WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
WINNIPEG - One hundred years after the birth of celebrated novelist Gabrielle Roy at 375 Deschambault St. in southeast Winnipeg, the 2 1/2-storey wood-frame house has been named a national historic site.
Impolitical (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
They do with advertising on our dollar that pursues a vile form of politics, accusing Liberals of anti-Semitism. Part of the Conservatives' ongoing effort to corner the Jewish vote, some of the most offensive ten percenter flyers to date have been sent out : The "scandalous" flyers, endorsed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and which target ridings with large Jewish communities, accuse the...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Here's a thought for Michael Ignatieff as he ponders "big ideas" he can sell Canadians on. Wendell Cox, an American serving as a visiting professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris, writes that Canada is "the largest high-income nation in the world without a comprehensive national freeway system." He defines motorways as "entirely grade separated...
Impolitical (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Update (7:35 p.m.) below. It's hard to know what to make of the hard sell coming from federal officials on how swimmingly the H1N1 vaccination process is going. Listen to the glowing spin: Dr. David Butler-Jones says about 20 per cent of the population has received the H1N1 shot in the last three weeks. Canada has about 33 million people. "That's just unheard of," he said in an interview...
Buckdog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
124 years ago today, in Regina, Louis Riel, the leader of the Metis was executed by the Government of Canada. Riel is widely considered by many to be a father of Confederation because his vision and fight for the rights of First Nations people led to the entrance of both Manitoba and Saskatchewan into Confederation. Louis David Riel was elected three times to the House of Commons of Canada, on October...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
How long before some bright spark spots this and suggests Canada overthrow its tax system and adopt a similar approach? Stephane Dion -- they're calling your name... The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion. "Each vehicle will be equipped with a...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
“Intrepid” remembered in Winnipeg
Gay News Bits (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The Gay Headlines for Monday Include: Speculation on the Winnipeg bathhouse fire; Is Ohio Liberal'; Are gay politicians in Canada no big deal'; Ugandan Irony; An update on the UK gay hate law; Rhode Island’s plan; Buenos Aires marks a 1st; DC lawmakers vs the RCs; India’s Gay Prince; And a bit of gay science… Crime [...]
H5N1 (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Via CBCnews.ca: Tracking pathogens difficult: federal laboratory audit. Excerpt:Government labs, including the one in Winnipeg handling samples of swine flu, struggle to keep track of viruses and bacteria, a recent audit found. The Public Health Agency of Canada document warns...
Canadian Online Health News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
WINNIPEG - Experts at an international HIV/AIDS conference say researchers around the world are closer than ever to finding a vaccine against the virus. Frank Plummer, director of Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory, says he expects to see a vaccine in his lifetime.
Canadian Online Health News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
WINNIPEG - The country's chief public health officer says Canada is leading the world when it comes to the percentage of its citizens vaccinated against the swine flu. Dr.
Canadian Developers (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The next stop on the TechDays Canada cross-country conference tour is Calgary! We’ll be there for most of the week, and the conference itself takes place on Tuesday, November 17th and Wednesday, November 18th at the Calgary Stampede Roundup Centre. After that, we’ve got the following dates in December: Montreal (Sold out!) – December 2nd and 3rd Ottawa – December 9th and 10th...
Canadian Entrepreneur (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
My column this week in the Financial Post provides a follow-up to my article two weeks earlier on referrals. Reason: I had a fascinating note from Leonard Lee of Lee Valley Tools in response to the first column, and I wanted to let this legendary Canadian entrepreneur set the record straight in public. Lee Valley put a lot of effort into learning how best to “encourage” satisfied customers...
CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Well hello there, good people of the blog! It’s me, Susanna , possibly better known to you as Bio Spice . And isn’t this fun (for me)! Today as I sit in on The Listener Co-host Initiative on The Craig Norris Hour , you’ll be joining us on a bit of a journey tracking my discovery of Canadian independent music, starting in my first home town of Winnipeg, Manitoba , and continuing in...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The winner of Canada's Next Top Model contest is pretty in person, as pretty as some of the girls that can be found shopping on Queen West on a Saturday or piling out of suburban schools on a Friday afternoon.
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