![]() ![]() In government, they set aside $2 billion for water and wastewater infrastructure, and since 2016 have approved $1.5 billion for 1,452 projects, everything from new sewers and lagoons to treatment-plant upgrades and dam repairs.Ĭonservative environment critic Ed Fast said his party’s plan will involve infrastructure programs. The Liberals have not yet released their environment promises. Mission Mayor Pam Alexis said she is “absolutely hopeful” wastewater will become an election issue, as her city races against time to keep its pipe from bursting. While climate change is dominating the environmental conversations leading into the federal election campaign, politicians who show plans to stop the dumping of toxic, feces-laden sludge into Canada’s waterways will be very welcome, particularly by the municipal governments for whom the problem is a daily fight. ![]() ![]() If that pipe bursts, it will dump 11 million litres of putrid water from area homes and businesses into a critical salmon habitat every day it isn’t fixed. OTTAWA - In Canada’s largest city, raw sewage flows into Lake Ontario so often, Toronto tells people they should never swim off the city’s beaches for least two days after it rains.Īcross the country in Mission, B.C., a three-decade-old pipe that carries sewage under the Fraser River to a treatment plant in Abbotsford is so loaded operators can’t even slip a camera inside it to look for damage. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a fascinating account of life in late eighteenth-century India - the first book written in English by an Indian - framed by a mini-biography of a remarkably versatile entrepreneur."Travels" presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was probably the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine, i.e., therapeutic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and the seaside resort of Brighton. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. ![]() This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784) and Michael H. ![]() ![]() The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. ![]() The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with-and perished from-for more than five thousand years. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a historian's perspective, and a biographer's passion. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer-from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Turns out my left eye’s got some rare form of color blindness that only women get. ![]() Carrot hilariously catalogues the “Glory to God Museum of Natural Wonders, Curiosities and Taxidermy” before introducing us to the rest of the businesses on the street, such as “The boutique clothing store goes out of business approximately once a year, whereupon someone buys it, changes out the name and the scented candles, and proceeds to gently lose money for another year.” When she meets Sam, he’s quick to inform her, “Oh, you haven’t been around for a while! Yeah. ![]() As they move through this world, Kingfisher shifts the tone, which she has great control over throughout. Carrot and Simon find mysterious writing on the wall saying “Pray they are hungry,” and a Bible from a different universe (which calls to mind the extradimensional Bible in Helen Phillip’s excellent 2019 novel The Need ) long before they realize they are being hunted. The way Kingfisher builds up her monsters before they appear on the page is one of The Hollow Place ’s strengths. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is what made me hit request super fast. I think there’s something really creepy about a place that used to bring so much joy, and now evokes only dread (at least I think it does). I want to premise this with the fact that I have a certain fascination for abandoned amusement parks. It’s the reason she’s alive and her family isn’t.īut as the people around her begin disappearing one by one, Mack realizes that this competition is even more sinister than she imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive.įourteen competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she’s an expert at that. ![]() The prize: enough money to change everything.Įven though everyone is desperate to win-to seize a dream future or escape a haunting past-Mack is sure she can beat her competitors. ![]() The challenge: Spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don’t get caught. ![]() ![]() The title of Hobbes's treatise alludes to the Leviathan mentioned in the Book of Job. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature (" the war of all against all") could be avoided only by a strong, undivided government. Written during the English Civil War (1642–1651), it argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. ![]() The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). ![]() ![]() ![]() Laughter rang through the room, and I noted the time. “Keanu Reeves just called,” someone said in a mock whisper. The fifty other people in the pub watched Darius with equal solemnity, their unbroken attention a sure reflection of the gravity of. No one was looking at me, but I nodded gravely just in case. Leather may not be the most comfortable choice in summer, but it’s necessary.” ![]() “Your personal style takes a backseat to safety. “We’ve had several incidents this month that the proper selection of PPE could have prevented.” He stretched out a shiny sleeve. Biting the inside of my cheek, I fought back a snigger. I looked from the goth-lord coat to Darius’s somber gray eyes, set in a handsome face with chiseled features and a short salt-and-pepper beard. “Every job is different, and that means wearing appropriate PPE.” To emphasize his point, he lifted a leather trench coat with studded cuffs. “Personal Protective Equipment,” he announced to the room. As the leader of the Crow and Hammer, he set a steadfast example of integrity and composure. The organization that regulates mythics and their activitiesĭarius was a man of unshakable and unquestionable authority. Any resemblance to actual persons, places, or events is purely coincidental. ![]() No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations for review purposes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every narrator is, in his own distinct way, struggling to claim and articulate a masculine identity while being caught between two worlds-his native culture and that of Anglo-centric America. ![]() Every narrator in this collection of short stories is male, and they range from children to adults. ![]() They also find moments of joy, intimacy, beauty, and connection, rounding out their plotlines and characterizations into full depictions of their humanity.Ī pronounced area of concern is the dissection of masculine identity. Through these stories, often told in vignettes or fragmented timelines, Díaz depicts the everyday lives and struggles of Dominican-American immigrants, as they grapple with familial dysfunction, substance abuse, struggles with gender and sexuality, poverty, romantic love, classism, and the unspoken but deeply-felt white supremacist strains of the American Dream. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Episodic chapters tell miniature gems of stories (one has been nominated for a Locus Award) tracing Bod’s growth from a spoiled boy who runs away with the ghouls to a young man for whom the metaphor of setting out into the world becomes achingly real. ![]() Bod (short for Nobody) finds solace and safety with the inhabitants of the local graveyard, who grant him some of the privileges and powers of the dead-he can Fade and Dreamwalk, for instance, but still needs to eat and breathe. Gaiman’s riff on Kipling’s Mowgli stories never falters, from the truly spine-tingling opening, in which a toddler accidentally escapes his family’s murderer, to the melancholy, life-affirming ending. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It taught children from the 3rd to 8th grade in two different ways. Not only did the book teach children from the 3rd to 8th grade how to add and subtrahends without any problems but also as you read it, you could, by the end of the book, you should already have a pretty good understanding on there is no way of telling a subtrahend from a minuend in mathematics. I would just like to start by saying the book was a great read and not just for the children. Doubles That handily, it meant the passing of tournament host and defending champion Roger Federer, who tumbled down the line-up with a forehand problem on the spacious and fast Ashe, and with… Audio recording of Canada’s most ballyhooed game is finally online. ![]() |