Author Archives: Bulletin Editor

Losing your socks? Maybe they’re now works of art

Christine Palka – When you want to find meaning, you might read a book, study history or conduct research in a lab, but few people would probably think to look to socks for life meaning. Dirty socks, in fact. Kim ...

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Is an art display a fair trade for loss of parks & trails in Downtown TO?

Michael Cruickshank of York Heritage Properties sums it up on behalf of Downtown residents who endure a shameful dearth of parkland in this major first-world city: We get a wall hanging for 35 acres of parkland. By comparison, maybe the ...

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St. Lawrence to get slashed into 2 ridings

Todd Ross – The new federal riding distribution has been released and the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood should feel blindsided as it will now be split across The Esplanade into two federal ridings—Toronto Centre to the north and Spadina Fort York ...

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Seeking a Just and Honourable Redress

‘Apparently, the BC Liberals had lined up some Chinese Canadian community leaders in mid-February to accept the apology motion in the Legislature on March 14th. Their plans were thwarted by the Haakstad memo. The community leaders would have been validating ...

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Patient-on-patent nursing home tragedy

Latest brings union call for more staff to prevent deranged patients from hurting others By Stella Yeadon – Following yet another tragic death at an Ontario long-term care (LTC) residence, front-line nurses and personal support workers (PSWs) today renewed their ...

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Harbourfront skating ends Mar. 17 p.m.

By Althea Linton – Harbourfront Centre’s Natrel Rink will close for the season Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 10 p.m. Over the winter months, it was the hub for all SKATE CULTURE activities at Harbourfront Centre—hosting to more than 150,000 ...

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Casino advocates angle to curse us with one

‘Let us not lose sight of the fact that the OLG’s mission — repeated in their media interviews, their website, and other forms of communication — is to establish a casino in the GTA and to generate more revenue from ...

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Slaying the green energy dragon

‘If you look up the definition of hell on earth, it’s trying to build a solar farm in Ontario and partnering with the government’ By Candice Malcolm – Kevin O’Leary knows a good deal when he sees one. The lead ...

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TPA expresses glee over proposed city tax settlement

CommunityAIR says city staff sold out to Port Authority on what city estimated was $50 million of upaid taxes By Brian Iler – We’ve watched the tortured progress of the City’s efforts to force the Toronto Port Authority to pay ...

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Transit fix to be funded by taxpayers: Marchese

Kimberly Spice – Who is going to pay to fix the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area (GTHA) transit problem? You are. Proposed revenue generating ideas were presented to approximately 40 people at the Transit Town Hall meeting, Feb. 25. The ...

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