This article’s primary contributor, Patrick Gillett, is an alumnus of Sunshine Coast Grammar School. Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Wikinews has obtained a list of middle management teaching staff allegedly made redundant, or laid off due to restructuring, by Sunshine Coast Grammar School (SCGS), in Queensland, Australia. Sources say that those…
Australian carbon tax plans hit road block
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Wikinews interviews Canadian Paralympic skier Vanessa Knight
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Calls for bottled water bans grow in Canada
Saturday, August 23, 2008 London, Ontario is the latest in a string of Canadian cities to have acted on increasing public demand to ban bottled water. On Monday, the decision to eliminate bottled water sales in city-run facilities was passed by London’s city council with a vote of 15-3 in…
How Binaural Beats Meditation Work
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Earthmoving Sydney Australia Mining Truck How Binaural Beats Meditation Work by Kevin Shiffer What Binaural Beats Are Binaural Beats are Not a passing fad, but have been researched for over 170 years. The human brain goes through many frequency cycles every day, each…
Lula’s future in the hands of Brazilian Parliament
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Several injured at campground in Maine as storm topples trees
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France issues pollution alert as ship splits off Basque coast
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Petition pressures City of Edinburgh Council to review clause affecting live music scene
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U.K. doctors successfully transplant a beating heart
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