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...
Coastal Jazz is pleased to announce that TD Canada Trust has renewed its title sponsorship of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival for four additional years through 2014. This agreement further extends TD Canada Trust's six year relationship with the festival and together they will continue to support festival education programs such as the TD Canada Trust High School Jazz Intensive, that provide...
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...
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,...
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...
Frustrated with the fact that Pandora does not provide its streaming service in Canada, Vancouver-based Jeff Anderson set out to build a community-driven Internet radio service of his own along with other music fanatics, and dubbed the project Listen.fm . Currently still in private beta, Listen.fm is not going to be a 'revolutionary' service, says Anderson, but rather just a great place to listen...
From the Vancouver Sun: Canadians ordering prescription medication online are being warned that they may be illegally receiving counterfeit products manufactured overseas by criminal organizations. And the products claiming health benefits are full of other chemicals that could make them sick, the RCMP and Canada Border Service Agency said at a joint news conference, part of an INTERPOL and World Health...
...in the bleeding heart of Canadian hippiedom ... you know you're in serious trouble. -- VANCOUVER -- More than 80 per cent of British Columbians believe that gun crime is at least a moderately serious problem, but only eight per cent believe that Canada's $1 billion long-gun registry has been effective at preventing crime, according to a survey conducted by pollsters Angus Reid. *
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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