Canada adds 31,000 jobs in September

Canada's economy has added 31,000 jobs in September.  A total of 92,000 were  added, most them full time.  This was offset by the loss of 61,000 part time jobs. This is the largest increase since...

Saint Petersburg Heritage Status Threatened By Gazprom Skyscraper

Russian gas corporation Gazprom is planning to build a 1,322 foot (403m) high skyscraper in the middle of Saint Petersburg's historical district. The glass structure was approved in a government meeting on...

Construction Starts On Grouse Mountain Wind Turbine

Construction on a 65-metre (213 feet) tall wind turbine is set to start on Wednesday, according to the newspaper Metro. The turbine was approved by the District of North Vancouver in October 2008 in a close vote which ended 4-3. The project was delayed in July due to safety...

The NEW GM !

     Allll riiiigght!  America's heavyweight automaker has reentered the fray, "leaner and meaner", we hope!  At least, that's what's been reported by the Associated Press.  So,...

Mancession: Men More Affected By Recession Than Women?

Men are more likely to be affected by the global recession than women reads a recent article in the Business channel of the Atlantic titled: It's Not Just a Recession. It's a Mancession.  The article outlines statistical data showing men are having a tougher time with...

Ground the Airbus?

To date, there have been 23 fatal Airbus crashes, killing 2,584 people. EXCERPT: Used in law, science and philosophy, a rule known as Occam’s Razor requires that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex, and/or that explanations of unknown...

Coalition urges McGuinty to think twice on new nukes

On June 3, 2009, thirteen environmental organizations delivered a message to Premier Dalton McGuinty: say no to new nuclear reactors in Ontario. In an open letter to the Premier, Environmental Defence, The...

Followed GPS - Wrong House Demolished

In a lot of cases GPS has caused people to end up at the wrong address, or in some extreme cases even to drive off the road. Only a few days ago too much trust in GPS led to an even more extreme error: a company...

EU Parliament: All new buildings zero energy from 2019

Already on April 23, 2009 the European Parliament voted in favour of a bill which states that from 2019 (12-31-2018) all new buildings have to be zero energy ("where, as a result of the very high level of energy efficiency of the building, the overall annual primary energy...

Obama presses Israel, Palestinians on West Bank

" WASHINGTON – Gingerly trying to advance Mideast peace, President Barack Obama on Thursday challenged Israel to stop settlement construction in the West Bank on the same day the Israelis rejected that demand....

Sri Lanka commences construction of Landscape changing flyover

Since the menace from LTTE terrorists are getting over, Sri Lankan government giving more attention to Infrastructure developments. In a British assisted project, a flyover will be constructed at an estimated cost...

Exotic Diseases in the U.S. May Rise

We know about Dengue Fever, West Nile Virus and Lyme Disease - but have you heard of Leishmaniasis Disease, Chagas Disease and/or Chikungunya Virus? Probably not, unless you've been to places outside of the U.S....

Republicans Cling to Childish Ways

" In his inauguration speech, President Obama made this appeal:x50 "[T]he time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history …” "...

Paris goes green with new underground energy project

The city of Paris has launched a new project to provide green heating for a whole district of the city as they plan to extract piping hot water from about two kilometres below the surface of the earth. This is called 'geothermal drilling' and just north of the city they have...

Green Home Builder Give Ideas for Building Green

What make it Green? When asking what makes a house green or what is green construction many people are like deer in the head lights frozen by the thoughts of grass is green but houses are built with wood from...

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