The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, today marked the progress made in 2011 to bring more jobs and prosperity to hard-working Canadians by deepening Canada’s trading relationships around the world. The top…
Daily Archives: December 27, 2011
Plenty of jobs out there – if you know how to sew
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Turns out that more clothes are being made in L.A. these days, but manufacturers have been struggling to find qualified sewers. From Marketplace: Tens of thousands of sewing jobs fled to Asia more than a decade ago, attracted by low…
ONTARIO: The year is review, 2011
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The year-long effort to improve traffic at LA/Ontario International Airport concluded Dec. 15 when city officials rejected Los Angeles World Airports’ consideration of shutting down one terminal to save money. Throughout the year, Ontario officials criticized the agency – which…
Apple’s late boss Steve Jobs to receive Grammy
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Los Angeles — Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is receiving a posthumous Grammy for his technological innovations in the arts. Jobs is among a dozen people, music groups or companies receiving honorary awards Feb. 11, the day before the Grammys. He…
Food, wine event brewing for March in Palm Desert
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<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 19–> Palm Desert — The 2012 Food + Wine Festival Palm Desert will bring together celebrated chefs and food and wines from around the world. The March 23-25 event will feature three days of culinary events including…
Book review: ‘Loose Diamonds … and Other Things I’ve Lost (and Found) Along …
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Shelve this one under a category that should be named ”bouquet memoirs.” Books like Amy Ephron’s “Loose Diamonds … and Other Things I’ve Lost (and Found) Along the Way” are a nosegay of life essays whose pronouns are mostly “I”…
Seattle’s Pulitzer-winning cartoonist David Horsey’s latest cartoons and …
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When the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, my career at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will come to a close and my new job with the Los Angeles Times will begin. So, this final week of the year, I want…
LA City Hall: Inept or Criminal?
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OCCUPYLA RESPONDS – LA has a 72 million dollar budget shortfall. They have a short fall every year. Wait till you see the sh*t hit the fan in 2012. LA’s projected budget deficit for the year beginning July 1, 2012…
FLASH® Looks at 2011 Natural Disasters Through Lens of Resiliency in New Report
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Dec. 27, 2011 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – Which U.S. city do you think would recover quickest in the event of a severe earthquake? Memphis, Charleston, Seattle or Los Angeles? In the modeled case study of these four cities, all located…
Year in Review: All Good in the ‘Hood
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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – The Downtown residential influx that began in 2001 continued in 2011, and so did the related elements that help turn a physical area into an actual people-serving community. City officials approved a long-desired Historic Core park,…
