GM to cut salaried workers, production, dividend
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Corp. said Tuesday it will lay off salaried workers, cut truck production, suspend its dividend and borrow $2 billion to $3 billion to weather a severe downturn in the U.S. market. GM said the moves will raise $15 billion to help cover...
GM prepares for large cuts in North America. More bad news for Oshawa?
General Motors (GM) is set to unveil additional measures on Tuesday to address the significant downturn in the North American vehicle market. The world's largest carmaker aims to realign its business with current market conditions, and key executives, including CEO...
Which Linux Distributions Are Dying?
Like everything else, what goes up must come down. This must apply to Linux distributions too, right? So, what’s happening with Linux? Which distributions are growing? read more | digg story
Canada puts brakes on electric vehicles
Despite increasing local demand for zero-emissions cars and trucks and robust exports of electric vehicles, Canada will not allow them on its roads, lament manufacturers. "It's a daily embarrassment," said Ian Clifford, president of Zenn Motor Company, which builds...
Cito Gaston Back After Jays! Cito is back…
If the Jays season were a movie, it might be called Back To The Future. Because one look at the bench and those people standing behind the bags and you might think you've been transported to the 1990s. Standing in the dugout calling the shots is Cito Gaston, the bench...
Residential Schools – The Hell in Canadian History
One of the most acrimonious issues to result from the Treaty process is the dark legacy of the residential school system. The purpose of the residential schools in Canada was to educate and civilize or westernize the First Nation peoples in or der that they adopt a...
The end of GM Oshawa has begun? The time of the small car renaissance has come!
General Motors says it will cease production at four factories in Ohio, Wisconsin, Canada and Mexico that produce trucks and SUVs. As General Motors Corp. prepares for its annual shareholders meeting on Tuesday, workers across the country are worried that the next...
Sheela Basrur, the cool voice of reason during 2003 SARS crisis, dead at 51
PREMIER DALTON MCGUINTY ON THE PASSING OF DR. SHEELA BASRUR "I was deeply saddened when I heard today of the passing of Dr. Sheela Basrur. She was a remarkable woman and her passion for public service is what made her such an extraordinary Chief Medical Officer of...
Fledgling party targets John Tory detractors – Reform Party?
The fledgling Reform Party of Ontario is appealing to Progressive Conservatives disillusioned with party leader John Tory to join their right-wing ranks. In an email appeal apparently sent to thousands of Tories in recent days, the new party claims Reform is "the new...
Toddler finds way to really green solar with green plants
Biosolar’s a toddler chronologically, just turned two years old in April. But they’re already publicly traded and they could stand tall in the expanding field of photovolataics, making electricity from the sun. The firm is based in Santa Clarita in Southern...
Before You Move: Where Are The Next Transit Hubs?
Here's an easy question: where do you live? Now here's a much harder one: where should you live to ensure you're near a GTA transit hub and how will the TTC's plans for expansion impact the value of your home? The answer to both queries can be worth thousands of...
The case for a Downtown Relief Line
In the last 100 years, there have been many subway proposals that have come and gone. One of the first serious proposals, in 1911, would have seen streetcar subways built under Yonge, Queen and Bloor streets to feed city and interurban cars downtown. Later proposals...
Xenophobic: Racism, prejudice and utter ignorance in Herouxville Quebec
Is Herouville simply a town stuck in another time? People in Canada like to say that American is more racist, however I beg to differ. America has a checkered past, but they have at least tried to "deal" with the issues to racism and prejudice. America has a...
Sen. Edward Kennedy has a brain tumor
BOSTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor. Doctors for the Massachusetts Democrat say tests conducted after Kennedy suffered a seizure this weekend show a tumor in his left parietal lobe. Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain identified the...
Dalton McGuinty’s increasing centralization of power
Premier Dalton McGuinty insists he is not rattled by apparent dissension in his Liberal ranks. In a move that even loyalists now concede was ill-advised, McGuinty ordered all staff members to leave the Liberal caucus room on May 13 then criticized MPPs for speaking...
Barrie’s downtown hit again by fire
Firefighters continue to battle a blaze this morning that razed a section of the city's downtown, the second major fire in less than six months. Dozens of residents in apartments over stores along Dunlop Street scrambled to safety after an apparent explosion rocked...
Toronto Porter Airlines’ Big Apple Plans Soured By FAA
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has taken a big bite out of Porter Airlines' Big Apple ambitions. The regulator ruled the Toronto-based upstart airline must trim its daily schedule of 14 flights between Hogtown and Newark, N.J. by four in order to reduce...
Serving students in culturally clustered schools
I still think that this is a bad idea? There are other ways to solve social issues and problems. Excuses are unacceptable and only help to further alienate various groups in our city. However, if someone can provide me with a reason this a good idea, I am all ears....
TTC to seriously consider relief line by 2018, Giambrone says…
"TTC chairman Adam Giambrone says a new subway line cutting through the bottom of the city is a “good idea,” one the TTC will start looking at seriously by 2018. The Downtown Rapid Transit project, or Downtown Relief Line (DRL), would relieve congestion at the...
Rumor: What’s next from Apple? Atom-powered mini-tablet? Tablet Mac? iTablet?
Atom-powered mini-tablet! This one was pretty hot! ZDNet reported that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that there is an iPhone that will be using Intel’s new Atom processor. According to lore, the elusive device is slightly larger than iPhone and...
Microsoft makes it official – XP is coming to the XO OLPC
Microsoft’s participation in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative has been fraught with mystery and disinformation from the get-go. But on May 15, Microsoft officials finally gave the OLPC project Redmond’s official blessing. Up to this point, OLPC Chief...
Bell Canada’s packet inspection violates privacy law, group
And you didn’t like Comcast’s TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it...
Why Windows 7 won’t save Microsoft
Microsoft is most likely banking on being saved by Windows 7, after its stumble with Vista. But there are early indications that Windows 7 won't be the savior that Microsoft has been hoping for. read more | digg story
At What Point Is It Cheaper to Just Buy Novell?
Microsoft no longer sees itself as simply a Windows company. One recent indication of this is their determination to buy the LAMP-centric (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) Yahoo! Instead of migrating all the tried and tested Yahoo! services over to a Windows server...
Will Microsoft kill Linux on ULPCs?
Obviously, Microsoft has a significant interest in making sure that users of the new breed of netbooks and MIDs hitting the market don’t get too comfortable using Linux. Many manufacturers have taken to installing various flavors of Linux on these devices to minimize...
Dreadlocks remain grey area? Prejudice again? racism? sterotype?
In basic terms, Jessica Devnani is a brunette, yet, her dreadlocks hairstyle is a grey area in terms of employment at Canada’s Wonderland. "unnatural colour and beads" ? So, maybe it’s no surprise the initial park employment staffer who interviewed Ms Devnani didn’t...
Girl Refused Employment Because Of Dreadlocks
Jessica Devnani was excited about the prospect of starting her first summer job at Canada's Wonderland, but in the end, she found no amusement in the park's request that she cut her dreadlocks, or find work elsewhere. "I went in for my interview and they hired me on...
Tar sand investments now a dead duck?
As one Canadian newspaper put it. Ducks in Alberta died a crude death. One of the species of ducks that died on a pond filled with crude oil polluted water. read more | digg story
Ontario legislature orders Toronto’s transit workers to end – Strike is over for now!
Ontario's legislature has ordered Toronto's 9,000 transit workers to end their suprise strike that idled the country's largest fleet of subways, streetcars and buses. All parties supported the bill, introduced personally by Premier Dalton McGuinty, who called a rare...
Toronto Transit Strike – The people are mad as hell!
A midnight strike by the TTC caught many people off guard, some showing up early this morning expecting a train, bus or streetcar only to find the lines abandoned. Last night, clubgoers poured out of bars when news of the strike spread. "No way, no way," Jorge Bayona,...