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		<title>Drummond report &#8211; a changing political landscape</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rob Foster The long awaited report from the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services was released this past Wednesday.  Authored by Don Drummond, a former banking industry economist, this very comprehensive 543 page report offers 362 recommendations on how programming and spending should be adjusted in the province of Ontario to eliminate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bayobserver.ca&amp;blog=22759055&amp;post=664&amp;subd=bayobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don Cornelius and my Black History memories.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The death earlier this month of Soul Train creator Don Cornelius brought back memories of life as a twenty-something in the hedonistic 1970’s—for many of a certain age—a forgotten decade. For myself and my friends, as whites living then in London Ontario—a city that was not known for its ethnic diversity&#8211; Soul Train was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bayobserver.ca&amp;blog=22759055&amp;post=638&amp;subd=bayobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Editorials</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year a Public Works staff report was issued that made a strong case for an energy from waste (EFW)facility in Hamilton as part of a comprehensive waste management policy. Last month the City’s Solid Waste Subcommittee unveiled another report that says at some point we will need a solution other than landfilling for our garbage. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bayobserver.ca&amp;blog=22759055&amp;post=636&amp;subd=bayobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring the Riviera one Euro at a time or catching the 100 bus to Cannes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The French Riviera, whose capital is Nice, conjures up images of fabulous wealth, yachts, Lamborghinis, villas and private aircraft. Rich Arabs and British inhabit the cream coloured palaces that cling to the steep shores of the Mediterranean. Elton John has a villa in Nice, Princess Grace died on the steep curves of the highways that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bayobserver.ca&amp;blog=22759055&amp;post=628&amp;subd=bayobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Energy from waste still on horizon for Hamilton</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report released last month on Hamilton’s long term waste disposal strategy suggests burning trash to create energy will be needed eventually, although a staff report suggests such a plant will not even be contemplated for five more years, and not be operational until 2027. At the current rate of usage Glanbrook will be full sometime [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bayobserver.ca&amp;blog=22759055&amp;post=622&amp;subd=bayobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7 years later, fired city workers victims of Hamilton “Scorched Earth” legal policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 7 years after a confrontation between Councillor Bernie Morelli and then City  taxi inspector Michael Francoeur; two city employees who were fired in the fallout of the incident are still seeking justice. Tom Redmond and Randy Charlton, who were Francoeur’s higher-ups in the Licensing Department were dismissed allegedly for failing to protect Francoeur from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bayobserver.ca&amp;blog=22759055&amp;post=620&amp;subd=bayobserver&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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