Highest honour (Canada.com)
On Feb. 6, 2007, Calgarians will get a chance to finally embrace their hometown hero as the Flames retire the No. 30 jersey of goaltender Mike Vernon....more...Semantics On The Next Revolution In Online Scientific Publishing (Science Daily)
Publishers of electronic scientific journals should adopt approaches pioneered by online merchants and digital music purveyors in order to complete the revolution in information access that began with the first online journals, according to scientists in the United Kingdom....more... GwaiiTel launches high speed Internet services in Haida Gwaii (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Haida Gwaii residents have high-speed Internet service for the first time as GwaiiTel and its Haida Gwaii Community Network launched operations today. In collaboration with local Internet service providers, the network brings high-speed Internet service to about 5,000 people living in the Islands' seven largest communities....more... Middle England bites back (The Scotsman)
TOWNS don't get much more English than Cheltenham. Its annual race meeting is the highlight of the year for many blue-blooded types. Its Ladies' College has turned out generations of debutantes and aristocratic young belles....more... Independence 'will be gift to terrorists and illegal immigrants' (The Scotsman)
BREAKING up the Union would leave Scotland vulnerable to terrorist attack and a flood of illegal immigrants, John Reid, the Home Secretary, said yesterday in Labour's most scathing attack yet on the SNP....more... Tuition only one part of policy framework (Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune)
RE: Nov. 9 editorial "Post-secondary funding has low profile in Alberta."...more... Glacier Announces Acquisition (CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance)
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - The Board of Directors of Glacier Ventures International Corp. is pleased to announce that Glacier has acquired a 25% interest in Continental Newspapers Ltd. ....more... CIDA projects reduce poverty and improve human rights (Government of Canada News)
Ted Menzies, Parliamentary Secretary to the Honourable Josée Verner, Minister of International Cooperation and the Minister for La Francophonie and Official Languages, today announced on the Minister's behalf close to $11 million in funding over five years to support 25 development projects led by Canadian colleges and institutes....more... Parents take issue with dog program delay (Whitehorse Star Daily)
A human rights complaint could be the deciding factor in whether the Dogs for Drug Free Schools program goes ahead at Porter Creek Secondary School....more... |