Thursday, October 4, 2007 Glenn Crowe is running for the NDP in the Ontario provincial election, in the Bramalea-Gore-Malton riding. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign. Crowe did not reply to various questions asked. Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will […]
Tuesday, March 14, 2006 The winter of 2005/2006 has been the warmest winter in Canada since the beginning of the nationwide weather record in 1948, with average nationwide temperatures 3.9°C above the long-term average. Statistically, such a strong deviation from the average is expected to be observed only once in 100 years. While most of
Warmest Canadian winter on record
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Thursday, February 8, 2007 Birks was recently announced as the “Official Supplier of Jewelery” for the 2010 Vancouver-Whistler Olympics. The company will create licensed products with the logos of the 2010 Olympic Games, 2010 Paralympic Games, and the Canadian Olympic team emblem, including necklaces, earrings, pendants and rings. The partnership was announced at an employee
Birks to create 2010 Olympic, Paralympic jewelery; wines on menu
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Read An Opinion On: Labour Law Cases By Patricia Holland Architects can choose from a number of plastic employee lockers for factory restroom design. Plastic is recommended over metal because of its superior longevity. In most factory environments, there are all sorts of airborne agents that will corrode metal. Many factories are also located near
Friday, April 1, 2005 , holds a majority in the new parliament, and asserts that sharia is “non-negotiable”.]] Half of those who won seats reserved for women in the new National Assembly of Iraq are members of a coalition dominated by Shi’a religious parties, and they say they want Islamic sharia-based laws with legal differences
Iraq: Uneven voter turnout elects women who push sharia law while anti-woman violence rages
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Monday, March 25, 2019 From March 15 to 17, the Canadian city of Toronto played host to the tenth Furnal Equinox, an annual event dedicated to the “furry fandom.” Wikinews attended. Programming ranged from music to gender, science to art, covering dozens of aspects of the varied subculture. The event’s featured guests were visual artists
Fur fans flock to Toronto’s Furnal Equinox 2019
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 A building being prepared for demolition collapsed this morning in New York‘s Upper West Side around 9 a.m. EDT. Five people are known to be injured from the accident, as well as one rescue worker who was injured in the aftermath. None of the injuries were life-threatening. The building was a
Building partially collapses in New York City’s Upper West Side
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Read An Opinion On: Best Web Developer Asheville By Stewart Wrighter Failure testing is an inherent part of the engineering and design process. Everything that we design is subject to a number of forces throughout its lifetime. Some of these forces will be constant, but light, while others will occur suddenly and have a high
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 File:King Bhumibol Adulyadej Portrait.jpg Melbourne writer Harry Nicolaides, 41, was sentenced on Monday to three years imprisonment for defaming the Royal Family of Thailand. He had pled guilty to the lèse majesté indictment that arose from a self-published 2005 novel, Verisimilitude, of which only 50 copies were printed, and just seven
Australian writer Harry Nicolaides jailed for three years for insulting Thai Royal Family
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Sunday, April 24, 2005 New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced last Wednesday that it has agreed definitively to merge with Chicago-based Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx) and form a new publicly traded, for-profit company known as NYSE Group. This announcement was followed two days later by NASDAQ®, which independently announced a definitive agreement to purchase Instinet Group.
NYSE to merge with Archipelago; NASDAQ to buy Instinet
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