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Weekly December 24 - 28, 2007
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New Year Best Wishes
The staff of Exchange Magazine, Visitor Guide and The Morning Post sends you best wishes for a safe and happy New Year Celebration.
Please Note:
Exchange Morning Post will be undergoing a series of technical upgrades starting December 24 and through to January 8.
Some disruption in connectivity may result.
We apologize in advance for any inconvenience that may occur.
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Jop Opportunity
Mitsubishi and McMaster University searching for Canada's Next Top Ad Exec
National contest now accepting entries at www.topadexec.com
HAMILTON - More than 160,000 business students from across Canada have the chance to play Marketing Director for Mitsubishi Motors, as Canada's Next Top Ad Exec returns as one of the richest and most rewarding competitions in the history of Canadian business schools.
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Media - 50 Best
The 50 Best Employers in Canada: Report on Business Magazine Unveils the Nation's Ultimate Workplaces
TORONTO - Today, Report on Business magazine releases the ninth annual list of the 50 Best Employers in Canada.
This year's 50 Best Employers are a diverse group of progressive companies that excel in sustained employee engagement while meeting corporate objectives.
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Biopact Essay - Soil
Soil scientist: conserving forests by utilizing them for bioenergy
In this essay, Carol Kennedy, the forest soil scientist and watershed program manager for the Tahoe National Forest in California, explains why forest conservation can be enhanced by the use of forest biomass as a source of clean and renewable energy.
What would happen if the April showers that bring May flowers came in February instead? Do you think May's foliage might be affected?, she asks.
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Alberta Economy
Alberta - Safely Exiting the Economic Superhighway
By Todd Hirsch, Senior Economist ATB Financial
CALGARY- Europe is famous for the autobahn, a series of freeways stretching through many parts of Germany and surrounding countries. Designed for high speeds, the autobahn has an official limit of 130 km/h, but traffic tends to move considerably faster.
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Canadian Heroes
Reader's Digest Canada Announces their Canadian Heroes of 2007
MONTREAL - Reader's Digest Canada announced today their Canadian Heroes of 2007. Reader's Digest asked readers across the country whom they considered a Hero in education, community service, rescue, public life, and health. From the nominations, our judges selected the finalist in each category.
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Swiping INTERAC Cards
INTERAC Direct Payment Tops 15.6 Million Transactions During the Year's Busiest Shopping Day
TORONTO - INTERAC Direct Payment - Canada's national debit service and favourite way to pay - saw December 21 as this year's busiest shopping day, with 15.6 million transactions processed on a single day. Convenient, reliable and trusted, INTERAC Direct Payment continues to be the preferred method of payment for one out of two Canadians.
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Improved Standards for Driver Education
McGuinty Government Improving Beginner Driver Training
Actions Increase Consumer Protection
QUEEN'S PARK - The McGuinty government is improving standards for beginner driver education (BDE) in Ontario to help teach novice drivers safe driving habits and keep Ontario's roads safe, Transportation Minister Jim Bradley announced.
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The Leisure Economy
2008 Economic Trends-Canadians to Have More Leisure Time
TORONTO - We currently live in a Time-Crunch Economy - we don't have enough time for all the items on our calendars. But with the Boomers retiring at record speed, the opposite is about to happen.
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Superior Capitalization
A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of The Co-operators
GUELPH, ON - A.M. Best Co. announced that it has affirmed the financial strength ratings (FSR) and the issuer credit ratings (ICR) for various companies belonging to The Co-operators Group Ltd.
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Woodbine Hospitality Ratified
Bartenders and servers ratify new deal with Woodbine Entertainment
TORONTO - Less than 24 hours after reaching a tentative settlement, members of the Canadian Auto Workers union have overwhelmingly ratified a new 3-year agreement with Woodbine Entertainment.
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Demutualization
Unity Life Provides Policyholders with Details of Sponsored Demutualization
Special Meeting of Policyholders Scheduled for February 28, 2008
TORONTO - Unity Life of Canada today took an important step toward its proposed sponsored demutualization as it commenced the mailing of information packages to approximately 15,000 eligible policyholders.
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Technology Training - Ontario
Student Connections Launches Winter Technology Training Workshops
Waterloo - Student Connections, an Industry Canada initiative, is launching its winter schedule for computer and Internet training classes and workshops at Wilfrid Laurier University.
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World Bank Press Review
Japan To Focus Foreign Aid On African Development, Climate Change
Imf, World Bank Forgive Part Of Gambia's Debt
IMF Approves $744 Million Iraq Loan Agreement
Russia Seals Caspian Gas Pipeline Deal
Tobacco, Poverty Drive Cancer In Developing World
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Boom Times for C4 Grasses
A link between greenhouse gases and the evolution of C4 grasses
By Cathleen Genova
How a changing climate can affect ecosystems is an important and timely question, especially considering the recent global rise in greenhouse gases. Now, in an article published online on December 20th in the journal Current Biology, evolutionary biologists provide strong evidence that changes in global carbon dioxide levels probably had an important influence on the emergence of a specific group of plants, termed C4 grasses.
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Transportation - Air Travel
Increased Aircraft movement statistics: Major airports November 2007
For the 18th consecutive month, aircraft take-offs and landings at Canadian airports with NAV CANADA air traffic control towers and flight service stations increased in year-over-year monthly comparisons.
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CEO Confidence - Wanes
T.E.C. Ltd.: Canadian CEO Economic Confidence Continues to Wane, Dropping to an All Time Low
Yet there is an optimism that 2008 will bring increased sales and profits
CALGARY, ALBERTA- T.E.C. (The Executive Committee) Ltd.: Canadian CEOs and business leaders continue to show that confidence in the Canadian economy is wavering.
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Financial Acquisition
GE Capital to Acquire Most of Merrill Lynch Capital
Deal, Expected to Close in First Quarter, Will Add More Than $15 Billion in Assets and Commitments to GE Capital
NORWALK, CONN. & NEW YORK - GE Capital has agreed to purchase most of Chicago-based Merrill Lynch Capital, Merrill Lynch and Co., Inc.'s (NYSE: MER) wholly-owned middle-market commercial finance business. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Pension Acquisition
OMERS Capital Partners Acquires Give and Go® Prepared Foods
TORONTO - OMERS Capital Partners ("OCP") the private equity arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System ("OMERS"), one of Canada's largest pension funds, has purchased Give and Go(R) Prepared Foods Corp., the North American market leader in premium indulgent thaw-and-serve sweet baked goods.
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R&R - New Destination
New Ski Hill for the Holidays
REVELSTOKE, BC - The ski world welcomed a major new player today - Revelstoke Mountain Resort in Revelstoke, British Columbia - fulfilling a dream this ski town and international powder skiers have anticipated for almost three decades.
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Board of Director Chair News
Hydro One Chair will not seek Reappointment
TORONTO - Rita Burak, Chair of the Board of Directors of Hydro One Inc., has informed the Minister of Energy that she will not be seeking reappointment in the new year.
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Decentralised Biofuel
Boeing imagines future network of decentralised biofuel producers
Biopact - Increasing air traffic is the ultimate symbol of the world's rapid globalisation. Large jets take thousands of people to the other side of the planet in a matter of hours, fill up their tanks at the airport and carry on to their next destination.
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BioFuel and Energy
Breaking down walls - Cows, Milk and Energy
By Erin K. Peabody
There may soon be another reason to support the local dairy farmer. In Wisconsin, where a similar message is proudly plastered on everything from bumper stickers to T-shirts to coffee-shop windows, researchers at the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center are proving that the nation has an unlikely ally in its quest for energy independence: dairy cows.
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