The Yanke Group of Companies and Royal LePage teamed up to hold a food drive for victims of the flooding in Alberta. The event was held July 2 at the Stonegate Walmart in Saskatoon, Sask. from 9 a.m. till 9 p.m. Donations of food items, ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto
The Manitoba Trucking Association (MTA) gave shippers and consumers a heads up today that, once again, delays and prices could increase due to flooding. Flooding this year in southern Manitoba is expected to "rival that of 2009, which ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts, truck
GE Canada says it will donate $50,000 to the Canadian Red Cross to help with flood relief efforts in southern Alberta. The company is also matching employee donations to the Canadian Red Cross. "The Canadian Red Cross is very grateful for ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, service
Weather Update June 24, 2013 Part of the reason for the delay in sending an update on the crop position is the diversity of the information we are able to obtain. The weather has been very mixed depending on where you are standing. A very ...
Tags: agriculture, lentils, pulses, grains
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 (to end-March), Advanced Photonix Inc of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation) has ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Leon's Furniture, its Brick Group subsidiary, the Hudson's Bay Company and Sears Canada have all launched independent fundraising initiatives to add those affected by the recent flooding disaster in Calgary and other parts of southern ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use, Furniture
Eaton says it is working with local officials, utilities and businesses to help restore power in Calgary, Alta., and surrounding areas, where residents and businesses are still recovering from the effects of recent flooding in southern ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Submissions to Microsoft's Windows Store, after stalling earlier this year, are again on the increase, perhaps because developers have been reinvigorated by talk of Windows 8.1 and this week's BUILD conference. According to the MetroStore ...
Tags: APP, Windows, software, Computer Products
A big data project called Digital Delta aims to investigate how to transform flood control and the management of the entire Dutch water system and save up to 15% of the annual Dutch water management budget. IBM will collaborate with ...
Tags: water system, Computer Products
Crude oil futures settled slightly higher Tuesday as a pipeline shutdown in Alberta, Canada, and escalating tensions in the Middle East lent the complex a bullish note, amid rising equities markets. NYMEX August crude settled 14 cents ...
Tags: Crude Futures, Crude oil
The breach of the dike in the night of Sunday to Monday, 10 June in the vicinity of Fischbeck in the district of Stendal, Germany, had no direct consequences for the nearby plant of Zellstoff Stendal. The flooding caused by the breach was ...
Tags: Construction&Decoration, Stendal, Nordlam
Every day, Wilo develops solutions for obtaining and storing water, as well as supplying it to people, in a sustainable way. Consequently, it became a matter of great concern for the Dortmund-based pump expert Wilo to offer the necessary ...
Tags: Wilo Pumps, Flooding
How do you build a blockbuster app in Myanmar, one of Asia's poorest countries? You go and ask a fortune teller for help, according to 25-year-old Htoo Myint Naung, a local developer. "There's a very famous fortune teller in Yangon, he is ...
Tags: Mobile Apps, Myanmar
For fiscal second-quarter 2013 (to end-March), Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufactures compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has reported revenue of $42.3m, up ...
Tags: Emcore, Electrical
Polish chemical producer Synthos has begun an emergency shutdown of all units at its petrochemical complex in Kralupy, Czech Republic due to extreme flooding by the Vltava river, a company source said Monday. "We are closing production of ...
Tags: Petrochemical, Vltava Floods