The Mortgage Protector is the result of being in the Life Insurance business since 1996. My very first policy was to a young family who had taken out a mortgage insurance product through the bank – and they asked me what the difference was. I told them honestly that I didn’t know – but I [...]
STONE MILLS, Ont.–Construction manager Michael Henderson beams with pride as he gazes out at a black sea of 126,040 solar panels, each resting majestically against 36 hectares of south-sloping terrain.
Canada’s largest solar generating station, called First Light, made history on Sept. 26, when at 10:16 a.m. it became the first multi-megawatt solar farm in the [...]
Remember this LP? It remains one of the most famous jazz recordings of all time. Take Five indeed!
Dave Brubeck: Live In Markham
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 (8pm)
Markham Theatre / 171 Town Centre Blvd., Markham, ON L3R 8G5
905.305.7469
Tickets from $65 – $90
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Dave Brubeck is one of the most influential jazz musicians and composers of our time, [...]
(CNN) — Days before a key meeting with Western leaders, Iran test-fired two types of long-range missiles Monday in part of what the Islamic republic called routine military exercises, its state-run media reported.
The tests drew condemnation from France, which noted through its Foreign Ministry that the action comes only a week after Iran revealed the [...]
Yesterday, President Obama appeared on five Sunday morning talk shows, fielding questions that predominantly focused on health care, the war in Afghanistan, and race. Obama defended the Senate Finance Committee’sAmerica’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 from bipartisan criticism, insisting that “it provides health insurance to people who don’t have it at affordable prices.” “I’d like to make sure that [...]
The Good News is … both of are firefighters are out of the hospital. Thank God!
I can tell you this, our people get first class training. Thanks to the leadership of our fire department.
John
Two firefighters in Meaford, Ontario are in the hospital after an early morning blaze. A fire in Reed’s Restaurant was discovered early [...]
On the Stage
Meaford International Film Festival tickets are going quickly – get yours now!
September 3 to 6
Internationally-acclaimed, award-winning films continue to be the focus of the Meaford International Film Festival (MIFF). This year has an exceptional line up that begins with an award-winning film that takes you to the far reaches of Kazakhstan, then comes [...]
The 4th annual Electric Eclectics Festival presents cutting-edge, avant-garde and experimental music by world-renowned musicians, media artists, sound artists and performance artists.
The Electric Eclectics Festival takes place in Meaford, Ontario, during the July 31 – August 2 long weekend, with pre-festival exhibitions running July 4 – August 29. Electric Eclectics Festival info is at www.electric-eclectics.com [...]
Dear film lovers,
MIFF is back!
We’d like to invite you to the 2009 Meaford International Film Festival, Meaford’s biggest event of the summer. Once again, MIFF offers award-winning films from around the world; and this year, we will have interviews on stage with the film-makers, including a very special guest for the Opening Gala. Wrap up [...]
I’m a ‘farm kid’ from Proton Township – raised with 7 sisters in the high, flat farming country at the bottom of Grey County. Like many farm kids, my education and career took me away from my home community – and brought me back again.
I made the decision to run for Liberal candidacy because [...]
Madoff is behind bars and isn’t talking. But a Fortune investigation uncovers secrets of his massive swindle.
The employees were transfixed. Standing on the mid-Manhattan trading floor of tie Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securis in late 2007, a half-dozen staffers stared up at the ceiling-mounted TV as CNBC aired a report on the mysterious Palm Beach death [...]
Former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will appear together in Toronto next month on a public stage for the first time since Mr. Bush ended his presidency, in a remarkable twist on the cultural cold war that Barack Obama and others are trying to lay to rest.
The two will be appearing at [...]
Gone But Not Forgotten
It has now been three months since President Bush and his family boarded their plane back to Texas and handed the reins of power over to President Obama. Yet Bush administration officials are pushing to make sure that the American public remembers them — or rather, remembers what they want them to [...]
More troops, new legislation, improved troop training and added civilian expertise highlight President Obama’s strategy to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Obama on Friday announced his plan to tackle what he called an “international security challenge of the highest order.”
Stressing soberly that “the safety of people around the world is at stake,” Obama said the [...]
North Korea has positioned what is thought to be a long-range missile on its launch pad, a U.S. counter-proliferation official said on Wednesday.
The official confirmed a Japanese media report.
North Korea recently informed a pair of U.N. agencies that it plans to launch a satellite. The launch is slated for sometime between April 4-8, according to [...]
