Tuesday Apr. 15, 2014 – 11am
Posted Apr 16, 2014 01:30:07 PM.
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11:00- Glen Murray, Ontario’s Minister of Transportation
TOPIC: The governing Liberals are promising to spend $29 billion over the next decade for transit and transportation infrastructure in Ontario. Premier Kathleen Wynne says up to $15 billion of the money will be available for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. She says the rest will be available to the rest of the province.
11:30am- Tristin Hopper, National Post Reporter
TOPIC: Are swears becoming so common they aren’t even profanity anymore? Cussing is becoming very much mainstream. Yet, only now is our foul language finding its way into history. Expletives, once absolutely banned in public discourse, are now increasingly turning up in literature, television, the news media and even political speech. But an expletive without taboo is not an expletive at all. As four-letter swears enjoy a new golden age, the linguistic power of swearing itself may be in peril.
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