Today Ontario Liberal Finance Minister Dwight Duncan confirmed his resignation via Twitter, effective Feb. 14. Echoing former Premiere Dalton McGuinty, who announced his resignation last October, Duncan claimed that it is time for the Liberal […]
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rejected a US offer to hold direct talks between Vice President Joe Biden and the Iranian regime about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In a speech in Munich, Germany, Biden stated […]
Trains between Hamilton and Union Station were delayed by more than 90 minutes this morning as police investigated a pedestrian fatality. An individual was struck by an eastbound train while crossing the tracks about 100 […]
Western University student Kierston Drier has been making headlines after responding to the struggles she found written across her school’s bathroom stalls. Drier taped a letter to the stall that quickly spread far beyond […]
The suicide of computer genius Aaron Swartz makes him a martyr to the cause of freedom of information on the internet and casts the US government as the villain. Swartz was the influential computer programmer […]
The Halton Regional Health Department has launched a new Sexual Health initiative targeting the social media-savvy youth demographic. The ‘Sex Healthy Halton’ Facebook page was launched mid-January as a way for the Sexual Health and […]
A recent study done by the University of Guelph has generated a synthetic poop to cure toxin-producing bacteria caused by Clostridium difficile. Clostridium difficile (C.difficile) is a bacterial disease that causes severe diarrhea and intestinal […]
Two Halton Region-born hockey players have gotten their first tastes of the big time. Twenty-year-old Michael Sgarbossa of Campbellville made his debut Jan. 30 with the Colorado Avalanche in their game against Vancouver. He didn’t […]
Kathleen Wynne hasn’t even been sworn it yet, but the newly crowned premier-designate is already being pulled in all directions. Teachers Still angry over contracts imposed by Bill 115, Ontario’s teachers’ unions met on Jan. […]
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