Month: July 2011
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Ontario Gov’t Calls For New Health Care Deal
Ontario Calls For New Long-Term Deal On Health Care McGuinty Government Committed to Helping Families Ontario is calling on the federal government to work with the provinces to deliver a new long-term deal on health care. That’s the message Premier Dalton McGuinty delivered today during a speech to the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce. …
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Douglas Coupland Player One
As the world teeters on the brink of disaster, four people converge in a Toronto Airport cocktail lounge. As oil prices suddenly approach $300 a barrel, power cuts out, planes stop taking off and cell phone signals die—a self imposed apocalypse sets into motion. As you read, four people come to terms with the situation,…
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Ontario Deploys Mobile Medical Unit To Aid Fire Evac
Ontario Deploys Mobile Medical Unit To Aid Forest Fire Evacuation 2,730 People Evacuated From Northwestern Ontario The province is sending the Emergency Medical Assistance Team (EMAT) to support forest fire evacuees in Northwestern Ontario. EMAT will be on hand to provide medical assessment to evacuees arriving in Thunder Bay, to address a range of immediate…
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Politics in The Arts- Are Canadians Concerned With Art Funding?
During the Federal elections [circa 2011 Ed], it became clear that the Canadian public interest in an arts and cultural policy had declined since 2008, in fact the majority responded that this policy was unimportant to them in comparison to other policies. This leads me to question the degree of concerns Canadians do have with…
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All The World Is Indeed A Videogame
It was 2011 when I wrote this piece and everywhere I turned I saw the influence of one videogame or another. Now they’re no longer just a niche sideline favored by the odd and socially awkward; they’re as ubiquitous as music and movies and, as an industry, bring in just as much or more money…
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A Dollar For Compressed Air – Are You Getting Gouged?
The Silo does a lot of travelling and we take notice of the highs and the lows that go along with working in parts of four counties. Some standouts are the comparative condition of the roads, the comparative prices of gasoline and diesel and one thing that surprised us: the rising cost of compressed air…