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...
Guest op-ed by Karim Sadjadpour (@ksadjadpour an adjunct professor at Georgetown and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Iran and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East) @NYTimes.com, Aug. 12
Even as negotiations restart over the nuclear deal, American officials still don’t understand the country or its leader.
U.S. government employees in Tijuana and parts of Baja California have been told to shelter in place as law enforcement in Mexico investigates multiple reports of vehicle fires, roadblocks and police activity, the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana said. https://t.co/CIbOs4MhmF
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention say that several of their denomination’s major entities are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. The statement gave few details, but indicated the investigation dealt with sexual abuse. https://t.co/pLp5qdkgjI
“The alleged attacker is Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, a law enforcement official told ABC News. He was arrested at the scene and is currently in New York State Police custody. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had a lawyer” https://t.co/lppK3ONRgp
When Biden met with historians last week at the White House, they compared the threat facing America to the pre-Civil War era and to pro-fascist movements before World War II.
Kenyans head to the polls on Tuesday to elect their fifth president since independence. The election pitches Vice President William Ruto against opposition leader Raila Odinga. DW looks at what's at stake.
Kenya will not only be electing a new president on August 9, but also a new parliament and county governors.
But most eyes have been firmly set on the fiercely contested presidential race, which has featured astounding shifts of alliances, a first for women and even a front-runner crying in public [....]