MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Ricoh Canada Inc., the leading provider of digital office equipment, and an Official Supporter of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, today announced that it has received VANOC's Sustainability Star award. The Sustainability Star program, created by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) is a...
World silver medallist Joannie Rochette won her second straight Skate Canada women's title and booked her ticket to the Grand Prix Final in Tokyo. Reigning US and Grand Prix Final champion Jeremy Abbott held on to win the men's gold ahead of Japan's Daisuke Takahashi. Both men earned trips to the prestigious Grand Prix Finals, which will serve as the final showdown for the sport's elite ahead of the...
VANCOUVER, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ - Australian aerial skier Alisa Camplin couldn't have been more excited as she explored Canada's North and ran with the Olympic Torch in the Yukon. Alisa enjoyed an aut...
Matthew Yglesias sadly reiterates his belief that my country shouldn't exist : But the case for US-Canadian political union is pretty clear. As things stand, Canadian citizens are intensely impacted by decisions taken in Washington but have no real ability to influence them. Political union would give residents of Vancouver and Toronto an opportunity to have a say in decisions that are important to...
Vancouver Career College introduces stop smoking campaign at Surrey campus/I/P PSurrey, BC (Vocus) November 21, 2009 -- According to Health Canada, over 37,000 people will die this year in Canada because of smoking. While the percentage of smokers in Canada has decreased greatly in rece...
Health care spending to jump nearly 12% this year due to economy’s decline Vancouver Sun, November 20, 2009 Canadian health care spending is expected to reach $183.1 billion in 2009 or $5,452 per Canadian, according to figures released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information. The estimate represents a $9.5-billion increase from 2008. As a proportion of the gross domestic product,...
DHL has announced the launch of direct LCL service from Shenzhen to Gothenburg, enhancing its connectivity between Scandinavia and Southern China . Operated by DHL's in-house carrier, Danmar Lines, the new route is an addition to DHL's existing direct LCL services from Shenzhen to Europe and the US . The new weekly service enables cargo to be shipped directly to Gothenburg instead of being routed...
I saw De Carlo when she was a babe in the 1950s and didn't see her as Lily Munster till I saw reruns on TV after I came to the USA. She made 60 movies in the late 1940s and 1950s before doing The Munsters - and I saw most of them as a kid. She was stunningly beautiful. I really loved this lady. Yvonne De Carlo (September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007) : In her six-decade career, her most prolific...
I am excited to be stretching into some relatively unknown areas of my ability, by taking on the role of a bi-weekly columnist for a new free paper in Vancouver known as "The Agora." Look for it the next time you are out and about. Below is my submission for this weeks issue. As each article is produced I will continue to post here on Pursuing Permaculture. Since Tanya and I started this...
VANCOUVER MAGAZINE - Nov 20 - Markus Frind, the founder, CEO, and sole owner of Plentyoffish.com, works as little as he desires. He’s been quoted as saying he works about 10 hours a week. Plentyoffish.com now has 16M users, earns tens of millions of dollars a year, and is growing 80% a year. Alexa ranks Plentyoffish.com the 35th most trafficked site in Canada and the 100th in the US. It serves...
Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield left Yahoo disillusioned and disgruntled. Now based in Vancouver, Canada, Stewart started Tiny Speck, Inc., to try again at social gaming . He's revisiting the old idea of a mobile, multiplayer role-playing game called Game Neverending . Read the rest of this story » See Also: The Social Gaming Industry Explained In 13 Words Ex-MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe...
Canada is at war. It may seem hard to believe at times, given our remoteness from the conflict and the distinct lack of impact on most Canadians’ daily lives. But when our soldiers in Afghanistan are not helping provide schools, health clinics and training to the Afghan army, they are helping defend Afghan population centers against a predatory and nihilistic enemy. And when that thuggish enemy,...
A different take on a familiar tune. I’m proud to be in Canada, by Lee Greenwood. and an interesting new book by a talented Canadian writer, Denise Chong. Egg on Mao . A good reminder for us, too. “What I realized while writing this story, as I was tracking this growth and development of a moral being, is that if you don’t stand up for those rights, if you don’t stand up against...
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc. (PINK SHEETS: HDUP) operators of the Canadian Poker Tour and Canadian Poker Player Magazine are pleased to announce that they have agreed to produce television highlight coverage of the BC Poker Championships, Canada's largest poker tournament. This is the 5th annual event and is being held at the River Rock Resort and...
The drinks giant said its PlantBottle containers were beginning to hit retail shelves across the world, with a planned production target of two billion by the end of next year. Hailing the move as a “major step along our sustainable packaging journey ”, chairman and CEO Muhtar Kent said Coke was the first to bring to market a recyclable PET plastic bottle made partially from plants. But...
Summary Thunderbird Energy Corp. (Thunderbird) is a Canada-based natural resource company. It is engaged in exploration, acquisition, exploitation and production of natural gas and crude oil resources, primarily in the United States. Thunderbird owns and operates a producing natural gas field in Carbon County Utah, known as the Gordon Creek field. The Company operates in the Canada and United States....
Summary Flying A Petroleum is a petroleum exploration company. The company has exploration projects in the British Columbia, Canada and the State of Louisiana, U.S. The company focuses on Trutch Project in Canada. Flying A Petroleum operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Oilwin LLC. In 2008, it had drilled five halfway development wells on the Trutch property. It performed a ceiling test calculation...
Summary Flying A Petroleum is a petroleum exploration company. The company has exploration projects in the British Columbia, Canada and the State of Louisiana, U.S. The company focuses on Trutch Project in Canada. Flying A Petroleum operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Oilwin LLC. In 2008, it had drilled five halfway development wells on the Trutch property. It performed a ceiling test calculation...
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