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Ottawa moves to get dirty mowers off Canadian lawns
2016-06-11 13:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: The federal government wants dirty gas-guzzling mowers to get off everybody's lawn. Proposed new regulations for off-road, small spark-ignition engines have been posted in the Canada Gazette for public comment. The new rules are designed to cut exhaust fumes and gasoline evaporation from gas-powered machines. That includes lawn mowers, leaf blowers, garden tractors, snowblowers and light-duty logging machines, including chainsaws, log-splitters and shredders. The U.S. Environmental Protection...
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Machinex Upgrades Cascades MRF in Ottawa
2016-05-26 09:49:00| Waste Age
Machinex installed and started up a container sorting line at Cascades Recovery in Ottawa. read more
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Gene patent settlement reached between Ottawa hospital, patents' owner
2016-03-09 19:15:55| Biotech - Topix.net
Transgenomic has agreed to provide CHEO and all other Canadian public sector labs and hospitals the right to test Canadians for the condition - known as long QT syndrome - on a not-for-profit basis. The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario says it has settled a legal dispute with the owner of five gene patents related to a potentially deadly heart rhythm disorder that runs in families.
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Federal budget to begin 'bit of a reset' on how Ottawa backs innovators: source
2016-02-25 01:22:22| Telecom - Topix.net
The federal budget will signal a "bit of a reset" on how Ottawa helps Canadian innovators transform research and ideas into stronger productivity and growth, a government official says. Every time Finance Minister Bill Morneau comes under fire for his deepening deficit - $18.4 billion by Monday's reckoning - he tries to change the subject by teasing, among other things, the innovation investments coming in the March 22 budget.
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Ottawa wants provinces to form 'working groups' on climate change
2016-02-19 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: The federal government is hoping to emerge from next month's first minister's conference in Vancouver with an agreement from the provinces and territories to spend the next six months consulting on key areas of climate change the, CBC has learned. But after 10 years of dealing with climate change on their own, some provinces are bristling at the federal government's attempt to insert itself at the centre of the environmental conversation happening March 3 in Vancouver. Sources say the federal...
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