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...
The attorney general's decision underscores the gravity of the discoveries, which included one set of documents found at an office space Biden used and another set found in the garage of his Wilmington home.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Thursday that he was appointing a special counsel, former U.S. attorney Robert Hur, to review the storage of sensitive documents discovered in spaces used by President Joe Biden during the years preceding his return to the White House.
The U.S. and the west must try to rescue & save Mikheil Saakashvili, the anti-Putinist democratic former president of Georgia whom Putin’s puppet regime there has detained, beaten and poisoned. The lowdown by @melkaylanhttps://t.co/Dx67WhWhpe and @McFaul: https://t.co/6pf3ssZroh
This by @BuddyYakov and @nils_gilman is the strongest argument I've seen for the notion that the U.S. has sloughed off neoliberalism and adopted a new paradigm of economic governance. Highly recommend https://t.co/h1qoNJQNPG
If you really want to understand what's good and what's bad about money-driven health care, read this (and do note I have changed 'profit' to 'money', because sometimes wanting to save money can have similar effects to wantng to profit financially)
ICUs have saved countless lives. But their excessive proliferation across the U.S.—especially alongside an overall drop in hospital beds—is troubling. In Baffler no. 66, @awgaffney considers critical care in a market-driven health system.https://t.co/zVVgD6xvau
Current headline: "Mayor: Teacher shot by 6-year-old ‘red flag for the country’" (So have we hit bottom for school shootings yet?)
A Virginia teacher who was critically injured when she was shot by a 6-year-old student in Newport News is showing signs of improvement as authorities struggle to understand how a child so young could be involved in a school shooting, https://t.co/wmZ62rvQa1pic.twitter.com/MrscZ8PliP
Sadly though anybody looking for contrition and an acknowledgement of error from the useful idiots who blamed the bogus Russiagate conspiracy for Clinton's loss will be waiting a long time.