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Rogers/MTS Shared Tower Goes Live March 31

Rural residents frustrated with turtle-slow dial-up Internet service may have some new options by March 31. That’s because Netco, a new joint venture between competing telecom giants Rogers and MTS, will flip the switch province-wide on a new service called HSPA+, which stands for High Speed Packet Access. Months in the making, the tower-shar ing
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Back To The Data Mine – for Sep. 16, 2010

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Those who feel there’s not much for farmers in Manitoba to laugh about these days need only wait until seeding time next year. Don’t take that as a guarantee that the rain will actually start and stop when and where it’s needed, but rather, that you can expect something funny to land in your mailbox
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More Rural Internet Service Promised

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Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has been trying to build up his party’s profile in rural Canada with policy pronouncements on firearms and food policy. He didn’t get much reaction until he announced May 4 that a Liberal government would ensure high-speed Internet service right across Canada. Industry Minister Tony Clement quickly defended the Harper government’s
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Vilsack Focusing Attention On Rural America

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“We’ve got to do something different.” – TOM VILSACK “Agriculture… is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness.” – THOMAS JEFFERSON, Third President Of The United States WASHINGTON, D. C. Rural America needs attention, not just for rural America’s sake, but for the entire
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Rural Growth Key To New Farm Bill

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called for rural economic development as the key to a vibrant farm sector April 21, an unorthodox beginning for an overhaul of U. S. farm policy. Marking the start of a two-year process to forge a new Farm Bill, Vilsack told a House Agriculture Committee hearing that he wanted to “expand
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Proposed Internet Cuts Spark Rural Outcry

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“You don’t have access to do much business.” IAN WISHART, KAP Last week’s public outcry over a move to cut a federal program linking rural Canadians with the Internet may speak volumes about Internet service outside urban centres. The opposition to the government’s plan suggests Internet service in rural Canada isn’t nearly as good as
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Budget Aid To Be Followed By Livestock Aid Meeting

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“We see (slaughter capacity funding) as filling in holes and gaps in packing facilities across the country.” – Agriculture minister Gerry Ritz The progress reports the Liberals have demanded for their support of the Jan. 27 federal budget should help farm groups keep track of how much of the $550 million allocated for agriculture is
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cash for dairy, rural Internet brussels/ reuters E urope’s farm

Europe’s farm chief will propose spending part of the unused EU agriculture budget to help countries finance rural development projects, including support for dairy industries and improved Internet access. Speaking to bloc farm ministers, EU agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said up to 1.5 billion euros ( US$ 2 billion) could behandedout for certain schemes
Cereals, News

Throne speech light on details for farmers

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“We will invest billions of dollars in renewable energy sources, including biofuels, wind, solar, geothermal and tidal power.” – Prime Minister Stephen Harper Agriculture got more mention than usual in the throne speech and the first remarks by Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the start of the new Parliament last week, but with scant few
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Deep into the rabbit hole

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When moderator Jim Lehrer asked presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama Sept. 29 what budget “priorities” each would “adjust” because of the pending $700 billion financial bailout, Obama, answering first, focused on federal programs he’d fix rather than fat he’d cut – energy, education, health care, rural broadband. Lehrer then turned to McCain. The

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