North America News

A new study finds that the gap between supply and demand for donated kidneys for transplant is widening in Canada.

No new tax cuts or significant new programs in 2010: Flaherty

yet Ottawa Tories say they have ruled out significant tax cuts or new spending programs for Canadians in next year's federal budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says.

Gunmen sprayed bullets at a restaurant Tuesday where the mayor of a Texas border town was eating with a Mexican state attorney general and other officials, police said.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has refused to rule out a carbon tax for some time in the country's future, sending Conservative spin doctors scrambling to reframe his comments.

Debate continues over Federal minister's comments about religious group Kairos

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's declaration that Ottawa's funding for a church aid agency was cut because of its anti-Israel stand is threatening to open a chasm of hostility between Canadian Christian and Jewish organizations.

The minister's office has not given reasons for his accusation against Kairos, the social justice arm of Canada's Roman Catholic and major Protestant faiths, but it did specifically refer to a column in the Toronto Star that suggested that Kairos's actions were anti-Semitic.

as Kairos & Jewish Groups ignore problems in North America like a Pollution Source of United Nations UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

Machinists union warns of Air Canada layoffs

A snowplow clears ramps at Pearson airport in Toronto.

Losses will be the direct result of Transport Canada's ruling to allow more time between maintenance checks for certain fleets ???, union says

Workers enraged at plant closure

http://www.mississauga.com/news/article/246356--workers-enraged-at-plant-closure

Workers at a Meadowvale heating and air conditioning plant that suddenly shut down last week picketed Monday morning outside the factory.

It sure isn't chump change. An anonymous donor dropped a Canadian gold coin worth hundreds of dollars into a Salvation Army red kettle in Ohio.

Hints by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty that Ottawa may tighten mortgage eligibility rules to avert a possible housing bubble sent ripples through the industry Monday, with analysts urging a cautious approach to avoid damaging the economy.

The investment-banking arms of CIBC and Scotiabank may each pay about $20-million to settle the ABCP issue.

pict Why not ask for a gift that will make a real difference?

This year, instead of the usual material goods, ask your family and friends to donate to the Green Party of Canada.

http://bit.ly/7YbWoy

Joe Q. Public may not understand the finer points of how government agencies tender contracts or hire consultants, just as he fails to comprehend the complexities of switching the provincea s health records systems to an electronic model.

Not that long ago a piano-playing Stephen Harper bestrode his world like a colossus.

A snowstorm that has hammered the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States has grounded some planes in Ottawa and Toronto.

Nearly two decades after almost being destroyed in a firebombing, the Toronto Women's Bookstore is once again fighting for its survival.

A fierce storm that pounded the U.S. is slowly moving into Atlantic Canada while Americans dig out from the aftermath.

He hasn't stepped a foot outside, nor sat down to sup with his family in their own home for six months, but when asked about his ideal Christmas, Mikhail Lennikov doesn't wish for himself.

World leaders attempted to pull all the meaning they could from the tenuous deal brokered between the U.S., China and other major economies during the final hours of climate change negotiations Friday night and Saturday morning -- but the newly christened "Copenhagen Accord" elicited mainly resignation or disappointment.

Three federal cabinet ministers and a senior government official met the head of the International Red Cross in the fall of 2006 as the humantarian organization tried to focus Canada's attention on alleged abuses in Afghan prisons, The Canadian Press has learned.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama talk at the climate conference in Copenhagen yesterday.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/canadas-strategy-promise-now-implement-later/article1406232/

Sounding like GTA Ontario so called Sustainable Halton's byline too

http://www.topix.net/forum/ca/halton-hills-on-georgetown/T74FH40QGGJMHS7IK

English actress Emily Blunt, who plays the title character in The Young Victoria, went absolutely C.R.A.Z.Y. for Montreal filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee.

York Region GTA : This is an Olympic torch relay. It’s a feel good event.

It’s the last place where you would find heavy-handed, police-state, goon tactics

A torch relay security team is travelling around the country with the torch and is responsible for ensuring safety of the torch and torch bearer.

A news photographer was sent to hospital with a concussion on Friday after security officers involved in crowd control for the Olympic torch relay "shoved" the man to the ground, said a spokesman for a union representing journalists.