Archive for July, 2006
Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Harper heads for Cyprus; taking 120 evacuees from Lebanon home on his plane
Statement by the Prime Minister on Cyprus Airlift
Harper's first major diplomatic foray ends with dramatic flight to Cyprus
Where there is immanent danger and drama, there is great political opportunity... and someone in Stephen Harper's administration knows that.
"Psst, hey ...
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Teen with cerebral palsy swims Lake Ontario
Using only her arms, teen swims across Lake Ontario
Jenna vs. Lake Ontario
Thirty-two kilometres (20 miles), that's how far Jenna Lambert, a resident of my own home town, swam - using only her arms to keep her afloat. She is the first disabled woman to ...
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Friday, July 14th, 2006
Harper makes medical wait-times promise disappear from priorities list
Stephen Harper's new game: Hide-the-Priority
In Canadian Politics one thing that has always been able to be said about our right-wing Conservative politicians is that, for better or worse, they do what they promised to do during election campaigns. It had always impressed ...
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Friday, July 14th, 2006
Warm ocean worries hurricane forecasters
Forecasters at the CHC (Canadian Hurricane Centre) are keeping an eye on warmer-than-usual waters off Canada's East coast. What this means for the hurricane season is that we may see storms linger on longer and sustain hurricane-force winds farther north. Warm water feeds hurricane and while ...
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
First, the informative...
Freescale Unveils Magnetic Memory Chip
Freescale Semiconductor Inc., a spinoff of the Motorola company, has developed a new form of storage memory dubbed MRAM (for magnetoresistive random access memory). It differs from convention RAM in that it does not rely on static charge to maintain its information. It works ...
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