Students, gotta love ‘em! For two years there have been many visitors and dogs at Sherbourne Common together with the entire group of working people in the Corus building. In the hot summer of 2011 dogs and small children were ...
Read More »Help students by tackling student debt says Grit leadership contender
To realize our goal of a prosperous Canada, we must build a knowledge-based economy. To do that, we must have the most educated, most creative, and most entrepreneurial workforce in the world. And that starts with our youth, with education ...
Read More »Let big business exploit the public sector
‘The merger of state and corporate power is by definition called fascism,’ Gerald Celente, U.S.-based trends analyst and forecaster. Meanwhile two big-business groups present their ideas for getting at your tax money. By Frank Touby – Self-interested private businesses can ...
Read More »Convenience stores battle untaxed smokes
Milk stores are arranging for customers to complain to provincial ministers from the stores The Ontario Convenience Stores Association (OCSA) is launching a contraband tobacco awareness campaign in Toronto convenience stores. The campaign will allow customers to send a letter ...
Read More »Second reading for anti-credit-card ripoff bill
Visa & Master Card charges can reach over 3% of the final transaction value, a total that includes 3% on top of HST By Tony Elenis – Senator Pierrette Ringuette tabled a Senate Public Bill S-215 An Act To Amend ...
Read More »Green Energy Act costs Ontario green from our wallet
80% of Ontario’s wind-power generation occurs when electricity demand is so low that the entire output is surplus and must be dumped on the export market at a substantial loss. By Kenneth P. Green – Ontario’s Green Energy Act (GEA) ...
Read More »Ontario government nails tradespeople with new tax
‘It’s outrageous to force hardworking tradespeople to pay millions in a new trades tax to support big salaries and a new bureaucracy that provides no value to tradespeople or consumers’ By Jessica Georgakopoulos – The Ontario Liberal government’s controversial new ...
Read More »Poll shows Canadians would vote for co-operation to defeat Tories
The telephone poll, which sampled 1,004 voters, comes just days before voting in the Liberal leadership race is set to begin. Co-operation and electoral reform have been major topics of debate between the two top candidates, Joyce Murray and Justin ...
Read More »Stop Monsanto & GM alfalfa
The Big Carrot Natural Food Market and others sponsor this rally at St. Lawrence Market to save family farms in Canada Tuesday April 9 from noon to 1 p.m. The Day of Action to Stop GM Alfalfa was called by ...
Read More »MLS house sales in GTA first quarter 2013
By Mary Gallagher – Greater Toronto Area REALTORS(R) reported 7,765 transactions through the TorontoMLS system in March 2013 – down 17 per cent compared to 9,385 transactions in March 2012. While the year-over-year dip in March sales followed the trend ...
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