The fleet management report recommends the purchase of the three hybrid buses. Despite higher upfront costs — a new hybrid transit bus costs approximately $337,000 more than a diesel bus — municipal officials are confident savings will be realized through lower fuel and maintenance costs. A diesel bus retails for $850,000 while the hybrid bus price is $1,187,000. The report indicates the new hybrid buses will not arrive until 2025 due to factory delays when all of the three identified diesel buses will be out of use. BayToday inquired about the financial and operational efficiencies the municipality expects to realize in the switch to hybrid transit buses.

“We need to prepare for scenarios in which the Arctic becomes much more contested and subject to conflict,” Lord Ashton of Hyde, chair of the committee, said in a statement. “The Arctic is a very challenging environment to operate in and requires specialised skills. It is vital that we maintain sufficient equipment and regular cold-weather training so that those skills are maintained and consolidated.”The committee characterizes the present U.K. Arctic policy as “well-calibrated,” emphasizing the ongoing unpredictability of the region. “UK scenario planning will need to consider the possibility that China could in future seek to establish a military presence in the Arctic,” the report said. “The UK Government remains committed to holding cold weather training and military exercises in the High North.

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There are at least a few thousand oil and gas representatives attending the climate summit in Dubai, according to one estimate (new window). Just recently we held the largest global day of action, pushing back to end fossil fuels fast, fair and forever, he said. Activists protest against fossil fuels at the COP28 UN Climate Summit on Sunday. Throughout the climate summit, environmental activists have held demonstrations, which often target the oil and gas industry with signs saying 'End fossil fuels,' among many others. The federal government has made several announcements during COP28, including stricter methane rules for the oil and gas industry and a cap on the sector's total emissions.

Cody New (left) and Rick Sauder pitch their company's modular truck racks on Dragons' Den in a show to air on CBC Jan. 4. (submitted photo/Dragons' Den) CBC show Local company to make pitch on Dragons’ Den Dec 11, 2023 | 12:00 PMA business that got its start in Armstrong will be featured on the CBC show Dragons’ Den in the new year. Cody New is a Vernon resident, and one of the founders of MULTY, a company that has been making a name for itself in the truck accessory market in North America. New said MULTY, which moved its operations to Kamloops two years ago, will appear on Dragons’ Den on Jan. 4 at 8 p.m. PST ( 5 p.m. EST) on CBC and on the Gem streaming service.

The good old CBC has a problem: they have a revenue shortfall of about $125 million and are laying off about 600 people. Continually paying top bosses large bonuses while the news world around them crumbles with new technology and younger people looking at alternative news sources, the CBC advertising revenue is drying up. The CBC has been shielded by this fact by running to Justin Trudeau and asking for more money from the government to shield employees from the real world. Well, the reality has caught up to the CBC, Mr. Trudeau has run the resource sector in Canada into the ground. At least the CBC job losses should be spread across Canada and no one community will be severely impacted.

Technology * Innovation * Publishing Newsletter #275 Kathy Sandler · Follow 9 min read · Just now Just now -- Listen ShareReminder: I optimized this newsletter for subscription. If you’re reading this on my blog or Medium (via website or email), please subscribe at https://www.sandlertechworks.com/ for the best user experience. While I focus on Technology, Innovation, and Publishing, because I have a platform, I also flag items that I think are important, which you might have missed, and try to include a bunch of resources & opportunities. https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-chatgpt-year-of-living-generatively/Meta and YouTube are looking to Demi Lovato, Tom Brady and other A-listers to mainstream the technology — flawed guardrails and all. https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/12/reading-skills-new-study-results-concern-the-german-market/HT @publishingtrend Yu and Me’s Lucy Yu wanted to create the bookstore she never saw when growing up.

Le gouvernement fédéral mettra sur pied, au cours des prochains mois, un comité d’experts pour « réfléchir à l’avenir » de CBC/Radio-Canada et assurer la « pérennité » du diffuseur public. On a modernisé la Loi sur la radiodiffusion, et la prochaine étape, c’est vraiment CBC/Radio-Canada. On est rendus de plus en plus à se dire : à quoi ça ressemble, CBC/Radio-Canada, au 21e siècle, avec toutes ces plateformes-là? Photo : La Presse canadienne / Ryan RemiorzCBC/Radio-Canada invoque des facteurs structurels comme la diminution des revenus publicitaires à la télévision et la concurrence féroce des géants du numérique pour justifier ses compressions, estimées à près de 125 millions de dollars pour l’exercice 2024-2025. C’est un exercice qu’on a demandé à CBC/Radio-Canada de faire aussi, mais non, la décision finale n’a pas été prise.

CBC News published this video item, entitled “Bald tires on Budget rental vehicle blamed for sending family spinning out of control” – below is their description. A Winnipeg man wants answers after his frightening experience renting a vehicle with Budget Car Rental. A major safety flaw led him and his two children to spin out of control on a highway and land in a ditch. CBC News YouTube ChannelGot a comment? Please note comments are moderated before publication.

“I’m going to hunt all the corrupt people. “That’s not going to be the case the moment I’m there,” His Majesty said, referring to kickbacks. “Even PETRONAS should not be under Parliament; report directly to me,” said Sultan Ibrahim, referring to the national oil giant. Sultan Ibrahim also suggested that judicial appointments be separated from the Executive and that they must be independent. https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2023...-corrupt-peoplePETALING JAYA: Saying that he is not interested in giving up five years of his life just to be a “puppet king,” Sultan Ibrahim Almarhum Sultan Iskandar has vowed to crack down on graft.“I’m going to hunt all the corrupt people.

This claim reflects a deliberate misportrayal of the nature of the food retail business. While retail is thus an inherently “low margin” business activity, this hardly means it is not profitable. *1* That may seem “small” relative to the firm’s total revenues: which reached $45 billion over those nine months, an increase of 6%. In this context, it is quite wrong to equate a “low margin” business with a “low profit” business. The experience of the food retail sector contrasts with that of the food manufacturing sector in Canada.

Municipal archive staff scanned images brought in so they can be made available to the public. McClure said the scanned images from Sunday will be available on the archive's website and database, joining around 30,000 images already available. She said arrangements are being made for him to come back to have the entire collection scanned. A Wallace Robinson MacAskill photo showing workers building the Young Avenue bridge in Halifax. A Wallace Robinson MacAskill photo shows workers building the Young Avenue bridge in Halifax.

That makes the comedy festival in NOTL look pretty attractive for locals, visitors from around the region and tourists, especially from the U.S. It also is planned to coincide with the Icewine Festival, which attracts visitors to town who are looking for evening entertainment. That’s how the Icebreakers Comedy Festival began, he says, with the help of two of his high school friends, Maria Mavridis and Tim Balasiuk. “It’s a big milestone, and we have an amazing line-up of great comics. They know I bring great comics who put on great shows.

Have hordes of investors – from mom and pops to Wall Street giants – gobbled up single-family residences across the state to make them rentals? Yes, California has the most single-family rentals in the nation at 2.1 million units, or 15% of the US total. But between 2017 and 2022, the number of California’s single-family rentals dropped by 81,548 units, according to Census data. This dip in rental homes is a sharp contrast to owners who occupy their single-family residences. In 2017, 25% of California’s single-family residences had renters vs. 18% across the US.

Dear Liz: Finance companies claim if you owe too much credit card debt that by law you need not pay it all back, but can retire some or most of this debt. They say this is not a credit card debt reduction program through balance transfers or debt consolidation loans. With debt settlement, the debtor stops making payments on their credit card debt, hoping that the issuers eventually will settle for less than what is owed. AdvertisementMost people who struggle with credit card debt would be better off filing bankruptcy or using a credit counseling service’s debt management program. Bankruptcy, meanwhile, allows credit card debt to be legally erased without triggering a tax bill.