by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Sep 24, 2008 | College, GTA Issues, GTA News, Markham, Newmarket, News, Ontario, Public Transit, Richmond Hill, Students, Toronto, Unions, University, Vaughan, Viva, YRT
680News staff | Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 7:42 pm Thirty-five-thousand commuters in York Region will have to find another way to work or school come Thursday morning. That’s because Viva bus drivers will go on strike starting at 4 a.m. Union members...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Sep 22, 2008 | Election, GTA Politics, News, Ontario, Politics, Toronto
In the latest embarrassment for the Conservative campaign, a candidate who blogged after the July beheading on a Winnipeg-bound bus that Canadians should be allowed to carry concealed handguns for protection has resigned from the Toronto Centre race. Musings on women,...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Sep 18, 2008 | Canada, Economy, Election, News, Politics, World
DOUG SAUNDERS From Thursday’s Globe and Mail September 18, 2008 at 2:00 AM EDT LONDON — Canadian and European officials say they plan to begin negotiating a massive agreement to integrate Canada’s economy with the 27 nations of the European Union, with...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Sep 18, 2008 | Election, GTA Food, GTA Politics, News, Ontario, Politics
TONDA MACCHARLES OTTAWA BUREAU SAGUENAY, QUE.–Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz was forced to apologize yesterday for “tasteless and completely inappropriate” jokes on an Aug. 30 government conference call during the listeriosis crisis. “This...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Sep 18, 2008 | Canada, Emergencies, GTA Food, GTA Issues, News, Ontario, Toronto
Yogurt products from two Chinese companies suspected of distributing melamine-tainted milk powder are still being sold in Chinese supermarkets in and around Toronto. Yogurt products from Mengniu and Yili were discovered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in a...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Sep 18, 2008 | GTA Food, GTA Issues, News, World
BEIJING (Reuters) – Hong Kong has ordered the recall of a Chinese company’s products after milk, ice cream and yogurt were found to be contaminated with melamine, the compound responsible for killing four children in a China health scandal. Tainted milk...