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 [...]
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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 [...]
