April 28, 2024

Killing HST comes with a cost

  The provincial government released its first quarterly report today, and it says the decision to kill the HST will cost the provincial treasury 2.3 billion dollars by 2013-14, and more after that. Instead of being under one billion dollars, the provincial deficit this year is increasing to 2.8 billion dollars. The Clark government says it … [Read more...]

Novel idea comes to Surrey library

“Human books” will be among the attractions available to visitors at the new Surrey City Centre Library this fall. The “books” will actually be volunteers from various walks of life, religious backgrounds and ethnicities, who will be available to have conversations with their “readers.” “(The human book) could be somebody from a religious group … [Read more...]

Samsung’s LTE-equipped Galaxy Tab 10.1 comes to Verizon on July 28th

It's a Galaxy Tab 10.1, but with 4G. No, not that 4G. Not even that 4G. This 4G. You know, the LTE variety, being spread around like Christmas ham by the folks at Verizon Wireless. Cosmetically, the slate offered up by Big Red is no different than the WiFi-only model that we peeked earlier in the year, but the LTE radio tucked within obviously … [Read more...]