Students hear summer job horrors
Candace Carnahan lost a leg in industrial accident
By Crystal Crimi - Nov 26, 2008 - 10:30 AM
PICKERING -- The day that changes your life starts like any other, said Candace Carnahan, sitting before a gym of Grade 10 students. She would know - her life hasn't been the same since she lost her leg while working at a summer job, on a day that started like any other. "I didn't know I could be hurt at work," said the safety ambassador at her Nov. 24 presentation to Dunbarton High School students. She spoke at Ajax High School in the morning. Ms. Carnahan, who lost her leg to a conveyer belt, was brought to the schools by...
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Fire at orchard building under investigation
Nov 26, 2008 - 12:19 PM
CLARINGTON -- Fire department officials don't yet know what caused a late-night fire at a building that is part of a local apple orchard operation. Clarington firefighters were called to 3238 ...
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Auto job losses to accelerate
Tony Van Alphen, Torstar news services - Nov 26, 2008 - 08:06 AM
Beleaguered automakers in Canada will wipe out at least 15,000 jobs and post staggering losses of more than $3.1 billion this year and through 2009 before starting a recovery in 2010, according to the...
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Oshawa's EI numbers spike 96.4 per cent
By Jillian Follert - Nov 26, 2008 - 09:08 AM
OSHAWA -- The number of Oshawa residents receiving employment insurance (EI) has gone through the roof, jumping 96.4 per cent over this time last year -- the highest increase in Canada. A report ...
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History buff receives several awards
PICKERING -- It was a landmark day for Canadian war-history buff Cotter Allen. The Pine Ridge Secondary School graduate received eight awards at his ...
Students hear summer job horrors
PICKERING -- The day that changes your life starts like any other, said Candace Carnahan, sitting before a gym of Grade 10 students. She would know -...
Multi-cultural film series
DURHAM -- Enjoy an afternoon at the movies. The Movies Without Borders film series is screening movies in several languages with English subtitles. ...
Mike Butler: digital art pioneer
AJAX -- Long-time Ajax resident Mike Butler can quite literally be called a digital art pioneer. In the early 1980s, in the infancy of the personal ...
Snow-clearing bylaw rule unfair
To the editor:Re: If you don't follow the rules, you'll pay, Nov. 21.â?¨ Twelve hours to remove your snow is a very unreasonable amount of ...
It's just bad news all over the place
To the editor: Ontario taxpayers are being faced with a problem we have never seen before. The Federal Finance Minister is skating on assisting the ...
Clarington sports briefs for Nov. 26
Winning ways continue for Roy's Enterprise CLARINGTON -- The Clarington Roy's Enterprise Minor Bantam A Toros have started the year off with ...
Shoot down the flu: health department
DURHAM -- The first reported case of the flu in Durham Region was contracted by someone in their 30s who did not receive the flu shot, says the ...