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The offshore bank account details of 2,000 “high net worth individuals” and corporations – detailing massive potential tax evasion – will be handed over to the WikiLeaks organisation in London tomorrow by the most important and boldest whistleblower in Swiss banking history, Rudolf Elmer, two days before he goes on trial in his native Switzerland. [...]
01/16/2011Read More
By John Edwards – Former director of leisure services Peter Dunbar was recognized on Tuesday for the work hes done for the town of Collingwood over the last 30 years. Dunbar retired in August after a lengthy career as a public servant and a host of friends, former co-workers and local politicians gathered at the Royal [...]
01/13/2011Read More
We’ve all been conditioned to look upon time as our enemy. This belief is wrong, but it’s so deeply ingrained that if affects even the most gifted people. Years ago, I was riding in a car with a woman who had been labeled by the media as one of the most beautiful women in the [...]
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Maybe it’s time for Canada to make a New Year Resolution: that this is the year we’ll finally do something about poverty – most of all among our Aboriginal people. When faced with an economy that may be permanently reduced and permanently more uncertain, are we going to decide that “there isn’t any money now [...]
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It would be a great mistake for us to view the litany of failure in helping Haiti as a towering international disgrace. That would be putting it far too mildly. A year squandered in helping Haiti recover from its devastating earthquake is a disaster of historic proportions. Yes, hundreds of aid groups can point to [...]
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Al Rosen is a forensic accountant, principal at Rosen & Associates Ltd. He has given expert accounting testimony in Canada’s highest courts, a certified fraud examiner, and a specialist in investigative and forensic accounting. For 15 years, he served as a technical adviser to three Auditors’ General of Canada. Dr. Rosen has taught accounting at [...]
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The controversy surrounding a retracted study that linked autism to childhood vaccines has been fueled by the fact that no one knows what really causes autism. “If we knew, it would change this whole debate altogether,” said CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Researchers believe both genetics and environmental factors play a role [...]
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Michael Keefer’s new book Antisemitism Real and Imagined: Responses to the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism should be on the reading list of Canadians who value freedom of speech and resist all forms of racism in this country. Keefer is a Professor in the University of Guelph’s School of English and Theatre Studies. Professor [...]
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New research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that another vitally important pollinator, the bumblebee, is in serious decline. According to the figures, there has been a shocking 96 percent decline in four major species of the bumblebee, and an up to 87 percent decrease in their [...]
01/08/2011Read More
THE verdict against Mikhail Khodorkovsky was “shameful” and boded ill for Russia said Boris Nemtsov, a leader of the liberal opposition. He pointed out that the decision to sentence the former oil tycoon to the maximum 14-year term on December 30th “had nothing to do with the rule of law” and predicted it would “have [...]
01/07/2011Read More
The building has not seen this much activity since Curves was there…
