Meaford & District Chamber of Commerce AGM

 
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 6:30pm – 9:00pm Location: Meaford Hall North Gallery
Annual General Meeting featuring guest speaker Anna Bradford – Director of Culture for the city of Hamilton – speaking about Municipal Cultural Planning. She will be providing insight into how best to utilize and include community consultation and decision making, creating social and economic benefits [...]

From $80,000 a year to eviction: Hard times in America

Amber Easton has gone from $80,000 a year in salary to scrambling for work. At a time in her life when she should be scaling the corporate ladder, she has instead spiraled into a deep depression. She recently lost her car and now faces eviction from her apartment.

Just last week, the 35-year-old longtime working professional [...]

Steele becomes first African-American RNC chairman

 Michael Steele, a former Maryland lieutenant governor, was elected chairman of the Republican National Committee on Friday.

Steele, the first African-American to hold the post, defeated South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson, 91-77, in the final round of voting among the RNC’s 168 members. Only 86 votes were needed.

“This is our opportunity. I cannot do this [...]

Arctic thaw raises security concerns for NATO

NATO representatives and lawmakers from alliance nations will meet in Iceland Thursday to discuss security challenges that are likely to arise as the Arctic Circle thaws.

Global warming is opening up more parts of the Arctic to development and raising security concerns.

The area — one of the planet’s most fragile and pristine ecosystems — sits atop [...]

Annan: World faces ‘crisis of governance’

Kofi Annan says the United Nations needs to be reformed.

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The worldwide economic recession has exposed a “crisis of global governance” that can only be addressed by the radical reform of the United Nations, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday as the World Economic Forum got under way in Switzerland.

“The current architecture of [...]

Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

Every life is a book of secrets, ready to be opened. The secret of perfect love is found there, along with the secrets of healing, compassion, faith, and the most elusive one of all: who we really are. We are still mysteries to ourselves, despite the proximity of these answers, and what we most long [...]

Music Contact International

 
Music Contact International is a choir concert tour operator which specializes in Invitational Festivals, Special Events, and Custom Concert Tours. We offer choirs the highest standard of service in the field and the most outstanding concert opportunities. Choirs traveling with Music Contact International are guaranteed the most comprehensive travel preparation and the most exciting concert [...]

Obama: U.S. not your enemy

 
President Barack Obama presented a humble and conciliatory face of America to the Islamic world Monday in the first formal interview since he assumed office, stressing his own Muslim ties and hopes for a Palestinian state, and avoiding a belligerent tone — even when asked if America could “live with” an Iranian nuclear weapon.
The interview with the [...]

Obama tells GOP no compromise on tax rebates

President Obama told Republican House leaders Tuesday he plans to stand firm on the part of his $825 billion economic recovery plan that calls for tax rebates for nearly all working Americans — including those who make too little to owe income taxes.
According to two Republican aides familiar with Obama’s Capitol Hill meeting, Rep. Dave [...]

Animal Rescue

Animal Rescue

Hi, all you animal lovers. This is pretty simple… Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals.  It takes less than a [...]

Blagojevich takes case to TV circuit

As Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s impeachment trial proceedings got under way Monday, the embattled Illinois governor hit the media circuit, answering questions about Oprah, foul language and why he won’t resign.
Blagojevich appeared Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “The View,” and he was scheduled later to give his first live prime-time interview on CNN’s “Larry [...]

Will Obama have to be better because he’s black?

Just days before he was sworn in, President Obama was giving his daughters a tour of the Lincoln Memorial when one of them pointed to a copy of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address carved into the wall.

Obama’s 7-year-old daughter, Sasha, told her father that Lincoln’s speech was really long. Would he have to give a [...]

New Start

 
Many thanks to Kathryn for her thoughts…
By Kathryn Macduffee
This January, for most of us, has been the ultimate ‘out-with-the-old, in-with-the-new” experience.  A Gregorian New Year, a Chinese New Year and an historic changeover in the American administration all in the same 25 days is about as sweeping a change as we can expect.
 New starts are [...]

Obama signs order to close Guantanamo Bay facility

Promising to return America to the “moral high ground” in the war on terrorism, President Obama issued three executive orders Thursday to demonstrate a clean break from the Bush administration, including one requiring that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility be closed within a year.

During a signing ceremony at the White House, Obama reaffirmed his inauguration [...]

OBAMA ORDERS HALT TO LAST-MINUTE BUSH REGULATIONS

 Hours after being sworn in as America’s 44th president, Barack Obama ordered “a freeze on new or proposed regulations at all government agencies and departments” made in the final months and weeks of Bush administration. A memo from White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said that every regulation would have to be reviewed by the department or [...]