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Friend and mentor, M. David Exman, sends along a note about a benefit concert for the former residents of 1700 Robson Street who, on March 8, were burned out of their homes.
Organizers of the benefit concert — Dan Casavant, Bill MacDonald and Nathalie Carriére — have set up a web page providing information not only on the concert, but on how you might donate monies to help victims of the fires recover their lives.
The aftermath of 9-11 still felt today, as Bush White House attempts to thwart investigation
“I saw papers that show the U.S. knew al-Qa’ida would attack cities with aeroplanes.” — Sibel Edmond, employee of the FBI
A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she has provided information to the panel investigating the September 11 attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa’ida’s plans to attack the U.S. with aircraft months before the strikes happened.
Sibel Edmond said the claim by U.S. National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that there was no such information was “an outrageous lie”.
In a report filed by The Independent’s Washington-based reporter Andrew Buncombe, Ms. Edmond goes on to say …
“I gave [the commission] details of specific investigation files, the specific dates, specific target information, specific managers in charge of the investigation. I gave them everything so that they could go back and follow up. This is not hearsay. These are things that are documented. These things can be established very easily … There was general information about the time-frame, about methods to be used … about people being in place and who was ordering these sorts of terror attacks … on major cities with skyscrapers.”
In a separate report filed by New York Times reporters Philip Shenon and David E. Sanger, the commission investigating the Septenber 11 attacks said that it was pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration had blocked thousands of pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton’s White House files from being turned over to the panel’s investigators.
“We need to be satisfied that we have everything we have asked to see,” Al Felzenberg, a spokesman for the bipartisan 10-member commission, said. “We have voiced the concern to the White House that not all of the material the Clinton library has made available to us has made its way to the commission.”
Meanwhile, Daniel N. Nelson writing in Common Dreams addresses the issue of the U.S. defeat on Iraq, measured not simply by the number of dead and wounded, the incomplete destruction of enemy forces or infrastructure, or any single military disaster.
“Defeats don’t happen,” he writes. “They develop.”
 Air America Radio signs on, and radically alters the radio landscape |
The much-buzzed-about ‘liberal’ radio network, Air America, began its broadcast life this past week, featuring such well-known political activist entertainers as comedian-provacateurs Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo, hip-hop icon Chuck D, and activist Robert Kennedy Jr., among its hosts.
Franken, who once wrote a book attacking Rush Limbaugh, will now compete against Limbaugh in the noon to 3 p.m. slot. He’s calling his show ‘The O’Franken Factor’ in a jab at Bill O’Reilly and Fox News, which sought an injunction against his book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. And he plans to criticize the president early and often.
“We’re going to take it to Bush,” Franken said. “Bush is going down in November. Then we’re going to take it to the right-wing media and hold them up to scorn and ridicule.”
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 Vintage postcard view of Granville Street at sunset, circa 1970 |
As the Onex Corporation formally puts the Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corporation (Cineplex-Odeon) up for sale, management announced that effective today regular admission ticket prices for all theateregoers will be lowered to $8.95, from $12.75.
That means no more cheap Tuesdays — when admission prices were only $6 — and no more cheap matin�es. Discounts for seniors and children have been eliminated, as well, as everyone will pay the same amount for admission, every day. The price change comes as good news for adults, though, who will no longer have to pay almost $13 to see a movie.
“As part of our regular, ongoing business reviews, we have made several price changes in various markets that will offer new, lower ticket prices for theatre visitors,” says Pat Marshall, Vice President Communications and Specialty Marketing for Cineplex-Odeon Galaxy LP. “This is great news for theatre guests, who we hope to see visit the theatres more often with this new added price incentive.”
Rival theatre chain, Viacom-owned Famous Players Theatres, offered no word of a price change for their cinemas, where regular adult admission prices run from $11.25 to $13.75.