The CFIA has issued three alerts in the past few days, warning consumers in Ontario and Quebec about a large Listeria recall. As people are stocking up with cold cuts and various other meat products for the holidays, the hospitality may deliver an unpleasant surprise to...
Where has our outrage gone? There was a time when a crime involving children was cause for an outcry. The desire for revenge against the monsters that harm our children. But lately, it seems, as if a...
opinion by mshoffner | 5 wks ago | updated 5 wks ago 151 views | 52 recommendations | 5 comments
Talented players from across North America came to Quebec City to compete on Saturday, November 21st at the Quebec City Kebs open tryouts held at the Cegep Limoilou. The tryouts attracted many new faces eager to...
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper called four by-elections yesterday. They were in ridings in Nova Scotia, two in Quebec and one in BC. The Nova Scotia seat has been a long time conservative seat and...
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative Government survived a non-confidence motion last week. This was made possible by the NDP abstaining from the vote. Harper is now set to call 4 by-elections...
Canadian politics can be interesting from time to time. Granted the debates and allegations on either side are never as heated as they are in the U.S., where Democrats accuse Republicans to be lunatics and...
The CFIA has issued a possible Listeria monocytogenes warning for deli meats from Delstar Foods Inc. Following is a list of the recalled meats. "Compliments Smoked Beef Eye of the Round Pastrami 175 g 0 68820 10781 1 09SE01 Compliments Roast Beef 175 g 0...
People from the small former Portuguese colony of Goa on the West Coast of India are on the verge of being over run by the large Indian population, that pours into the tiny touristy state, mostly looking for work....
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Prime Minister Harper has led a minority government for close to two and a half years. In an election last year he was able to increase the number of seats for his minority government, but not the majority...
opinion by albertacowpoke | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago 283 views | 6 recommendations | 4 comments
Guy Laliberte, 95% shareholder of $1.2-billion Cirque de Soleil, is in training this week in Moscow preparing for his trip into outer space. He is expected to leave Earth in September on a Russian Soyuz space...
Canada's jobless rate remained steady at 8.6% in July. Statistics Canada released the figures this morning. 45,000 jobs were lost, this didn't change he overall jobless rate as some people dropped out...
Mont-Laurier, Quebec was hit hard on Tuesday by the harshest Tornado to hit the area since 1994. The tornado would be comparable to an F2 on the Fujita scale and would have winds exceeding 180km/h. About 40 homes were seriously damaged, half of those had to be abandoned....
By, Uwe Paschen. Vive la France. (14 Juillet Fete National) or should that be Vive Paris? Today as in 1680 under the war hungry King Louis the XIV of France, who once said that “Paris is France but France will...
opinion by Paschen | 25 wks ago | updated 23 wks ago 881 views | 75 recommendations | 27 comments
Beef products sourced from the JBS Swift Beef Company, Greeley, Colorado may be contaminated with E. coli 0157:H7. The recall orders started in the US have now expanded to Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada...
"Au Revoir Charlevoix, Allo Nunavut" Last night was a late one. I had to edit and post a few items, and finish a giant to-do list concerning our Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube account. The...