The US may be cash-strapped and the Eurozone in disarray but none of that stood in the way of an anonymous Chinese businessman who spent £125,000 on a bottle of 62-year-old Dalmore Scotch, which had sat...
After the release of the "long-awaited report" analyzing the feasibility of the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline project set to run from Canada's Arctic to the border of Alberta, the future of the project is...
created by Jessica Tucker | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 723 views | 20 recommendations | 4 comments
Emergency Environmental Legislation has been invoked at the MacKenzie pulp mill in BC, meaning staff and workers have to stay on the job and cannot go on strike, otherwise a potentially deadly leak of 15 tonnes of...
created by Amy Judd | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 206 views | 15 recommendations | 1 comment
Sherman Alexie, who can be a real hoot, has some poignant things to say about this film revival."THE Exiles,” a film about American Indians living on the edge of downtown Los Angeles in the 1950s, is both a chronicle and a casualty of neglect: a movie about a forsaken...
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Certainly the downturn in the US economy is having a disasterous trickle down theory for Canada's ailing lumber industry. Let's hope China bites and buys our lumber to build all their homes destroyed in the...
created by Barry ORegan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 666 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments
Light pollution has been a hot topic in New Zealand lately with local councils encouraged to do whatever is needed to reduce or minimize this visual intrusion during the dark hours of our day. New Zealand is now...
created by Tom van B | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1561 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
"A retired US deputy sheriff has written to people in West Somerset asking for help to find out more about a 19th Century West Country policeman.
Mackenzie Allen of Tacoma, Washington, bought a clock with a plaque dedicated to Mr William Uriah Self, Supt of Police, Williton...