Georgian Sound Big Band
March 14, 2009 Times:8:00pm – 10:00pm The Georgian Sound Big Band has been playing “the sweetest music this side of heaven” since 1988, featuring selections from the cherished classics of the 30s and 40s right up to modern Latin and pop hits. Composed of musicians drawn from communities stretching from Stayner, Collingwood, Thornbury, Meaford [...]
The New Depression
The business and political elite are flying blind. This is the mother of all economic crises. It has barely started and remains completely out of control. By Martin Jacques, who this week joins the New Statesman as a columnist. Illustration by Otto Dettmar We are living through a crisis which, from the [...]
Saudi King appoints first woman to council
Saudi King Abdullah has appointed a woman to the council of ministers for the first time as part of a Cabinet reshuffle, networks including Saudi state-run Channel One reported Saturday. Saudi King Abdullah has appointed a woman to his council of ministers for the first time. King Abdullah announced a new supreme court chief, [...]
Black History Month
Celebrate the many achievements and contributions of Black Canadians, who, throughout history, have done so much to make Canada the culturally diverse, compassionate and prosperous nation we know today. The Collingwood Public Library will be hosting two speakers during the month of February. On February 3rd Karolyn Smardz Frost, author of ‘I’ve Got a Home [...]
Hamas Agrees to One-Week Cease-Fire
JERUSALEM (CNN) – Palestinian militants agreed Sunday to a one-week cease-fire against Israel, Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha said. The Hamas announcement came hours after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced a unilateral cease-fire in the country’s assault on Hamas in Gaza. “We in the Palestinian resistance movements announce a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip,” Moussa [...]
Obama to crowds: ‘I love you back’
(CNN) – Barack Obama’s historic train ride to Washington on Saturday drew large, cheering crowds of people who braved freezing weather and gathered along the tracks in cities and small towns along the way in hopeful anticipation of getting a glimpse of the nation’s next president. In Baltimore, Maryland, alone, about 40,000 people stood shoulder-to-shoulder [...]
The Amazing Molly
After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans many lost animals scattered about the city, anything from dogs to cats, even horses. But this story is of one minature horse in particular, and her name is Molly. Molly was very scared not to mention HUNGRY!! Disaster struck when a very large abandon pit bull took it’s rage [...]
‘We can’t pay you yet,’ California to tell creditors
(CNN) – The check isn’t in the mail, and it’s not going to be for at least 30 days, California will start telling some of its creditors in February. The state, facing a $42 billion deficit, will delay some crucial payments to stay liquid, state Controller John Chiang announced Friday. Among those who will be [...]
Include Africa in G2 Summit
In the midst of an international economic crisis, world leaders are getting ready to discuss major changes to the global financial system. We need to be sure the world’s poorest people have a voice in this process, and one of the best ways to do that is to give the African Union (AU) and/or the African [...]
Coal-ash waste poses risk across the nation
Hundreds of landfills and slurry ponds – like the one that failed in Tennessee – are dotted across the US, endangering communities and water supplies. The billion-gallon wave of toxic coal-ash sludge that burst from a power-plant retention pond and buried 300 acres of rural Tennessee hints at a far larger problem: hundreds of [...]
Israel tightens grip on Gaza City; Hamas stays defiant
GAZA CITY, Gaza (CNN) – Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza City early Tuesday from two directions despite U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling on both sides in the conflict to “just stop.” The rumble of artillery fire and airstrikes continued throughout the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory as Israeli troops and armor pushed into Gaza City from the northwest [...]
The Children of Gaza
Today, faced with the killing of more than 300 Gazan children in barely a fortnight, I can’t help but replay the image of my son, Tom, reaching out to three Palestinian toddlers sheltering from Israeli sniper fire behind a mound of rubble in Rafah. In his Middle East journal Tom wrote, “Strange, isn’t it, [...]
Barack Obama To Visit Canada After Inauguration
U.S. president-elect Barack Obama will visit Canada for his first foreign visit after his inauguration later this month. “(Obama) has accepted an invitation from Prime Minister Stephen Harper to visit Canada once he is sworn in as president on January 20th,” CTV’s Robert Fife said Saturday. The planned trip will continue a longstanding tradition of [...]
Ten People Who Could Change The World
Ten people who could change the world: it sounds like a bold claim. And hasn’t the currency of that word “change” been devalued after a US election during which it was promised by everyone? But equally, at a time of unprecedented financial turmoil and when the tectonic plates of geopolitics are shifting uncertainly, [...]
Sarkozy, Merkel, Blair call for new capitalism
PARIS – The leaders of France and Germany appeared to put disagreements over economic policy behind them Thursday, calling on the U.S. to join global efforts to address the financial crisis. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, leading a two-day conference withformer British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the future of capitalism, said the crisis has shown that no [...]