Tag: World

World Record Holder to Run Badwater Ultramarathon for Calgary Eyesight Charity

(Calgary, Alta) (On July 28th), world-class competitive runner Norma Bastidas will compete in the Badwater® 135 ultramarathon in Death Valley in support of Calgary-based Operation Eyesight. Bastidas is running to raise awareness and support for Operation Eyesight’s work to eliminate avoidable blindness in developing countries. Once she crosses the finish line, Bastidas will become…

July 25, 2015
Dropping the Euro Won’t End Greece’s Misery

The road to economic recovery will be an uphill battle strewn with major economic hurdles By Constantine Passaris, Professor of Economics, University of New Brunswick RHODES, Greece/ Troy Media/ – Fishermen around the world have an expression: it’s time to cut bait and start fishing. Clearly the contemporary leadership of the European Union (EU)…

July 23, 2015
Science and History Day in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park will host the 12th annual Waterton-Glacier Science and History Day on Tuesday, July 28, from 9:30a.m. – 3:30p.m. at the West Glacier Community Building in Glacier National Park*. The event is free of charge and all are encouraged to attend. Held yearly on the 4th Tuesday in July, this event…

July 22, 2015
PM Announces Expanded and Modernized Free Trade Agreement with Israel

Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that negotiations toward an expanded and modernized Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA) have concluded. The modernized CIFTA will notably provide expanded market access opportunities for agricultural, fish and seafood products through the reduction or elimination of Israeli tariffs on a large number of products, and duty-free access under…

July 21, 2015
Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’

In the latest data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, a new close-up image of Pluto reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains, in the center-left of the…

July 21, 2015
Study Reveals Alarming Effects of Climate Change on Bumblebees

More than 100 years of data show bumblebees are losing vital habitat south, but also not expanding north By Drew Scherban Researchers from the University of Calgary and University of Ottawa have found that climate change is having a significant impact on bumblebee species in North America and Europe. This astonishing find about the habitat range…

July 17, 2015
Greek Tragedy: Budgetary Irresponsibility at the Heart of the Problem

MONTREAL /CNW Telbec/ – The Greek crisis unfolding before our eyes is the result of a long history of budgetary irresponsibility and ruinous public spending decisions, explains a Viewpoint on the situation in Greece published today by the MEI. “The Greek public finance crisis did not appear overnight. The Greek government has been living…

July 17, 2015
NASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from…

July 14, 2015
NYSE temporarily suspends trading due to technical glitch

By Tanya Agrawal (Reuters) Trading in all securities were halted on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday following earlier reports of technical difficulties, although NYSE-listed issues was still trading on other exchanges. After the halt, U.S. stocks extended their losses, but in low volumes, with the S&P 500 hitting a session low and…

July 8, 2015
FIFA: A Tournament that Broke all Records

The seventh FIFA Women’s World Cup™ began in record-breaking style, with 24 teams lining up for the very first time in the competition’s history, and ended on a similarly momentous note, as USA became the first nation to lift the Trophy three times. Just for good measure, Canada 2015 also yielded an all-time-high of…

July 6, 2015
The Story of the Fourth of July

The Declaration of Independence We celebrate American Independence Day on the Fourth of July every year. We think of July 4, 1776, as a day that represents the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation. But July 4, 1776 wasn’t the day that the Continental Congress…

July 4, 2015
Social Media in Aviation – a Helping Hand or a Slippery Slope?

According to the latest Jobvite survey, more than 75% of enterprises are planning to increase their spending on recruitment via social networks in 2015. This comes as no surprise, considering that currently about 2 billion people on earth are using social media every single day – pilots, flight crew and other aviation workers included.…

July 3, 2015
#LoveWins: The US Supreme Court Rules that Gay and Lesbian Couples Can Marry

By Tanya Somanader, White House In a 5-4 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court took a huge step forward in our progress toward a more perfect union. Today, gay and lesbian couples won their right to marry. Today, love wins. You can read the decision here. Following the ruling, President Obama delivered…

June 29, 2015
Big Rock “Stuffie” Sale Supports Mexican Students

Former Big Rock School teacher/guest teacher Mary Donaldson (who also continues to support the Foothills Young Authors’ Conference as Co-Chair and Treasurer) is involved with a project in the Huatulco, Mexico area (Oaxaca Province) called Proyecto Escuelas Rurales (the Rural Schools Project). The program builds and funds schools in poor communities outside Hutulco in the…

June 18, 2015
Bungie Rallies 50,000 Gamers, Raises $1,026,006.80 for Nepal Earthquake Relief

Donation from gaming company Bungie and their community is the single largest contribution to Direct Relief for earthquake response efforts in Nepal. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Several of Bungie’s community members who helped raise money for earthquake relief and recovery in Nepal through gaming company Bungie were at Direct Relief headquarters Thursday to present a check for…

June 14, 2015