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Chris Selley: How is this a public school system?
Public schools full of rich kids raise more money from parents than public schools full of poor kids. Stop the presses. It’s easy to be cynical about Social Planning Toronto’s report, released this...
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Scott Stinson: What will the Tories do after they have slayed the dragon?
Give the Conservative fundraising machine some credit for one thing: it knows how to get into the Halloween spirit. Here is the opening of a letter sent out recently from the desk of John Walsh, the...
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Kelly McParland: Liberal poverty forces Rae to get honest
According to a report on a Liberal “town hall” meeting on Sunday, interim leader Bob Rae minced no words about the party’s strained financial condition. “The corporate sugar daddy has gone, the...
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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: The gun registry is almost dead. Send money
Ottawa vs. inertia Postmedia’s Stephen Maher notes that the Conservatives are still raising money on the back of the long-gun registry, even though it’s their own legislative timetable that’s keeping...
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Gerry Nicholls: NDP fundraising appeal fails on several fronts
Recently somebody passed along a year-end fundraising appeal from the federal New Democratic Party. I found it offensive, not for ideological reasons, but because it was a poorly written, poorly...
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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Canada for sale! Everything must go!
Canada’s red dawn Will Canada welcome its new Chinese overlords? Will we riot in the streets in support of too-expensive cheese? These are the questions of our times. In another delightfully...
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Obama hopes gay marriage gamble will garner votes — and cash
Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: Did he jump or was he pushed? Barack Obama’s expressed support of gay marriage bears all...
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Rex Murphy on Obama: America’s celebrity president
When you are in vogue, the editor of Vogue pleads for your attention. When you’re not in vogue, you plead with the editor of Vogue. Consider Barrack Obama. Just a week ago, in an effort to mingle with...
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Today’s letters: Hard lessons on running for a cause
Scott Barbour / Getty ImagesA fundraiser, dressed in a suit of armour and dragging a dragon, takes part in the Flora London Marathon in 2006. Re: Is Running An 8,000-Km Marathon The Best Way To...
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Today’s letters: ‘Cancer kills a lot of patients, but it sure keeps a lot of...
Re: War On Cancer No End In Sight, March 16. Having worked in the pharmaceutical field on cancer treatments for a few decades — where I have been continuously involved with the development of many...
View ArticleBay Street fundraiser to aid Kenyan rape victims
The fate of 160 rape victims in Kenya will be the focus of about 200 lawyers, activists and human rights advocates at a fundraising event on Bay Street Tuesday night. The Equality Effect is hosting the...
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Five things to do this week: Dec. 10-16
City of TorontoA recent example of a topic that may pop up at the Parler Fort — Toronto: Built and Unbuilt talk is an obvious one: the doomed Fort York Pedestrian Bridge. See No. 1, below. 1. MUSEUMS:...
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Bullied bus monitor Karen Klein plans to use $700,000 fund to retire, help...
GREECE, N.Y. — An American school bus monitor who was verbally abused and tormented by students is now mulling over what to do with her embarrassment of riches. A video showing Karen Klein, 68, being...
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Fund for Colorado victim Jessica Ghawi latest example of web fundraising power
Aurora shooting won’t be used for new gun laws, Boehner says: Video A scholarship fund in the name of Colorado shooting victim Jessica Ghawi, the 24-year-old who narrowly missed a similar tragedy in...
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Crowd-funding campaigns gaining popularity with Canadians
TORONTO — A burlesque troupe, a film about female Palestinian race car drivers and a bullied American bus monitor — as diverse as those topics are, they all share a common Canadian thread. All three...
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Conservative, Liberal fundraising showdown ramps up as midnight donation...
OTTAWA — The federal Conservative and Liberal parties are both boasting to supporters that they are on the cusp of raking in $2 million in donations this month as a self-imposed midnight deadline...
View ArticleLetters: The justice minister must be above suspicion
Re: Justice Minister Told To Return Fundraising Cash, April 12. As former House of Representatives speaker Tip O’Neil once quipped, “Money is the mother’s milk of politics.” There is a requirement to...
View ArticleChristine Van Geyn: Kathleen Wynne’s new source of donations: you
Christine Van Geyn During political campaign season, it’s hard to escape all the political advertising. The airwaves are flooded with attack ads, your mailbox stuffed with flyers, and public greenspace...
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Saskatchewan parents who want playgrounds at their kids’ schools have to...
Some of Saskatchewan’s new joint-use schools will open without playgrounds in September 2017. Using a $635 million public-private partnership (P3), the province is building 18 schools across the...
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Leitch top fundraiser among Conservative leadership candidates, but Bernier...
OTTAWA — Maxime Bernier easily raised the most money of all Conservative leadership candidates between July and September, but still trails rival Kellie Leitch in total donations collected so far in...
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