Showing posts with label cuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cuts. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Canada Post cuts doom mail service but help Tories: Walkom

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Toronto Blessing
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This is more a Benedict XVI blessing than a John Paul II blessing. If we’re being specific.


Canada Post cuts doom mail service but help Tories: Walkom

With Ottawa"s blessing, the Crown corporation is jacking up stamp prices by 59 per cent and slashing services to a level unseen elsewhere in the developed world. Charge more; offer less. It is a formula for commercial failure. In a few years, the …
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Roy In Peace: Kudos to the Incredible (Canadian) Career of Doc Halladay

The kind of professional that made you want to Copy + Paste his personality onto every other athlete who should have been better, nicer, classier… and he was, in so many ways, a blessings to Canada"s only Major League club. We Canadians have a hard …
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When Detroit paved over paradise: The story of I-375

… replacing them with parks or surface roads. Cleveland and other cities plan to do the same, and cities such as Toronto and Washington, D.C., killed freeway projects after opponents warned that they would do irreparable harm to urban neighborhoods …
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Canada Post cuts doom mail service but help Tories: Walkom

Friday, November 15, 2013

Gaza 'faces disaster' after power cuts cause sewage floods

flood and fall
floods
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flood and fall


Gaza "faces disaster" after power cuts cause sewage floods

There are warnings of a humanitarian disaster in Gaza caused by the floodwater submerging the streets: not the aftermath of heavy rain, but raw sewage. One of the Palestinian enclave"s largest waste water treatment plants has stopped working because of …
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New York stops to listen as Lou Reed"s public memorial floods city with music

New York stops to listen as Lou Reed"s public memorial floods city with music. Crowd gathers on chilly day at Lincoln Center to pay tribute to musician with "just Lou"s voice, guitar music and songs". Share · Tweet this. Email. Amanda Holpuch in New York.
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Gaza "faces disaster" after power cuts cause sewage floods