Author Archives: Bulletin Editor

Losing trust is a good thing. Here’s why:

A recent spate of fake news has gotten everyone in a tizzy. But, this isn’t news. Phony stories have been around forever. It’s just that the internet is delivering them faster, in greater quantities, and to more people than ever ...

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How to make a documentary

A detailed guide for visual creatives and storytellers In this detailed guide on how to make a documentary, we’ll take a look at subject discovery, review various options for equipment, examine the different steps taken during production, and point out some ...

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Uber vs. Lyft vs. taxis: will any of them prevail?

What do creation, destruction, sharing and profit have in common? When it comes to the sharing economy, the answer is everything. In slightly over a decade, Uber and Lyft have gone from San Francisco startups to worldwide juggernauts. Their march ...

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St. Patty’s Day food-bank donation

Toronto Paramedic Services and St. Patrick’s Day Parade Society deliver equivalent of 8,000 meals to Daily Bread Food Bank today. This morning, 238 kilograms of food and cash donations totalling $7,700 were delivered in an ambulance by Toronto Paramedic Services ...

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Fukushima-style event at Pickering?

A Fukushima Disaster at Pickering could lead to 26,000 cancers and $125 billion in lost home values Seven years ago, a runaway triple nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Station in Japan occured. The effects of this catastrophe continue today. ...

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Mediterranean diet for a long life

  Leonardo da Vinci once remarked, “Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.” Trifles can make a huge difference in surgery, when building rockets, in nutrition, or in life generally. For instance, a report in the publication LifeExtension shows ...

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It’s time to expropriate Big Pharma

Big Pharma shouldn’t exist. Pharmaceuticals are a health necessity that mustn’t be continued as business monopolies that are distorted, perverted and corrupted by the profit lusts of transnational corporations that operate outside of—and frequently in opposition to—the public interest. Drug ...

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Megan makes noise, Putin makes sense

An attempted assassination by NBC news poodle Megan Kelly quickly mired down in mock interrogation as she hammered the Russian leader with snide and unanswerable questions. It was the major-media equivalent of a How often do you beat your wife ...

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Give input on Toronto’s poverty-reduction strategy

On March 13, Councillor Joe Mihevc (Ward 21 St. Paul’s), Chair of the Toronto Board of Health and Toronto City Council’s Poverty Advocate, will join city staff to launch #TacklePovertyTO. This series of free panel discussions is being held to ...

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Leadership award honours Pam McConnell

City of Toronto to present the first Pam McConnell Young Women in Leadership Award on International Women’s Day Mayor John Tory and Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam (Ward 27 Toronto Centre-Rosedale) will present the Pam McConnell Young Women in Leadership Award to ...

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