Murdoch-Gore war unplugs Current - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety

The two are basically calling each other liars. Gore says Current's ratings surged 550% year on year in primetime. Sky Italia says the ratings were down 40%. Each side claims the other's numbers are distorted or fabricated.

Mockridge points out that the original three-year contract carried a two-year extension if the channel hit a 4,500-viewer average in a 24-hour period. "If it had achieved that number, it would have automatically renewed and, again, we wouldn't have been sitting here having this conversation."

Profits prove a tough crop to grow for B.C.'s conventional farmers

B.C. farmers also pay the carbon tax, which has pushed their energy costs up by $30 million, a cost other provinces don't face. The carbon tax will take another $10-million bite out of farm revenues when it goes up July 1.
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they didn't expect to lose their entire potato crop to rain last fall and then face a wet, cold spring. Planting was delayed by a month.

Academics fear climate change hate mail might deter future researchers

A marine scientist at the University of Queensland, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, said it was not unusual to get 10 to 20 libellous emails a day as part of a campaign that is widely targeted.

''It is clearly to unsettle people,'' he said.