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In the News (Fri 11 Dec 09)

  
  Edited Evidence * INST * Number 010 (Official Version) - Committees of the House of Commons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Joe Fontana: Yes, through the chair--you can ask the officials who are here to answer those questions on TRIPS and on what is compliant and what is legal.
Joe Fontana: Proposed section 21.01 in the bill says, “The purpose of sections 21.02 to 21.17 is to facilitate access to pharmaceutical products to address public health problems”.
Joe Fontana: I appreciate where James is coming from with regard to the intent, and obviously sometimes we have to be very careful with words.
cmte.parl.gc.ca /cmte/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=79062   (3207 words)

  
  Joe Fontana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Frank "Joe" Fontana, PC, (born January 13, 1950 in Celare, Cosenza, Italy) was a Liberal member of the Parliament of Canada for the riding of London North Centre, in London, Ontario.
Fontana was strongly speculated to be considering a run for leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, though he ultimately did not seek the post, supporting Gerard Kennedy instead.
Fontana expressed his discontent for the London Free Press's arguable bias for DeCicco-Best in the weeks prior to the election and stated "There is a benefit in not winning and that is because I am going to cancel my subscription to The London Free Press...
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Fontana   (644 words)

  
 Joe Fontana
The son of Sicilian immigrants Joe was born in Brooklyn, NY, on September 9, 1920.
Even though he was born and raised in the urban environs of metropolitan New York the call of the sea was in his blood and at the tender age of 16 he signed on as a cadet in the Merchant Marine and set sail for the first time.
No one in the Fontana family seems to know the circumstances of the missing months, but Joe’s sons and one remaining brother are undertaking research to try to piece together the missing parts of his career.
www.divingheritage.com /fontanakern.htm   (635 words)

  
 Fontana pushed to run for mayor
Fontana said he's been encouraged to run in the past, but this time the encouragement seems widespread and he keeps hearing his name mentioned as a contender.
Fontana, an accomplished and usually glib politician, was clearly uncomfortable discussing the issue, saying in the end he would neither confirm nor deny he'll take the plunge back into city politics.
Fontana was minister of labour and housing in Paul Martin's short-lived government, and considered entering the race to succeed Martin when the Liberal leader resigned after the Conservatives won the Jan. 23 election.
lfpress.ca /cgi-bin/publish.cgi?p=140295&x=articles&s=civicelection   (838 words)

  
 Joseph Fontana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fontana was partnered with Detective Ed Green and, for a brief time, with Detective Nick Falco while Green was recovering from a gunshot wound.
Fontana originally had a rocky start with Green, who was still upset about the retirement of his old partner, Lennie Briscoe.
Convinced that her father was involved, Fontana would not let go of the case until another murderer confessed to the crime in the episode "Ghosts." Only after the father had to testify against the second culprit did Fontana question his original judgement.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Fontana_(Law_&_Order)   (585 words)

  
 Edited Evidence * FEWO * Number 048 (Official Version) - Committees of the House of Commons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Joe Fontana: Anita, I think our approach would be one piece of legislation dealing with both the union and non-union, but obviously the approaches would have to be a little different.
Joe Fontana: Had we been able to just throw out a piece of legislation to say here's your legislation—you surely know, because you've been around this place a long time—we would have been criticized that we hadn't done it right.
Joe Fontana: First of all, let me suggest...I would hope there are examples of companies working with their employees where in fact they don't need legislation in order to recognize the basic fundamental human rights.
cmte.parl.gc.ca /cmte/committeepublication.aspx?sourceid=138044   (11934 words)

  
 The People
Joe changed every aspect of the entire engraving industry when he purchased the company on March 1, 1972.
Joe and his wife Patricia are the proud loving grandparents of six grandchildren.
They consider themselves fortunate to be active in the lives of their grandchildren, and when Joe is not doing that you'll find him on a golf course somewhere in this hemisphere.
www.faec.com /Hello/bio/jfontana.htm   (438 words)

  
 Joseph Umech Scholarship Fund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Joe led his own orchestra in Girard, Ohio, from 1936 to 1966, performing in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois.
Joe Umeck established a scholarship in his name administered by the SNPJ.
Because Joe believed that students possessing these traits are worthy of our investment, this scholarship places greater emphasis on these values than grade point average.
www.fontanabuttonaccordionclub.org /Pages/ScholarshipFund1.html   (319 words)

  
 Meet Congressman Joe Baca
Joe was born in Belen, New Mexico, in 1947, the youngest of 15 children in a house where little English was spoken.
Joe worked shining shoes at age 10, delivered newspapers, and later worked as a laborer for the Santa Fe Railroad until he was drafted in 1966.
Joe and his wife, Barbara, began their own business, Interstate World Travel, in San Bernardino in 1989.
www.house.gov /baca/meetjoe/bio.htm   (455 words)

  
 globeandmail.com - Canada's Election 2004 - Breaking News
Joe Fontana has been a dynamic presence in the Liberal Caucus since first being elected in 1988.
Fontana was also the Chair of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration and is currently the Chair of the Southwestern Ontario Liberal Caucus.
Fontana was a Councillor for the City of London, in 1978, and a member of the City of London Board of Control, in 1985.
www.theglobeandmail.com /elections/fed2004/candidates/generated/35043_LIB.html   (257 words)

  
 Smokin Joe; Fontana mini truck - Nissan/Datsun 620 Pickup Truck Bulletside -|The 620 Resource|-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Before Joe Sarracino's truck was Smokin' Joe, it was Red Phantom.
Below is a picture of Smokin' Joe's builder, Joe Sarracino, standing with Jim Knight (Undisputed Beauty) and Doug (last name unknown), the owner of the very nice gold truck they are standing in front of.
These were the "Fontana" style trucks because no body else made their 620's look like "funny cars." This was a "Fontana" only trend.
www.worldaccessnet.com /~dcmurphy/620/s_joe2.htm   (194 words)

  
 Global Visionaries
Joe Fontana is one of the founders of Global Visionaries, and presently leads the Global Visionaries program in San Francisco.
Joe organized and led Walk for Education, a 60 mile walk from Loveland to Denver, which brought the issue of educational funding to the front pages of national media.
Maria Fontana is a master educator having taught every age from elementary through graduate school in her 20 plus years of education.
www.global-visionaries.org /about_staff.html   (907 words)

  
 Christian Persecution
Fontana heard first-hand testimonies from victims regarding the country's government-sponsored genocide against the predominately fl Christian population.
Fontana told the London Free Press, "I am sure that my life will never be the same.
I looked into children's eyes and I was crying when they told me how they saw their mother's throats cut or their parents thrown into fires." As a result of this, he will be pressuring Manley to take a hard line with the Sudanese government ant to provide practical help to the victims.
www.help-for-you.com /persecution/persecutionTue08May2001.html   (883 words)

  
 Joe Gibbs Racing
Upon arriving in Fontana, Tony and his JGR team will literally pick up the pieces after being involved in the "Big Wreck" two weeks ago at Talladega (Ala.).
Drivers have won at Fontana by taking two tires instead of four on their last pit stop.
Even some guys who are behind and don't have their car the way they want, by taking on two tires, the track position they gain helps out more than four tires would.
joegibbsracing.com /season_2000/news_wc/news_cup_000426_tony_pre.shtml   (624 words)

  
 on-London North Centre
Fontana is really tense these days and both Joe's spend so much energy attacking Gatten you get the feeling a) they really are afraid of conservatives b) they have no ideas of thier own or c) that Tim is attracting a lot of votes.
And on the whole, Joe Fontana's held his own to the point where if there were a token handful of SW Ontario seats sticking to their Liberal guns, his would be high on the list...
Joe Swan is a very well-known and well-respected municipal politician and the familiarity of his name is the best thing he has going for him.
www.electionprediction.org /2004_fed/riding/35043-london-north-centre.htm   (3262 words)

  
 Almanac Almanac: An era ends at Menlo-Atherton High: Leadership teacher and baseball coach Joe Fontana is leaving (June ...
With his wife Anna and their 2-year-old son Joseph, he is heading to Colorado to work with his brother at Global Visionaries, a nonprofit they co-founded 10 years ago to develop leaders to work on issues of social and environmental justice.
Fontana's leadership class roster for a semester or two or three is not like, say, signing up for a class in history or conversational Spanish.
Fontana says his upbringing taught him to be independent, responsible and involved.
www.almanacnews.com /story.php?story_id=1911   (1284 words)

  
 Drummerworld: D.J. Fontana
Dominic Joseph (D.J.) Fontana was the Saturday night staff drummer for the Louisiana Hayride.
When you hear D.J. Fontana playing his drums you are hearing a kid from Shreveport, LA tell you what he thinks music should sound like.
All I really know is when I try to imagine music today without the contributions of D.J. Fontana, Scotty Moore and Bill Black my brain goes numb.
www.drummerworld.com /drummers/DJ_Fontana.html   (782 words)

  
 Tom Fontana Trivia - Tom Fontana Facts - Tom Fontana Notes
Aginst his wishes, the pilot episode for Fontana's The Bedford Diaries was censored by the WB's standards department for air on television.
The episode had orginally been accepted in full by the department, but due to the recent large fines imposed upon CBS by the FCC, the WB decided to cut footage of two girls kissing and a shot of a girl unbuttoning her jeans.
Fontana would later go on to be a producer on the show.
www.tv.com /tom-fontana/person/23369/trivia.html   (485 words)

  
 Larlyn Property Management Ltd - Corporate Information
Fontana has over 14 years experience in the property and asset management industry.
Fontana has been involved in various aspects of the business including the creation of internal social housing waiting lists, financial, human resource and project management.
Fontana’s education includes a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario and he continues his non-profit housing education by attending numerous seminars and workshops provided by various associations and advisory groups.
www.larlyn.com /corporate/profile_joe.asp   (261 words)

  
 Election 2006
Fontana served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport.
Fontana also served as Chair of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration and Chair of the Southwestern Ontario Liberal Caucus.
Fontana was a Councilor for the City of London, in 1978, and a member of the City of London Board of Control, in 1985.
www.ctv.ca /mini/election2006/candidates/35043_LIB.html   (272 words)

  
 Capital News Online | Top Story | Liberals accused of leaving housing out in the cold
Fontana reaffirmed that promise in January, when he told a reporter that the 2005 budget would include the $1.5 billion.
Fontana said he is developing regional strategies with the provinces and municipalities, and it would have been premature to put the money in the budget before the consultations were complete.
Fontana says he's open to looking at more flexible ways of delivering the funds, such as supplementing rents, subsidizing landlords and home owners, converting buildings, developing government land and re-thinking the federal-provincial cost-sharing arrangements.
www.carleton.ca /jmc/cnews/04032005/n2print.shtml   (879 words)

  
 Joe Cartwright: Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Jazz pianist Joe Cartwright has lived, performed and taught in the Kansas City area for the last twenty three years.
Joe has performed on and produced numerous jazz recordings.
In the spring of 2000, Cartwright toured the Middle East, Africa, India and Southeast Asia as a USIA Jazz Ambassador.
www.joe-cartwright.com /bio   (279 words)

  
 CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Junior Hockey - JLC patrons afraid: Fontana
Many fans heading to the London Knights game against the Owen Sound Attack were surprised mayoral candidate Joe Fontana said Londoners were too scared to go downtown or to stay in the core after concerts and sporting events.
Didn't Fontana used to be the housing minister?" Ken Henry said.
(Fontana was the labour and housing minister under former prime minister Paul Martin.)
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Hockey/Junior/2006/09/30/1924725-sun.html   (278 words)

  
 John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot: September 2005
Labour Minister Joe Fontana yesterday criticized both sides in the CBC lockout, saying they are spending more energy trying to convince the public of their position than trying to reach an agreement.
Even with a fairly low profile, Fontana was on the minds of picket lines east and west, north and south on Monday, as he met with CBC and Canadian Media Guild officials to resolve a lockout that is now in its seventh week.
Fontana, who has summoned the top leaders from CBC management and the union to meet with him on Monday morning, says he wants to hear a concrete plan from both sides about how they intend to end this lockout, since frustration is mounting in many quarters of the Liberal government over how it's dragging on.
johngushue.typepad.com /blog/2005/09/index.html   (13222 words)

  
 Fontana Markets New Rhino Sealed Motor Through X2r - MidgetMadness.com Info Center
Joe Fontana and his staff should really be commended for stepping up to the plate here in this very driver and owner-friendly motor.
The Fontana Rhino motor is beginning to gain wide-spread acceptance with other midget groups and teams.
Fontana Automotive was founded in 1988 and is located in Gardena, California.
www.midgetmadness.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=8641   (825 words)

  
 ABC News: Column: Minimum Wage Hikes Hit Small Biz
Joe Fontana, who owns a Detroit-based corrugated packaging company, said, "I don't think it affects us immediately, but there's be some trickling effect in the future."
Fontana said he relies on temporary agencies for some workers, and those costs are likely to go up too.
Joe Schodowski already expects to be hurt by Michigan's increase.
abcnews.go.com /Business/wireStory?id=2768269&page=2   (360 words)

  
 FACT CHECK: Joe Fontana's economic development platform
Fontana would have city council create an implementation group of researchers, entrepreneurs and consultants to advise on turning research into business.
Fontana would go after small businesses to convince them to relocate to London -- even travelling to other cities such as Calgary to try woo their successful industries.
Joe Fontana vowed Oct. 30 to try to end the rail gridlock that's snarled London traffic for years.
www.lfpress.com /cgi-bin/publish.cgi?x=articles&p=159032&s=civic_mayors   (792 words)

  
 The Phantom Observer » Blog Archive » Should Joe Fontana Stay Or Go?
Personable and popular, Fontana was elected to three consecutive terms as national chair of the federal Liberal caucus.
Fontana is now the Liberals’; parliamentary critic for science and research.
It would be a blow to caucus morale because Fontana’s assumed resignation sends the message that being a Liberal on the national scene is less important than being the leader of a local entity, which would be especially telling given that he was a former Minister and no mere backbencher.
phantomobserver.com /blog/?p=307   (480 words)

  
 JOE BEAN HOPES TO ROCKET TO A WIN [RACINGWEST]
FONTANA, CA --Joe Bean is looking at the big picture this weekend.
Joe Bean: It's like the Taj Mahal, state of the art, and all the amenities.
RW: Fontana is the fastest track on the WW circuit.
www.racingwest.com /news/1999/04-30cs_bean.shtml   (438 words)

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