Sunday, March 18, 2007 Talks of an election are beginning to rise again in the media as Canada’s Conservatives rallied last night in Toronto. Conservative MPs came to the two day event in Toronto for a training session. It was a campaign-style event with about 5,000 party supporters. During the event, the Prime Minister talked…
Bank of America leads Consumer Financial Protection Bureau complaints about mortgages
Thursday, October 3, 2013 A review this week by Wikinews of US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) complaints about mortgages in the United States shows Bank of America leads all lending institutions in complaints. Since mortgages complaints were recorded in December 2011, 77,622 total have been added to CFPB’s database. 29.2% of these complaints involved…
New Year, New You: Losing The Weight For Good
Read More About: Gastric Sleeve California New Year, New You: Losing the Weight for Good by JonathanTrott2k1 If your weight problem falls in the category of obesity rather than a few extra pounds, the typical New Years resolution of getting trim through diet and exercise probably seems daunting and with good reason. Practically speaking, it…
Wikinews interviews candidate for Cleveland mayor Arthur Kostendt
Monday, June 14, 2021 Arthur Oliver Kostendt, a candidate running in the mayoral election of the US city of Cleveland, Ohio set to take place November 2, discussed his campaign and policies with Wikinews this spring. According to Cleveland Scene, 29-year-old Kostendt is a member of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio Republican Party but has referred…
Online buyers conned by fake Olympics ticket web sites
Thursday, August 7, 2008 Two web sites purporting to sell tickets to the 2008 Summer Olympic Games due to open in Beijing, China on Friday have been the subject of lawsuits from the International Olympic Committee in United States courts in recent weeks. The web sites, beijingticketing.com and beijing-2008tickets.com, were designed to resemble official sites…
Wikinews interviews Anda Banikos, local council candidate in South Gippsland, Australia
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 Since June 2019, the people of South Gippsland Shire, located at the southernmost tip of Australia, have been without a local council, after a state government inquiry found “high levels of tension” within the council. Administrators were appointed by the Victorian state government in July 2019, who have governed the shire…
Buyer’s Remorse And How To Short Circuit It
Read More About: Real Estate Agency Bald Hills By Kenrick Cleveland It’s human nature to want to believe that we have done something of value when we make a purchase. We like to feel we’ve used proper sense and keen determination in choosing things that are going to be good for us and of the…
Dozens of cats removed from feces-ridden New Jersey house
Saturday, March 28, 2009 Almost 100 cats and one dog were found living in a feces- and filth-ridden New Jersey house, in what local authorities are calling among the worst cases of animal cruelty they have ever seen. Authorities had to wear masks in order to help them breathe through the stench of urine as…
Edmund White on writing, incest, life and Larry Kramer
Thursday, November 8, 2007 What you are about to read is an American life as lived by renowned author Edmund White. His life has been a crossroads, the fulcrum of high-brow Classicism and low-brow Brett Easton Ellisism. It is not for the faint. He has been the toast of the literary elite in New York,…
Wikinews interviews U.S. Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney
Friday, March 7, 2008 Wikinews held an exclusive interview with Cynthia McKinney, one of the candidates for the Green Party nomination for the 2008 U.S. presidential election. McKinney is a former Democratic Congresswoman from Georgia. She was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1992 and held her seat for ten years until being…