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There have been a number of stories about the Conservative government and its principles that, taken in isolation, are telling but don't really amount to much. But when you look at all these stories in aggregate, a picture certainly begins to emerge about the style and attitude of this government: Gov't program wants job applicants' views on Tory budget : An elite federal program to recruit the cream...
Almost three years after Archbishop Thomas Collins took the helm of Canada's largest local church, this morning Pope Benedict named two auxiliaries for the nearly 2 million-member Toronto archdiocese. Canada's first Asian prelate, Bishop-elect Vincent Nguyen, 43, left his native Vietnam at 18, was ordained in 1998, completed a licentiate in canon law last year and, just last month, was named TO's moderator...
LONDON, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Stellar Pharmaceuticals Inc. ("Stellar" or "the Company") (OTCBB: SLXCF), a Canadian pharmaceutical developer and marketer of high quality, cost-effective products for select health care markets, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. In this press release, unless otherwise indicated, all dollar amounts...
MARKHAM, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Digital Energy has announced the donation of an Innovation Lab for power systems and communications to The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. The newly named GE Digital Energy Innovation Lab will give undergraduate, graduate, PhD students and faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) hands-on experience with the latest...
By Tommy Goudge (November 5, 2009) – While many area sprint car racers are finished for the year, Ryan Litt still has two more events left on his calendar. The twenty-two year old will make the trip from London, Ontario to Concord, North Carolina this weekend for the North/South Shootout on November 7, before finishing his season at Florida’s Citrus County Speedway on November 14. Ryan...
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Research In Motion , the Waterloo, Ontario maker of the BlackBerry mobile device, said it will buy back up to $1.2 billion of its own stock. That represents about 21 million shares or 3.6% of its outstanding stock and the buyback plan will last for up to 12 months. The company said the buyback won't impact its growth given the strength of the balance sheet and expected cash...
Move will allow Alex Salmond's Scottish nationalist government to build alliances with small states, city councils and major companies pressing for deep and binding cuts in CO2 emissions Alex Salmond's Scottish nationalist government has joined California and New York city in a global alliance of small states, city councils and major companies pressing for deep and binding cuts in CO2 emissions. The...
The University of Western Ontario has hired former Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner and lawyer Gwen Boniface to review the violent arrest of Irnes Zeljkovic according to a London Free Press article and from UWO Communications. The arrest garnered an overwhelming response from the students at UWO and media alike: (This version of the video was used because the [...]
Photo: untitled by tomms , member of the blogTO Flickr pool . What's happening in the GTA (and sometimes beyond): With auto insurance rates on the rise, Ontario Minister of Finance Dwight Duncan is making proposals to change insurance policies to allow drivers to get more competitive rates. One such change would be to lower the basic medical coverage limit below the current $100,000. Would you be...
LONDON, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Sernova Corp. ("Sernova" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: SVA) announces that it has closed the first tranche of the non-brokered private placement announced October 7, 2009 on October 30, 2009. In this first tranche, the Company has raised gross proceeds of $365,000 through the issuance of 3,650,000 units. Each common share unit (the "Unit")...
Since we often draw attention to the damage various Muslims are doing to our society, I’d like to give some space to Salim Mansur, someone I just heard about thanks to a friend who sent me this column by Rory Leishman in the London (Ontario) Free Press. It begins: Among post-modern multiculturalists, it’s commonplace to suppose [...]
An American Werewolf in London In the last post, we learned about the Psychopharmacology of Lycanthropy (and "endogenous lycanthropogens") from the April 1, 1992 issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal ( Davis et al., 1992 ). In a more serious review on clinical lycanthropy in the British Journal of Psychiatry Coll, O'Sullivan, and Browne (1985; PDF ) began by stating: Lycanthropy...
The Kennedy Family from London, Ontario (Canada) hold a yearly Halloween event benefiting the London Food Bank and featuring hundreds of Jack O’ Lanterns. We arrived just as night was falling on the 30th and the home was already visible from blocks away thanks to the 700 carved pumpkins and hundreds of visitors milling about. [...]
Polestar #15 Sunday, November 1, 2009 5 pm C.S. Carrier Roddy LumsdenEmmett Tracy CAKESHOP 152 Ludlow (between Stanton & Rivington) Trains to: Delancey-Essex Sts (F, J, M, Z) 2nd Ave-Houston St (F, V) Grand St (B, D) About the poets: C. S. Carrier is the author of the poetry collection, After Dayton (Four Way Books, 2008) and the chapbooks, Lyric (horse less press 2007) and The 16s (Katalanche...