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Doctors – Practice Medicine In Our Community… You’ll Love It In Meaford
The population in our rural area is drawn from a mix of local businesses, farmers, blue collar workers and retirees who have moved from the city to enjoy the four season lifestyle. We have a high percentage of seniors. The community is growing rapidly and now provides an opportunity for young families to stay and [...]
The Incredible Courage Of Jim Webb’s Prison Bill
There are few things rarer than a major politician doing something that is genuinely courageous and principled, but Jim Webb’s impassioned commitment to fundamental prison reform is exactly that. Webb’s interest in the issue was prompted by his work as a journalist in 1984, when he wrote about an American citizen who was locked away in a Japanese prison [...]
Is Auto Rescue Too Big a Role For Government?
For better or worse, a federal government task force is becoming a guiding force in the automotive industry – stopping just short of actually coming to Detroit to install headlights. A stronger federal role is the price that two of the big US-based carmakers, General Motors and Chrysler, must pay to win new government funding [...]
GM CEO Rick Wagoner Gone
This is the way things work in the real world, the one where real people live and work, where they don’t fly in on private jets to ask the government to bail them out after they have lost billions. They don’t get bonuses for being failures. They lose their jobs. They hit the bricks like [...]
Habitat for Humanity Grey Bruce
Habitat for Humanity ReStore is a Home Improvement Center that accepts and resells quality new,used and surplus building materials. ReStore supports reuse and recycling, and the funds generated support Habitat for Humanity building projects. They are an environmentally friendly store that makes sense! From time to time areas of the ReStore may be [...]
U of T Team Tracks China-Based Cyber Spies
A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded. In their report, the researchers said the system was being controlled from computers based almost exclusively in China, but they could not say [...]
Brown Snubbed Over Tax
Germans wreck ‘global new deal… GORDON BROWN’S carefully laid plans for a G20 deal on worldwide tax cuts have been scuppered by an eve-of-summit ambush by European leaders. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, last night led the assault on the prime minister’s “global new deal” for a $2 trillion-plus fiscal stimulus to end the recession. [...]
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