Waterloo student develops plastic bag composter
July 1, 2008
17-year-old finds bacteria combination that breaks down plastic bags in months
Jul 01, 2008 01:17 PM
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Kristine Owram
THE CANADIAN PRESS
As jurisdictions across Canada take action to ban the use of landfill-clogging plastic bags, which can take up to 1,000 years to decompose, an Ontario high school student has discovered a way to break down the pesky plastic in a matter of months.
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Bars join forces to fight rowdies
January 17, 2008
Wed, January 16, 2008
New organization represents downtown watering holes
By JOE BELANGER, SUN MEDIA
London’s downtown bar owners have banded together help quell problems with rowdy customers in the core.
And the recently formed London Bar and Entertainment Association is also looking for help from police, London Transit and the city.
“We’re trying to create a safe and vibrant atmosphere for everyone in the core,” said president Mark Serre, manager at GT’s.
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Jennifer Parks
Sun Media
June 28, 2007
Imagine never having sex again.
“When you lose something, you don’t know what it’s worth until it’s gone” Brian Chavez, paraplegic
Not because you can’t find a willing partner, or because the desire isn’t there. But because sex, due to disability or limited mobility, is too physically painful to relax and enjoy it, and each attempt is, thus, mental pummeling to your self-concept as a sexual being.
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Six degrees of education
March 24, 2007
Undergrads sign up for rare cross-Canada degree
Mar 24, 2007 04:30 AM
Louise Brown
Education Reporter
They’re a bit like Country Mouse and City Mouse, these two Canadian students hoping to trade places for a semester.
Amy Clarke says she’s a “big city girl” who grew up in Toronto. “I’m comfortable downtown,” she shouts over the rumble of the Queen streetcar after biology class at Ryerson University.
Four provinces away, not far from his grandparents’ potato farm, Bobby Cameron crams for history mid-terms at the University of Prince Edward Island and suggests, “You can’t get much more rural than me.”
Both have applied for an unusual exchange program meant to build bridges between two very different universities – and offer a sense of Canada to boot.
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Small molecule offers big hope against cancer
January 31, 2007
By Ryan Smith, ExpressNews Staff
January 16, 2007 - Edmonton - DCA is an odourless, colourless, inexpensive, relatively non-toxic, small molecule. And researchers at the University of Alberta believe it may soon be used as an effective treatment for many forms of cancer.
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Spain to standardize women’s clothing sizes
January 26, 2007
Window displays will have to reflect true female form
January 25, 2007
MADRID, Spain–Spain’s government has reached an agreement with major fashion designers, including the owner of the Zara chain, to standardize women’s clothing sizes with the aim of promoting a healthier image.
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Way to go, Schulich researchers!
January 1, 2007
Both women are faculty members at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario.
New Canadian technology tracks cancer’s spread
Updated Sat. Dec. 30 2006 10:47 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
When it comes to cancer, it often isn’t the initial tumour that kills. It’s the cancer cells that migrate and spawn new tumours. Now scientists at the Robarts Research Centre in London, Ontario, have devised a new way of following cancer cells as they spread that may help them learn how to stop them.
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Parrot’s oratory stuns scientists
December 27, 2006
By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent
The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short.
The bird, a captive African grey called N’kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour.
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Gifts of aid
December 20, 2006
Visit Good Gifts for some great ideas.
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Gifts of aid to developing world becoming new Christmas tradition
December 20, 2006
Stuart Laidlaw
Faith and Ethics Reporter
Three years ago, Tim Abellera and his co-workers realized that by the end of the staff Christmas exchange, they all had too many coffee mugs they didn’t want and – if they were honest with themselves – too many chocolates they didn’t need.
So they decided to do something different.
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An inconvenient holiday
December 19, 2006
from Toronto Star, Tuesday Dec. 19
The holidays are expensive. Least of all for those who celebrate them.
The real loser of the season is the Earth.
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