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High stakes in the low-frills grocery game - The Globe and Mail

2010-05-12T07:28:00.000-07:00

The discount supermarket segment isn’t just about rock-bottom prices any more. Sobeys is targeting the growing ranks of ethnic shoppers who demand both high quality and good value

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/high-stakes-in-the-low-frills-grocery-game/article1565508/?cmpid=nl-bizt1

CBC News - British Columbia - Small bike shops fear MEC effect

2010-03-25T11:16:00.000-07:00

CBC News - British Columbia - Small bike shops fear MEC effect
Just in time for spring, Mountain Equipment Co-op is rolling out its new line of bikes, but that's raising concerns with some smaller retailers who say the co-op's unfair tax advantage could drive them out of business.

CBC News - Canada - Investors worry after financial 'guru' kills self

2010-03-24T06:59:00.000-07:00

CBC News - Canada - Investors worry after financial 'guru' kills self

Dubai jails Indian pair for 'sexy texts'-BBC News

2010-03-17T23:44:00.000-07:00

Steamy text messages have resulted in a three-month jail sentence for a Indian man and an Indian woman in Dubai.

Judges ruled that they had planned to "commit sin", a reference to an extramarital affair - which is illegal in the United Arab Emirates.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8573565.stm

UN says 227m people escaped slums in past decade- BBC News

2010-03-17T23:29:00.000-07:00

Nearly a quarter of a billion people escaped life in the slums over the past decade, the United Nations says

The improvement was thanks largely to housing efforts in China and India, which made "giant strides", according to a report by the UN Habitat agency.

But the housing efforts were more than countered by world population growth and the rural exodus to cities.

So overall, the total number of slum dwellers actually increased from 776.7m to 827.6m, during the years 2000-2010.

CBC News - Montreal - Red Cross tsunami workers abused: report

2010-03-17T20:16:00.000-07:00

CBC News - Montreal - Red Cross tsunami workers abused: report
Some construction workers hired by the Canadian Red Cross to help rebuild communities following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were left stranded and never paid for their work, according to an investigation by Radio-Canada.

CBC News - Money - Blockbuster mulls bankruptcy filing

2010-03-17T20:13:00.000-07:00

CBC News - Money - Blockbuster mulls bankruptcy filing

Shares of Blockbuster Inc. lost nearly a third of their value Wednesday after the video rental chain warned that it may have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States.

CBC News - British Columbia - Charges laid in BC Ferries deaths

2010-03-16T22:54:00.000-07:00

CBC News - British Columbia - Charges laid in BC Ferries deaths

One of the officers on the ill-fated Queen of the North has been charged with criminal negligence causing the deaths of two people, in the sinking of the BC Ferries vessel off the West Coast in March 2006.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/03/16/bc-queen-north-charges.html#ixzz0iPVmxqMP

Finally. I wonder what took so long.

Obama- "American Yushenko"?

2010-03-15T09:30:00.000-07:00

I sometimes wonder if Obama is going to become an "American Yushenko". Lot's of talk, saying lots of good and right things, but in the end nothing gets done. Result- looses elections by a landslide.

CBC News - British Columbia - Home ownership costs rise

2010-03-15T09:28:00.000-07:00

CBC News - British Columbia - Home ownership costs rise
The cost of owning a home in Canada increased slightly in the last three months of last year, a report by RBC Economics said Monday.

Google to shut China search engine

2010-03-14T15:40:00.000-07:00

Google to shut China search engine

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dd69e680-2e06-11df-b85c-00144feabdc0.html

Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking.

CBC News - Money - Bull market a year old

2010-03-09T03:08:00.000-08:00

CBC News - Money - Bull market a year old
Investors had no way of knowing it at the time, but one year ago this week marked the low point for North American stock markets and the beginning of one of the most astonishing bull markets ever.

Hello world!

2010-03-09T02:44:00.000-08:00

Hello world!