Unifor, which represents more than 200 workers at the mill, says the operation supports about 11,000 jobs across the province, majority in rural areas. That's the impact overnight. The decision to hold off until Friday drew heavy criticism from Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Houston and NDP Leader Gary Burrill, who were in the legislature Wednesday asking where the premier was hiding. [Full Article...]
Despite the much touted figure that worldwide shipping moves 90% of the world's trade goods whilst emitting only 2.5 - 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions , the maritime sector, and indeed the whole logistics profession, is taking the matter extremely seriously and bidding to its cut harmful CO2, and other pollutants, either partially or completely. [Full Article...]
For the Mars 2020 rover, the goal was to make the traveling science lab more self-sufficient. At the end of the test, engineers found the rover " checked all the necessary boxes ". The ramps were at different heights, as this was a way for the rover to simulate rocks and other obstacles that will be present on Mars' surface. Outwardly, it looks very much like the Curiosity rover on which it ... [Full Article...]
That's because it's winter solstice , a day on which most of the USA clocks fewer than 10 hours of daylight, reports the Washington Post . This Doodle is specific to those searchers in the Northern Hemisphere. On the Google home page is an animated Google Doodle , logo, for the first day of Winter - the Winter Solstice . However, it rarely is the coldest day of the year. [Full Article...]
Roche has completed its $4.3 billion acquisition of Spark Therapeutics, Inc . following the receipt of regulatory approval from all government authorities required by the merger agreement. Once the merger has been completed, Spark will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Roche, with Spark shares ceasing to trade on the Nasdaq exchange. [Full Article...]
The team's results were published online December 17, 2019 in the journal Nature Communications . The main feature of this site is that "everything is sealed in mud, which means that the preservation of the organic remains is absolutely phenomenal", explains Theis Jensen , a researcher at the Globe Institute who participated in the excavations and study . [Full Article...]
A team of worldwide researchers say they have identified the "food source" that fuels black holes , the dense matter at the heart of galaxies . "The presence of these early monsters, with masses several billion times the mass of our Sun , is a big mystery", says Farina, who is also affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching bei München. [Full Article...]
The carbon tax flows from the federal government's right to sign worldwide treaties, she added, and is part of living up to climate change accords such as the Paris Agreement. The federal lawyer faced repeated questions from judges about the scope of legislation and how it was implemented. In response to a question about whether Ottawa can simply ignore competing pressures on Canadian businesses, ... [Full Article...]