CALGARY, AB, Feb. 27, 2009/ — Next to the financial sector, the auto industry has received the most attention from governments in Canada and the U.S. as they try to prevent the collapse of ailing enterprises. The fate of that industry is especially relevant to the Golden Horseshoe, the Canadian manufacturing heartland that stretches from Niagara Falls around the western end of Lake Ontario and extends all the way to Oshawa.
BERKELEY, CA, Feb. 26, 2009/ Troy Media/ –A new study from the University of Chicago found that the more gestures babies used at 14 months (shaking a head “no,” raising arms to be picked up, pointing at an object of interest, etc.), the more words they had in their vocabulary at 3 years old.
REGINA, SK, Feb. 26, 2009/ — Future historians, attempting to understand the period we are currently living through, will be struck by the reversal in previously comfortable attitudes to free enterprise and open markets.
REGINA, SK, Feb. 23, 2009/ — Peanuts and peanut products tainted with salmonella in the U.S. have made 604 people sick, sent 187 to the hospital and killed eight.
CALGARY, AB, Feb. 20, 2009/ — Various provincial governments, over the next few weeks, will be finalizing their 2009-10 budgets. The question uppermost in their minds will be how best to assist their residents to cope with the current economic downturn.
RALEIGH, NC, Feb, 20, 2009/ Troy Media/– A Raleigh, North Carolina-based company, founded by a former Presbyterian minister, claims to have developed a technology that could be used to lower the cost of producing, pipelining and upgrading heavy oil in the Canadian oil sands.
CALGARY, AB, Feb. 20, 2009/ Troy Media/ — This business stinks. But Calgary-based EarthRenew Organics Ltd. is hoping that its core technologies, which provide cost-effective solutions for the disposal of manure and biosolids and for maintaining healthy soil and water, changes that to the sweet smell of success.
CALGARY, AB, Feb. 17, 2009/ — The Roman Catholic Bishop for north-eastern Alberta, Luc Bouchard, recently argued that the “proposed future development of the oil sands constitutes a serious moral problem.”
CALGARY, AB, Feb. 17, 2009/ — As Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urge banks to resume lending, a commentary from the Bank for International Settlements provides a clinically clear perspective.
CALGARY, AB, Feb. 16, 2009/ Troy Media/ — It’s hard to imagine the leaders of Canada’s two largest federal parties having much in common, but there is a matter on which they share a bond. In his own way, each faces the vexing challenge of winning the trust of a region of the country that has written him – or his party – off.