Archive for April, 2007

Democrats tout plan for troop pullout

Monday, April 30th, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) The Democrats’ plan to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq next year responds to voters’ demand for change, New Hampshire Rep. Paul Hodes said Saturday.
Hodes and other House Democrats on Friday pushed through a rebuke of President Bush and the war in Iraq. Bush promised a veto of the spending bill, […]

Farmers vote to end wheat board’s barley monopoly

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Western Canadian farmers have voted to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly on barley sales.
“It’s time to move to more marketing choice, and we want to move to that as quickly as possible,” federal AgricultureMinister Chuck Strahl said Wednesday in Ottawa.
Barley Plebiscite Results
Retain single desk 37.8%
CWB […]

Disney presses for warning to pirates

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Tom Toumazis, executive vicepresident of Disney’s Buena Vista International television distribution arm, said his company was ‘working closely’ with providers to communicate directly with pirates.
Media companies like Buena Vista - which produces top-rated TV shows including Ugly Betty, Lost and Desperate Housewives –are fighting a continuous battle against illegal internet downloads.
Toumazis said: ‘The […]

PATRIOTIC FOUNDATION

Monday, April 30th, 2007

April 24, 2007 — FOR a building widely reported to have fallen on 9/11, Brookfield’s One Liberty Plaza is in one awfully healthy 2.2 million square-foot office tower.
Marooned in Rome on the day of the terrorist attack, I heard CNN and other networks say that the black steel tower had collapsed along with 7 […]

Yesterday’s trading: Bonuses bite Bridgewell

Monday, April 30th, 2007

It said it had to shell out at least 50% of operating profits to ensure that employees do not leg it to rival firms. Rumours have since been rife that the group is in desperate need to climb into bed with a bigger rival to survive. Yesterday’s confirmation that it has received a number of […]