Link of the Day: The Make-A-Wish Foundation
“Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has given hope, strength and joy to children with life-threatening medical conditions. From our humble beginnings with one boy’s wish to be a police officer, we’ve evolved into an organization that grants a child’s wish in the United States and its territories every 40 minutes. “In the fiscal year 2010, […]
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“If there’s a steady paycheque in it, I’ll marry anyone you say”
The problem I have with Winston Blackmore, the excommunicated bishop and leader of Canada’s largest polygamist group, isn’t the fact that he was kicked out of his fundamentalist Mormon church, or the fact that he’s been arrested for polygamy, or the fact that he’s been married twenty-five times and fathered a hundred and twenty-one children. […]
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Link of the Day: Mother Jones
“Mother Jones is a nonprofit news organization that specializes in investigative, political, and social justice reporting. We currently have two main ‘platforms’: an award-winning bimonthly national magazine (circulation 240,000), and a website featuring new, original reporting 24-7. (In the past we’ve had a radio show and TV specials; theme parks are in the conceptual stage.) […]
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Join Cathy Crowe at tonight’s Toronto Centre NDP nomination meeting
Tonight at 6:00 PM, the provincial NDP will host a nomination meeting for the Toronto Centre riding at the Ryerson Student Centre. Street nurse and homeless advocate Cathy Crowe will receive the nomination for the riding. You may remember Cathy representing the NDP back in February of 2010, when a byelection was held to fill […]
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Link of the Day: Diabetes Summer Surge
The Diabetes Summer Surge is a campaign created by the Canadian Diabetes Association, a terrific organization dedicated to helping Canadian diabetics live healthy lives and working toward a cure. “Host or support an event between June 20th and September 15th and raise funds and awareness for the Diabetes Summer Surge campaign. Involve your family, friends […]
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No more democracy101.ca post alerts in my personal social media feeds
If you’ve been reading democracy101.ca, then first of all, thank you. If you’ve been following it through my personal account on Twitter, or through posts on my Facebook wall, then I’m afraid I’ll need you to start looking elsewhere. Those channels were getting pretty cluttered, so as of today, I’m no longer posting new content […]
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Five tacos for five dollars
There’s a small but promising fast food chain called TacoTime that’s more than happy to sell you five tacos for five dollars. They’ve got a franchise down in the underground mall at Dundas and Yonge in Toronto. Pay them a visit, give them five bucks, and brother, they’ll give you five tacos. This is not […]
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Link of the Day: AI50
“50 years ago, Peter Benensen was outraged when he heard of two Portuguese students imprisoned for raising their wine glasses in a toast to freedom. He was moved to act, and put pen to paper to voice his anger. One man spoke out against the obvious injustice these two students were facing, and the world’s […]
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“The real press will eat [Arnold Schwarzenegger] alive”
There’s an interesting article on Google Books about Arnold Schwarzenegger, his press machine and his personal history. It appeared in the March 1992 issue of Spy Magazine, and it’s a hell of a look not only at Schwarzenegger’s troubling past and personality, but also at the powerful PR team and complacent entertainment press that kept […]
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