Archive for July 2009
it’s time for a bit of FRANNY
Jul 31st, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community, Opinion
Dear FRANNY,
You told some woman whose husband had lost all interest in sex to send him to a doctor. Well, my husband lost all interest in sex - and he is a doctor. Now what do I do?
Remember these people can vote…
DEAR FRANNY: I’ve been going ... Full Story
They count on you ignoring this stuff, but it effects ” Your childrens childrens children”
Jul 31st, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community, Environment & Health
Grand River Conservation Authority
News Release
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Release ON RECEIPT
Deadline extended for public comment on report
about aggregate extraction below the water table
The deadline for public comment on a report on aggregate extraction in the Grand River watershed has been extended to Sept. 4. The original deadline was July 31.
The report ... Full Story
Creditors’ meeting offers hope adoptions can be fulfilled
Jul 31st, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
July 30, 2009
By Brian Caldwell, Record staff
KITCHENER — Hopeful families were buoyed Thursday by a plan to try to save a bankrupt Cambridge adoption agency by bringing in new management.
If successful, it would mean hundreds of clients across Canada will still be able to adopt children from overseas after investing ... Full Story
Texting and Driving Will Seriously F@#k You Up!
Jul 30th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
There’s been all sorts of publicity this week about a recent study conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute analyzing the dangers posed by texting and driving. The research was conducted in a very scientifical manner: by placing video cameras in the cabs of 100 long-distance semis; watching how they ... Full Story
eHealth spending mess deepens
Jul 30th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
Government documents reveal troubled agency actually awarded $16M in untendered contracts
Jul 30, 2009 04:30 AM
Rob Ferguson
Queen's Park Bureau
VINCE TALOTTA/TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO
Sarah Kramer received a bonus of $114,000 five months after starting her job as eHealth CEO.
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EHealth Ontario awarded $11 million more in untendered contracts than previously revealed, new documents ... Full Story
31 Songs of Summer
Jul 30th, 2009 | By James Hillis | Category: Community
As summer reaches it’s inevitable conclusion in a month or so, i felt now was the time to list my choices for the my songs of Summer. Now this has no scientific research or polling, just the songs i like about summer, or songs that when i hear them i ... Full Story
Ontarians ‘aren’t buying’ HST
Jul 29th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Politics
Fifty thousand Ontarians -- some with friends in high places -- can't be wrong in opposing sales tax harmonization, New Democrat Leader Andrea Horwath said yesterday.
"The reaction we've received from Ontarians has been absolutely overwhelming," Horwath said yesterday, with a pile of signed cards and petitions in front of her.
"The ... Full Story
RSVP4DINNER has single professionals saying ‘Yum yum - give me some!’
Jul 29th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
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July 29, 2009
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WATERLOO REGION, ONTARIO – Single, professional people in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and ... Full Story
Praise for “Doubt is their Product”:
Jul 29th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy."In this eye-opening exposé, David Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry's ... Full Story
