Monthly Archives: August 2012

McParland: Australia’s economy has a warning for Canada (3)

Maybe Canadians shouldn’t be betting too heavily on the likelihood that Chinese demand for Canadian resources will ensure a strong, rising economy well into the future. If you want to know what happens when you tie your fortunes too tightly … Continue reading

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Afternoon Update August 31st, 2012 (10)

CANADA #1 — CNews | Deported refugee claimants still collecting welfare  OTTAWA – Taxpayers are out of pocket hundreds of millions of dollars to cover the costs related to failed or abandoned refugee claims from Hungarian Roma – an ethnic group … Continue reading

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Euro collapse ‘would slash 10pc off German economy’ (15)

A complete collapse of the euro would shave up to 10pc off the German economy and even just the departure of Greece from the currency club bears substantial risks to business, according to German government economic adviser Lars Feld. Feld, … Continue reading

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Hurricane Isaac sidesteps New Orleans, but ‘shockingly fast-rising’ flooding makes thousands flee

New Orleans’ flood defences appeared to withstand Hurricane Isaac, but thousands of people to the north and south of the city had to be evacuated or rescued as the storm lingered over the U.S. Gulf Coast with whistling winds and … Continue reading

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Gazprom puts giant Shtokman Russian Arctic gas project on ice over costs

One of the world’s largest gas fields, Shtokman lies some 340 miles off shore, deep under the freezing waters of the Barents Sea. It contains almost 4 trillion cubic meters of gas – more than the Norwegian and UK continental shelves combined … Continue reading

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Germany Rethinks Path to Green Future

The cornerstones of Germany’s energy turn-around can be admired in a hall in the northern port city of Bremerhaven. Standing on three rust-brown feet apiece, each of these immense, yellow-painted trunks weighs as much as 900 elephants. Soon, special ships … Continue reading

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Duhame: Quebec election anyone’s guess (10)

We are already in the last lap of an historic and unpredictable election. Throw three scraps of paper with the names of the Quebec Liberal Party, the Parti Quebecois and the Coalition Avenir Quebec into a hat and draw them … Continue reading

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Hungry bears hold housebound townsfolk ‘prisoner’ after local dump closes

There was a bear Wednesday afternoon in the apple tree on Station Road. Another had been peering through Beverley Denty’s back door on Tuesday morning. And, over the weekend, one was spotted atop Edgar Feltham’s chicken coop. It is the … Continue reading

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Shaw: How ‘The Shy Republican’ Could Be Masking a Landslide

At time of writing, polls show the race for the presidency to be tight.  General consensus seems to be that whoever wins, the 2012 election will be won by a bat squeak. Yet to many, especially those of us on … Continue reading

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