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Drug treatment site to be put in drug market
Canada Dot Com
| A plan to put an abstinence-based drug treatment centre for sex workers in the heart of the Downtown Eastside's drug market has been slammed by a sex-worker advocate. | "How could you even contemplate that?" said Jamie Lee Hamilton, referring to the 20-bed facility to be created in the Roosevelt H...
WATER - HOSE
(photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Government warned to take action on water, sewage
Canada Dot Com
| Canada needs a national action plan to ensure water and sewage treatment systems function in the event of severe weather events prompted by climate change, Insurance Bureau of Canada president and CEO Mark Yakabuski said Thursday. | "It is time for governments in this country to take adapting to c...
Upgrades needed now
Canada Dot Com
| Natural disasters caused by climate change will plague Canadian cities, overwhelming our aging sewer systems and waterworks, the top dog in Canada's insurance industry said yesterday. | Mark Yakabuski, president and CEO of the Insurance Bureau of C...
Drug treatment site to be put in drug market
Canada Dot Com
| A plan to put an abstinence-based drug treatment centre for sex workers in the heart of the Downtown Eastside's drug market has been slammed by a sex-worker advocate. | "How could you even contemplate that?" said Jamie Lee Hamilton, referring to th...
Cabinet-making begins with the pundits poking at the incumbents
Canada Dot Com
| VICTORIA - Premier Gordon Campbell having set May 29 as the deadline for B.C. Liberals to say if they will run in the next election, reporters spent part of the week asking ministers their intentions. | Those who decide to retire can expect to be l...
Let's take the time to get playoff calls right
Canada Dot Com
| RED WINGS / STARS | Detroit leads best-of-seven series 3-1. | GAME 5 | Saturday in Detroit | 10:30 a.m. | TSN-HD/NBC | - - - | DALLAS - Pity Tomas Holmstrom. | How often are you going to see those three words in a row? | But really. For the second ...
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WN / Janice Sabnal
Canadian dollar rallies on lofty oil prices
Canada Dot Com
| Frank Pingue, Reuters  Published: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | Change font size | Story tools presented by try{ var str_da_src = document.getElementById('ad-leaderboard').getEleme...
A smoker lights up a cigarette
WN / Janice Sabnal
A new wrinkle in smoking enforcement
Canada Dot Com
| Everyone knows smoking makes you look older -- especially the wheezing and hacking cough -- but now the Japanese government wants you to look old before you can buy that deck of ...
OIL DEPOT - PETROLEUM - GASOLINE - PHILIPPINES
WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo
Funds Circling Oil Industry
Canada Dot Com
| Already approached by two, UTS confirms | Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post  Published: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | Change font size | Story tools presented by try{ var str_da_src...
OSC takes tentative steps into probe of frozen investments
Canada Dot Com
| TORONTO -- Nearly 10 months after Canada's biggest market failure ever, the Ontario Securities Commission is cautiously preparing to enter the murky waters of the $32-billion asset-backed commercial paper market. | But instead of launching its own ...
Government warned to take action on water, sewage
Canada Dot Com
| Canada needs a national action plan to ensure water and sewage treatment systems function in the event of severe weather events prompted by climate change, Insurance Bureau of Canada president and CEO Mark Yakabuski said Thursday. | "It is time for...
A&B Sound shows signs of sagging sales
Canada Dot Com
| Recent store closures in Victoria, Kelowna, Delta and Langley have left former Vancouver retail icon A&B Sound a shell of its former self. | The record, CD and consumer electronics store founded by the Steiner family in 1959 has gone from a 21-stor...
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India says BlackBerry issue nears resolution
Canada Dot Com
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 Canadian Dollars - 100, 5, 20, 50 CAD- Money - Canadian money - Canada   wnhires  (js1)
(photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
Canadian dollar rallies on lofty oil prices
Canada Dot Com
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