Grasshopper Infestation Taking over entire Farms in Alberta

This has been a relatively dry summer in Alberta.  Besides stunting growth of pastures the dry condition have now created another problem in Woodland County, near Fort Assiniboine, Alberta. Grasshoppers have...

Domestic Terrorism in British Columbia

A natural gas pipeline that runs through northeastern British Columbia, near the Alberta border has been bombed for the second time in three days.  Officials call it an act of domestic terrorism. The pipeline...

Madoff sentenced to 150 years for Ponzi Scheme

Update: 29 June 2009 12:28 PM EDT Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison for Wall Street's biggest Ponzi Scheme."Historic swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison [today] for a fraud so...

DOE breaks with policy, tours not restricted to U.S. Citizens

The U.S. Department of Energy breaks with policy as it offers tours of The Manhattan Project B Reactor, located in Hanford, Washington, to both U.S. and non-U.S citizens. " The Department of Energy quietly opened...

Is Japan Expecting an Economic Miracle?

It has been nearly twenty years since Japan suffered the collapse of the asset price bubble and their economy never fully recovered from that hit, and now with the global financial crisis there is little hope for...

Stem cell patent is rejected in Europe

I thought Europe was more forward thinking in these cases... well maybe not.Hard to say what is right and what is not.Here are my feelings on this subjectOpinion... Stem Cell Research Now"The European patent...