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The annual onslaught of winter heating costs is just around the corner.
Lolita Chávez, a spokesman for the Council of the Quiché People of Guatemala, recently visited several Canadian cities and is now touring the United States to publicize the plight of the Mayans at the hands of the mining companies and the Guatemalan government.
General Motors became the largest U.S. manufacturing company to file for bankruptcy protection.
1. The tip of the iceberg in a long list of blunders is the McGuinty government's secret passage of a law invoking the 1939 Public Works Protection Act, which seemed to give police the power to detain and arrest anyone within five meters of the nearly 10 kilometers of security zone fence during the G20.
The voice is the voice of Dalton McGuinty, but the hands are the hands of Mike Harris.
Can you believe it? Dalton McGuinty is actually worse than Mike Harris. Harris cut Ontario Works (OW) social assistance rates by 21.6%, while leaving disability rates (ODSP) alone. Since then, there have been percentage increases in OW and ODSP for, but less than, increases in cost of living. The percentage has been the same for both. That means that the gap between the rates for the two is constantly increasing. It is no longer correct to refer to the 21.6% cut in Ontario Works as a misdeed to put on Mike Harris' shoulders. It has by now become McGuinty's baby.
After a public backlash from parents and faith-based groups, the McGuinty government has decided to reconsider its new curriculum on sex education.
On Canada Day, Ontario and British Columbia joined Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and New Brunswick as provinces that have accepted the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).
The McGuinty government in Ontario has announced that it will end the special diet supplement for social assistance recipients with special needs.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
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