In order to cut back, the Harper government’s newest budget eliminates the penny. For quite some time, it has cost more to make a penny than a penny’s face value — even though it’s been years since the penny was even made mostly of copper.
March 2012
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Money games can provide your children with “hands on” insight into money, and how it works. While many of these games have an element of chance, even that can help them learn more about how to better manage money. After all, in real life it’s often important to make the best of what we’re given.
Currently, the total wind farm capacity in Canada is 5,265 Megawatts, that’s enough electricity to power over 1 million homes. Check out this list of the top 10 largest wind farms in Canada.
If you are not heading out to a sports bar with the boys, or knocking back a few pints at the end of a hard week’s work with your co-workers, then this weekend it is definitely time to hit up the clubs. The weather is nice, and with the warmer temperatures the ladies will be ready to strut their stuff.
In reality, a girl tries to make it easy of us guys to let us know how to, or even if we should, approach her at a club. From the clothes she wears, to her hairstyle, and even her make-up, girls are always giving us guy’s subtle little clues if they are interested in us or not.
Check out these five common make-up styles and how they relate to they way you should approach her at a bar or club.
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Dealers are having a hard time keeping up with demand for compact cars. Auto auctions have dealers aggressively bidding against each other to win these cars for their customers who demand them.
If you are planning on growing your own goji berries at home the following guide on how to care for them will be useful.
In hopes of helping other parents who might be having issues about how to spend their hard-earned pay on their children, sometimes myself and Mrs. C8j offer useful parenting tips, and this week we give you a solution to the following prickly solution:
Your daughter/princess wants to go to the University of OH MY GOD IT COSTS A FORTUNE, and she also wishes to have a Wedding out of a fairy tale (i.e. something well over $50K in costs).
Without any form of eye care benefits, prescription sunglasses can be very expensive, not only for the initial costs, but also for repair and replacement costs. Check out these alternatives to expensive prescription sunglasses.
FIT, or feed-in tariff, is a worldwide, governmentally funded program that is designed to encourage the growth of renewable energy technologies such as wind energy, and is typically achieved by offering long-term contracts, 20 years in the case the Ontario FIT Program.
Four of the most beautiful historic mosques you won’t want to miss when you visit Istanbul. These are symbols of Turkey’s rich heritage.
You may have heard the advice not to buy more house than you need because you will pay more in so many areas—larger mortgage, utilities, furnishings, property taxes, maintenance. Buying a house that is large enough to meet your needs, but not too large, will save you thousands of dollars over the life of your mortgage.
The same holds true for automobiles.
This gets the award for most creative link-building. Creative is good; dirty, rotten, sticking, liar is less good. I wonder whether there is anybody out there gullible enough to be fooled by this.
A server is an entrepreneur as much as an employee, often earning as much directly from clients as from the restaurant or bar that employs them. Although a tight fitting tank top and a pair of orange short-shorts won’t hurt, showing skin isn’t the only way to make a very good living as a server. Follow this 18-step strategy to make a killing serving in a bar or restaurant.
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Yes, it’s a cloaking device! Mercedes-Benz promotes its new F-CELL hydrogen fuel cell technology vehicle by making it invisible on one side. Very cool technology.
Sunglasses can provide protection from not only the sun’s harmful UV rays, but also from the damaging effects that the sun can play on the skin around your eyes. Yes ladies, I’m talking about those dreaded crows feet.