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Business Council Honors Vale CEO for Clipping Workers, Wacking Towns

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Landless Rural Workers Movement, Ontario, Roger Agnelli, Usw, Dwight D. Eisenhower, United Steelworkers, Canada, Newfoundland, Wall Street Journal, Brazil, Antonio Regalado, Sudbury, Corporate Citizenship, Global Citizenship Award, Port Colborne, Business Council for International Understanding, Anti-Trust, Inco, Vale, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

A business group is honoring Roger Agnelli, the CEO of Vale, one of the largest mining companies in the world, which, coincidentally, is in the midst of its longest ever labor dispute.

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Webcam Leads To Arrest Of Canadian Woman For Sexual Assault On Child, Dog

Globe & Mail | Posted 05.28.2009 | World

Read More: Beastiality, Child, Ontario, Sex Abuse, Woman Sex Assault, Dog, Sexual Assault, Webcam Sexual Assault, Canada, Woman Sex With Dog, Webcam, Sexual Violence, World News

A woman in Lakeshore, Ont., has been charged with sexually assaulting her young child and dog and broadcasting the acts over the Internet via a webcam...

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Sacred Bull

Tom Christopher | Posted 05.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Cows, Sustainable Food, Fossil Fuels, Carbon Footprint, Agriculture, Ontario, Vegetables, Green News
Tom Christopher

Transport in bulk by rail or ship is more energy efficient than moving foods in small quantities from farm to market by truck.

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Technology For Brain Health: an Upcoming Revolution

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 03.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Telehealth, Neuroimaging, Geriatric, Brain Health, Research and Innovation, Ontario, Gordon Winocur, Cognitive Assessments, Aging Workforce, John Wilkinson, Healthy Aging, Brain Function, Donald Stuss, Brain Fitness, Cognitive Rehabilitation, Sharpbrains, Cardiovascular Health, Alzheimer’s Disease, Centre for Brain Fitness, Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease, Assessments of Cognitive Functions, Medicine, Groundbreaking, Psychiatry, Baby Boomer, Women, Aging, Aging and Brain Function, William Reichman, Mental Health, Physical Fitness, Gary Small, Neuroscientists, Traumatic Brain Injury, Ian Robertson, Cognitive Exercise, Stroke, Female Hormones, Brain Development, Consumer Electronic Show, Mars, Neuropsychologists, Rotman Research Institute, Nutraceuticals, Pda, Caregivers, Baycrest, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

We talk to the CEO of Baycrest, a brain fitness institute, about why Ontario and Baycrest chose to become pioneers in this area, and discuss some of the main opportunities, and challenges.

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Better Place Electric Car Infrastructure Primer (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Hawaii, Australia, Ontario, Electric Cars, Cars, Israel, Better Place, Green Cars, Shai Agassi, Denmark, Green Technology, Green News

We've followed Shai Agassi's "Better Place" electric car infrastructure proposals with great interest, wondering if places that have struck deals with...

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A Post-Thanksgiving Cornucopia: World AIDS Day, The Birth of (RED)WIRE, Milk and Prop 8

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.31.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Prop 6, Congress, Hiv, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ontario, Who, Dixie Chicks, Asia, China, Wolrd Health Foundation, Gay Adoption, Ali Partovi, Olympic Bird's Nest, Patna Women's College, The Killers, W Hotels, Premiere Wen Jiabao, Aids, Elvis Costello, World AIDS Day, Melissa Etheridge, Latin America, President Barack Obama, Rod Stewart, Nand Kishore Yadev, Sheryl Crow, The Police, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Emile Hirsch, Coldplay, India, Matthew Sheppard, James Franco, Starbucks, Gay Marriage, Jay-Z, Josh Brolin, Toronto, Prop 8, Spider-Man, Canada, Sean Penn, Keith Olbermann, California, Don MacKinnon, Lisa Gurry, W, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Senator Barbara Boxer, (RED), Elton John, World Health Organization, Kargil Chowk, Hear Music, Senator John v. Briggs, High School Music, John Legend, Unicef, Molly Johnson, Msn, Lucas Grabeel, United States, Harvey Milk, Gus Van Sant, Death Cab for Cutie, Into the Wild, President George W. Bush, Itunes, Carribean, Matthew Shepard, Ilike, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

The new online digital magazine (RED)WIRE will sponsor a series of unique performances by artists such as U2 and Sheryl Crow, in its bid to help fight AIDS.

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Remembering 'Teeder.'

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 11.16.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sports, The Grays Seats, Ted "Teeder" Kennedy, Toronto Maple Leafs, Ontario, Canadian Hockey, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, Hockey History, Sports History, Hockey, Canada Hockey, Entertainment News
Earl Pomerantz

Ted "Teeder" Kennedy wasn't the fastest skater. He wasn't a bruiser. But Kennedy competed every second he was on the ice. He never loafed. He never let up.

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Canadian Turns Mom's Yearbook Into Art

Jeremy Axelrod | Posted 05.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Toronto Comics Arts Festival, Graphic Artists, John Martz, Robot Johnny, Excelsior High, Graphic Art, High School, Yearbook, Comics, Ontario, Excelsior, Living News
Jeremy Axelrod

Excelsior High is a fiction, set in "fictional Bristol Country Secondary School in the fictional Staedtler, Ontario," but the students are drawn and renamed from an actual yearbook.

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