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City of Toronto Accepts Donation from RTF Water Saver Canada
A new seed company in Canada is playing a major role in resorting St. James Park in Toronto (http://www NULL.rtfwatersavercanada NULL.com). Following the 40 day Occupy Toronto protest, officials with the City of Toronto announced that damage to the grass at St. James Park was a staggering $60,000.00. While donations from Torontonians have been pouring [...]
This Seed Saves the Day following Occupy Toronto Protest
Canadian company wants to donate its grass seed as solution to restore St. James Park While city officials in Toronto estimate that the damage to restore St. James Park may end up being $60,000.00 following the 40 day ‘Occupy Protest,’ a Canadian seed company is willing to foot the entire bill of its new eco-friendly [...]
Halifax and Vancouver Win Shipbuilding Sweepstakes
Nova Scotia’s Halifax Shipyard has landed a $25-billion contract to build new combat ships for the Canadian navy over the next 20 years, the federal government announced in Ottawa on Wednesday. Irving Shipbuilding will be the main company responsible for building the navy’s new warships. An $8-billion contract for seven non-combat vessels went to Vancouver’s [...]
Confident in ‘major minority,’ McGuinty rules out coalition
By Karen Howlett (from today’s Globe and Mail Newspaper) Premier-elect Dalton McGuinty is ruling out negotiating with opposition leaders after his narrow victory, saying he has a strong mandate to govern Ontario. Mr. McGuinty described the outcome of Thursday’s election, which left him just one seat shy of a third straight majority, as a “major [...]
Why did Layton’s final act rivet us so?
By Michael Posner (from Today’s Globe and Mail Newspaper) The word catastrophe, derived from Greek, translates roughly as “an overturning.” Classical drama often ends with it, typically with the death of the hero. The path of Jack Layton’s recent life perfectly traces that Aristotelian arc, climbing to the hubristic heights of his party’s performance in [...]
Jack Layton’s last letter
The funeral for NDP Leader Jack Layton will be Saturday in Toronto, days after the well-liked politician died at his Toronto home at age 61 after a battle with cancer August 20, 2011. Below is his last letter he wrote only hours before his passing. Toronto, Ontario Dear Friends, Tens of thousands of Canadians have [...]
Canada Post back-to-work bill passes
Calling the three days of round-the-clock debate in Parliament “a completely unnecessary delay,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he was “nevertheless pleased that soon Canadians will again have access to their postal service, particularly small businesses and charities.” Story provided by the Canadian Press Mail service should resume within days after weary members of the [...]
Welcome to Canada’s Two Party System
Harper gets his majority while NDP tapped as official opposition By Adam Radwanski (from today’s Globe and Mail) Jack Layton’s New Democrats have long dreamt of the day they would supplant the Liberals as the party of the centre-left. And Stephen Harper has shared that dream, believing it would allow his Conservatives to become the [...]
Gap Between Tories and NDP Narrows
Will Canada elect an NDP government on May 2? By Gloria Galloway – from today’s Globe and Mail Newspaper The race between the Conservatives and the New Democrats appears to be tightening in what has become a dramatic race in the home stretch. A new poll conducted by Nanos Research for The Globe and Mail [...]
President Obama Refuses to Act on Clemency Request for Charles Manson
By Ro Hurley In response to a request for clemency for Charles Manson by defense attorney Giovanni Di Stefano, the United States Department of Justice on behalf of President Barack Obama stated, “The President does not seek to intervene in State clemency issues,” and suggested that the request be sent instead to the current California [...]
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City of Toronto Accepts Donation from RTF Water Saver Canada
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This Seed Saves the Day following Occupy Toronto Protest
December 1, 2011 22:12 -
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November 19, 2011 22:11 -
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