Mumbai swine flu shutdown begins

" Schools, colleges and cinemas in the Indian city of Mumbai have temporarily closed in a bid to limit the spread of the H1N1 virus. Schools and colleges will remain shut for a week and cinemas for three days. The...

Suspicious Package, Closes Atlanta Transit Station, Evacuation

A Buckhead MARTA train station in Atlanta, Georgia is being evacuated due to a suspicious package.  More information as story developsUpdate 12:14 p.m. - "MARTA spokeswoman Andrea Coleman said the package was...

Nepal shutdown by JACNAS

Kathmandu 1 June 2009: The Joint Action Committee for Newa Autonomous State (JACNAS) organized a shut down program in the capital Kathmandu and other 11 districts in support of making these districts a Newa...

U.S. Steel to Idle Two Canadian Facilities, Affecting 1500

The United States Steel Corp., the largest US based steel maker, announced Tuesday that it will temporily idle two Ontario facilities, affecting 1,500 employees in Hamilton and Nanticoke, as demand suffers from...

Rotating layoffs announced at GM, Chrysler auto plants in Windsor

WINDSOR, Ont. - Employees at two auto plants in Windsor, Ontario are facing rotating layoffs, starting next week. " Workers at the General Motors transmission plant are facing temporary job cuts as the automaker...

Pre-election spending spree, $80M for reopening of Ford engine plant

Let the race begin! The election has yet to be called, but it looks like the Conservatives have already started to campaign with the announcement today of a financial aid package to reopen the Ford Motors plant in Windsor, Ontario."In an afternoon announcement at the plant,...

'Mad Men' Twitter Fans Mad Over Shutdown

Fan fiction exists in many different forms, but the hit U.S. television program 'Mad Men' has inspired a unique group of its online fans to write micro-blog posts on Twitter under the fictional guise - and...

Canadian Court Shuts Down Quebec Torrent Site

In a move many people see as controversial, a Quebec court has ruled that a torrent tracker site based out of Quebec, and hosting mostly french-language content, must shut down. This is a tricky situation, because it could leave the potential open for shutting down any...

Thousands of B.C. forest workers jobless as sawmills shutdown

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...

Fuel strikes raise fears of European shutdown

Tens of thousands in countries around the world are taking strike action over the cost of fuel. Many fear ongoing, co-ordinated protests will cause major disruptions during Europe's holiday season."PARIS: Concerns are growing over a summer of co-ordinatedEuropean fuel...

Town of Likely, B.C. Marijuana -'Number-One Crop'

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorLikely, British Columbia, like most small towns is remote and far from the beaten path in the interior of British Columbia, once a booming mining town, it too like many...

Truckers’ Shutdown Effort Produces Varied Results

(SAINT LOUIS) — This morning, this blogger visited two truck stops in the St. Louis area in an effort to follow up on two earlier posts and try to determine firsthand whether many independent owner-operators...

No Joke: Truckers to ‘Shutdown’ April 1

One Iowa newspaper reporter describes it as “a small, online grassroots effort (that) now appears to have the potential for something bigger.” That “something bigger” is a threatened...

Chrysler Gives Employees Two Week 'Mandatory' Vacation

This would be an interesting email/memo to receive from your boss: You've got to take two weeks vacation in July. Basically we don't want to pay you for two weeks to recoup some losses.Interesting tactic. I'm...

Thank you Linda Keen

See, this is the kind of thing that worries me most about nuclear power.  Inevitably, there comes a time when someone needs the power so much that political pressure is brought to bear to keep a reactor going even when it isn't safe to do so.  I'm sure Chalk River...

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