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GM’s CAMI assembly plant at Ingersoll, Ont. (GM.ca)
General, Machinery, Reuters

GM aims to tackle chip shortage with new designs

Chip-making investments to be in U.S., Canada

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Reuters — General Motors aims to tackle the global semiconductor shortage with new designs built in North America, president Mark Reuss said on Thursday. Reuss told an investor conference GM is working with seven chip suppliers on three new families of microcontrollers that will reduce the number of unique chips by 95 per cent on […] Read more
Christmas trees
Crops, Reuters, Weather

B.C. floods may tighten market for real Christmas trees

'We're basically shut down until the water recedes'

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Ottawa | Reuters — Finding the perfect real Christmas tree will be harder and more expensive this year. Canada, the world’s top exporter of natural Christmas trees, is grappling with a shortage that will likely be exacerbated by historic flooding in British Columbia, where some tree farms are underwater. A phenomenon known as an atmospheric […] Read more
Cows that were stranded in a flooded barn at Abbotsford, B.C. are rescued on Nov. 16, 2021 by people in boats and on a jet-ski after rainstorms lashed the province, triggering landslides and floods and shutting highways. (Photo: Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters)
General, Reuters, Weather

B.C. calls emergency, expects more deaths from 500-year flood

Some livestock die, more are expected to be euthanized

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Abbotsford | Reuters — The death toll in Canada from massive floods and landslides that devastated parts of British Columbia is set to rise, with the province declaring a state of emergency on Wednesday. Authorities have so far confirmed one death after torrential rains and mudslides destroyed roads and left several mountain towns isolated. At […] Read more
This grand, four-square house was built in 1918 southeast of Oyen, Alta. The house was moved to Oyen in 1953, where it served the Kuich family until 1982. It was sold and demolished in 1992.
Columns

Catalogue houses – Eaton’s, others and how it all happened

Farmers have never been as rich as they were from 1915 to 1919

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Regular readers will be familiar with my sideline dealing with catalogue houses. I thought you might like to know how my interest in the subject ended up with a book being written and published. I was raised in a large, old, two-and-a-half-storey house with four bedrooms on the second floor and a long hallway that […] Read more
An aerial view shows a damaged road as a flood sweeps through, near Lytton, B.C. on Nov. 15, 2021. (Handout photo from B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure via Reuters)
Crops, Weather

B.C. rains shut CN, CP mainlines and Highways 1, 7

Repairs already underway, CN says

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The effects of rainstorms pelting southern British Columbia’s Interior have reached into the Prairies by effectively cutting off grain traffic to Vancouver. Canadian National Railway said Tuesday that heavy rainfalls in the region have led to mudslides and washouts on its network. Crews are inspecting affected areas and “carrying out repairs which are critical to […] Read more
Flooded roads are seen near Chilliwack, B.C. on Nov. 15, 2021 after rainstorms lashed parts of the province, triggering landslides and floods and shutting highways. (Photo: Reuters/Jennifer Gauthier)
General, Reuters, Weather

Severe B.C. rainstorms spur landslides, shut roads

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Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian helicopters carried out multiple missions on Monday to rescue hundreds of people trapped in their vehicles on a highway after huge rainstorms sparked landslides in British Columbia. The rainstorms that started on Sunday triggered landslides, shut roads, prompted the evacuation of an entire community, forced an oil pipeline to close […] Read more
(Firehouse Subs/BusinessWire)
General, Reuters

Tim Hortons parent to buy Firehouse Subs as other brands drag

Chain's comparable year-to-date sales up 20 per cent against pre-pandemic levels

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Reuters — Tim Hortons parent Restaurant Brands International said Monday it will buy sandwich chain Firehouse Subs for US$1 billion, at a time when its popular brands are struggling due to increased competition from rivals launching new menu items. Analysts have said fried chicken sandwich pioneer Popeyes, owned by RBI, has been hurt by McDonald’s […] Read more
How big are some of these container ships in our global supply chain? Below are a few facts that surprised me.
Columns, Hart Attacks

This pandemic ain’t over yet

Aside from human health issues, other ramifications are just emerging

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Global pandemic or not, I just hope the shelves at either of the Canadian Tire stores within 10 minutes of my house do not go bare over the coming weeks. There are just a lot of things, like perhaps a 250-piece wrench set that complements the 125-piece screwdriver set I bought last year that I […] Read more
From this group of ingredients for making brownies, can you correctly choose the one that might be deemed a mystery ingredient and another not used in the recipe at all?
Farm Life, FarmLife

A brownies recipe with a twist

Singing Gardener: Plus, remember our veterans on November 11

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Have you ever known a fellow human being who bellyached a little or a lot? Well — there’s a plant known as “Bellyache Bush” (Jatropha gossypifolia). It’s a shrubby perennial originating from warmer parts of the world, bearing many flowered panicles of small reddish-purple blooms in season. As for its common name Bellyache Bush — […] Read more

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