Toronto Transit Merger – 31 March 2009 Headlines

Post traumatic stress disorder is expensive A new Tyee series reports that caring for Canada’s Afghanistan veterans could cost as much as $11 and a half billion dollars. Carleton University researcher David Perry estimates that by July 2011, 41,000 Canadians will have served in Afghanistan and long-term care will require big spending. Already over 360 [...]

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 [...]