#1 — CBC | Toronto outside workers vote Thursday
The final details of a tentative agreement have been ironed out and Toronto’s striking outside workers will conduct a ratification vote on Thursday.
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#2 — CNews | Accused swindler spent $70K a month
MONTREAL – A bankruptcy trustee delving into Earl Jones’ decimated financial consultancy company says the financial planner and his wife were spending up to $70,000 a month on everything from jet-setting to fine dining.
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#3 — CNews | Gang hitmen get more jail time
Three Galloway Boys gunmen got the toughest sentences possible yesterday for attempted murder and for committing crimes as members of a gang.
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#4 — Globe | Spy watchdog to probe CSIS conduct in Abdelrazik case
The role played by CSIS – Canada’s secretive anti-terrorist agency – in the arrest, imprisonment and alleged torture of Abousfian Abdelrazik, the Canadian citizen forcibly exiled in Sudan for years, will be probed by the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
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#5 — Globe | Sacred bundles hold centuries of secrets
Beneath the animal hides or woven fabrics, some of the sacred bundles were so small they held a single amulet. Others were so large, stuffed with dozens of objects ranging from headdresses and clothing, to weapons and shields used in warfare, that even a grown man would struggle to heave them a distance.
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#6 — NP | Ottawa weighing up all its options on Nortel sale
OTTAWA — Tony Clement, the federal Industry Minister, said Wednesday he needs time before deciding whether Ottawa needs to review the US$1.13-billion foreign acquisition of Nortel Networks Corp.’s wireless unit — and if so, under what grounds.
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#7 — Star | eHealth spending mess deepens
EHealth Ontario awarded $11 million more in untendered contracts than previously revealed, new documents show.
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#8 — WFP | Flaherty no wet blanket: economists
OTTAWA – Don’t call him Debbie Downer – economists say Finance Minister Jim Flaherty might be reticent to join the central bank in declaring the recession over because he knows Canada isn’t out of the woods yet.
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Toronto voters are finally waking up and will now galvanize the effort to find a new Mayor that will prevent Toronto from doing a déjà vu of NYC in the 70’s. We can’t waste more time letting what the Sun’s Sue-Ann levy calls Socialist Silly Hall drive us into bankruptcy.
Terry Corcoran in the NP today says:
“In 1999, City of Toronto wages and benefits took up 67% of taxes and user fees collected by the city only. Since 1999, the city’s wages and benefits expenses have increased 55% to $4.2-billion, to the point where they now absorb 82% of the city’s revenues from taxes and user fees. In the words of the bond-rating agencies, the city’s financial picture — and the fate of taxpayers — remains under negative review for possible downgrade. “
The union puppets won’t be defeated unless the center and right unite behind one candidate. Who should it be?
“who should it be?”
Cynapse I agree with you. Also, no one on Council has the gravitas needed to take on what will be a horrible 2 or 3 year battle with the unions that along with the Miller cabal of co-dependents are currently taking Toronto down a path to bankruptcy.
We need a Michael Bloomberg, a proven entrepreneurial type (NOT John Tory) with backbone and a hide like a rhino to do this. I don’t think that person will put his hand up for the job unless he believes Torontonians are finally willing to support the necessary war of attrition ( strikes) this will turn out to be.
The next steps need to be to educate the busy voter with “just the facts m’am”. Facts like the one above by Terry in the NP. Over the course of the next few months if we educate the voter on what is about to happen to their city once the credit agencies do their thing, then we can perhaps entice the right candidate to lead us out of the Miller swamp.