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POPSComposting dog waste Backyard solution to your dog waste woes? Mike Levenston at City Farmer, a demonstration garden and compost site run by Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture in Vancouver, B.C. lives in the city and has a dog. The solution, says Mike, is to compost dog waste in yard, using a old plastic garbage can. The folks at City Farmer developed the method, which is one of the most popular tips on the cityfarmer.org web site. The technique provides "a chance where people can have it slowly decompose in a yard and be environmentally safe."
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POPSDec 26: Boxing Day Celebrated in Bahamas, Canada, Jamaica, U.K., Ireland. It was once a day when the church's poor boxes were opened. In Britain, originally a day when gifts (boxes) are given to servants, tradespeople, or others who provide services.
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POPSWhat to do when Santa Goofs! Some great ideas here for dealing with the stuff you really don't want... In Canada, in addition to freecycle, there's FullCircles - http://www.fullcircles.org .
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POPSUrban Uprising? In the past few days, politics has gone from boring to breathtaking. A coalition has formed to overthrow the Bush-like Tories in Canada.
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POPSGot Kids? Be Frugal Lots of good tips for parents here on being frugal. In Canada, in addition to Freecycle, we also have FULLCIRCLES.org -- a more local, Canadian spin on freecycling.
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POPSMoths: Images by Jim des Rivieres These are just two of hundreds. This is an absolutely incredible collection of hundreds of beautiful colour images of different moth species, captured by a unique scanning process by collector/artist, Jim des Rivieres here in the Ottawa Valley in Canada. /e
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POPSPublic Holidays in Egypt Interesting approach. Islamic holidays are observed by ALL Egyptians. Christian holidays are NOT national holidays, however, Christians are permitted to observe these holidays. This would be a tough act to implement in a multicultural country like Canada.
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POPS"Pizza" Parliament Looks like Canada will have another "pizza", minority parliament after the November 14th, 2008 election. Harper won 144 seats, short of the 150+ required for a majority. $350 million spent just to get back to where we were the day before the election.
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POPSOct 13, 2008: Thanksgiving (Canada) Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day (Canadian French: Action de grâce), is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks for the things one has at the close of the harvest season. Some people thank God for this bounty. The holiday is celebrated on the second Monday in October.
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POPSSep 1, 2008: Labor / Labour Day (USA, Canada)
USA On June 29, 1894, the U.S. Congress voted Labor Day as a National Holiday to honor working people's contribution of labour. The day is celebrated with parades and speeches. CANADA Labour Day has been celebrated on the first Monday in September in Canada since the 1880s. The origins of Labour Day in Canada can be traced back to April 14, 1872 when a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union's strike for a 58-hour work-week. The Toronto Trades Assembly (TTA) called its 27 unions to demonstrate in support of the Typographical Union who had been on strike since March 25. George Brown, Canadian politician and editor of the Toronto Globe hit back at his striking employees, pressing police to charge the Typographical Union with "conspiracy." Although the laws criminalizing union activity were outdated and had already been abolished in Great Britain, they were still on books in Canada and police arrested 24 leaders of the Typographical Union. Labour lea
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POPSNeed FREE Junk??? Some National (Canada) coverage for freecycling, the phenomenon that has been sweeping the planet since 2003. This article appeared in the Ottawa Sunday Sun today, and is featured on canoe.ca/greenplanet
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POPSCommunity Garden Slide Show This is an 8 minute success story slide show featuring a downtown, urban community garden project in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks to Pauline Gabriel, Regina.FullCircles.org, for bringing the project to our attention. /e
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POPSFire Hydrant art A local Winnipeg, Canada artist, Toni Toews, has taken the initiative to paint some of the fire hyrants in her neighborhood. There are 36 more hydrants at the website. Definitely worth a look!
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POPSCanadian mag pioneers the “wheat sheet” Nicole Rycroft, executive director of Markets Initiative, said the wheatsheet represents a great opportunity to turn agricultural waste products into an environmentally friendly paper. "We were looking for a creative way to alleviate the stress on Canadian forests," she said. Canada is the world's largest producer of commercial pulp, but the industry has shown little interest in wheat straw, which is used primarily in China. In fact, the wheat straw pulp used to create the wheat sheet was imported from China because there is no facility in North America able to process wheat into pulp. Ms. Rycroft said the 15 million tonnes of cereal waste Canadian agriculture creates annually could be used to make 7.5 million tonnes of pulp, equivalent to about 80 per cent of all the newsprint used in Canada in a given year.
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