Author: Roxanna Woloshyn

1 ‘INDUSTRIAL HEIGHTS’ Paul already mentioned this yesterday in his advancer to the city hall meeting last night, but this is crazy so it deserves an update. The City gave the ‘A-okay’ for developers to apply to build a new...

1 PICKIN’ A POPE The papal conclave begins in Vatican City today. Few are expecting the white smoke to rise on the first day of “voting”. It’s not mandatory for cardinals to vote today.  2 CITIZEN, GET HIM (OR HER)! It is...

1 YOUNG WILD AND UNDERAGE Looks like the province won’t be lowering the drinking age, to many high school seniors’ disappointment. 2 THE BATTLE IS BREWING Over the weekend, parents and Cathedral area community activists formed...

1 TARGET ON THEIR HEADS EI claimants should expect a cold, hard knock on their doors. The federal government has confirmed it has ‘performance objectives’ (aka quotas) for Service Canada employees to catch EI fraudsters. EI...

1 RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT? The feds are launching the Religious Freedom Office today at a mosque in Ontario. It will be a branch within the Foreign Affairs Department designed to? Actually I have no idea what it is designed to...

1 DELI LLAMA CLOSES DOORS  The downtown sandwich shop known for its celebrity-named sandwiches and extensive use of social media is closing up shop tomorrow (Wednesday). Rumours of a possible lunch truck are surfacing. Goodbye...

1 MONEY FOR MALI The feds announced Canada will send $13 million dollars in humanitarian aid to Mali. So far no “military mission” has been confirmed, but the feds are talking about it. Oh, and it should be noted that Canadian...