There are no adjectives strong enough to describe what happened to Tori Stafford in the final hours of her life. A life so crudely taken, that there are people from one end of the country to the other clamouring for the return of the death penalty. It's understandable, but...
It may have been just what the councillors present say it was, a harmless lunch. But a lunch at the Harmony Buffet attended by Mayor Fontana and councillors Polhill, Orser, Henderson, Van Meerbergen and Denise Brown before the final budget meeting at city hall is enough...
Anyone who gets into the business of reporting the news knows that, on occasion, you are going to come across stories that make you wish you had chosen another profession. Despite the best efforts to create some kind of emotional separation between oneself and the tragic...
This week on The Big Picture, we look back at the tragedy in Hampstead. Eleven people were killed when a flatbed truck driven by 38 year old Christopher Fulton of London collided with a van carrying migrant workers. The OPP determined that the driver of the van ran a stop...
They started out as four guys from Georgia. But by the time they called it a day, they had gone from college radio darlings to international superstars. It seems everyone in the early-to-mid 80's knew someone who listened to R.E.M. and wouldn't stop talking about how great...
On Saturday, February 4th, the second edition of the Free FM news magazine program "The Big Picture" aired. It featured Free FM reporter Avery Moore's documentary on the closure announcement at Electro-Motive, an interview with UWO researcher Dr. Anne Snowdon about her work...
I once had an acquaintance who was aghast at my policy of never watching Roman Polanski films. "Sorry," I said, "I'm just not interested in watching a movie directed by a rapist." "But you have to look past the artist and appreciate the art" was his reply. So, I asked...
In case you missed Saturday morning's debut of the Big Picture, we've posted the three segments below. The Big Picture in an in-depth look at the issues that matter to the community, presented by the 98.1 Free FM news team. The show airs every Saturday morning from 6:30am to...
"Stephen Harper, where are you?" It wouldn't be a surprise if that question was on the lips of many an Electro-Motive worker, given the silence of the Prime Minister in the midst of what could prove to be a watershed moment in Canadian labour relations. ...
To many hockey fans, the idea borders on heretical. But that makes it no less true. The time has come to rid our national game of the bare-knuckle brawling that has become, to many, it's signature. ...
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