Tag Archives: Ontario
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Aboriginal, journalism, news, Toronto
Adbusters OK to sue CBC; From Mounties to Bolsheviks?; Toronto gets into movie biz but pussyfoots over coffee cups; Fighting attacks in Vancouver’s gay village; Poolside Breast-Feeding – HEADLINES 7 April 2009
Here are my picks for national news, written for Take 5′s morning newscast on 7 April 2009. Will unionization turn RCMP officers into a bunch of Bolsheviks? Yesterday an Ontario Superior Court awarded the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force the … Continue reading
Filed under journalism, news, recession, Toronto
$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 … Continue reading
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