ALL TEXT AND PHOTOS COURTESY © ENGADGET 2010 / www.engadget.com Steve Job’s introduction of the iPad, January 27, 2010 @ Yerba Buena “Let’s go back to 1991, when we first shipped our Powerbooks. The first with a TFT screen, the first with palm rests, and had an integrated pointing device. Just a few years ago [...]
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The Merv Hardie Ferry was retired for the season after being struck by a piece of ice on Thursday.
January 27, 2010 |
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Hay River’s youngest hockey players experienced their first tournament over the weekend.
January 27, 2010 |
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Known as the NWT HealthNet Viewer, the system is a web-based portal that will allow authorized health care professionals in the NWT “view-only” access to medical information including lab results, diagnostic imaging reports, clinical reports, patient lists and event history from health care centres across the NWT. The viewer is the first part of the interoperable Electronic Health Record (iEHR). The new system will allow health professionals to make more timely decisions as well provide better patient care.
January 27, 2010 |
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An unexpected competitor skated their way into the final game of the Bantam’s tournament this weekend to put themselves up against the undefeated champions-to-be, Fort Vermillion.
January 20, 2010 |
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Communities along the route of the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project want to see the construction of the Mackenzie Valley Highway prior to any construction commencing on the pipeline, Western Arctic MP Dennis Bevington said following a nine-day tour of the area.
January 20, 2010 |
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A Hay River family who have run a fishing lodge on Nonacho Lake for nearly half a century questioned the plan to expand the Taltson hydroelectric dam during a round of public hearings on the project last week in Dettah.
Jean Carter pleaded with members of the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board during the first of two days of hearings into the Deze Energy Corporation’s plan…
January 20, 2010 |
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On Jan.4 Tamerlane president Ross Burns announced that the company had secured approximately $500,000 in flow-through funding from MineralFields Group, a Canadian-based mining fund.
“We are very pleased with this financing with the MineralFields Group,” Burns said in a release. “With the financing that we have completed during the last month, the company now has the necessary cash in its treasury to advance the Pine Point Project to the next step.”
January 13, 2010 |
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The Hay River Huskies’ Midget team had a firm grasp on the home tournament this weekend, letting their winning title slip in their final game against High Level on Sunday.
January 13, 2010 |
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The National Energy Board (NEB) announced Jan. 6 that they will hear final arguments in mid-April on the proposed 1,220-kilometer long pipeline along the Northwest Territories’ Mackenzie Valley. Hearings into the Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) will begin at Yellowknife’s Explorer Hotel on April 12 and run until April 17 if necessary. The hearings will continue [...]
January 13, 2010 |
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