Editorial
OAS the hot button issue
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Loading ...Unless you turned 54 last Saturday, you have missed out on being able to apply for Old Age Security (OAS) at age 65. Under a plan announced by federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty in last week’s budget, anyone now 53 and younge
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Law, social code killed Florida teen
(2) Loading ...It was the 250-pound, 28-year-old George Zimmerman who pulled the trigger that killed the unarmed, 140-pound, 17-year-old African-American, Trayvon Martin, in Florida last month, but it was, at depth, Americans’ Second Amendment
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Subways are the better way
(2) Loading ...In his campaign to extend the Sheppard subway into Scarborough, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has taken to the streets lately with his SAFE (Subways Are for Everyone) campaign to ensure the optics of public support for this project.
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Is Casino a solution?
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Now we know how Premier Dalton McGuinty plans to raise revenue to pay down the province’s $250-billion (and growing) debt by 2017 without raising taxes. He’s going to gamble on gambling.
The Ontario Lott
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Robocalls issue will blow over
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The federal Liberals will do well to resist any impulse to sound too self-righteous about the overheated allegations of voter manipulation that has occupied the headlines of late.
Questions are being raised,
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Time for subways
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Does this sound familiar? “It is to be regretted that the proposal of a Yonge Street subway…has been linked up with a doubtful Queen Street proposal and with a suggested contribution by the taxpayers which is beyond anythi
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Tough decisions on economy
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Isn’t it funny that so-called tax-and-spend Liberals are the ones being called on to do the heavy lifting when we inevitably reach a stage where deficits again take precedence in government fiscal management?
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Subways the better way
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...To call this city’s progress in the development of public transportation foot-dragging is to be more than kind. Glacial is more like it. Looking back on the history of the building of Toronto’s public transportation network, i
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Unions help all workers
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The aggravation and the stench, not to mention the plagues of fruit flies and vermin, that descended on Toronto during the summer of 2009 when City of Toronto outside workers went on strike, might be reason enough for Torontonians
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Changes will hurt pensioners
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...If you are in your fifties and female, you may have cause for concern as you approach the next decade in what would become your retirement years. Women traditionally live longer than men and earn less over their lifetime, leaving
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