Tories Only 5.5 Points Ahead of NDP, Sunday Poll Shows
Posted by shbanchang on August 31, 2010
On the night before the election, the latest poll results show that the Tories and the NDP only have a gap of 5.5 percentage points. Epoch Times | Canada
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U.S. Business Has High Tax Rates but Pays Less
Posted by shbanchang on August 29, 2010
// Share Topping out at 35 percent, America’s official corporate income tax rate trails that of only Japan, at 39.5 percent, which has said it plans to lower its rate. It is nearly triple Ireland’s and 10 percentage points higher than in Denmark, Au Abort America
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Canada’s elite prepares all-out assault on Medicare
Posted by shbanchang on August 27, 2010
Canada’s elite prepares all-out assault on Medicare By Louis Girard WSWS.org 2 May 2011 Even as the population is purportedly determining through the May 2 election the policies Canada’s government will pursue in the years ahead, big business is outlining the real agenda that will be implemented by the political elite. Chief among its priorities [...]
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Hottest April in 350 years for Greater Manchester – but no sign (yet) of another hosepipe ban
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Greater Manchester basked in one of the hottest, and driest, Aprils on record – but experts say there are currently no signs of another hosepipe ban this summer. Manchester Evening News – RSS Feed
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Boxing legend Sir Henry Cooper dies
Posted by shbanchang on August 26, 2010
Former boxer Sir Henry Cooper has died aged 76.The British boxing legend once knocked down the great Cassius Clay and was one of the sport’s biggest personalities. Manchester Evening News – RSS Feed
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Arch to buy International Coal for $3.4-billion
Posted by shbanchang on August 23, 2010
Click here to read the whole story or read an excerpt below. Arch Coal (ACI-N 34.32 0.02 0.06%) will buy smaller peer International Coal Group Inc. (ICO-N 14.38 3.35 30.37%) for .4-billion (U.S.) to create the second-largest U.S. producer of steel-making coal, the companies said Monday. The deal is the latest in the coal industry [...]
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Town hall blunder leaves teachers without wages
Posted by shbanchang on August 18, 2010
A bank holiday pay-day blunder left thousands of teachers without their monthly wage. Manchester council was forced to make emergency cash payments over the weekend after the mix-up meant more than 3,000 workers did not receive their regular salary. Manchester Evening News – RSS Feed
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Lodger tied up by landlord and dragged through streets of Salford while children were paid £10 to beat him with crow bar
Posted by shbanchang on August 17, 2010
A lodger was stabbed with a pitchfork then tied up and dragged around the streets in a torturous ‘public flogging’ after a fallout with his landlord. Greg Dean had a rope thrown around his waist before pulled along a road as his two attackers offered local children £10 a time to beat him with a [...]
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Harper Wins Big in Election
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservatives headed to a third consecutive election win on Monday. Epoch Times | Canada
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Osama buried at sea: US Official
Posted by shbanchang on August 16, 2010
Washington: After bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan, senior administration officials said the body would be handled according to Islamic practice and tradition. That practice calls for the body to be buried within 24 hours, the official said. Finding a country willing to accept the [...] news.24by7info.net
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