Home » 2010 » November (Page 2)Posted by John Malloy on 11/25/2010
The Rotary Club of Meaford has been actively involved in the ongoing development of the Meaford Harbour since 1990 when the club built the Pavillion, which has enjoyed a tremendous amount of use by many different groups and organizations. About eight years ago the club recognized that protection from the strong winds was needed and [...]
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Bernard Cloutier is a 76-year-old retired engineer in Montreal who has been watching his province’s very public debate about euthanasia with great interest. Cloutier suffers from emphysema and lung fibrosis and says he already has a “dying kit” in his apartment. “I have no pain,” he told me in an interview with Listen Up TV. [...]
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IF THE world sniggered to see Kim Jong Un, with his fat-faced boyishness, thrust forward as the dictator-to-be of North Korea, it is not laughing now. A 65-minute-long artillery barrage on November 23rd rained down upon the tiny South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, marking the first time since the war of 1950-53 that the North [...]
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The United States government and its diplomats around the world are nervously awaiting the latest release of WikiLeaks documents, more than two million, expected late Friday or Saturday. U.S. officials said the documents may contain accounts of compromising conversations with political dissidents and friendly politicians. They also could damage U.S. relations with allies around the [...]
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fightingowlsfootball.com When: November 28, 2010 Where: Royal Canadian Legion – Collingwood Collingwood Legion Amazing Door Prizes Silent Auction (Toronto Maple Leafs and Raptors Tickets) Doors open at 4 pm Tickets are $10 and can be purchased from Christie’s, Alumni Executive and C.C.I. Coaches Excellant Tailgate Food fightingowlsfootball.com
11/24/2010Read More
cci.scdsb.on.ca CCI’s Band Schedule Please note that our CCI Band will be playing at the following Santa Claus Parades: Creemore Saturday December 4th at 10:30AM Stayner Saturday December 4th at 1:30PM Collingwood Sunday December 5th at 12:30PM Welcome to Collingwood Collegiate Institute Music, one of the largest and most diverse music programs in the province [...]
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By Kurtis Elsner – Meaford council is directing staff to look at measures to protect the cultural heritage of the downtown area. The resolution came at a planning council meeting on Monday, November 15 after a Heritage Meaford delegation to council asked for an immediate moratorium on demolition permits in the municipalitys downtown. “Staff may [...]
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In his latest novel, Jonathan Franzen returns to fiction with a comic and tragic epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the responsibility of privilege. Charting the characters’ mistakes and joys as they [...]
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By Amanda Gardner – Diabetes affects 24 million people in the U.S., but only 18 million know they have it. About 90% of those people have type 2 diabetes. In diabetes, rising blood sugar acts like a poison. Diabetes is often called the silent killer because of its easy-to-miss symptoms. “Almost every day people come [...]
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More than eight out of 10 Quebecers support the legalization of euthanasia, according to a survey commissioned by CBC and Radio-Canada. At least 83 per cent of Quebecers polled earlier this month agree that euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide should be allowed in certain cases. The poll, conducted between Nov. 5 and 15, and based on [...]
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AT THE height of the banking crisis two years ago, Ireland’s government thought it was calling the market’s bluff when it rashly promised to back all of the debts accumulated by its overheated banking sector. Stand firm, and the speculators will fold, was the wisdom of the day. As it turns out, it was the [...]
