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RIM Bashing

RIM Bashing

Whenever I look in the mainstream, Canadian media, they are always showing the negative side of RIM. For the record, everyone I know has a blackberry.  The media must change its narrative. Some may feel the blackberry is an endangered species. Instead of bashing a Canadian company, the media should encourage RIM to diversify their [...]

Different Kind of Reality

Different Kind of Reality

For years Juliet Francis was so focused on getting a fabulous education, all to satisfy the parents who wanted her to go to the best schools. Society stresses everyone to have that perfect career.

Saving Ontario Place

Saving Ontario Place

Concerned volunteers are now sending letters to key politicians to help save Ontario Place.  Several months ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the closure of Ontario Place, which is a historical landmark.  Plans are now under way to replace this public space with a privately run casino.  Presently, a lot of concerned citizens are mobilizing to [...]

Politics Need Jury Pool Type System

Politics Need Jury Pool Type System

There are always the memories of doing stupid things when one is young. We all have such memories. For example, I remember going as a youth delegate to the Federal Liberal Leadership convention in Calgary Alberta in 1990.  Yes, on that ticket I supported Tom Wappel then Member of Parliament, representing the Scarborough West constituency.  [...]

Birds of Dundas Square

Birds of Dundas Square

I didn’t have to go far to find a story to tell. At the corner where the Empress Hotel once burned to the ground, I saw a crowd gather. Everyone had a blackberry, or electrical, handheld device, all aimed at the strange, natural phenomenon that had manifested before their very eyes. A large amount of [...]

Build Hydrogen Fuel-cell Stations not Toronto Subways

Build Hydrogen Fuel-cell Stations not Toronto Subways

Back in 1997, I met then North York Mayor Mel Lastman by chance in Scarborough, Ontario. Apparently, I had walked into the Scarborough Civic Center and stumbled upon a media photo op. At that time, Lastman was facing then Toronto Mayor Barbara Hall for the new amalgamated city of Toronto, municipal elections. “Mr. Lastman,” I said, [...]

Extraterrestrials, Intuition, Psychics, and Healing

Extraterrestrials, Intuition, Psychics, and Healing

Jackie Lewis was born in London, England. She inherited her ability from a family of healers and inventors. “My grandfather invented solar energy devices when he was in the deserts of Egypt in WWII,” she told me in an east end café.   As a kid, Jackie would read minds. She read her mother’s mind, [...]

Arts Funding Revisited – The Pitch

Arts Funding Revisited – The Pitch

The old arts funding model in Canada must change because it only benefits those who are connected.   The government should not fund the author, musician, or filmmaker. The the rules are rewritten, the government can actually save money and stimulate an industry, or the economy itself. How? In the past Oprah, or Simon, would [...]

Vatican Bank defends Cayman Islands banking

Vatican Bank defends Cayman Islands banking

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican Business Conglomerate is now on the defensive in regards to the document leaks, concerning the Vatican Bank’s offshore Cayman Islands banking division.  Quite recently, like clockwork online religious publications on the internet, National Catholic Reporter has a story titled Why the ‘Vatican Bank’ doesn’t exist, or in Catholic Culture has a [...]

iUniverse Books in the Media

iUniverse Books in the Media

iUniverse Publishing , the leading provider of high-quality, professional supported self-publishing services is giving booklovers a special 25 % discount on all books—from paperback to hardcover to e-book—available in the online bookstore . To enjoy this iUniverse promotion , book-buyers only need to enter the promo code “SAVE25” during the checkout process. The offer is [...]

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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Paul Collins was born in Toronto, Ontario Canada. Collins is a freelance commercial director. In 2002, he directed a documentary about youth violence called Just Talk. Its world premier was at the Final Cut Short Film Screenings DJ & VJ Sets in the city of Brighton in the fall of 2003. Collins has written Prescience Rendezvous (out of print), King without an Empire, and Mystery of Everyman’s Way. Look out for his new book Mack Dunstan's Inferno, which is about a Charlton Heston type character that succumbs to Alzheimer’s, went through the death process, descends into hell and meets vicitms of his pro-gun policy. Mack Dunstan's Inferno is now available in pbk at ISBN 978-1-4620-3276-1 and as an ebook at ISBN 978-1-4620-3280-8. For more information check out www.myspace.com/authorpaulcollins

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