Harrison Hot Springs Facts

January 3, 2007

- were originally used by the Coast Salish Indians who revered them as a "healing place"

- there are two hot springs at the south end of Harrison Lake, the "Potash" which has a temperature of 40C and the "Sulphur" which has a temperature of 65C

- analysis of the hot springs indicates that there are 8 different minerals:  Potassium Chloride, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Sulphate, Magnesium Sulphate, Calcium Suphate, Calcium Bi-Carbonate, Iron Bi-Carbonate and Sulphurated Hydrogen; the waters average 1,300 parts per million of dissolved mineral solids, the highest concentrations of any mineral spring

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Timing is Everything

short snippet from CCPA

also available here
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/documents/NationalOfficePubs/2007/TimingisEverything.pdf


“Today the CCPA released Timing is Everything: Comparing the earnings of Canada’s highest-paid CEOs and the rest of us by CCPA research associate Hugh Mackenzie. The study finds that by 9:46AM on January 2nd Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs will have reaped, on average, $38,010 in pay. That equals the average annual earnings of workers in Canada. By 6:00 they will have pocketed nearly $70,000. The news release for the study is pasted below. The entire study can be downloaded from the CCPA web site at http://www.policyalternatives.ca and at the Growing Gap web site at http://www.growinggap.ca“

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Posh Nosh Comfort Food

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe4QzwX5ZYk&mode=related&search=

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