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 ‘take 5’
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 [...]
June 19, 2009
Insider’s guide to Toronto – new blogTO column
If you could ask City Hall to change one thing about the city right now, what would it be? Paul Ngyuen, founding editor of jane-finch.com, wants politicians “to pay more attention to the so-called priority neighborhoods. They’ve gotta come on down and visit before they decide to make changes.” Great Bloomers musicians Lowell Sostomi and [...]
April 28, 2009
Girl Guides & eating disorders; Big Pharma busted in Ontario; female breadwinners on the rise; Cda to takeover GM?
Here are my picks for National News, written for air this morning on Take 5, CIUT 89.5 FM Big Pharma bilks the system – but Ontario busts them for $34 million The Ontario Health Ministry has busted some pharmacies, drug manufacturers and wholesalers for a scheme where they ordered more drugs than they needed so [...]
