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Environment Week enhanced with ‘Go Green Go Dutch Go Bike’ initiative
‘Paddestoel’ signpost in Ottawa scenery
Publish Date: Jun 08, 2009
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OTTAWA, Ontario - Cyclists in and around various Canadian cities were invited to join the local ‘Go Green Go Dutch Go Bike’ event, hosted by officials at the Netherlands Embassy in Ottawa and Consulates General in Toronto and Vanc...
Hamburger Poll accurately results forecast Liberal Party win
De Dutch within a margin of 3 percent
Publish Date: Jun 08, 2009
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SURREY, BC – A small restaurant chain in BC with Dutch immigrant roots has reintroduced meat patties and fried onions into election time opinion polling. Considered amateurish by the experts who find it increasingly difficult to m...
Rotterdam offers safeguards against unwanted arranged marriages
Traveling teenage girls at risk
Publish Date: Jun 08, 2009
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ROTTERDAM - The municipality of Rotterdam is testing a new approach which should help prevent teenage girls from being pressured into marriage when they take a holiday to their family's country of origin.
Before the girls ...
Redrawn Dutch coastline raising awareness of rising sea levels
Bicycling tour follows ‘new’ coastline
Publish Date: Jun 08, 2009
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AMERSFOORT, the Netherlands - Frisian-born Dutch Deputy Transport Minister Tineke Huizinga has sent off a cycling tour along an imaginary new Dutch coastline. The 50-kilometre tour, started at a café in the inland town of Amersfoo...
Dutch hospitals planning for more openness
Publish Date: Jun 08, 2009
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THE HAGUE – Dutch hospitals plan to create more openness with the release of the rate and causes of deaths of patients while under their care. The hospitals aim to release such information once they all use the same criteria so th...
Role human rights laws versus article 23 flares up
Publish Date: Jun 08, 2009
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APELDOORN – Article 23 of the Dutch constitution, which dates from 1917, remains one of the most debated constitutional topics in the Netherlands. The article restricts the role of government in education in the Netherlands where ...
Ironcast natural gas lines called an uncontrollable risk
Publish Date: Jun 08, 2009
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AMSTERDAM – The Dutch Research Council for Safety (its Dutch acronym is OVV) has issued a warning that the country’s aging grey ironcast natural gas pipelines need to be replaced urgently. The main pipelines built with this materi...
Dutch G-27 expands with five municipalities
Publish Date: Jun 08, 2009
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ALMERE – The Netherlands has its own G-something. The G-27 recently expanded into G-32; the acronym refers to the number of Gs or Gemeenten (municipalities) with over 100,000 residents. Many of these towns face difficulties as a r...
Municipality offers toads right of way on local road
Publish Date: Jun 08, 2009
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VALTHE – The knoflookpad or Garlic Toad, also known as the Common Spadefoot Toad, is a species that experiences numerous casualties while attempting to cross a road near this village. In many areas in the Netherlands nature enthus...