Canada

Increased consumption of meat and aquatic products, buoyed by growing middle class incomes in emerging economies like China, Brazil and India, will be a major growth factor. Increasing industrial livestock production and technological innovations in the meat processing industry are creating demand for high quality meat, thereby driving the market for compound feed. Demographic factors like increasing number of double income families and economic strength both in the developing and developed worlds are driving the companion animal feed market. Although the increasing cost of raw materials is restricting the growth of the compound feed market, it is driving the market for feed additives. Rising demand for organic meat has created an opportunity in the industry for organic feed. - Mordor Intelligence

""We—the undersigned—are women who work in different capacities to end violence against women and to protect and advance women’s rights to equality. Prostitution is a practice in which women’s subordination to men is inherent and lived out repeatedly. Consequently, we are writing to you today to urge you to support the “Nordic approach” to legislation on prostitution for Canada, because it includes legislation, intensive social supports, and public education strategies, all designed to reduce and
eliminate prostitution.""

The French (and Latin Monetary Union) Bimetallism; the British (and World) Gold Standard; the Bank of England (and other countries) banknotes; the 19th Century project of Word Currency (1 Gold Sovereign/1 Pound Sterling = 25 French Francs = 5 US Dollars). // El bimetal·lisme francés (i de la Unió Monetària Llatina) confrontat al patró or d'encuny britànic; els bitllets del banc d'Anglaterra (i d'altres països) convertibles en or; la pervivència del patró argent; els països amb moneda fiduciària; el projecte (iniciat el 1867) de moneda universal, fonamentat en l'anivellament del contingut en or fi de la moneda d'un sobirà  (amb valor d'una lliura esterlina), de la peça de 25 francs francesos (mai encunyada, però equivalent a dues peces: 20 i 5 francs), i de la moneda de 5 dòlars (o mitja àguila) dels Estats Units.

"Myriad lines surround our day-to-day lives, exiting and entering our homes. Wires connect to electricity posts which power and heat our dwellings. Cables hook us to telephone and internet networks. Other lines stretch the world closer to us and our homes closer to the world: paved driveways link us with roads and highways, mains tap us into common water reserves and flow into municipal sewers, satellite beams reach into the atmosphere to download television signals into our living rooms. Together these lines—and possibly many others—constitute extensive and powerful webs of material and cultural significance in which our lives are suspended. These webs are the grids upon which society is pegged, the grids through which our material and social relations are entangled.       
Not everyone, however, is reliant on these grids. People who—for a variety of motives—have spun alternative webs have come to know their lifestyle as “off-the-grid.”  Off-the-grid dwelling refers to ways of living marked by disconnection from the infrastructural assemblages (or grids) that provide societies with the potential for power, light, and speed.
Grids of light, speed, and power can make our life comfortable and convenient but they are also troublesome companions. Grids deeply shape social relations and entrench them in differential access to power. In light of this, off-the-grid dwelling has recently emerged as an oppositional (but often negotiated and contradictory) everyday life practice. By delinking from one or more grids, an individual, group, or community needs to reinvent a different way of life and practice a different way of living.
Couched in cultural studies, cultural geography, and cultural sociology, this book aims to uncover the day-to-day practice off-grid living across Canada in order to understand why and how a person or community chooses to live off-grid; how off-the-grid dwellers cope with a world increasingly governed by the grid logic of light, power, and speed; what distinguishes off-grid dwellers' technologies and material cultures; how they accomplish comfort and convenience in their everyday life; and in what ways off-the-grid dwelling constitutes a sustainable, environmentally and culturally, lifestyle practice. In order to document the diversity of ways of life off-the-grid, the book unfolds as a series of ethnographic narratives focusing on individuals and groups who dwell in households and/or communities removed from roads, electricity, sewage, garbage collection, natural gas pipelines, water mains, telephone, internet, and television.
In addition to shedding light on off-grid lifestyles, however, this book prompts us to reflect on often taken-for-granted aspects of modern living. It aims to shows us what it means and what resources it takes to do the things we do every day: from bathing and washing and cleaning to cooking and refrigerating, from heating to cooling, from growing and hunting food to disposing of it in garbage cans and toilets, from switching on the light to flicking on appliances.
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