Month: December 2024

Shoreditch hotel nhow London is offering guests free Brompton bike hire* to explore the Christmas delights of local attractions including Hackney, Spitalfields and nearby Columbia Road Flower Market.

Guests can use the foldaway bikes for easy travel across the capital, with a wide range of eye-catching Christmas markets and events in East London in easy reach. They include:
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ICYMI: Several climbing-related items which police believe belonged to the trio found, as bad weather will likely delay search efforts until Thursday

Rescue teams looking for three climbers who went missing on New Zealand’s highest mountain have expressed “grave concerns” over the party’s welfare in the rugged terrain, as bad weather hampers search efforts for the second day in a row.

US nationals Kurt Blair, 56, and Carlos Romero, 50, and a Canadian man flew by helicopter on Saturday to a camp on Aoraki Mount Cook with plans to summit the 3,724 metre (12,218 ft) mountain. Continue reading…
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ICYMI: Canadian government scrambles to ward off tariffs as prime minister briefs politicians on meeting with Trump

Canada’s federal government has redoubled its efforts to ward off potentially disastrous tariffs from its closest ally, but provincial leaders have hinted at divergent strategies in response to the protectionist threat from president-elect Donald Trump.

Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, convened a rare, in-person meeting with his political rivals on Tuesday to brief them on a surprise meeting with Trump at his Florida resort over the weekend. Continue reading…
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Leaders cast the other as ill-prepared after Trump threatens to apply 25% taxes on goods from both countries

Mexico’s president has said Canadians “could only wish they had the cultural riches” of her country as tensions mount between the two nations, caught in a feud over tariffs and trade exacerbated by Donald Trump.

The US president-elect threatened in a social media post last week to apply devastating levies of 25% on all goods and services from both countries, and to keep them in place until “such time as drugs, in particular fentanyl, and all illegal aliens stop this invasion of our country!” Continue reading…
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Saint-Gobain recently unveiled CarbonLowTM, a new line of low-carbon gypsum wallboard to be sold in Canada starting in 2025.

The post CarbonLow TM – CertainTeed Canada’s new drywall line with lower embodied carbon appeared first on Construction Canada.
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