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“Not Good To The Last Drop” for The City of Regina
In 1916, the Cheek-Neal Coffee Company began using the "good to the last drop" slogan to advertise their product brand, Maxwell House Coffee. It is one of the most famous slogan’s and longest lasting slogan’s in advertising today. Recently, the citizen’s of Regina...
CONTAMINATING DAYCARE CHILDREN
In 2000, after Dairy Producers Cooperative Creamery had operated in the middle of the former Regina Imperial Oil Refinery (IOR) for 20 years, they moved to their new creamery in Saskatoon. As a side note...this was around the same time carcinogenic petrochemicals,...
Where is our Canary?
Site of the Old Regina Imperial Oil RefineryDue to the fragility of canaries, miners have used these yellow birds as their early warning method of the mine’s environment regarding safe or dangerous air conditions. Above ground, we have to rely on our governmental...
Once a dangerous toxic landscape, Lynnview Ridge site to reopen as public park this fall
Closed signs mark the old Imperial Oil refinery site and Refinery Park on Tuesday April 25, 2018. The area, closed for years due to contamination is set to re-open as a public park this summer. Gavin Young/PostmediaNearly 20 years after residents of a southeast...
Property on notice Old oil refinery site still a danger, businessman warns.
Businessman Clint Kimery wants an environmental review of an old oil refinery site in northeast Regina.An outspoken Regina businessman is continuing to warn about the danger that serious environmental problems might exist on property in northeast Regina where an...