Ease taxing times at Vanier’s free tax clinicPosted Mar 9, 2010 By Desmond Devoy ACORN wants you to get what’s coming to you. In terms of filing your taxes, that is. For the second year in a row, the Vanier-based activist group ACORN (Association...Read more » |
Naqvi's SCAN bill passes through committee
Posted Mar 5, 2010 By Rosalyn Stevens EMC News - After an unexpected call back to the province's committee on regulations and private members bills, the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) bill was approved after an all party clause-by-clause last week. Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi worked with residents in the Hintonburg community...Read more »
Tories "dropped ball" on selling prorogation: Duffy, PEI Senator also rules out legalizing marijuana and proportional representation
Posted Mar 5, 2010
By Desmond Devoy
EMC News - Senator Mike Duffy has admitted that the Harper government "dropped the ball," in explaining the reasons behind its decision to prorogue Parliament.
While the House of Commons has resumed sitting this week for the first time since December, with both a Speech from the Throne and a budget...Read more »
St. Patrick's parade in Ottawa a long tradition
Posted Mar 5, 2010
By Laura Hay
Irish Society of the National Capital Region
EMC Events - When one thinks of St. Patrick's Day parades, images of packed streets in Boston, New York, or Chicago are usually the first to come to mind. Celebrations, parades and processions on St. Patrick's Day in North America began in the eighteenth...Read more »
Treatment needed for addicts: reader
Posted Mar 5, 2010 By Emile Therien Dear Editor, The decision, announced by the federal government on February 9, to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn a B.C. court ruling sanctioning Vancouver's supervised Insite program is a classic case of political ideology trumping public health, medical science and common sense....Read more »
