The number of people turning to B.C. food banks for help has reached record levels, a new report shows.
Nearly 90,000 people -- one-third of them children -- visited a food bank in March, Food Bank Canada says in HungerCount 2009.
That's a 15 per cent increase over March 2008, and it mirrors a similar 18 per cent rise nation-wide -- the largest year-over-year jump in more than a decade.
The Toronto stock market held onto a slight gain late Wednesday morning as mining stocks advanced and investors took in another solid report from the retail sector.
Investors also took in data showing a slight rise in inflation.
The S&P/TSX composite index gained 21.1 points to 11,651.2 after Tuesday's 118-point jump left the main index at its highest level for 2009.
Statistics Canada said that inflation rose 0.1 per cent in October from a year earlier, the first annual increase in five months. The consumer price index was negative over that time because of record gasoline prices during mid-2008.
Searching images can be a pain at times when you're looking for a specific kind. Google has rolled out an experimental feature dubbed Image Swirl in Google Labs to ease the trouble during image search. As Google wisely puts it -- 'the underlying technology is a work in progress, no specific time could be determined when it will be available by default in Google Search'.
Is Google finally ready to launch its own Android phone? We’ve heard Google Phone related rumors for a long while now but Google hasn’t launched any handset yet. That might change in the very near future as Google is rumored to announce the Google Phone at some point next year.
We visited an Indigo book store in Toronto's Eaton Centre to ask about Amazon.com's Kindle mobile reading device that is now available for shipment to Canada.
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The number of people turning to B.C. food banks for help has reached record levels, a new report shows.
Searching images can be a pain at times when you're looking for a specific kind. Google has rolled out an experimental feature dubbed 
Is Google finally ready to launch its own Android 
We visited an Indigo book store in Toronto's Eaton Centre to ask about Amazon.com's Kindle mobile reading device that is now available for shipment to Canada.