Storm Warning

MOVE FAST:Tornadoes like this one can travel in excess of speeds of 100 km per hour. Altona residents knew why a siren in town wailed for four minutes straight on a calm mid-afternoon May 18. It was a test of their community emergency warning siren, a specially installed system to alert residents in case of

Compensation To Continue For

Manitoba Water Stewardship promises to formalize compensation for property owners who experience summer flooding damage from the Red River Floodway. Currently, people who suffer upstream flooding damage from emergency use of the floodway are compensated under rules governing the facility’s operations. The province says it will embed compensation in law instead of just having it


So What? Now What?

Managing the risk in your business is becoming increasingly important. Typically, people tend to associate risk with negative outcomes. But there can be an upside to risk as well, risk that correlates to opportunity. For some, the past couple of years have realized perhaps even windfall-like profits with an expectation that, due to a shift

In Brief… – for May. 7, 2009

Climate effect: Drier, warmer weather may help curb the swine flu outbreak as the Northern Hemisphere moves into summer and the human flu season nears its end, the World Meteorological Organization says. The United Nations agency said that weather can affect the course of viral epidemics but it was only one piece of the swine


Oil Price Slump Makes Bioenergy A Harder Sell

A slide in oil prices may be good for consumers battered by the U. S. economic slowdown, but it could pose a challenge for President Barack Obama’s ambitious plan to revolutionize America’s energy use. Obama’s plan – outlined during the campaign last year when oil prices hit a record $147 a barrel – calls for