Wales Online: ‘I quit my lucrative banking job to make coffee and it’s the best decision I ever made’
Lab isn’t for laboratory – it’s for labrador, specifically James' fox red lab Dylan who was indirectly the inspiration for the first Coffi Lab in Monmouth. “The inspiration was having a walk through Llandaff Fields in Pontcanna with Dylan and not really feeling we had anywhere we really wanted to go for a coffee. I wanted to create somewhere for me and Dylan which I thought other people would gravitate towards too. Not a dog café as such but beautiful, open venues – a focal point of leafy neighbourhoods where family and friends could come together without having to leave their dogs at home.”
CBC: Can’t give them away: Vintage upright pianos are meeting a sorry end
Scroll through an online for-sale site like Kijiji or Facebook Marketplace and you will almost always spot old upright pianos on offer, either for free or for a very, very low price.
The wooden pianos can be beautiful, but the ads tend to stay up a while because the instruments are very heavy to move and often out of tune.
CBC: Finland seizes tanker carrying Russian oil suspected of knocking out internet, power cables
Two fibre optic cables owned by Finnish operator Elisa linking Finland and Estonia were broken, while a third link between the two countries owned by China’s Citic was damaged, Finnish transport and communications agency Traficom said.
A fourth internet cable running between Finland and Germany and belonging to Finnish group Cinia was also believed to have been severed, the agency said.
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Baltic Sea nations are on high alert for potential acts of sabotage following a string of outages of power cables, telecom links and gas pipelines since 2022, although subsea equipment is also subject to technical malfunction and accidents.
Now Toronto: Highway 407 fees will increase in the new year: Here’s what drivers need to know
Starting in the new year, Highway 407 fees will be increasing for the first time in five years.
The new rate schedule comes into effect on Jan. 1 and includes additional toll zones as well as new vehicle classifications, the Express Toll Route (ETR) 407 said in a news release last month.
The highway will now be divided into 12 zones instead of four, each with different toll rates.
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The new zoning means the cost of a trip will vary depending on the mode of transportation, its size, the travel time, day of the week, highway section and direction of travel, with prices ranging from $36 to $85.
Last Updated: 27.Dec.2024 12:59 EST
