Category: Travel

  • Smart Interactive Asia Real Estate Guide

    Smart interactive cities including Asia, Canada, Europe and United States. Smart Interactive Asia Real Estate Guide searches using the power of the internet, continuously updated and never out of date. All editions use the power of the internet with 8 search engines and over 10,900 links. Use your browser to search for a city in…

  • Reports say one-third of Basecamp employees exit in the wake of new company etiquette | ZDNet

    Last Monday, Chicago-based software firm Basecamp issued a statement that said it was making a number of changes, including a ban on political discussions on its company Basecamp account.”Today’s social and political waters are especially choppy. Sensitivities are at 11, and every discussion remotely related to politics, advocacy, or society at large quickly spins away…

  • ‘A Garage Sale for the Last Old Growth’ | The Tyee

    Two summers ago, Brenda Sayers knelt atop what was left of British Columbia’s likely ninth widest Douglas fir tree. Sayers, a member of the Hupačasath First Nation, has long fought to protect old growth in her territory on the west coast of Vancouver Island.ANNOUNCEMENTS, EVENTS & MORE FROM TYEE AND SELECT PARTNERSJoin Us To Launch…

  • World Sailing: Digging out of a hole >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News

    World Sailing: Digging out of a holePublished on May 16th, 2021World Sailing was not financially well positioned before the COVID-19 pandemic as ambitious management decisions failed to deliver. While there are now new hands on the wheel, the postponed Olympics meant a delay in funding that Olympic sports receive following the games.With a new CEO…

  • Smart Interactive European Real Estate Guide

    Smart interactive cities including Asia, Canada, Europe and United States. Smart Interactive European Real Estate City Guide searches using the power of the internet, continuously updated and never out of date. All editions use the power of the internet with 8 search engines and over 10,900 links. Use your browser to search for a city…

  • David Foster joins fight to save music in Greater Victoria School District – Victoria News

    Victoria-born, 16-time Grammy winning musician David Foster penned a letter to the Greater Victoria School District May 7 urging them not to cut music programs. (THE CANADIAN PRESS)David Foster joins fight to save music in Greater Victoria School District‘Music is the great equalizer’ Foster wrote in a letter to the districtJANE SKRYPNEKMay. 15, 2021 3:30…

  • World’s longest suspension footbridge lets walkers get some mountain air

    The bridge sits 175 m (574 ft) above a rushing river in the UNESCO-recognized Arouca Geopark, which is an area of outstanding natural beauty. The 516 Arouca bridge is significantly longer than the previous world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge in the Alps, which measures 494 m (1,620 ft). Source: World’s longest suspension footbridge lets walkers…

  • Microsoft Teams and Zoom users have a new feature that may stun you into silence | ZDNet

    Yet I’ve just been lifted to semi-rapture by a new product, one that will improve countless working lives.Please let me ask you: How would you like to improve your Microsoft Teams or Zoom meeting?Other than never to have a Microsoft Teams or Zoom meeting ever again? (A sentiment shared by many important business figures.)Well, this…

  • Canadian Constitution to recognize Quebec as a nation

    François Legault’s government has introduced sweeping changes to provincial language laws that would amend the Canadian Constitution to recognize Quebec as a nation and French as its only official and common language. The surprise constitutional initiative, contained in draft legislation, would try to use a section of the Constitution that allows provinces to make changes…

  • Leaked Fossil Documents Reveal 50 Years of Suppressed Air Pollution Science – The Energy Mix

    Leaked memos make it clear that Big Oil has known about the links between air pollution and fossil fuel combustion for at least 50 years—and, in a familiar pattern, has for decades been doing everything it can to bury the threat to its bottom line. Internal memos and reports from fossil heavy hitters like Esso dating…