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My wife and I had the pleasant task of hosting the group. Aboard the Royal Caribbean liner Brilliance of the Seas, we travelled down Spain's east coast. Then we went southwest through the Straits of Gibraltar to the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean before making our way back to Barcelona 10 days later. We made port in Malaga and Cadiz in Spain, Lanzarote and Tenerife in the Canary Islands and the fabled North African city of Casablanca in Morocco. So much for IKEA's alleged claim that it only locates in cities of one million. This small port city is home to 55,000 people. The total island population is 130,000. (Mind you, the total population of the eight Canary Islands, governed by Spain and linked to each other by ferry service, is two million.)
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The turmoil in Darfur and the surrounding area has sparked another migration -- this one to Spain. Some 650,000 people, some of them Africans, arrived in Spain last year. Italy, the EU's second biggest migration magnet, managed barely half that. About 21,000 African migrants arrive in Spain's Canary Islands each year in tiny boats -- many of them children because Africans know the Spanish deport adults, but try to care for children. Here's an amazing statistic from Asia: In the next few years about 15 million people will move from China's rural areas to its cities -- one of the world's largest migrations. The migration to Alberta is astonishing. In the last six years, 474,000 people -- 12 per cent of the province's existing population -- moved to Alberta from elsewhere. In the first nin...
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The show features many sight gags and optical illusions. It has a Spanish flavour because its initial performances were in the Spanish-speaking Canary Islands. "When I would jump fences," he recalls, "the crowd would respond by saying 'Ole!' That is still in the show. This year's musical acts include Norman Foote from British Columbia, step-dancing band Grand Derangement from Nova Scotia and of course, local perennial Fred Penner ("We couldn't do this show without Fred," says [Neal Rempel]. "Legions of Fredheads would hunt me down.") You don't have to have kids to come," says the father of three grown children. "I go to these shows and I'm laughing my head off."
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... judicial authorities and fled to the Canary Islands. The French tribunals had declared themsel...
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MADRID, Spain -- A jetliner heading to a popular Canary Islands vacation resort crashed during takeoff Wednesday, turning a wooded area off the end of a runway into a hellish scene of charred bodies and smouldering wreckage. Some 153 were believed dead -- Spain's worst air disaster in nearly 25 years. It was not immediately clear what went wrong. [Magdalena Alvarez] said the jetliner had barely got airborne when it veered right, crashed and broke into pieces. Spanair, a Spanish company wholly owned by Scandinavian Airlines, said it did not know what caused the accident. Alvarez said investigators ruled out foul play and considered the crash an accident. She said the plane's flight data recorders had been recovered. The accident was Spain's worst air disaster since 1983, when a Boeing 74...
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From Christopher Columbus taking sugar from the Canary Islands back to Europe -- setting in motion the slave trade in sugar workers and sparking wars -- to its use in the processed and fast-food industry whose calories feed health concerns such as type 2 diabetes, sugar's history has a bitter taste for [Elizabeth Abbott], the author of A History of Celibacy. The slave trade abolitionists, as an aside, included many of England's chocolate manufacturing families whose economic success rested in part on sugar availability and on cocoa, which itself was harvested in less than desirable working conditions, as Toronto journalist Carol Off detailed so well in her 2007 book, Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet. All is not bitter in the world of suga...
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The plane was rocking back and forth, until I suspected it was going to fall," Ligia Palomino, a 41-year-old emergency rescue worker who happened to be on board, told Spain's Cadena Ser radio station. "I saw people, smoke, explosions. I think that is what woke me up because I had lost consciousness. Many of the victims in Wednesday's flight were families travelling to the Canary Islands, a Spanish beach resort off Africa's west coast. Compounding the tragedy was news that at least 22 of those on board were children, including two infants. Only three youngsters were believed to be among the 19 survivors. Then there was the Spanish couple who were three minutes late and missed the flight altogether. Ertoma Bolanos said he and his girlfriend Almudena checked in but did not make it to the...
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Recent studies of publication patterns in accounting history portray a myopic and introspective discipline. Analyses reveal the production and dissemination of accounting history knowledge which focus predominantly on Anglo-American settings and the age of modernity. Limited opportunities exist for contributions from scholars working in languages other than English. Many of the practitioners of accounting history are also shown to be substantially disconnected from the wider community of historians. It is argued in the current paper that interdisciplinary history has the potential to enhance theoretical and methodological creativity and greater inclusivity in the accounting history academy. A practical requirement for this venture is the identification of points of connectedness between...
... by the Chamber of Commerce in the Canary Islands during the 19th century also feature. Pola...
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... del Sol, eventually taking a boat to the Canary Islands, before travelling back along the same rou...
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... at sea but instead had been shipped to the Canary Islands, where they had been stored in an unknown ...
