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Prepaid expenses and deposits | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
Prepaid expenses and deposits | Prepaid expenses and deposits
Current: |  |  |  |
|  | December 31, 2013 |  |  | December 31, 2012 |
Prepaid insurance and deposits |  | $ | 1,076 |  |  | $ | 2,075 |
Prepaid lease payments |  | 880 |  |  | 1,771 |
Prepaid interest |  | 196 |  |  | 352 |
|  | $ | 2,152 |  |  | $ | 4,198 |
Long term: |  |  |  |
|  | December 31, 2013 |  |  | December 31, 2012 |
Prepaid lease payments (note 12(a)) |  | $ | 1,274 |  |  | $ | 97 |

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