The Coast Mountain Bus Company is following the lead of the BC Government and telling it's drivers the mandate for this round of bargaining is 'net zero.' The Canadian Autoworkers Union Local 1-11, which represents the bus drivers, says this translates to zero increases in any year of the collective agreement. The union says this … [Read more...]
Waltz, Gilliam Team On “Zero Theorem”
August 15, 2012 by
Christoph Waltz is set to star in Terry Gilliam's next project "The Zero Theorem" reports Deadline. Pat Rushin penned the script set in an Orwellian corporate world run by a shadowy figure called 'Management'. Waltz plays an eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued with existential angst who works on a mysterious project aimed at … [Read more...]
Zero Trace gadget bags dodge ‘digital exploitation,’ schadenfreude
April 18, 2012 by
Faraday bags? Oh, yeah. For the sleuthing shyster in your life, Escape the Wolf has a new range of gadget cases that are engineered with one primary purpose: to avoid technical surveillance, mobile phone tracking and remote digital exploitation. As it turns out, these guys have been lurking undercover for just over a month now, but it looks as if … [Read more...]
Casting News: Admission, Creatures, Zero
March 14, 2012 by
Admission Producers are out to Paul Rudd to play the male lead in Tina Fey's new dramatic comedy "Admission" at Focus Features. Rudd is reportedly very interested and has met with the filmmakers, though no formal deal has been struck. Fey would play an unmarried woman who meets a man she went to school with (Rudd) but never really knew. It turns … [Read more...]
Goldsource kills Zero Emission merger
December 12, 2011 by
VANCOUVER - Coal miner Goldsource Mines Inc. (TSXV:GXS) has killed a merger agreement with Zero Emission Energy Plants Ltd. after difficulties completing a financing.Goldsource said a number of conditions, including completion of an $ 11-million financing "do not now appear to be achievable on a timely basis.""Raising the necessary financing has … [Read more...]
Abbott reinforces net zero wage hike for BC teachers
September 6, 2011 by
The BC Teachers Federation has begun phase one of its job action, but Education Minister George Abbott is not budging from his offer of a net zero wage hike. He says they can talk to the union about more resources for special needs students, but there is simply no money to reduce class sizes across the board, let alone any money for a wage … [Read more...]
