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My Mom worked as a VON nurse back in the old Cobalt Days when I was about 6 yrs. old. I recal the medical bag she carried and that I used to lug around sometimes to give her a rest. It was heavy. VON's first 12 nurses were admitted to the order at a ceremony in November 1897 - just a month before Queen Victoria granted the organization its royal charter. For over 100 years, VON has pioneered health services in Canada. Theye have a proud tradition of often being the first to identify emerging health and social needs, and then providing innovative services that meet those needs. That's the way it's been since the founding of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. In the Canada of the late 1890s, nurses, doctors and hospitals were desperately needed in remote areas and in rapidly growing towns and cities. VON's non-profit role will continue to provide governments with services that fulfill universal public health care programs, while the devel

No.1 --- Norway, $9.97/gallon  No.2 --- Turkish pay a whopping $9.63 a gallon,  No. 3 --- Netherlands, $8.95/gallon No.4 --- Greece $8.50 No. 5 --- France, $8.52  No. 8 --- Portugal $8.42 a gallon No. 9 --- Hong Kong, $8.21/gallon  No. 12 --- Germany, $8.42 a gallon No. 13 --- United Kingdom, $7.99/gallon U.K. No. 15 -- Denmark, $7.93/gallon No. 16 --- Israel, $7.86/gallon No. 20 --- Switzerland, $7.26/gallon No. 22 -- Spain, $7.11 It's not that way everywhere. In fact, in some countries gas is given away or downright cheap. The countries where you can find the cheapest gas at the pump, in U.S. dollars per gallon (2010): 1. Venezuela (7.6 cents) 2. Iran (37.9 cents) 3. Saudi Arabia (60.6 cents) 4. Libya (64.4 cents) 5. Qatar (71.9 cents) 6. Bahrain (79.5 cents) 7. Turkmenistan (83.3 cents) 8. Kuwait (87.1 cents) 9. Oman ($1.173) 10. Algeria ($1.211)

Money your own way Becoming a do-it-yourself irvestor is definitely not rocket science , and you don't need a Phd in finance. But if you can't commit to analazing your investments, you're better off to find a fee-only adviser. You pay a flat percentage fee, usually between 0.75 per cent and 1.5 % of the assets in the account. This covers all transaction costs (sometimes to a maximum number of trades) and help with financial planning. Banks, Investment Brokers are tied to the sale of products, some sell what pays them and their firms the most — and not what's best for the clients. Fee-based advisers sell only their own expertise. They can adjust portfolios without being hit with exit fees or penalties .The deferred sales charge approach that is the norm in the Canadian mutual fund business. How do you find a fee-based adviser? Go to the Portfolio Management Association of Canada's website or call 416-504-1118. You put in the amount of assets

Ontario is in a moral and financial mess. It is also very apparent this province is greatly polarized between rural and urban voters. Rural voters are still smarting from the Green Energy Act saw wind turbines foisted on unwilling communities. Budget promises a made-in-Ontario pension plan that will bring in a payroll tax of almost $ 1,000 a year for corporations that will hurt.This province will almost certainly see a credit downgrade within days of a Liberal Budget passing. We've already seen credit watches and warnings. Our debt is almost $300 billion and there's no credible plan to balance the books. Conservatives told voters by  down sizing the civil service and implement a pay freeze for two years.This is the way to go. Message fell on deaf ears.Ontario voters have no appetite to do what it to needs to do to get this province on the right financial track. Liberal government will keep everyone on staff, won't freeze wages and still balance the books.

Today, there is a lot of guff about whether the F-35 really is a superior fighter compared to European, French and Swedish competitors. Critics are saying the F-35 is not as fast, not as manoeuverable, that it is unreliable with only one engine and that it is more expensive than the alternatives. Well, the best almost always is more expensive. What sets apart the F-35 is not only its stealth but information technologies that connect the pilot with satellite surveillance, airborne radar or the sensor suite on a distant F-35. The aircraft also can intercept, decode and then hoodwink enemy radar into presenting a false picture. Enemies won't know what hit them. It's like Harry Potter against muggles. As for the reliability over the vast Canadian arctic of one versus two engines, this was an issue in early days of jet engine development, since resolved. Single-engine fighters of more recent vintage are just as reliable as twin-engined fighters, in some cases, more so.

Google Chrome Noscript (light) Hackers are on the lookout for XSS vulnerabilities in your web applications: shopping carts, forms, login pages, dynamic content are easy targets.  Some 13% of all web-based hack attempts exploit XSS (Cross Site Scripting) vulnerabilities, making it the second most popular vulnerability of choice by attackers. "NoScript" is a extension that provides extra protection, it prevents JavaScript, Java and Flash and other plugins from being accessed without your permission, and provides the most powerful Anti-XSS protection available in a browser.  Keep in mind there really is no absolute safe protection from a determined expert on trying to ruin your computer, only from the less experenced nerd trying his hand at being a Butt-hole.

FRANCE -1918 Valenciennes remained in German hands from the early days of the First World War until 1-2 November 1918, when it was entered and cleared by the Canadian Corps;  Nine Canadians and a Brit are buried in Onnaing Cemetery, north of Valenciennes,France. The last hundred days of the First World War were a series of hard fought victories for the Canadian Forces. The Germans, who had been holding on in an industrial suburb of Marly, retreated in the early hours.   The Canadians counted 1,800 prisoners, 800 enemy dead in the battle area, and 80 of their own dead and 300 wounded. Most of the Germans had died in the barrage,  but not all the men had died that way — in less hostile circumstances there might have been more prisoners, Nicholson writes. In his article "The Politics of Surrender," published in the Journal of Military History, historian Tim Cook notes that informal rules and symbolic gestures made up the "grey area between combat and capitula

U.S. Tax Deal Divides Citizenship And Privacy OTTAWA—If one wants another clear-eyed illustration of the power imbalance between Washington and the Canadian government, one need look no further than a tax deal signed between the two countries last winter. It is a deal which imperils the privacy of up to a million Canadians and creates a two-tier level of citizenship in this country, discriminating against citizens based on their ethnic origin . At issue is the American Foreign Account Tax Compliance U.S.A. legislation with worldwide tentacles, aimed at finding American tax evaders living in other countries. After protracted negotiations (FATCA was introduced in 2010), Ottawa allows the long arm of Uncle Sam access to personal financial information of Canadians deemed to be "persons of interest" due to their ETHNIC orgins. Had Ottawa not complied, our financial institutions would have been slapped with a crippling 30 per cent withholding tax on financial