Transport Canada doesn’t know whether its vehicles are used strictly for government business because of shoddy record-keeping and lax oversight, says a recent audit Information.
Auditors found the department’s vehicle logbooks are so light on detail that it struggles to keep track of its fleet.
“Even though most dedicated vehicles remain at the workplace overnight,” the report [...]

Some uninsured Florida residents may get easier access to health care coverage under legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Charlie Crist.
The new law lets insurance companies offer scaled-back health plans without all the usually required coverages. That might make insurance available to some people for as little as $150 a month, Crist said.
Under the law, some [...]

In a pristine kitchen-cum-laboratory, deep inside Marks and Spencer’s gleaming new Paddington headquarters, Simon Allison, a senior food technologist, is sampling part of a recently launched range of organic food – a chicken and vegetable terrine.
He explains what he is looking for: “Crushed carrots in the topping, a red, livery, paté-style flavour underneath.” For texture, [...]

Due to the persistently high percentage of government student loans in default, Education Minister Carl Bethel said the government is contemplating ‘get-tough’ measures to increase collection.
Due to the persistently high percentage of government student loans in default, Education Minister Carl Bethel said the government is contemplating ‘get-tough’ measures to increase collection.
As of June 30, 2007, [...]

Ihave been humbled by a six-year-old. The finest culinary education money can buy, 20 years of cooking all over the world, thousands of self-written recipes: all dumped down the drain by the toughest food critic I’ve ever met. My son, Gabe.
So I write recipes for a living, so what? Creative cooking doesn’t impress him [...]

The farm bill provides far more money for hungry people than it does for farmers. Nearly 80 percent of the cost of the farm bill is for food programs, including $10.2 billion for domestic food assistance programs and $7.8 billion for food stamps. There’s also $1 billion for a program to provide healthy snacks of [...]

Cargill Inc. has donated more than $34,000 to Youth Entrepreneurs of Kansas.
The money is going toward a program that provides YEK students with backpacks filled with business supplies. They will be issued at the beginning of the school year and is theirs to keep through the duration of the business-education program.
“This support from Cargill gives [...]

At a recent local event, however, the former Arkansas Razorbacks and professional basketball player focused on something else that is dear to his heart: Junior Achievement.
Kleine, now an assistant men’s basketball coach at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, was the keynote speaker for a celebration of Junior Achievement’s success in Saline County.
The program, [...]

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research is instituting an information gathering scheme aimed at the creation of a “data warehouse”. Details of students from the three federal universities, Zayed University, UAE University, and the Higher Colleges of Technology will be recorded and compared against the stated needs of employers. The ultimate goal is [...]

Proposed development off Johnson Drive in Ventura is the subject of a City Council workshop Wednesday that could help determine what mix of housing, offices or stores should go on a vacant piece of property.
A plan for the property at the corner of Johnson Drive and North Bank Drive, which went before the council in [...]