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Apple holds press conference to announce slightly different-sized shiny new toy
The world’s worst kept secret was finally made official today, as Apple held a major press conference to unveil the iPad Mini, a 7.9-inch, scaled-down version of its phenomenally successful iPad tablet...
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Hazardous haze closes Malaysian schools
Schools were closed in the capital Kuala Lumpur and many neighbouring Malaysian states after air pollution from huge forest fires in nearby Indonesia soared to record levels. Vancouver has avoided a...
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Ryan Lijdsman: Oil at 600 yuan a barrel? It’s coming soon
EDMONTON The U.S. debt-ceiling debacle laid bare the inherent and true costs to international trade from the outdated world reserve currency system. Virtually every international transaction that...
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Breakthrough: scientists see moments after Big Bang
For the first time, scientists have detected gravitational waves that were generated at the moment of the Big Bang. Science really is a mystery: no one on earth can find a 210-foot long plane, yet...
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IRB Rugby Sevens in Vancouver: What we know and what has to happen
The news landed silently in our inboxes on Monday afternoon. “A bid to host a major global sport event in 2016,” the release said. Make no mistake, this is the announcement of what’s been a rather open...
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Cycling South Across Thailand
I am currently cycling around the World from Vancouver. This segment I am currently crossing Thailand from Burma south through Thailand and Malaysia and on to Singapore. In Bangkok I will cycle into...
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Brian Lee Crowley: Japan is Canada’s best bet as an Asian trading partner
OTTAWA — Geography, history, immigration and economic self-interest all suggest that Canada’s trade should be oriented toward the Asia-Pacific. Yet we need to choose our trading partners with care. It...
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Fabian Dawson — the finest nose for news I’ve ever known
My good friend Fabian Dawson arrived in Vancouver from Malaysia with his extended family in 1988. Ask him the day and he will give you the minute. What a magnificent addition to our country he has...
View ArticleSilversea gets small-ship luxury right
I’ve just returned from two weeks in Southeast Asia that took me from Singapore to Malaysia to Thailand and, finally, to exotic Myanmar. Ordinarily, travelling to all of these countries would be...
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