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Josh Malloch, Marina Demina and Meagan Brown
What a pleasant surprise to have Marina Demina (or Demina Marina in Russian) had dinner with us today. Marina is an exchange student from Russia sponsored by Rotary International. Hope you enjoy your stay in Canada with us Marina. Special thanks to Josh (one of our first customers) for [...]
Polar bears, walruses, seals, whales and ocean-going birds like eider ducks and loons call the Arctic Ocean home. Their survival in an environment seemingly so inhospitable is a wonder of nature. But as climate change continues unabated, these creatures – already facing a harsh environment – become some of the most vulnerable on earth.
Incredibly, their [...]
Use every letter you write, every conversation you have, every meeting you attend, to express your fundamental beliefs and dreams. Affirm to others the vision of the world you want. You are a free, immensely powerful source of life and goodness. Affirm it. Spread it. Radiate it. Think day and night about it and you [...]
The Magic of Children in the Arts
This show was designed to stimulate and encourage the youth of our community to create, exhibit and celebrate their art.
Dear John,
Zimbabwe was once one of the most promising countries in Africa with a thriving agricultural industry, one of the region’s highest literacy rates and a robust healthcare system. Today, the people of Zimbabwe are facing desperation.Twenty eight years of increasingly dictatorial rule by President Robert Mugabe have led to hyperinflation, food shortages and a breakdown [...]
Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle—a string of slaves— Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and [...]
Visa and MasterCard interested in offering debit cards in Canada. Two major international credit card companies are poised to enter Canada’s debit market, a move that could dramatically alter the structure of the payments industry in Canada and stoke fears of higher fees for business and consumers.
By DANA FLAVELLE
AND RITA TRICHUR
BUSINESS REPORTERS
The move comes amid already [...]
ENERGY REPORTER
Municipalities will lose the power to decide how close wind turbines can be to residential properties and environmentally sensitive areas under proposed green-energy legislation being tabled Monday.
The new rules, a blow to NIMBYism, will also ensure that developers of wind and other renewable-energy projects get construction permits within six months.
It’s all part of Premier [...]
by MICHAEL SHNAYERSON
After getting $125 billion in taxpayer bailouts, the top officers at Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and three other banks agreed to forgo their 2008 bonuses. Now they’re awarding billions to their troops. Can government “ claw back” that money?
On December 8, The Wall Street Journal reported that John Thain, the 53-year-old chairman and C.E.O. of Merrill [...]
The Chinese are latecomers to space, and desperate to catch up. Two years after shooting down a satellite, they stand accused of stealing US secrets. A new arms race has begun.
The Chinese astronauts (left to right) Jing Haipeng, Zhai Zhigang and Liu Boming carried out their country’s third manned space mission last September
Dongfan Chung had [...]
By Susan Bourette | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
For his first foreign visit as president, Barack Obama chose a country where no major banks have failed, home foreclosures pale by comparison with those in the United States, corporate and consumer debt is low, and citizens enjoy universal health care. Canada often gets short shrift [...]
This is not the New Depression, but we are on the way to discovering how the New Capitalism will operate argues economist Irwin Stelzer
Students at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government succeed as policymakers if they take away only one message: “Ask the wrong question, and you get a useless answer.” That message is too [...]
BY LINDA LEATHERDALE
Before visiting Canada yesterday, the new messiah for America, U.S. President Barack Obama was busy doling out more bailout money. And finally, after billions went to Wall Street, with bank brass treating themselves to fat-cat bonuses paid for by the taxpayer – some of the money is filtering down to Main Street.
In total, [...]
TONY VAN ALPHEN
BUSINESS REPORTER
Reeling General Motors has significantly increased the amount it’s seeking as a lifeline from Canadian taxpayers to more than $6 billion.
GM of Canada Ltd., at one time the country’s biggest industrial enterprise, submitted a survival plan to the federal and Ontario governments yesterday that asks for a lot more in loans than [...]
