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Falconbridge is now working with 3M Canada Company and Sandvik Tamrock Canada Inc. on a spray-on polymer liner that replaces the clunky wire mesh that is currently bolted to the mine walls for safety during drilling
Decision taken last month by the Canadian Medical Association to "implement a detailed advocacy plan" to push the government to push the CPP out of the tobacco business
As an environmentalist with more than 30 years of activism under my belt, I am generally not vulnerable to complacency. But if there is any area of environmental concern I tend to feel is well in hand it is the Great Lakes.
A massive oil and natural gas project under way off Sakhalin is threatening Steller's sea eagles, which breed on the island and migrate to Japan in the winter, according to ornithologists and other experts.
You'd have thought on such a historic day for the NHL that someone, anyone, would have come up with something new to say.
A flip-flop by George W. Bush worsened the military-political debacle in Fallujah last April when the Bush administration overruled the Marine commanding general twice, first ordering him to undertake a retaliatory assault against the rebellious Iraqi city and then abruptly reversing direction three days later.
Vice President Dick Cheney has gone to great lengths to conceal who helped him write the administration's ill-conceived energy policy, which is little more than billions in tax giveaways to the energy industry
"The government is taking public property in the airways, licensing them to a small number of people, and is looking the other way as those people advance their own commercial interests and won't allow room for questioning."
If it weren't about something as important as health care, the rancorous first ministers' meeting being broadcast from here would provide the raw material for reality TV or even a pretty good sitcom.
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