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Genius World Investments Limited - Corporate Update

Stockhouse -
RICHMOND, BC, May 29, 2012 /CNW/ - Genius World Investments Limited (TSXV: GNW.H) ("GNW" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an update on its proposed transaction with CINS Holding Limited ("CINS").

An elected Senate would ruin BC

Vancouver Sun -
The BC Liberal proposal to pass legislation buying into Prime Minister Stephen Harper's idea of an elected Senate is absolute madness for British Columbia, deeply against our interests, and must be stopped. It would hurt us economically for generations ...

Taseko: Gibraltar Mine

Business Excellence Magazine -
Taseko Mines Limited is a mid-tier Canadian mining company focused on mining operation and development in British Columbia.

'Hippie-ish' Nelson has its charms

Montreal Gazette -
Up in the northwest forest where Washington, Idaho and British Columbia converge, there's a lazy little international border crossing called Nelway, about the size of a gas station.

Immigration for dummies: What transformational change means for newcomers

Ottawa Citizen -
By Tobi Cohen, Postmedia News May 15, 2012 A family is escorted off the MV Sun Sea after they and an estimated 490 suspected Tamil refugees arrived on the cargo ship in British Columbia in this August 13, 2010, file photo. The federal government plans ...

Something's fishy with Bill C-38

Ottawa Citizen -
It's an omnibus bill that purports to be a budget bill but isn't. It's a statutory juggernaut that introduces, amends, or repeals nearly 70 federal laws.

Three more schools tagged for seismic upgrades

Vancouver Courier -
The school districts will work with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC (APEGBC) and the Ministry of Education's seismic mitigation program to determine "scope, schedule and budgets for the projects before the ministry ...

NC's New Gay Marriage Ban Leaves Couples In Limbo

NPR -
Libby Hodges (left) and Melissa Hodges at their 2006 wedding in Vancouver, British Columbia. The marriage is not recognized as legal in North Carolina.

Meet Stefania Capovilla, the hairstylist behind these Parliament Hill 'dos

National Post -
She ditched her arts degree at the University of Manitoba when she was 19 to study at a beauty school in Kelowna, BC, where she worked for six years before following love to Ottawa (the romance fizzled and she is currently single).

Rafferty – Working hard to bring some transparency and accountability to the ...

Net Newsledger -
While I was working on the budget for much of this week I was also made aware of a suicide epidemic currently unfolding in a British Columbia community, a 20 year old toxic spill that has not been cleaned up on the Big Grassy First Nation on Lake of ...

Cities look to naming rights to fill their coffers but success is uncertain

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National Post -
... up and proposes they start calling in sponsors to bridge their budget gaps. “We either raise taxes or we find new money, and my preference is to find new money,” said Marianne Alto, a Victoria, BC, councillor leading a naming rights initiative.

Canadian childcare in crisis

Omega -
CUPE's desire for a publicly funded and delivered system for childcare has caused CUPE to throw their support behind The Community Plan for a Public System of Integrated Early Care & Learning - or as it is commonly known in the British Columbia ...

RCMP has 'head in the sand' on PTSD

The Kingston Whig-Standard -
They are basically putting their head in the sand," said Dr. Greg Passey, a clinical psychiatrist at the British Columbia Operational Stress Injury Clinic at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. "The whole organization, from a psychological ...

Today in History - May 25

mysask.com (press release) -
In 1982, Britain recaptured the Falkland Islands from Argentina. In 1985, more than 11000 people were killed as a cyclone and tidal surge devastated Bangladesh.

Top domestic destinations for Canadians: A look at canuck travel trends

Sacramento Bee -
From the mountains in British Columbia to the mist of Niagara Falls, Hotels.com® has put together a list of the top domestic destinations, using its latest Hotel Price Index™ (HPI™).

Overcoming his fear with a party

Langley AdvanceNews -
Now in his 50s, a longtime employee of BC Hydro and a family man living in Walnut Grove, Stanley always displayed a knack for songwriting from his first recording with The Novels and the first band he led, Fun With Numbers, in the early 1980s.

Gunless (2010)

A.V. Club New York -
Gross plays the fearsome Montana Kid, an American cowboy and fugitive who stumbles into British Columbia and finds himself without a gun—a situation on par with emasculation, get it?

Audit: Metro Vancouver's Transit Police rack up huge overtime bills

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The Province -
“The overtime was pretty shocking,” Jason Bateman, BC director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, told The Province.

Uribe's broken promises, Part Two

Colombia Reports -
In a September 2004 interview with weekly Cambio, Gustavo Petro expressed his fear of a democratically elected president like Uribe destroying the pillars of democracy.

More quake-proofing of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam schools

The Tri-City News -
The news is good for SD43, which has slowly been retrofitting some of its older schools since 2004, when the province rolled out its $1.5-billion seismic plan, and will now be able to upgrade one of three high-need schools.
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