Deloraine Houle is getting on-the-job training through BUILD, which steers men and women into the building trades. She says, "My grandmother is kind of proud of me - I'm the first girl in my family in carpentry."
"A new inner-city programs, the first of its kind on North America, could see 400 leaky North End rentals get energy retrofits in the next year.
That's 400 down, 79,600 more to go.
This fall, thanks to a tweak in Manitoba Hydro's legislation, two inner-city renovation agencies are hoping to go door to door, block by block, in the William Whyte neighbourhood offering renters thousands of dollars in renovations, effectively for free.
"I blog because my teeth hurt. Even my new teeth."
And you probably do too. Not necessarily because your teeth are new. Pretty much any set of teeth can give one cause to blog - rotten teeth, sensitive teeth, broken teeth. Even ill-fitting new teeth (like mine.)
Times like these, more often now I turn to music that... sounds the way music used to. I know, I'm basically cashing in my chips as an independent, thinking person by hitting the nostalgia button... but there it is. Facts on the ground.
Acanuck is supposed to be covering this, but I thought you'd all be delighted to hear that Canada's socialists are a week away from what would be an historic election upset. Hell, THE election upset of all time up here in the Great White North.
One year - back when we had the combine - Dad decided to plant rye in the big field that ran between our house and the rest of the farm. Beautiful stuff, rye. You may not think kids notice when things...
During the last few years, I've been following Jonah Goldberg's Twitter feed. Many years ago, I saw him speak when I interned with the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. It was clear that the man thought at the time that he was at the forefront of conservatism but his Twitter feed now conveys a different feeling.
Rioters attacked police and set cars and bikes on fire to protest against a curfew introduced on Saturday. In the southern city of Eindhoven, protesters threw fireworks, looted supermarkets and smashed shop windows. There were smaller protests in Amsterdam, and in some cities and towns around the country.
Police in Indianapolis, Indiana say a “mass murder” happened in their city. They’re not saying much about it. Investigators are not clear on how many shooters were involved, or if it was just one. The motive is unclear.
Remember the mortgage crisis that led to the Great Recession? Well, there's evidence it's happening again. This time, with commercial mortgages. https://t.co/tYlhq7VLJY
Republican governors of New Hampshire, Florida, Texas and Montana all now have said they’re calling Guardsmen from their states home. Some 7,000 will remain in D.C. through Feb. 6.
[....] The majority of the troops staying in D.C. will be on a volunteer basis, but several groups have been involuntarily extended through Feb. 6, according to two Guard members, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the topic.
The last time Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell faced off, Biden blinked first.
It was the winter of 2012. Then, as now, Democrats had just won a presidential election, had a narrow Senate majority, and Biden was earnestly proclaiming that the election would break the Republican “fever” of opposing the Democraticagenda.
Nearly 100 people gathered in Harlem to show support for a woman was assaulted in their neighborhood when she turned down a man’s advances https://t.co/i1A2b1XtP1
A Tennessee man was arrested Friday for alleged harassment after authorities said he distributed a disrespectful photo of a law enforcement officer's grave on social media.
Joshua Andrew Garton, 28, was arrested on suspicion of harassment and jailed in Dickson County, Tennessee, on $76,000 bond, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.