Webinar: Is that even a word?
If you work in information technology, it sometimes feels like webinars came out of nowhere a few years ago but now feel as ubiquitous as coffee shops in Cook Street Village.
Farming The Future
Rock music playing in his dusty and battered Ford half-ton, David Chambers drives up the foot of Mount Doug, passing Madrona Farm’s rows of budding, blossoming, and bounteous vegetables. Once his family’s property, Chambers and his wife Nathalie now lease the 11-hectare farm, a place he calls one of the best in the world to grow food. At their four-day-a-week farmstand, they sell up to 725 kilograms of produce on a summer day, grown in the rich earth of the Blenkinsop Valley.
Regional News
Carmanah Provides Solar LED Lighting for Bridge Lighting Project
(News Release) VICTORIA – Carmanah Technologies Corporation is providing 26 EverGEN 1710 solar LED lighting units to illuminate the Selkirk Trestle Bridge in Victoria, BC. The units will run the length of the 300 meter long railway trestle bridge and will provide illumination for pedestrians an...
Shale Gas Development And Climate Targets: Can They Be Reconciled?
(News Release) VICTORIA – The potential rise in emissions from shale gas development in BC will make it extremely difficult for the province to achieve its CO2 reduction targets, according to a policy brief commissioned by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) and spearheaded by Pr...
Victoria One of 15 Canadian Cities To Participate In Climate Change Adaptation Initiative
(News Release) VICTORIA — The City of Victoria will join forces with the respected International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives to participate in a two-year pilot program to design and implement local climate adaptation programs.
National News
Wildlife rescue escalates along Mich. river oil spill; govenor calls progress 'significant'
MARSHALL, Mich. - Volunteers and government officials scrambled on Friday to save geese and other wildlife damaged by an oil spill in a southern Michigan river as the Canadian company that owns the ruptured pipeline said the crude had been contained.
Lawsuit blames Mets owners for letting workers put retirement money in Madoff investments
NEW YORK, N.Y. - The owners of the New York Mets should be held accountable for letting their workers put more than US$16 million in 401(k) assets into accounts controlled by jailed financier Bernard Madoff, a widow said in a lawsuit filed Friday.
TransCanada attracts multiple bids to take part in Alaska pipeline project
CALGARY - Numerous bidders have emerged for TransCanada Corp.'s natural gas pipeline through Alaska, though there are still many things to resolve before construction on the multibillion dollar project can begin.