dispatches from Canada’s capital
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This year’s International Energy Outlook has been released by the American Energy Information Administration. Among the key things noted:
The total demand for energy worldwide will increase by 57% between 2004 and 2030.
If oil prices remain comparable to their present levels, coal will be the dominant fuel for new power plants.
Annual growth in installed generating capacity [...]
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The Canadian Supreme Court seems to have overturned Christie v. AG of B.C. et al. This 2005 decision held that the poor could not be charged the 7% tax on legal services that existed in British Columbia at the time. In the Reasons for Judgment, the B.C. Supreme Court stated:
[The Act] constitutes indirect taxation and [...]
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1) Remember how our flat got deprived of refrigeration? One week on, we are still subsisting off of bread and cheese we keep cold in the metal cages outside our windows. We call them the ‘alternative fridges.’
2) Remember how I lost the ballot for the Lake District trip with the Walking Club? Well, somebody dropped [...]
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For too long, the Wadham College bike shed has been seriously cluttered with seemingly abandoned bikes. Now, bikeless residents of Oxford have an opportunity to benefit. I got this message from the college a few hours ago:
We’ve arranged with College to have a mass cull of the old bikes littering the bike shed, hopefully with [...]
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Many thanks to Jenn for inviting me to the formal dinner at Green College tonight. You know the primarily focus of a college is medical college when you see the staff of Aesclipius on the dishes. Located on the second floor of their observatory tower, the Green dining hall is unusually interesting. The head of [...]
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What is the most efficient way to cover a square area of approximately 1.2 metres to a side using metrically sized pieces of paper? Ideally, there should be no need to cut sheets and as little overlap as possible. Using a few A2 sheets is preferable to having to use dozens of little A8 or [...]
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