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 What does restructuring Toronto Animal Service staff mean anyway?Mayor Rob Ford believes the city has no business running pet social programs when the city is financially strapped, Star reporter Robyn Doolittle reported Sunday. http://www.thestar.com/news/cityhallpolitics/article/1093401--2012-the-doomsday-budget-not-so-much Well, 2012 budget proposals are out today. http://www.toronto.ca/budget2012/pdf/2012_opbudg_presentation.pdf On page 16, an interesting little...
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 Is it too late to send that baby back?thestar.com has a story today about babies' moods in the womb. Apparently it's written all over their faces and supposedly it's not gas. http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/1092473--oh-baby-you-have-your-daddy-s-smile?bn=1 I'm always suspicious of studies that always have the undercurrent of a "bad mother, bad mother"...
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 He's not The Boss. Michael Ignatieff plays on his inner Obama.Try as he might, though, the Liberal leader can't get the "Rise Up" refrain from Springsteen to reverberate like, "Yes, We Can!" At a Bramton rally last night, he began the chant, encouraging the crowd to join in and finally...
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 Feds to Vale: Here's $1 billion and a lake tooIt should be added to recent reporting on the $1 billion Export Development Canada loan to Brazilian mining giant, Vale S.A., that Ottawa is also throwing in a lake - or is in the last stages of doing so. Vale...
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 BP oil spill: if you can't see it, it doesn't existThe Obama administration merrily announced this week that most of the BP oil spill has been cleaned up, saying 75 percent of the oil had been captured, burned off, evaporated or broken down. (Evaporated?) Phew. I was getting worried there....
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 The Only Way to Save 'The Office'Okay, it's just my opinion, but in a sop to a day-so-humid-my-brain-cells-are-fried, I have a solution to save The Office when Steve Carell leaves at the end of next season. Two words: Kathy Bates. After Michael Scott (Carell) leaves, have...
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 In memory of Fred's StellaFred, so, so sorry about Stella. And your Mom. Please don't stay away too long. Toronto needs your voice! http://www.onebarkatatime.blogspot.com/ (Repeating this for a separate post)
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 Police leave protestors vulnerable without gas masksG20: I saw a few police officers removing gas masks from protestors' bags in Allan Gardens and others saw the same thing elsewhere on the weekend. We're not talking about black-garbed thugs in bandanas, but young people, as well as...
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 Re-opened Toronto Humane Society, looks good, no verdictAn animal lover friend toured the refurbished Toronto Humane Society today and sends a cautiously optimistic report: Derrick - Disease control and sanitation Alyx - animal care worker? - all questions were answered in detail - no "not sures" or...
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 Oil industry blooper of the dayJohn Hofmeister, former president of Shell's U.S. operations, decried the potential of more government regulation in the wake of BP's Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf. Wrote Shawn McCarthy in the Globe: Industry supporters fear the Democratic administration will impose...
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 Lisbeth Salander is back in my lifeThey will be brief, and I will treasure every moment, but I have blissful hours ahead reading the last book in Stieg Larsson"s crime trilogy with its maverick protagonist, Lisbeth Salander. This one, The Girl who Kicked The Hornet's Nest,...
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 One bright spot in BP oil spill - Washington freedom of information law worksThere's not much good news coming from the accident on BP's Deepwater Horizon rig and the deadly oil leak choking the Gulf and spreading by the hour. However, journalists in Canada can only look with envy at how quickly the...
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 The walls around Parry Sound-Muskoka's Tony Clement - even media people don't talkLast week, Industry Minister Tony Clement press secretary didn't bother to return my repeated phone calls on a story. I'd been in Sudbury to report on the 11-month-old strike against the Brazilian mining giant, Vale, by some 3,000 Steelworkers (not...
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 Newmarket OSPCA: Ringworm! Run for your livesWhen I read the horrifying news this week the Newmarket OSPCA was putting down over 350 animals due to a ringworm epidemic - with 50 already euthanized - I thought it had to be just dumb, blind panic. A Chicken...
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 For the love of Pete, you had Betty White!I know, I know, even my colleague thought Betty White was a success on SNL. But you know what? It wasn't funny. They had Betty Friggin' White. Think what they could have done with her. Maybe I'm sulking because I...
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 The forgotten man in the Brazilian embassy in TegucigalpaThis should be a novel, although even the great GG Marguez might find too much surrealism for a novel. It's worth noting as we move briskly forward into 2010 - the 12th already? - that Manuel Zelaya, ousted president of...
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 Madness Personified: Pat Robertson blames Haitian "pact with the devil."A friend comments on the above: "Right.out.of.his.mind." Others agree: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rowe/the-never-ending-horror-o_b_422615.html On Robertson and Rush Limbaugh: I especially like the description of Robertson spouting, "dripping self-satisfied, holier-than-thou, senile crap."
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