Author Archives: Bulletin Editor

TEDxToronto Announces Satellite Viewing Party Details for 2013 Conference

TEDxToronto is hosting its annual conference on September 26th, 2013, for more than 900 delegates at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. For those wishing to be immersed in the event, but not attending the conference, TEDxToronto has just ...

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Has questioning 9/11 become more acceptable?

Nile Bowie— Despite the media’s best efforts to dismiss 9/11 conspiracy theories, one in two Americans doubt the government’s narrative and skepticism is slowly seeping its way into the mainstream. Twelve years on from the events of September 11th 2001 ...

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PREMIER’S HIGH-PRICED HORSE RACING PANEL BILLS TAXPAYERS $500,000

Jacqui Delaney — “With 60,000 people at risk of losing their jobs in Ontario’s horse racing industry, the Premier doled out more than $500,000 for high-priced consultants,” said PC MPP Randy Pettapiece, the Ontario PC Deputy Critic for Agriculture. Pettapiece ...

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Higher education? Shockingly low salaries

Canadian post-secondary students expect, on average, a starting salary of $50,668 • Males expect more than females: $52,938 versus $48,096 • Actual average earnings for university and college graduates with two years of work experience is $45,000. As the new ...

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Police use of deadly Tasers to grow, not decline

John Sewell — Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 78 — On August 27, Madeleine Meilleur, the Ontario Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services, announced that every police officer in the province could carry a conducted energy weapon (CEW), providing ...

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How much public money goes to private clinics in Ontario?

How much public money does the Ontario government dole out to private clinics like the Kensington Eye Institute? Getting that information and other similar information about independent (private) health facilities/clinics is proving to be a long, protracted challenge for the ...

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Jane and Finch Street Party for a $14 minimum wage

Residents from the Jane and Finch community and their allies will be gathering at the corner of Jane Finch intersection on Saturday, September 14, 2013 as part of a day of action for a $14 minimum wage. What: Jane and ...

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Over 100 brave souls plan to rappel from a Toronto office tower

Next Thursday, September 19, more than 100 individuals will step into costume, harness up and rappel 17 storeys down the side of the Canadian Real Estate Investment Trust (CREIT)’s head office at Bloor St. and Church St. Easter Seals Drop ...

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Second City celebrates Obama’s passionate need to start a war with Syria

Second City spoofs Obama’s need for a war with Syria. Interesting, considering he was anointed with the Nobel Peace Prize apparently just for being elected. He certainly wasn’t peaceful with Libya, which is now a war-torn mess like everywhere else ...

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Toronto honours “International Day of Solidarity – LGBT rights

By: Barry Dennison As President Obama met with gay, lesbians, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people in Russia this week, on September 8th 2014 the world was mobilizing in a grassroots movement with marches here in Toronto, cities in the United ...

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