Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition.
Brett McGillivray. Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition, 2nd ed. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. 282 pages. $95.00 cloth. Regional geography, the analysis of a defined area's physical and human characteristics, has a long tradition within geography. But in the aftermath of the discipline's so-called...

World War I soldier settlement: government attempts and some private contributions.
And when our ship pulled in to Circular Quay And I looked at the place where me legs used to be I thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me To grieve and to mourn and to pity. And the band played Waltzing Matilda. Words and Music...

Smart electricity options: the renewable energy market has potential, but only if the right policies are in place.
ONTARIO IS AT AN ENERGY crossroads. The province's decision-makers are in the process of choosing how Ontario will produce and use electricity in the coming decades. Their decisions will either take the province down the same road of boosting centralized supply to meet constantly increasing demand--or they will forge...

PEOPLE IN ENERGY: PPM Adds Executives to Support Growing Wind Business.
ENERGY RESOURCE-22 December 2006-PEOPLE IN ENERGY: PPM Adds Executives to Support Growing Wind Business(C)2006 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com PPM Energy Inc., ScottishPower's competitive U.S. energy business, has created two new executive positions to support its growing wind business. Jean Wilson will now serve as senior vice...

Buckeye Industrial Mining Co. Completes Successful Test Burn of K-Fuel Refined Coal.
ENERGY RESOURCE-27 December 2006-Buckeye Industrial Mining Co. Completes Successful Test Burn of K-Fuel Refined Coal(C)2006 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Buckeye Industrial Mining Co., a subsidiary of Evergreen Energy Inc., today announced a successful demonstration test burn of K-Fuel refined coal that achieved compliance with a new federal clean...

Sherritt signs J-V with Cuba to boost nickel output.
Canada's Sherritt International Corp. and the Cuban government plan to spend up to $450 million to increase the island's production of nickel and cobalt. The Toronto-based company announced Mar. 3 that combined annual output of nick-el and cobalt will rise by 16,000 tons to 49,000 tons under...

Impact of water level changes on commercial navigation in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River.
This paper estimates the impact on commercial navigation of, first, the implementation of proposed water level regulation measures for the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River and, second, a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The impetus for the development of new water level regulations was the high water levels...

Sherritt reports mixed results.
Sherritt International, the largest single foreign investor in Cuba, reported steep losses and said it would meet with bondholders to try to renegotiate its debts in a bid to avoid default. The company has been hit by low nickel and coal prices, though its Cuba oil and...

Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution. .
HAIM OFEK, Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 254 p. Haim Ofek's Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution is an interesting and readable story about human evolution. I very much enjoyed reading this book. I also enjoyed J.K. Rowling's...

The winter of our discontent.
In the winter of 1916, in the second year of the Great War, the realitites of war came home to Canadians in ways more tangible than the official communiques or the long lists or casualties. The war now meant shortages of food and fuel, endless regulations, and trouble in...