Schools suspend counselling centre's sex ed classes
Several public schools in Surrey are suspending sexual education classes offered by a counselling centre affiliated with a religious organization that opposes abortion after a CTV News investigation.
‘Once you have a dream, anything is possible’
Twenty years ago this past weekend Roberta Bondar began an eight-day ride aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. It was the culmination of eight years of astronaut training as Bondar, Sault Ste.[...]
Silicon Valley here? No way
It will create riches beyond most computer boffins' wildest dreams. The Facebook flotation, which could value the social networking phenomenon at $100bn, will also jam Highway 101, the main route through Northern California, with shiny Porsches as software engineers gain the opportunity to cash in their shares in the company. House prices in the vicinity will rocket too.
A glorious global Jubilee: As our Queen marks her Diamond Jubilee, how Victoria's 300 million subjects celebrated hers
For 60 years, God had saved the Queen and on June 22, 1897, millions of her subjects across the world celebrated her Diamond Jubilee.
Arts Notes, Walnut Creek Journal and Lamorinda Sun
Elaine Grab, an Internet docent at the Clayton and Pleasant Hill libraries, will help the public navigate their way through the world of electronic reading devices at sessions on at 2 p.m. Jan. 24 at the Walnut Creek downtown library; and at 7 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Orinda library.
Claremont fine arts students get a boost
Saanich school's new diploma program acknowledges efforts of those in an arts stream
How Oliberté, the Anti-TOMS, Makes Shoes and Jobs in Africa
'Why or how could anyone want to make shoes in a place full of so much poverty and corruption?’ That’s the question many people asked Canadian Tal Dehtiar when he founded Oliberté Footwear , the first company to make premium shoes in Africa using African materials and explicitly linking shoes sold by Western retailers to job creation on the continent. Dehtiar started the Toronto-based company in ...
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By Compiled by Pamela Stone and Debbie Caldwell., Northshore News March 11, 2010
WINNING ESSAY INCLUDED: Dust settles on prestigious award for Abbotsford writer
Abbotsford's Simran Sandhu, 15, a Grade 10 student at Dasmesh Punjabi School, won the special prize in the Commonwealth essay writing competition.