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Tuesday February 9, 2010

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Ted Talks

Peter Eigen: How to expose the corrupt

Some of the world's most baffling social problems, says Peter Eigen, can be traced to systematic, pervasive government corruption, hand-in-glove with global companies. At TEDxBerlin, Eigen describes the thrilling counter-attack led by his organization Transparency International.


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R&D Funding

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute awarded $7.8M from Canadian Institutes of Health Research

OTTAWA - Fifteen scientists at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (an affiliated institute of the University of Ottawa) have been awarded grants worth a total of $7.8M from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

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Housing

JANUARY HOUSING STARTS HIGHER IN KITCHENER

TORONTO – Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released January preliminary housing starts data for the Kitchener Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). Construction began on 221 homes, up from the 90 units started in the same month last year. This was the fourth consecutive month with starts higher than a year ago.

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Genome Research

Researchers map all the fragile sites of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae's genome

MONTREAL - The research group of Dr. François Robert, a researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), in collaboration with the team of Dr. Daniel Durocher (Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute and University of Toronto) accomplished a technical breakthrough: they mapped all the fragile sites of a living organism, the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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Future Leaders

Community Leadership Development Program Information Session

Join Leadership Waterloo on Feb 17th from 8:30 to 9:15 a.m. in downtown Kitchener, to learn more about Leadership Waterloo Region and our program application process. To register for this free session, visit our website at www.leadershipwaterlooregion.org.

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Recognition

University of Ottawa recognizes two young researchers

OTTAWA — The University of Ottawa is pleased to announce that Milena Parent and Jeremy Kerr are the recipients of the Young Researcher of the Year Award. The award is presented annually to two members of the University of Ottawa Faculty who have made exceptional contributions to research and training students.

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Lifestyle

Youth who self-identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual at higher suicide

Same-sex sexual attraction and behaviour less critical than self-identity

Montreal - Mental health professionals have long-known that gay, lesbian and bisexual (GLB) teens face significantly elevated risks of mental health problems, including suicidal thoughts and suicidal attempts. However, a group of McGill University researchers in Montreal has now come to the conclusion that self-identity is the crucial risk-factor, rather than actual sexual behaviours.

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Infant Study

Babies wise to what we really mean: York U study

Researchers find first evidence that six-month-olds comprehend adults’ intentions

TORONTO- A study by York University researchers reveals that infants as young as six months old know when we’re “playing” them – and they don’t like it.

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Pandemic

Most Ontario hospital pandemic plans haven't been tested

Kingston - One quarter of Ontario hospitals surveyed in a Queen’s-led study do not have influenza pandemic plans, and few plans that do exist have been tested.

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Sustainability R&D

U of G Receives $2.2 Million from NSERC

Guelph - The University of Guelph has received more than $2.2 million from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) for five strategic team research projects centred around sustainability.

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Xquarterly

ATS reports third quarter fiscal 2010 results

CAMBRIDGE - ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. today reported its financial results for the three and nine months ended December 27, 2009.

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R&D Funding

Carleton Researchers Receive More Than $1 Million to Solve Real World Problems

Ottawa – Three Carleton University researchers are receiving a total of $1,328,497 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), allowing them to pursue research to help farmers enhance environmental stewardship, generate northern economic development and improve communications networks.

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Housing

ONTARIO RESIDENTIAL HOME STARTS EDGE HIGHER IN JANUARY

Toronto - Ontario preliminary Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (SAAR) of home starts across urban* areas edged higher in January. An estimated 53,300 residential housing units broke ground in January, up from 52,500 units in December.


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