Archive for November 19th, 2009

Toronto Public Health, working with community partners, has opened five flu assessment centres to relieve pressure on hospital emergency departments due to continuing H1N1 influenza activity. The centres, which are a component of the City’s pandemic response plan, have already diverted dozens of patients from busy emergency departments and provided much needed medical care... »

Given the tumultuous economy, we might have expected another year of the rich bleeding money, but they are actually making it – a lot of it. While the rich getting richer may be galling for many of us, the RICH 100 provides a rough barometer on the health of our economy. If these titans... »

Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, will present the Governor General’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History to seven teachers at Rideau Hall, on Friday, November 20, 2009, at 10 a.m. This year’s award-winning strategies from Canada’s most passionate educators include: Filming and starring... »

Prostitution? Polygamy? Euthanasia? Across the country, around water coolers and in courtrooms, these are but some of the hot issues currently being addressed, debated and decided upon by the law and by Canadians. As a nation, at a time when we have fewer and fewer of yesterday’s moral touchstones – such as traditional families... »