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After 15 years of allowing food producers to put a distinguishing red check mark on foods it deemed nutritionally beneficial, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada announced this week it will shutter the Health Check™ Program. Your Working Girl anticipates we will be a healthier nation for it. Heart and Stroke bills Health Check as […]
“Why do they bother to have the elections at all,” voters once observed when they looked at their newspapers the morning after a vote. Those were the days when election polling was uncannily accurate. Was an election really necessary or would a sample size of 1,125 do the trick? Now, after another ‘shocking’ election result, […]
Golden Girl Finance featured a Human Rights Watch report on its Friday Stocktail this week that reveals, “tobacco farms across the US are using children as young as age 7 to assist in tobacco harvesting, exposing them to nicotine, pesticides and extreme heat.” That same Friday Stocktail also filled YWG in on the latest GMO legislation in the U.S., […]
It’s sad to meet and fall in love with a man when you are in the process of reading his obituary. So it was for Your Working Girl and Robert W. Wilson, a gay, atheist, short-sell specialist, well-known known for his philanthropy. A masterful mass of contradiction, Mr. Wilson contributed an estimated $600 million […]
You, Gentle Reader, be the judge. You’ve seen the Rob Ford Steak Queen video with the mayor showing off his dialect capabilities. Here’s a sub-titled version in case you couldn’t get it all by ear. (Your Working girl only prays His Honour doesn’t start rolling with Newfoundlanders.) Now check out Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black. […]
Much has happened in 2013 and lots of it is a bit quirky. Here are a few things Your Working Girl would like to take note of. The Grant Officer of the Year Award John Cook – Gawker.com For not making the easy call. Cook researched well-deserving community groups to find a home for the […]
The votes are in. The dye has been cast. There’s no going back. Just before the holidays, Your Working Girl took note that Pathways to Education has appointed a new CEO. And the direction the Board of Directors intends to take could not be clearer. Incoming top executive, Vivian Prokop, most recently finished a 10-year […]
Crew list of Ships hit by U-boats Ralph Picco Merchant Navy. Canadian Born: 1894 Died: 1 November 1940 (46) Roster information listed for Ralph Picco Ship Type Rank / role Attacked on Boat Empire Bison Steam merchant Able Seaman 1 Nov 1940 (+) U-124 Personal information Son of Robert and Mary Jane Picco, of […]
Your Working Girl’s holiday is over and the marketing/branding/fundraising construct continues to careen on it’s crazy daisy way. Abercrombie & Fitch, a clothier that boasts one of the longest line-ups on Boxing Day has spent 2013 hurky-jerking from one wild decision after another. It no longer stocks XL or XXL. And it doesn’t sell […]
Your Working Girl is going on holiday (hurrah) and has been spending the better part of this week thinking about what music she’d like to take with her. And that set her off thinking about the magic of being able to even consider taking her music with her. If only for the iPod alone, Steve […]
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