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Baby shock

I introduced my four month old baby girl to her paternal grandparents last Saturday. My daughter's father still has not seen her. We have not spoken since I was 2 months pregnant, the beginning of...

Change You Can Conceive In... And Abort

The election of Barack Obama as president may have sparked an Obama baby boom? "the kind of blip in the national birth rate that often follows a seismic event."Newsweek thinks so anyway:Of course,...

TransAlta earnings fall due production problems; share buyback program halted

The Canadian Press - CALGARY - TransAlta Corp. (TSX:TA) says unplanned outages and higher maintenance costs reduced its profitability in the third quarter and the trend will continue in the fourth...

Maintenance costs temper TransAlta profit

Reuters - CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - TransAlta Corp's third-quarter profit slipped 7.5 percent as maintenance costs rose due to a series of planned and unplanned outages at its electricity plants,...

Suncor's profit up 30 percent, below forecast

Reuters - (Reuters) - Suncor Energy Inc, Canada's second-biggest oil sands producer, posted a lower than expected 30 percent rise in third-quarter profit, as the company's production volumes in the...

CORRECTED: Suncor's Q3 profit up 30 pct, below forecas

Reuters - (Reuters) - Suncor Energy Inc, Canada's second-biggest oil sands producer, posted a lower than expected 30 percent rise in third-quarter profit, as the company's production volumes in the...

August factory sales tumble on energy

Reuters - OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian manufacturing sales plummeted more than expected in August from July, losing 3.7 percent largely due to falling energy prices and unplanned production slowdowns...

IFLA 2008 (part 15): Interview with "Pliny the Librarian" from Norway

[From Part 14]14 Aug 2008. Quebec City, Canada.I met Pliny the Librarian in person today. We even have an impromptu 10-minute video interview!Totally unplanned. Video is unedited from start to finish...

A Pregnant Tina O'Brien Goes To Afrika! Afrika!

Pregnant Tina O'BrienA well pregnant Tina O'Brien went to see Afrika! Afrika! yesterday at The Tented Palaces, Trafford Centre, Manchester. Photo: Steve Searle/WENNTina has said that the pregnancy...

Jun. 22 - The National, centro-matic @ The National

Artist: The National------ centro-maticDate: June 22, 2008Location: The National, Richmond VAI don't like to say negative things about music or the people who make it. You may have picked up on this,...

Living with floods

There was a time when the people of north Bihar, India?s most flood-prone state, celebrated the monsoons and lived with floods. How and when did they become victims of floods, struggling to control...