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Guy W. Close – The sky is not exactly falling, but Canadians are in a very risky place when it comes to the amount of household debt we continue to run up compared to our incomes, according to a source no less august than the Bank of Canada. In a dire forecast this week, bank [...]
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Chinese police are investigating reports that a group of people with mental disabilities have been working in slave-like conditions. The 11 workers were apparently sold by an unauthorised charitable organisation to a factory in the country’s north-west. Reports say the workers were unpaid and lived in appalling conditions. This is not the first time a [...]
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Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, has reached a new milestone in its quest to leave the Solar System. Now 17.4bn km 10.8bn miles from home, the veteran probe has detected a distinct change in the flow of particles that surround it. These particles, which emanate from the Sun, are no longer travelling [...]
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The Swedish network STV has just come out with a timely documentary about WikiLeaks, entitled “Wikileaks: Med Läckan Som Vapen,” which translates loosely to “WikiRebels,” the English title. The in-depth report has original sit-down interviews with Assange and his underlings, and folks around the Internet are praising its even-handedness. The entire documentary is embedded below.
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In a chat on LeMonde.fr, José Bové, Green MEP, said that the proposals of John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, provide a framework to bring GMOs within the European borders. José Bové : The lobbies are all based in Brussels, and try to impose their objectives, including GMOs, the Commission, but also in Parliament. [...]
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Saturday January 8, 8pm $30 Location : Meaford Hall Arts & Cultural Centre Contact : Box Office 1.877.538.0463 New Kid In Town returns to Meaford Hall with an evening of Eagles classics! This Niagara band rocks the house – combining raw talent, natural showmanship, and a love of all music they generate an infectious energy [...]
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In New York recently, addressing some American investors, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty repeated the government’s now well-known phrase that “Canada is an emerging energy superpower.” Superpower. It has a nice ring, doesn’t it? Until now, the most Canadians had ever hoped for was to be a “middle power” during the standoff between those real superpowers, [...]
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BILL HENRY Sun Times staff Meaford residents can expect the 2011 municipal tax rate to dip below 10 per cent as promised, chief administrative office Frank Miele said. Staff will table a 2011 draft budget today during the first working session for the mostly-new Meaford council, along with a broad outline of the municipality’s overall [...]
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My first encounter with Nordic cuisine was in Iceland, where over the course of a wintry week two years ago, I tried whale, reindeer, and hákarl, shark meat that is left to rot in the ground for two months and dried for a few more. The recommended chaser? A Brennivín schnapps, lovingly called the “black [...]
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“Sometimes, the smallest thing can change your life…” one of the smallest birds in the world indeed changed the life of New York advertising photographers into the award winning film makers! Documenting the lucky finding of the tiny hummingbird’s nest on the clothesline in their new home in Las Vegas, the Carrolls turned the story [...]
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ON DECEMBER 15th, in a small courtroom in central Moscow, Viktor Danilkin, a softly spoken judge, is due to start delivering a verdict. Its symbolism will go far beyond the fate of the two defendants, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, former principal shareholders in the Yukos oil company. Both men have been in jail since [...]
