Found Poetry

_{on how government works}

Layoffs at GM

 General Motors

 Announced

 Shut down

 Of the consolidated line

 At its Oshawa assembly plant next year

 Resulting in up to 2000 job losses

 Questioning the health of the manufacturing sector.

The Cancelled Mississauga Gas Plant

 Dalton McGuinty announced

 Cancellation of a controversial gas plant

 Ontario Power Authority, offered an American hedge fund $82 million

 To settle a $300 million lawsuit brought

 Against the government for cancelling the project.

 The offer was rejected,

 Prompting questions

 What the final price tag will be.

Mercury Poisoning at Grassy Narrows

 Residents of Grassy Narrows, Ontario

 Still suffering the effects of mercury poisoning

 40 years after a chemical and pulp mill

 Dumped  mercury into a local river.

 Contaminated the fish stocks in the English-Wabigoon river

 Commercial fishing operations were shut down 4 decades ago

 New Cases of mercury poisoning continue to emerge.

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Big Ideas

Hungarian philosopher

political activist,

Gaspar Tamas,

delivers a lecture

The Failure of Liberal Democracy

in Eastern Europe

and Everywhere Else.

Hod Lipson

 discusses the future of 3-D printing

 Programmable Matter: The Shape of Things to Come

Dr. Allen J. Frances presents Diagnostic Inflation: Does Everyone Have a Mental Illness?

My prose from TVO.org

Googled FPR

Found Poetry Revue

Laughing

Reading Sarah Palin

Remixed, reworded

Collage of words

Arranged on a page

Appealing not just to the author’s wit

Recognizing another political dimwit

Reading between the lines