White House Highlights Marcie Allen Van Mol as a Hurricane Sandy “Champion of Change”
For Relief Efforts on Beach 119th Street in the Rockaways WASHINGTON, DC–(Marketwired – Apr 24, 2013) – The White House today honored Marcie Allen Van Mol as one of seventeen people who are Hurricane Sandy “Champions of Change.” This Champions event highlighted people and organizations directly involved in response and recovery efforts following Hurricane Sandy. [...]
Breaking News – 50 Injured in New York Ferry Crash
Patrick Connors – New York: There has been a crash of a commuter ferry at Pier 11 in Lower Manhattan this morning. 50 are injured. New York Fire Department personnel are on the scene. More details to follow.
General ‘Stormin Norman’ Norman Schwarzkopf dead at age 78
KJ Mullins: Retired United States General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr died Thursday in Tampa, Florida from complications of pneumonia. In 1991 Schwarzkopt led the United States military during Operation Desert Storm. Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. was born in Trenton, New Jersey. His father was one of the investigators working the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case before [...]
One million students in the United States are homeless
KJ Mullins-Toronto: During the 2010-2011 school year more than one million students in public school left their classrooms at the end of the day but they didn’t go home. These children, often old beyond their years, had no home to return to. The homeless issue is so large in the United States that federal law [...]
updated: Up to 30 dead at horrific school shooting
KJ Mullins: A school shooting at at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. has left as many as 20 children dead with a total of close to 30 slain. The shooter, Ryan Lanza, was dead at the scene. It is not clear if he took his own life or if the police killed him. [...]
Hydro One sends an additional 80 line maintainers, foresters and support team to help get the lights back on in New York state
TORONTO, Nov. 6, 2012 /CNW/ – Eighty additional Hydro One workers are joining the 145 line maintainers, foresters and support staff already assisting in power restoration efforts in the U.S.. This afternoon crews from across southern Ontario are driving south to Westchester and Orange Counties to put their skills to work alongside Con Edison crews [...]
Mitt Romney – Iran’s way to the sea is Syria. On what planet?
During the 3rd presidential debate on Monday, 22 October 2012, Mitt Romney told the viewers that Syria is Iran’s way to the sea. That claim is wrong. Presidential debates are held to enable the viewer to make up her/his mind about which candidate to vote for. They are an opportunity to asses the candidates’ knowledge [...]
editorial: Mitt Romney’s ‘binders full of women’ were not what he claims
Bart B. Van Bockstaele -Toronto: Mitt Romney’s story about “binders full of women” has had quite an impact on the Internet. There is a slight problem with it however: it is not true. A nice example of why evidence matters. The first thing I had to think of when Mitt Romney told the story about [...]
Number of young adults marrying declines in US
KJ Mullins-Toronto: It used to be first comes love then comes marriage then comes baby in a baby carriage in the United States. That order is changing with marriage coming later and babies arriving with their parents not wed. During the Baby Boom years there were 35 million households in the United States. Today that [...]
Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Northwestern University Admits Patient Heart Attack under Oath After Years of Denials
CHICAGO, IL, Sept. 10, 2012 /CNW/ – Dr. Patrick McCarthy of Northwestern recently admitted under oath in a malpractice lawsuit that a patient he operated on in 2006 had a heart attack while receiving an investigational heart device called the Myxo 5100. This admission comes amid years of denials from McCarthy, the hospital and Northwestern [...]
