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Toronto City Councillor demands own radio show
 By Arthur Weinreb  Monday, October 5, 2009

During a radio call-in show hosted by John Tory and Tarek Fatah on Newstalk 1010, a woman phoned in and identified herself as “Sandra”. This took place on Friday, September 25, shortly after the socialist hordes in Toronto were stunned by Mayor David Miller’s announcement that he would not be seeking a third term in office. Sandra lit into the two hosts telling them what a great deal the mayor obtained for the city when the civic workers strike was settled. Sandra described Miller as “the most brilliant politician municipally anywhere in the country”.

City of Toronto Act powers to tax and regulate a disservice to small business and Torontonians
 By Online  Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Toronto, – According to the latest findings from Toronto’s small business community, “The Stronger City of Toronto for a Stronger Ontario Act” has not lived up to its 2007 billing. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) has released a report today indicating that the City of Toronto Act, which granted Toronto broad powers to tax and regulate, has been a disservice to Torontonians by hurting its job-creating sector: small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Toronto strike settled – absolutely no surprises
 By Arthur Weinreb  Friday, July 31, 2009

Pending ratification by Toronto City Council, the city has now reached agreements with its 24,000 inside and 6,000 outside workers. The agreements call for annual wage increases of 1.75%, 2% and 2.5% over three years; quite a bit more than the 1%, 1% and 2% that was made in an offer that Mayor David Miller made public a couple of weeks ago when he saw a political advantage in showing Torontonians how tough a union thug-loving mayor could be with his beloved brothers and sisters.

Reducing violent crime
 By Arthur Weinreb  Tuesday, July 28, 2009

With seven months gone in 2009, the city of Toronto has recorded 31 murders so far this year. According to the Toronto Sun, this compares to 35 at the same time last year and 45 up to the same time in 2007. These 31 murders equates to a yearly total of 54 or 55 murders.

Home a sad place without `Tommy’
 By Judi McLeod  Thursday, June 18, 2009

Days have been long, and nights longer for Josie Graziosi whose life is not the same without her lovable Poodle mix, Tommy.

It was an emotional wrench how Josie and husband Brian Miles came to discover that their dog had gone missing on May 24.  Tommy was lost by a dog walker near the Scarborough Bluffs and his owners, away in a foreign country, weren’t told until two days later!

A whole new meaning to “school lockdown”
 By Arthur Weinreb  Thursday, May 21, 2009

God made the Idiot for practice. And then He made the School Board. - Mark Twain

The reality of the term “school lockdown” is a fairly recent phenomenon. It is a practice that is put in place to prevent students from leaving their school if there is some immediate threat of violence or a dangerous person who is thought to be in the vicinity.

Tamils take over Toronto
 By Arthur Weinreb  Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Although there have been short protests by Tamil Canadians in Toronto protesting civilian deaths in Sri Lanka there were no major problems until the end of last month. What began as a protest before the U.S. consulate on Toronto’s University Avenue ended up blocking a main street in Toronto for four consecutive days.

Editor Dismissed Over Pro-Beijing Edits, Say Sources
 By Epoch Times  Thursday, April 9, 2009

TORONTO—The top editor of Toronto’s Sing Tao Daily was fired after he edited out criticisms of the Chinese regime from a front-page story published during the thick of the heavily repressed protests in Tibet last year, sources have told The Epoch Times.

Is the City of Toronto financially bankrupt or just morally bankrupt?
 By Online  Thursday, April 2, 2009

- Adam K. Anderson

With Toronto Mayor David Miller’s latest city operating budget at $8.7 Billion, an irresponsible increase of 7% over the previous year being easily passed by Toronto city council, journalists, pundits and ordinary citizens are claiming that Mayor Miller and his minions are spending like drunken sailors.

People and Coyotes need to get along
 By Online  Tuesday, March 3, 2009

TORONTO, March 2, 2009 – As urban sprawl continues, more and more encounters with displaced wildlife are inevitable, and we need to find ways to co-exist peacefully says The Humane Society of Canada (HSC).  No where is this more evident than in the current alarm being raised about a coyote living in the east end of Toronto.

A glimpse of Ganga Sagar
 By Online  Sunday, January 18, 2009

- Surjit Singh Flora

TORONTO - During the past weekend, Gurdwara Sikh Spiritual Center held a special ceremony for the Sikh congregation of GTA to have a glimpse of “Ganga Sagar “, a great memorial of our reverend Tenth Master of Sikhs, Kalgidhar Pathshah Sri Guru Gobind Singh Jee Maharaj. Rai Azizullah Khan shared the History of Ganga Sagar at this religious congregation.  He said in 1704 Guru Gobind Singh Ji proceeded to Machiwara after abadoning Anandpur Sahib on the advice of the Sikh Leaders.

Dave and the Dragon lady
 By William Bedford  Sunday, November 30, 2008

When I came across her name in the obituary column, I wondered if there would be anyone to say a few kind words about her, but somehow I doubted it. She and I had lived in the same apartment building for a time, where our paths first crossed at a tenants’ meeting. The tenant gathering had an almost festive air about it, with everyone enjoying coffee and cookies, until she showed up with the chill of the November evening on her pinched, angry face. The young woman I was chatting with asked me if I knew her. When I answered no, she whispered: “She’s an awful bigot, and so vile tempered that we call her the Dragon Lady”.

Ukrainian Students Descend on Queen’s Park To Commemorate the Ukrainian Genocide by Famine
 By Online  Thursday, November 20, 2008

More than 450 primary school students from Ukrainian schools in the city will gather at Queen’s Park at 10:30am today to commemorate 75th anniversary of the Ukrainian genocide known as Holodomor, or extermination by famine.

Playing Pan Am Games with Deficits
 By Kevin Gaudet  Friday, October 17, 2008

The McGuinty government is only a long jump away from leading Ontario back into deficit, yet it still believes spending - yet un-budgeted - $1.7 billion on the 2015 Pan Am Games is a prudent financial move. Dropping large sums of money on fun and entertainment with little or no return is anything but prudent. During uncertain times families tighten their belts and protect their cash - starting with the entertainment budget. That is what good financial managers do. The premier should do the same; shore up the fiscal position in Ontario, control spending, lower taxes and establish the fundamentals necessary to keep the budget balanced and spur the economy.

Toronto shooting will affect election campaign
 By Klaus Rohrich  Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The latest series of shootings in Toronto will surely affect the federal election campaign, as candidates attempting to garner favour among urban voters will renew calls for tougher gun laws and the outright banning of handguns.  While vilifying concealable weapons makes for good political theatre, it will do very little toward solving the problem of gun crimes within out cities.

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