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Digest this: organic waste to go in a giant stomach

R otting, smelly organic waste that contributes to climate change, or a precious alternate-energy resource? Grocery giant Loblaws believes the latter and has entered into an agreement with a Toronto-based biogas power company to divert produce waste ...

From CATHRYN ATKINSON, Globe and Mail,  19 Oct 2009

Forestry's fall can't topple love for lumberjacks

I t is frightening to watch two men lopping off the tops of trees 26 metres from the ground, especially when they are racing. And when one gets into trouble in front of 4,000 spectators, it is bone-chilling even on a sweltering day. Darren Hudson from ...

From CATHRYN ATKINSON, Globe and Mail,  3 Aug 2009

Opposition mounts to resort near Squamish

An unlikely umbrella organization of 42 businesses and groups, binding together snowmobilers and dirt bikers with environmentalists, store owners and fishing enthusiasts, has been set up in opposition to a proposed four-season resort development just ...

From CATHRYN ATKINSON, Globe and Mail,  28 Jul 2009

Meeting with Emperor rekindles links

When she was a 16-year-old schoolgirl in 1937, Kimi Nasu proudly met Prince Chichibu of Japan, the brother of Emperor Hirohito. For her, it was a moment of national pride – Japanese national pride – a time to feel patriotic about the Imperial Family ...

From CATHRYN ATKINSON, Globe and Mail,  9 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Emperor Akihito

Cougar attack raises concerns over territory

The B.C. mother who rescued her three-year-old from being bitten and scratched by a cougar says she is concerned that overdevelopment in her community contributed to the attack. Maureen Lee got between her daughter Maya Espinosa and the 40-kilogram ...

From CATHRYN ATKINSON, Globe and Mail,  20 Jun 2009

‘Now she knows what a cougar is'

The RCMP and local conservation officers were quickly on the scene, and the cougar – later determined to be a juvenile male about 18 months old – was shot around 10 p.m. after hounds tracked it for two kilometres through backyards. A B.C. mother is ...

From CATHRYN ATKINSON, Globe and Mail,  18 Jun 2009

Olympic Broadcasting Services scraps student fee

The Olympic Broadcasting Services has scrapped a $50 non-refundable fee it was charging student journalists who wanted to work for the agency during the 2010 Winter Games. Nancy Lee, OBS's Chief Operating Officer, said the fee had originally been ...

From CATHRYN ATKINSON, Globe and Mail,  21 Nov 2008

Closed B.C. road to reopen

Highway 97 in the Okanagan will reopen to traffic tomorrow morning, 20 days after the discovery of a large fissure in a mountainside above the road forced its emergency closing. The slope has stabilized after the blasting and removal of 34,000 cubic ...

From CATHRYN ATKINSON, Globe and Mail,  11 Nov 2008

Slope will need at least two stable days before highway can reopen

The slope threatening to collapse onto Highway 97 in the Okanagan in B.C. would have to be stable for two days before Ministry of Transportation engineers would consider reopening the route, the main connector between Kelowna and Penticton, a ministry ...

From CATHRYN ATKINSON, Globe and Mail,  6 Nov 2008

Blasting ceases on Highway 97

Blasting was suspended yesterday at the unstable bluff above Highway 97 in the Okanagan near Summerland, as crews awaited the arrival of sensitive monitoring equipment to provide a better picture of the dangers presented by the slope. The slope ...

From CATHRYN ATKINSON, Globe and Mail,  3 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Mark Holmes

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