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 [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Ontario’
April 7, 2009
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 right to form a union. The court ruled the section of the RCMP Act that [...]
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 [...]
February 10, 2009
My family: Dalton McGuinty’s wet dream
Last year, Ontario Premier, Dalton McGuinty, announced a new statutory holiday – Family Day. He envisioned a day where “hard working Ontario families” take time out of their busy lives to spend time together. Thanks to my older sister – who loves nothing more than to rally family together for any – and all occassions [...]
