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Q. I live in ontario, canada. start a cleaning sub-contract business.a small business for start. when i register?

a company name,under sole proprieter or incorporate ,which is the best ?

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Q. Where can i find investors to build a small wind turbine generator in canada?

global kinetic technology canada is a start up clean energy company. it's first project is to build a commercial small wind turbine generator prototype in the 1.5 -3.5 kw range using the sema technology from gkt usa under an exclusive agreement for canadian market. i will need $100,000.00 us for 10% of the company.

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Q. How do i get sponsors for cleaning up a forest? and who do i use for sponsors?

i want to have an event to help raise awareness of the troubled filth in our forests here in the capital (ottawa) of canada. my goal is to get exposure to become bigger in my business venture. so getting volunteers and advertizing to the public about this big event is hard for me cause i don't know what to do to get it started.. i want sponsors (companies) to help out with maybe a prize for the most amount of garbage picked up and recycled. and to have food and beverages covered with these sponsors as again i am just a small business tring to get bigger.. the exposure will really make my business grow. any positive feedback would really be nice. thanks in advance. i run a small business for junkhauling... i get rid of junk you no longer want and dispose of it to where it should go.. some goes to the landfill, the rest go to charities & recycling depots.

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Q. I need help in starting my own business?

i'm hoping someone can help me. i don't know where to start. i have an idea to start a construction cleaning business. (theres actually a demand for it) where do i start? do i need to take courses in hazardous waste or sanitation? how and where do you go to get a business license? i should mention i'm in bc, canada. theres one other company like this in my town. should i ask them these questions? they would be my competition after all. ahhhh...any tips would be swell. thanks

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Q. Question about going on unemployment, details make this a little long, sorry!?

i started working for a company the first week of november. i live in nova scotia, canada. it is a construction cleaning company and i was hired for a full time position, which to my knowledge was permanent since i wasn't told otherwise. i worked for about 2 to a half weeks, most of those days off due to the company not having work for me. mid november, i was told there is no work available and to call in a week to see if there was. i called back a week later, still no work. when i called about a week later, and spoke to the secretary, the person i needed to speak to was not in. so i left a message. no one called me back. i called again a week later, she was still not in the office, so i left a message. yesterday, i sent an email to the main address and she replied this morning saying that there was no work for full time people, and there wont be anything reading for cleaning until "sometime" in january. she then told me to call back then, and finished by saying that "all of the full time permanant positons are filled at this time" am i able to claim unemployment and back date it to the time that i stopped having work from them? i don't have a record of employment from them because i am still an employee, but would the email be okay to use in it's place? thanks, this is really appreciated, i feel like i am stuck in a pickle! will give best answer :) just a little information about when i started to work for this company: i didn't sign the usual tax papers that are signed on the first day, the only paperwork i have ever filled out for them was my contact info. they didn't even want my emergency contact number. i didn't have an interview with them, i started without any form of an interview. out of the time i have been employed there, i have only worked a total of maybe 6 days.

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Q. Should we migrate to us, canada or australia?

hi there, migrating to another country like us, australia or canada is a phenomenon here in our country, philippines. i have so many friends from high school, and relatives who are in the us who worked as nurses, it professionals, eventually settling there with their families. i have colleagues who migrated to australia or canada, because they said that the environment there is good for raising families, cleaner environment. it seems i'm the only one left in the philippines, except those who really have no options (you know what i mean, can't really afford the cost of migration). but as i take stock of my life in the philippines, and i compare it with the families of my friends abroad. it seems that i'm really luckier. - my husband is a professional engineer for a multi-national company. he's given a car, gas allowance. he's executive position. - i also work for a foreign company, asst. manager position, with a stress-free job, my salary is not excellent, but considering the convenience of my job, i should be earning less. :) recently, i was offered an expat position in another country, but i turned it down, bec. it's not 1st world country. (honestly, if i'm gonna work abroad, better to work for a 1st world country right?) - i have 2 live-in house helpers, one for each of my child (5 &2 yo). we call them yaya here. these househelp take care of our laundry, cleaning the house, shopping for basics, cook our food and live with us, on-call anytime, even at night. - we can take 2 o 3 vacations a year. whether for abroad or local. last year, we went to the us with my husband & eldest. i attended a work related event. local vacations, we take the househelp with us, so they can manage the kids. - if we need any help, like when the househelp takes vacations, we call on our moms, aunts, and nephews to take care of the kids, so our work are not disrupted. - there are great schools in the philippines, but the tuition fees are a bit costly, so, in the nearest future, great expensives are looming in the horizon, when the kids start big school. the drawback i think is difficulty in saving. i mean, we haven't have our own house yet. we are still renting. (in the phils. building a house is very expensive, you have to use up 1/3 of ur salary to pay for the mortgage). but we have investments in real estate. we have one in the city and one in the province for our future retirement home. we haven't really build our own home yet because we are still thinking, whether we should use the money to migrate to another country. am i crazy to leave this life in the lure of dollars, and cleaner, english-speaking environment? i also heard that in australia, us or canada, school is free! wow! but what i fear is the absence of househelp. it's the major consideration, since i've always pursued a career here. please talk sense to me. thanks.

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Q. I am a freshmen in college and for my generation what is the only way to become a millionaire or close to one?

today i just met my dad's friend and he owns a company that spreaded through korea, japan, canada and the us. he also owns several factories and has many properties around the world. he started from the garage by experimenting with different chemicals and producing a product that cleans stains without scrubbing. he has been selling his product to hundreds of school districts and even ucla. after hearing about how successful he is, this tells me that i have to invent a product in order to become filthy rich like him? his sons are managing a factory in canada and his daughter is managing the accounting for him. this makes me feel down because my parents are not wealthy, i have nowhere to start out from, i have no experience in business, i basicallly have no experience in anything. i am just a freshmen at ucr studying environmental engineering. i am scared that my life won't go anywhere with my major but i really want to help improve the environment. :(

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Q. The money pit?

one can only wonder what would have happened if young daniel mcginnis had chosen to go exploring somewhere else on that fateful day in the summer of 1795. if he had, perhaps nobody else would have walked the woods on the eastern end of oak island for the next ten years. in that time, the clearing mcginnis found might have been reclaimed completely by the woods. in a forest, the thirteen foot-wide depression in the ground might never have been noticed. thick, leafy branches might have obscured the old tackle block hanging from a branch directly over the pit. without these markers, there would have been nothing to indicate that this was the work of man. and there might have never been the two-hundred year long treasure hunt that cost several fortunes and many lives. but mcginnis did see the clearing and the depression and the tackle block. visions of pirate treasure did fill his head. he did return later with two friends, john smith, age 19, and anthony vaughan, age 16. and together, with picks and shovels, they did start perhaps the most famous treasure hunt of modern times. undoubtedly, the three must have thought they were on the verge of discovering the treasure of captain william kidd. stories that the captain had buried a treasure hoard on an island "east of boston" had been circulating since the 1600's. legend had it that a dying sailor in the new england colonies confessed to being a part of kidd's notorious crew, but he never named an exact location for the hidden booty. the island mcginnis, smith and vaughan were on was one of 300 small isles in the mahone bay, nova scotia, canada. it was peanut-shaped and about three-quarters of a mile long and 1,000 feet wide. cutting away the smaller trees, the three young men started digging in the depression. after two feet they hit a floor of carefully laid flagstones. this type of slate was not found on the island and the group figured it had been brought there from about two miles north. below the stones they saw that they were digging down a shaft that had been refilled. the walls of the shaft were scored with the marks of pick axes, more evidence that this structure was the work of men. at the ten foot level they hit wood. at first the group figured they'd hit a treasure chest, but quickly realized that they had found a platform of oaken logs sunk into the sides of the shaft. pulling up the logs they discovered a two-foot depression and more of the shaft. continuing to dig, they finally reached a depth of twenty-five feet. at that depth they decided they could not continue without more help and better planning. covering the pit over, they left. one thing the three were sure of, though, was that something must be at the bottom of the pit. they concluded that nobody would have gone to the trouble of digging a shaft deeper than 25 feet unless he had something very valuable to hide. nineteenth century excavations not much more was done with the pit until around 1802. while stories differ, it seems likely that the three spent the previous years searching for a financial backer to provide assistance for a more sophisticated dig. simeon lynds visited the money pit that year, was impressed by the story, and formed a company to support the excavation. the work was started in the summer of 1803. after cleaning out the old pit, the crew started digging downward. stories have it that they struck another oak platform at 30 feet below the surface. as they continued to dig they found something every ten feet: charcoal, putty, stones or more log platforms. finally, at the 80 or 90 foot level, depending on which historical account you read, a flat stone, three feet long and one foot wide, with strange letters and figures cut into it, was found. at 93 feet deep, the floor of the pit began to turn into soft mud. before the end of that day the crew probed the bottom of the shaft with a crowbar hoping to find something. they hit a barrier as wide and as long as the shaft. the group speculated that they'd finally reached the treasure vault and went to bed with the expectations that tomorrow a fortune would be theirs. returning the next day, the crew was shocked to find that overnight the pit had filled with 60 feet of water. bailing was useless. as soon as water was removed from the pit, more flowed in to take its place. an attempt was made to dig another shaft nearby and get at the treasure by running a tunnel underneath the pit, but the new shaft flooded as soon as the tunnel got close to its objective. another attempt to find the treasure wasn't made until 1849. a new corporation was formed to finance the dig. this group wasn't much more successful, running into the same flooding problems that occurred back in 1802. they did manage to use a drill to probe what was below the money pit floor. a platform was constructed in the shaft just above the water level and the drill operated from there. the drill seemed to bore through levels of oak, spruce and clay. one sample recovered what appeared to be several links of chain made of gold. while the drilling was going on, someone noticed that the water in the pit was salty and rose and fell with the tide. this led to speculation that the builders of the pit had conceived a clever trap designed to flood the pit with water if someone got to close too the treasure. the existence of the flood trap was confirmed by the discovery that the beach of smith's cove, located some 500 feet away from the money pit, was artificial. examination showed that the original clay of the cove had been dug away and in its place laid round beach stones, covered by four or five inches of dead eel grass, which was covered by coconut fiber two inches thick and finally the sand of the beach. at the bottom of all this were five box drains that apparently merged somewhere well back from the coast into a single tunnel that ran the distance to the money pit. the system was apparently designed so that the filtering action of the coconut fiber and the eel grass would ensure the drains would never be clogged by sand or gravel from the beach. it worked well. attempts were made to put the flood trap out of business by building a cofferdam around the cove to by holding the tides back. later, pits were dug to intersect and plug the tunnel on its route to the money pit. these failed, and this try at reaching the treasure was given up in 1851 when the money ran out. the next attempt in 1861 cost the first human life. the searchers tried to pump out the money pit using the steam engine-powered pumps. a boiler burst and one worker was scalded to death while others were injured. further fatalities were barely avoided when the money pit's bottom, weakened by attempts to get at the treasure by digging up underneath from other shafts, collapsed. if there were any treasure chests they were probably carried much deeper by this crash. this dig did succeed in discovering where the flood tunnel entered the money pit, but there was still no way to turn off the water. by 1864 these searchers were also out of money. in 1866, 1893, 1909, 1931 and 1936 additional excavations were started. extreme methods were used including setting dynamite charges to destroy the flood tunnel, building a dam to keep the water out of smith's cove, and bringing in a crane with an excavation bucket. none of these approaches recovered a single coin while costing the backers a small fortune and one worker his life. one of these efforts did manage to block off the flood tunnel from smith's cove, only to discover more water was pouring in from the opposite direction via a natural or man-made route from the south shore. drilling also indicated that there might be some kind of cement vault at the 153-foot level. by this time the south end of the island was full of old shafts, though, and it was increasingly hard to tell were the original money pit was located. searchers often ran out of money just trying to figure out where the old shaft had been. modern excavations in 1959 robert restall, a former daredevil motorcyclist, took up the challenge with the help of his 18-year-old son. by then the smith cove's flood tunnel had become unblocked and restall made it his first order of business to seal it off. he had sunk a shaft to the depth of 27 feet near smith's cove when tragedy struck. his son found him laying at the bottom of the pit in muddy water. climbing down to help his father, the boy suddenly fell off the ladder and lay next to him. kal graseser, restall's partner, and workers cyril hiltz and andy demont climbed down to assist, but also collapsed before reaching the bottom. edward white, a visiting fireman from buffalo, new york, immediately suspected carbon monoxide poisoning from the exhaust of a nearby gasoline pump and descended the pit with a rope tied around his waist. he was able to rescue demont, but the others died. in one day oak island mystery claimed four more lives. in 1965 robert dunfield tried to apply modern open pit mining methods to the treasure hunt. using a 70-ton digging crane he dug a hole at the original pit site 140 feet deep and 100 feet in diameter. the dirt was carefully sifted for any treasure, but only a few pieces of porcelain dishware were found. heavy rains dragged the work out for months and dunfield ran out of money. the pit, and its mystery designer, had won again. the money pit today. (courtesy of bill milstead) in 1970 the triton alliance was formed to continue looking for the treasure. legal battles between owners of different portions of the island resulted in slow progress. a number of holes were drilled in an attempt to locate the treasure and better understand the geological nature of the island, but no gold was recovered. little work has been done in the area of the money pit itself as the soil is unstable. often caverns, thought to be natural, have been found beneath the island. a video camera lowered down one borehole into one of these spaces recorded an image that looked like chests and a human hand severed at the wrist. the quality of the images was so poor, though, that positive identification was impossible. triton brought the woods hole oceanographic institute in to survey the island in 1995 and render an opinion on whether there is something valuable at the bottom of the pit. while their report is confidential, people who have seen it say that its conclusions are "not discouraging." currently little work is being done on the island while disputes between the owners of triton are being settled. in addition to the money pit the rest of the island seems to be loaded with old stone markers of various types. the most peculiar of these are 6 boulders that seem to be laid out in the shape of a cross that is almost 900 feet long. some wild speculation based on the cross suggest that oak island might be home to the long missing holy grail, but there is no real solid evidence to support this idea. possible culprits so, who built the money pit? and did they really put some kind of treasure down there? was it captain kidd? despite the legends it seem unlikely that captain william kidd ever had the chance to bury a treasure on oak island. he spent little time near nova scotia and certainly not enough to construct the money pit. kidd did bury a cache of booty on gardener's island near the eastern end of long island sound, but it was quickly seized by the governor of new york. blackbeard, who possessed perhaps the most notorious reputation of all pirates, has sometimes been mentioned in conjunction with oak island, but only because he once boasted he had an underground cache for his treasure, "where none but satan and myself can find it." certainly many of the oak island treasure hunters would agree that this sounds like the money pit, but the truth is there isn't any evidence that blackbeard conducted any operations north of delaware. in fact, it seems very unlikely that any pirate could be responsible for such a complex labyrinth as the pit. pirates buried treasure because it offered a quick way to hide and recover their goods. a digging operation that must have taken several months just doesn't seem their style. george bates, a land surveyor in nova scotia, suggested that pirates had indeed built structures on oak island, but not for the purpose of hiding treasure. bate's idea was that there was enough pirate activity between 1650 and 1750 off the coast of nova scotia to warrant several pirate groups getting together and building a dry dock to maintain their ships. to do this they sailed their vessels into smith's cove and built a cofferdam to seal the tiny bay off from the ocean. the flood tunnel was used to then drain the cove and leave the ship high and dry. the water flooded down the tunnel into a large natural cave underneath the island. a windmill located on top of the money pit extracted the water so the cove could again be drained for the next ship. the weakness of bates argument is that located on the other side of nova scotia, only a hundred miles away, is the bay of fundy. the tides in the bay drop at least 30 feet each day making it a huge natural dry dock. why would the pirates duplicate what nature already provided? speaking of nature, is it possible that the money pit is a natural phenomena, not a cleverly designed vault? certainly there are natural caves under oak island and the depression found by mcginnis could have been a sink hole. unless all early accounts are completely incorrect the descriptions of the platforms carefully placed at 10-foot intervals seem to ensure that at least part of the structure is man-made. some theories suggest that the structures built on oak island may have been hundreds, perhaps even thousand of years old when they were discovered in 1795. they may have been built by vikings visiting the new world, or by the native micmac people who lived in the region before the europeans appeared. perhaps they were built by an advanced civilization that we know nothing about. indeed the flood tunnel trap built into the pit in some ways reminds one of the false doors and granite plugs found in egyptian tombs to prevent grave robbing. if any of the above theories were true why did mcginnis discover the pit in the heart of a clearing? the trees around the money pit must have been cut when it was constructed. given the rate oak trees grow, that meant someone had built the pit not more than fifty years before mcginnis stumbled across it. who would have hidden a treasure between 1745 and 1795? william crooker, author of several books on the oak island mystery, suggests that the pit was built as a part of plot by king george iii of england and several of his close advisors. on august 12, 1762, british forces captured the city of havana, cuba, from the spanish. havana was a rich, important city where much of the gold from the new world was shipped back to spain. two shiploads of the captured booty, crooker suggests, was taken by the earl of albemarle to oak island. previously the conspirators had arranged for military engineers to come to the island and build what they thought was a secret ammo dump complete with flood tunnels. albemarle arrived with the treasure in sealed boxes. the treasure was placed in the pit, the pit was closed, and the engineers departed still thinking they had built an ammo dump. albemarle returned to england with the idea of retrieving the treasure later. something, perhaps the madness that afflicted king george toward the end of his life, prevented getting the booty and it was forgotten about. crooker's theory raises another possibility, though. suppose there is no treasure at all and the pit is simply an old ammo dump? we will only find out for sure when someone comes along who is clever enough, and rich enough, to beat the designer of the money pit and make a thorough investigation of what lies at the bottom.

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Q. What do i do in this situation with my fiancee he loves me i love him we love our daughter, but spark is dying?

ok me and my fiancee who works a lot..most of the time i know where he is, (i believe i might know what some of you are going to say) sometimes i don't. and when he is home he just wants to play games, which i really don't mind, i kinda like playing some of his games online...and we hardly very rarely (i think) spend intimate time together...most of the time i feel like he just thinks i am fat or just is no longer interested in me...but yet...when i show (ahem my girls i guess i should put it) he is very interested...but! not to the point to want me then and there like at some times...i know myself i get angry for certain things that he doesn't do that are not related to this. i feel that we argue a lot. and it isn't always that important i guess. well depends. i know i have not kept the place as clean as i used to. but i am now slowly cleaning it up...i have sad (seasonal affective disorder) and that mixed with this issue...(our relationship just me and him) makes me more mad sad and depressed and all. i would like to leave him because i just feel unwanted at most times...but the thing is...we share a 2 1/2 year old daughter..not only that i was from canada and we are living together in usa. not only that i cannot move back to where i came from because of people i do not want to see anymore...people that hurt me and abused me. but the thing also with me is that i cant start my life...mainly because i never got the chance too...i tried when i graduated high school, but was unable to find a job for myself...after living with family and friends...and going through depression over a break up with my first love and family problems...and getting into trouble my then best friend/auntie got me into..i decided to make friends online where i met my fiancee. he is a great guy...he works hard for me and our daughter.(which also he is on call 24/7- because work cannot fix certain problems and he finds ways to save the company money) he works two jobs..during winter its coaching high school wrestling which he loves to do that is what he did as an activity when he was in school also at the same time working at a berry freezing plant...and still works this job after wrestling is over summer is also busy because they get more berries to freeze..but since he works so hard...i have not had time with him...he promises to take me out...but then never does...its work calls because something breaks. or something...i can never take his promises seriously...i cant really leave him...not sure why...keep feeling the part of me saying i should stay...like there is a reason...but you know what i cannot see that reason..not yet anyways..but this is hard for me...no matter what i do i am always pushed aside....i feel like i am always forgotten....me and him always always remember our daughter... i have no car..i have no license...i feel i am always dependent to him and i want to work i love to work...i have to stay home till our daughter starts school...i don't want to feel totally dependent on him no more...i need to get out...but another thing is i cannot even go out for long walks...where i live is near speeding cars...and no sidewalks...i cannot walk to stores..or anywhere, i like to feel like i am heading somewhere for a reason...so i am always stuck inside..on good days i will be in our back yard that is it... ok i should end this question story thing, i apologies for it being so long...i had no intention on it being this long... what should i do? i don't like asking this question in fear of what the answer may be. what do you think of this situation? can you imagine being in my shoes? what would you do? you never had a good start in life...met someone in another country and fell in love and had a child and everything you and your so are falling apart and don't want to separate. and cant go to couples therapy because one no time. two he doesn't believe in that or trust it..and you are not sure anymore... also is it okay for you to fall out of ummm excitement for him? after not having much intimacy? because i think that is what i feel..i don't think i am that interested anymore..what do i do about that?i want to be intimate, but its not really there anymore, mainly because we have argued so much and he and i just never really do that anymore...lol another thing is that we both want to have another child. but i told him we should think about this more... again so sorry for being so long. i hope someone would help...i will make this last a few days longer if i have to.. i am sorry i have forgotten to mention our age..he is 28 and i am 25.

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Q. Is this a scam?

i received this but im not writing back. hello, would you like to work online from home and get paid without affecting your present job if you have one? richard cook limited, uk.. needs an individual in the united states of america/canada who will be working for the company and i am willing to pay for every transaction, which wouldn't affect your present state of work. someone who will receive payments on our behalf from our customers in the united states of america/canada. these payments are in form of money orders or otherwise and it will be made payable to your name, so all you need do is cash the money orders deduct your 10 % percentage and wire the rest back to me via western union money transfer. we presently run a premier furnishing company sited in the united kingdom and we need someone to work for the company as a representative/bookkeeper in the usa/canada. we specialize in making different kinds of furnishings,demonstrating creative ideas, colors, textures and styles for every room, orthopaedic chairs and high seats. we offer a high degree of personal service, on everything from an individual item to a complete interior design scheme, which has really expanded that we furnished overseas now. our reputation as a premier furnishing store has been achieved by searching throughout the uk and europe for the best ranges available. we have found unusual and original pieces from traditional french farmhouse furniture to clean scandinavian design plus leading uk.. brands to suit every lifestyle. we have been selling our furnishings for the last four years. we have sold in showrooms and to private collectors from all around the world. we are always facing serious difficulties when it comes to selling our furnishings to people in the united states of america, some of our customers offers to pay with united states postal money order or otherwise, which is difficult for us to cash here in united kingdom. so we need someone in the usa/canada to work as our representative and assist us in processing the payments from our clients and we will pay on every transaction. job description 1. receive payment from clients 2. cash payments 3. deduct 10 % which will be your percentage/pay on payment processed. 4. forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to our office in the united kingdom (payment is to be forwarded by western uniontransfer). it wouldn't cost you any charges, you are to receive payments which will be sent to you via fedex courier services or ups from my clients, which would come in form of a money order/certified cashier's check in us payment then you are to cash it and send the cash to the company via western union transfer, all transfer fees should be deducted from the capital you are sending so you have nothing to lose. if you are interested, respond immediately by sending: first name: surname: home address (physical address only, no p.o. boxes): apt #: city: state: zip code: country: cell number: gender: marital status: age: current job: what is your prefared mode of communication phone/e-mail so that our clients will start making payments to you as the company's representative in the usa. as soon as we confirm any payment coming to you, i will let you know and i will give you the information to send the funds through to the company via western union money transfer. i await your prompt response. warmest regards, john watson human resources manager richard cook limited, united kingdom