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local news
PROVINCIAL KARST OWNERS CRITICIZED
by Don McLean
Brad Clark says the Ontario Realty Corporation “misrepresented” city documents at a June 17 meeting on the Eramosa karst lands. The provincial land management agency is also being criticized by a citizens’ group trying to have karst feeder lands permanently protected – an 80 acre parcel that the ORC wants the city to remove from a protected designation.
“They completely misrepresented to the public what the city’s position was,” Clark charged last week. [ more ]
perspective
GOODBYE, MICHAEL JACKSON
by Felicia Mancini I had two weeks left. My passport ready, concert ticket tucked away after two hundred–plus days of counting down (and boasting) I would be in London, England. After two decades of taping bootleg videos and award show performances, spending Saturday mornings as a child dancing away to timeless tracks with my mother, and to this day wearing military jackets (shoulder pads included) like I was the baddest thing around, I was a two weeks away from seeing the King Of Pop. [ more ]
letters to the editor
RANTS JULY 2, 2009
by Felicia Mancini That voice on your answering machine is very nice.
Thank you to all the nurses in this city, the women at the Salvation Army on Bay Street and the women at social services for all their help. They are godsends and I don’t know where I would be without their help.
All the 30–something couples with babies, if you are only going out just because it’s kids eat free day, then stay at home. Do us all a favour: make supper yourself or go to McDonald’s. [ more ]
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