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 [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Toronto’
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 [...]
March 18, 2009
18 March 2009: The headlines
My pick of the day’s national news, written for broadcast on Take 5, CIUT 89.5 FM. Conservatives get busy — on campus and on the campaign trail Former premier Mike Harris is reportedly building support for MPP Tim Hudak in the race to succeed John Tory as Ontario’s Progressive Conservative leader. Harris is widely seen [...]
