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 June Rowlands -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
June Rowlands was the 67th mayor of (additional info and facts about Toronto, Ontario) Toronto, Ontario, and the first woman to hold that office (beginning in 1991).
Rowlands is probably best remembered for banning the Toronto pop group (additional info and facts about Barenaked Ladies) Barenaked Ladies from performing at a City Hall function, claiming that the group's name objectified women.
Later in her term, Rowlands gained further notoriety when she seemed to be staggeringly uninformed about -- and even completely unaware of -- a large-scale youth riot that had shut down parts of (additional info and facts about Yonge Street) Yonge Street, Toronto's main drag located just a few blocks east of City Hall.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ju/june_rowlands.htm   (201 words)

  
 Gena Rowlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gena Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is an American actress.
Her father, Edwin Myrwyn Rowlands, was a state Assemblyman and her mother, Mary Allen Neal, was a housewife.
Rowlands appeared in Broadway in the late 1950s, and made her film debut in The High Cost of Loving in 1958.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gena_Rowlands   (251 words)

  
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 ADCC News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Rowlands immediately escaped to open the third, and now it was he who went on the defensive.
Rowlands was one of the heavyweight wrestlers ranked number one throughout the course of the season by W.I.N. Magazine, but when the regular season had been completed, he was only ranked second.
Rowlands was awarded a point, with 21 seconds left, to give him a 2-1 victory and the Big Ten championship.
news.adcombat.com /article.html?id=539   (911 words)

  
 ADCC News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Rowlands, a two-time NCAA Champion from Ohio State, advanced to the finals by defeating seventh-seeded Dawid Rechul of the Chicago Groove in the quarterfinals and third-seeded Garrett Lowney of the California Claw in the semifinals.
Rowlands dominated Dawid in the quarterfinals, scoring with a combination of leg attacks and push-outs to claim a decisive 9-3 victory.
Rowlands, who recently reached the finals of the U.S. Nationals (before losing to Cormier), feels that his future success in the sport hinges on his work in the par terre position.
news.adcombat.com /article.html?id=9154   (825 words)

  
 North East Mid Week Cricket League : midweekcricket.com
However with Rowlands ahead on scoring rate a 7 point victory was claimed in the rain.
Rowlands completed a hat-trick of wins by proving just too strong for bogey team The Old Record Players on a glorious evening for cricket at Close House.
Rowlands elected to bat and started with the new combination of Colin Tait and Simon Curtis and a first wicket stand of 99 runs.
www.midweekcricket.com /news.asp?id=6   (2814 words)

  
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Rowlands, a sophomore and heavyweight wrestler for OSU, defeated Steve Mocco, a freshman from Iowa, in double overtime at the 2002 NCAA Championship in Albany, N.Y. "This is something I have been striving for all year," Rowlands said.
Rowlands was victorious at the Big Ten championships, winning in double overtime to capture the conference title.
Rowlands said the next two years of competition are not going to be easy because Mocco is only a freshman.
www.thelantern.com /main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=230545   (446 words)

  
 Eye - What a difference a deadline makes - 06.11.92   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
June Rowlands' porky little Bruce beamed out at sleepy and unsuspecting Toronto Sun readers on May 26.
The phantom mayor (or is she Toronto's answer to Ronald Reagan?) gave her 31-year-old son a $47,000-a-year job as her executive assistant, without interviewing anyone else, and then crowed about it.
Instead there was a tiny item in the Toronto Live column: "ROWLANDS TO TAI ONE ON: Toronto Mayor June Rowlands will begin tomorrow with a tai chi workout in Nathan Phillips Square at 8 a.m." On Wednesday Treena Khan caught up with the other two papers with, "Lucky her son took job, Rowlands tells critics."
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.11.92/news/med0611.htm   (1103 words)

  
 Eye - NEWS: Hall inches closer to the mayor's chair - 08.26.93   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The funny thing is that Mayor June Rowlands, a Liberal, in hoping to get re-elected, has also been cozying up to the middle-of-the-roaders, telling some of them that "we should get together...
Hall is disturbed by the way Rowlands seems unable or unwilling to deal with the sleaze factor at City Hall, where various councillors "have brought council into disrepute" through their words and actions.
During the Buddies in Bad Times debate, for example, Hall says Rowlands told a NDP councillor that while privately she supported giving a public grant to the gay theatre group, she would have to abstain from any vote in public.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_08.26.93/NEWS/cit0826.htm   (924 words)

  
 Politician mount anti-Eng campaign: Would-be head of police board called "anti-cop"
Rowlands is to stay on for one month after her term expires April 5.
Another source said, "Rowlands went to the Premier's office and raised a ruckus" after word leaked out she would be replaced by Eng.
In July 1989, Rowlands told a reporter that Eng and Williams were speaking for their communities (Eng is of Chinese origin and Williams is fl), not the entire Toronto community.
www.walnet.org /jane_doe/news/toronto_91/torstar-910326.html   (697 words)

  
 ROWLANDS QUARRIES (KATHERINE) PTY LTD v. E.A. WITTE PTY LTD, PAUL WITTE and MINISTER FOR MINES AND ENERGY No. 197/1992 ...
On the evidence of both Mr Rowlands and Mr Witte it is clear that both parties anticipated there would be a written agreement drawn legally to be signed by the parties reflecting the terms and conditions of the sublease.
On his evidence Mr Rowlands was aware he had to assume the responsibility of rehabilitation and this would be by providing a bank guarantee as a suitable deposit or security for the Department of Mines and Energy.
Mr Rowlands, who was in possession of the information as to what he was required to do, by way of rehabilitation, did not reduce that to writing and convey it to Mr Witte.
www.nt.gov.au /ntsc/doc/sentencing_remarks/0/92/0/NS000590.htm   (3182 words)

  
 Racism, Freedom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Mayor June Rowlands, who went on to ban a band known as Barenaked Ladies from Nathan Phillip's Square, was chair of the police board.
The politically correct Rowlands banned the rock band from the square because she thought their name was offensive.
Under her police board chairmanship, the gathering of statistics linking race and crime was banned because of the possibility that such information could be manipulated to reinforce stereotypes and label certain ethnic communities as criminal.
www.torontofreepress.com /2002/main102802.htm   (866 words)

  
 icBirmingham - Barbecue wife vowed to stab husband - pal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I told her not to be silly," June Rowlands told Stafford Crown Court.
Mrs Rowlands, who was at a barbecue with her friend, said that at another event a fortnight later 27-year-old Susan Lapsley was again screaming that she was going to stab husband Norman.
Mrs Rowlands told the court: "Her husband was in the garden and I told him he should go home and he eventually went.
icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk /mail/news/tm_objectid=15605813&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=barbecue-wife-vowed-to-stab-husband---pal-name_page.html   (317 words)

  
 Toronto Sun Columnist: John Downing - They don't know Jack
His saying about a "sucker born every minute" is key to understanding their platform today, which makes all past cuts by Paul Martin, the PM, celestial in their goodness, and all future cuts proposed by Stephen Harper, the would-be PM, an evil that only crazies would dream up.
James Surowiecki starts his entertaining book with an anecdote about a fall fair in England in 1906 where 800 fairgoers of all ages and backgrounds each tried to guess what an ox would weigh after it was slaughtered and dressed.
He still sounds like the guy who lost for mayor (against June Rowlands, who wasn't exactly a ball of fire) and has lost in two previous federal tries.
www.canoe.ca /NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/John_Downing/2004/05/31/pf-479659.html   (603 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Culture and politics of Toronto Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Should make a point of growth in foreign-born population, 100 languages, 40 religions, and huge influx of refugees and immigrants especially in the 1990s, which caused Toronto's culture to drastically diverge from that of Ontario, and led to the late '90s conflict with Ontario and rise of the Province of Toronto movement.
Should profile prominent city politicians including David Crombie, Art Eggleton, John Sewell, Barbara Hall, June Rowlands, Mel Lastman, David Miller and Jack Layton, all of whom have been Mayor or otherwise decisive in its politics.
Should also note the Toronto International Film Festival, which is one of the largest in the world, and easily the best-attended, generally considered second only to Cannes as a venue futs.
www.ipedia.com /culture_and_politics_of_toronto.html   (237 words)

  
 Celebrity Birthdays, June 19-25 - Boston.com - Celebrity news - A&E   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 19-25: June 19: Actress Gena Rowlands is 69.
June 22: Actor Ralph Waite ("The Waltons") is 77.
June 25: Movie director Sidney Lumet is 81.
www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2005/06/15/celebrity_birthdays_june_19_25   (409 words)

  
 June Rowlands - TheBestLinks.com - Political correctness, Police, 1994, 1991, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 Without Fear or Favour: The Life and Politics of an Urban Cop, by Bill McCormack. Chapter 21: Bob Rae's Kind of People
In a front-page story, she served notice that when she took over from June Rowlands, whom she derided as ineffective and a "captive" of the force's command officers, things were certainly going to be different.
During June Rowland's tenure I would go to her office a couple of times a week and summarize the "majors" — the big or newsworthy cases that different squads were working on.
As chair, she had a right to know what our officers were doing, good or bad, and she needed to be able to respond in an informal manner when the media came calling about a high-profile case.
www.walnet.org /97_walnut/fiona_stewart/fearorfavour-21.html   (5102 words)

  
 Newark Business Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
June Rowlands announced that Harold’s, the gentleman’s hairdresser at 43 Cartergate,was the unanimous winner of this year’s Bestdressed Christmas Window award.
In equal second place were June Halford of Creative 4U in the Buttermarket and a new Newark trader, along with Garry Horton with the Cottage Shop in Paxtons Court.
June Rowlands announced that Newark and Sherwood District Council is offering free drop-in Body MOTs at its leisure centres in the New Year – perfect after the holiday excesses.
www.newarkhub.co.uk /news_dec.htm   (850 words)

  
 Sound Politics: Volunteers Needed
Nicole Way testified that there may be more uncounted ballots, as they did not do a complete and thorough search of the envelopes and stopped looking when they found 92.
I suppose he believes like many of his liberal friends that this judge was voted in by a conservative base.
The right wing set this election up thinking they had a surefire win and they had the misfortune of running into the lone honest republican judge in the state.
www.soundpolitics.com /archives/004652.html   (1861 words)

  
 Barenaked Ladies Information
Barenaked Ladies also know as BNL for short, was formed in 1988, by songwriters, singer-guitarists Steven Page (born on June 22, 1970 in Ontario, Canada; lead vocals, guitar) and Ed Robertson (born on October 25, 1970, Ontario, Canada; lead vocals, acoustic & electric guitars).
The alternative rock band is also composed of Kevin Hearn (vocals, guitar, keyboards, accordion) who joined in 1995-96,after Andy Creeggan (born on July 4, 1971; congas) left the band in order to complete his college degree, Tyler Stewart(born on September 21, 1967;vocals, drums) and Jim Creeggan (born on February 12, 1970; vocals, bass).
Sales of the tape were jumpstarted when BNL were taken off the bill of a concert at Toronto's City Hall because a staffer for then-mayor June Rowlands saw the band's name and felt it objectified women, which catapulted BNL into a media frenzy.
www.buyselltix.com /concerts/artistInfo/barenakedLadiesInfo.php   (752 words)

  
 ARTICLE: Neighbors look for brighter solution (The Virginian-Pilot - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A crew with Dominion Virginia Power worked on the light in June and used electrical tape to hold the fixture together.
The streetlight in front of Brian Rowlands’ home in Chesapeake’s South Norfolk section blinked out this past spring.
Rowlands watched as they disassembled the street lamp, pronounced it in need of major work, and started to reassemble it.
home.hamptonroads.com /stories/story.cfm?story=95367&ran=177738   (710 words)

  
 Astrology and map of the heavens of famous people: well known Gemini people with Venus in Leo
Just click on the famous people of your choice to get the map of the heavens, the positions of planets and astrological houses, the place of birth, the time of birth, the day of birth: all these famous people have the Sun in Gemini and Venus in Leo.
Thierry Mgr BRAC de la PERRIERE born June 17, 1959
Adrie van der POEL born June 17, 1959
www.astrotheme.fr /en/celebrites/soleil_venus_2_4.htm   (102 words)

  
 Shofar FTP Archives: orgs/canadian/league-for-human-rights/heritage-front/canadian-far-right
At a June 1992 Heritage Front meeting held in Toronto, skinheads from Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, Niagara Falls, New York and Boston made up the majority of the audience, as they do at most Heritage Front events.
Nationalist Party of Canada (NPOC) Among its membership ranks, the Heritage Front counts many former associates of the White supremacist Nationalist Party of Canada; in fact, it is believed that the Heritage Front has taken most of its membership from the ranks of the Nationalist Party.
However, Toronto Mayor June Rowlands alerted the provincial government to the situation.
www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.cgi/orgs/canadian/ftp.py?orgs/canadian/league-for-human-rights/heritage-front/canadian-far-right   (791 words)

  
 George Stephanopoulos Deposition section 9
Morris' 11 girlfriend, Sherry Rowlands, kept a diary 12 whereby she's reported to have stated that 13 based upon conversations with Dick Morris, 14 that Hillary Clinton is the mastermind of 15 Filegate?
I base that 2 comment on polling data I had recently 3 analyzed.
The poll was conducted on 4 June 18th and 19th.
www.judicialwatch.org /archive/ois/cases/filegate/stephan_depo/stephan9.htm   (6478 words)

  
 Everything old is new again :: Toronto Police Service :: To Serve and Protect
Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 05:40 PM Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino, Vice Chair of the Toronto Police Services Board Pam McConnell and Mayor David Miller opened the new building
A new era of policing was unveiled in the shell of an old building.
Former mayor June Rowlands was on hand to accept a dedication of the community room in her honour.
www.torontopolice.on.ca /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1118&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0   (343 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Music - Pop Encyclopedia - Barenaked Ladies
By 1991 Tyler Stewart had joined the band and the group was stirring up publicity both with their savage wit and impromptu acoustic concerts (especially on live radio) but in the media by being banned by Toronto mayor June Rowlands who wouldn't allow them to play in Nathan Phillips Square due to their 'offensive' name.
The band managed to slip in a cover version of Bruce Cockburn's "Lovers In A Dangerous Times" onto Intrepid Records' 'Kick At The Darkness' tribute album before a bidding war by major labels ensued and Sire Records out of the US won the coveted label honours.
President Seymour Stein himself came to Toronto to oversee the public signing of the deal - held at the city hall of their suburban hometown of Scarborough as not only a publicity stunt, but as a huge public snubbing of Toronto mayor June Rowlands.
jam.canoe.ca /Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/B/Barenaked_Ladies.html   (900 words)

  
 Norman (Otis) Richmond
We are currently lobbying the government to make June Black Music Month just as it did with Black History Month, which is every February.
Since 1983, thanks to the efforts of the BMA/TC, Toronto Mayors June Rowlands, Barbara Hall and Mel Lastman, respectively, have recognized June as Black Music Month.
During the month of June CKLN-FM 88.1 will be playing resistance music from Trench Town to Toronto and Cape Town to Nova Scotia.
www.canadianreggaeworld.com /NormanOtisRichmond2.htm   (624 words)

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