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31 October 2010, Washington, D.C. – John Lennon’s “Power to the People” comes to mind when thinking about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., yesterday. Approximately 200,000 people attended the free rally organized by Comedy Central fake news anchors Stewart and Colbert. Supporters [...]
October 31st, 2010 | Posted in Entertainment,Headlines | Read More »

Saturday, 30 October 2010 – Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert fans have begun an early pilgrimage to the stage that framed the Capitol dome for a rally in support of the fake newsmen’s promise to restore sanity and preserve fear. When all is said and done, the biggest achievement of the day will probably be [...]
October 30th, 2010 | Posted in Entertainment | Read More »

30 October 2010 – The Obama administration is busy at work trying to figure out what to do with the Bush tax cuts that expire in December for all income brackets. There is a fear that Congress will not give their approval to reinstate higher taxes on the nation’s wealthiest families if the Republicans regain [...]
October 30th, 2010 | Posted in Finance,Headlines | Read More »

Montreal, Canada – Lawyers sent a letter this week to Plateau Mont-Royal Borough to scrap its plans of banning billboards. Projet Montréal council members revealed its intentions last month to tear down all 45 billboards in the borough with a new bylaw. Media giants CBS, Astral and Pattison own the billboards and have no interest [...]
October 29th, 2010 | Posted in Business | Read More »

29 October 2010 – In a judgment obtained Thursday over a divorce hearing, an Ontario Judge gave the parents of 11-year-old twins three books and homework that must be completed before their next court date in December. The three books Justice David Price handed to them are concerned with parenting in a divorce situation. The [...]
October 29th, 2010 | Posted in Lifestyle | Read More »

Avatar fans around the world have been waiting anxiously for the announcement of a sequel to the mega blockbuster. 20th Century Fox has gone one step beyond by announcing a first sequel to be released in December 2014 and a second sequel 12 months later. Although director James Cameron is not slated to start writing [...]
October 28th, 2010 | Posted in Entertainment,Headlines | Read More »

October 28, 2010, Montreal, Canada – The Audit Bureau of Circulation confirmed the continued decline in U.S. newspaper and magazine circulation figures this week. The situation is no different in Canada. Yesterday, Canadian printing giant Transcontinental Inc. announced its decision to close the Boucherville plant and blamed the struggling industry for its decision. The plant [...]
October 28th, 2010 | Posted in Business | Read More »

October 27, 2010, Ottawa, Canada – Canada’s Auditor-General Sheila Fraser finally released her report on the Harper government’s stimulus program yesterday. A thorough audit of all eleven projects in the program was conducted. Although there was some important criticism, all in all, Fraser found the program was well managed. The big $47 billion job creation [...]
October 27th, 2010 | Posted in Finance | Read More »

New York, NY – Found liable by a federal judge for copyright infringement on a “massive scale” six months ago, it’s now the end of the line for the popular file-sharing website LimeWire as they were ordered yesterday to permanently shut down. And that’s how it goes. With a permanent injunction, U.S. District Judge Kimba [...]
October 27th, 2010 | Posted in Headlines,Wired | Read More »

A new study involving over twenty-one thousand people from California tracked over the course of twenty-three years results in more bad news to smokers. This time it’s about Alzheimer’s disease. It seems middle-aged people more than double their risk of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia if they are heavy smokers. The link has never [...]
October 26th, 2010 | Posted in Headlines,Well-Being | Read More »