Bruce McCall paints a future that never happened -- full of flying cars, polo-playing tanks and the RMS Tyrannic, "The Biggest Thing in All the World." At Serious Play '08, he narrates a brisk and funny slideshow of his faux-nostalgic art.
WATERLOO REGION - Don Tapscott, international bestselling author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Will Change Everything, will provide a keynote at Communitech's CIO/09: SHIFT HAPPENS on April 1st in Waterloo Region.
Region of Waterloo – Separate collection of yard waste will soon begin across the Region. While the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo have had collection for a number of years, settlement areas in the townships will receive collection for the first time.
WATERLOO - University of Waterloo engineering students will showcase innovative class projects, including a device to ease heart surgery and a robot that detects fires, next week.
Waterloo Region - Over the next several weeks, officials from the Region of Waterloo’s Water Services Division, in partnership with the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA), will place a safe, environmentally-friendly, “fluorescing” dye into the Grand River near West Montrose, Mill Creek in Cambridge, and the Hidden Valley wetland in Kitchener, temporarily giving these watercourse systems a red tint.
Kitchener, ON – In association with blockbuster hit, Andy Warhol’s Factory 2009 exhibition, The Children’s Museum is hosting a Warhol inspired evening of fashion forward fun this Friday night.
KITCHENER -Citizens will have an opportunity to provide feedback about the future of Kitchener's parks and open spaces at two upcoming workshops. Feedback received will assist City staff in developing an updated Parks Master Plan.
TORONTO - Hiring managers aren't the only ones applicants need to impress when they arrive for a job interview. Candidates also should be on their toes when greeting the boss' right-hand person, a new survey shows. Nearly seven out of 10 (69 per cent) executives polled said they consider their assistant's opinion important when evaluating potential new hires.
City plan will protect natural areas, wetlands and forests as Guelph grows
GUELPH – Two public workshops will be held later this month where residents and businesses can provide input on Guelph's Natural Heritage Strategy; a project that aims to identify significant natural areas, forests, and wetlands, and develop policies to protect and enhance them as the city continues to grow.
- TVO brings its flagship current affairs program, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, to Waterloo March 29 and 30, 2009 for a two-day interactive event examining Ontario's innovation economy
- Guests for the broadcast of The Agenda with Steve Paikin: On the Road, presented by Vale Inco on March 30 at 8 pm include Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of Research In Motion; and Richard Florida, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and author of Who's Your City and The Rise of the Creative Class.
TORONTO - One is a successful business leader whose company has helped power Ontario's high tech economy and put Waterloo on the international stage; the other is a visionary academic whose work is helping to shape Ontario's evolving economies and workforce.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp (TKAG.DE) plans to cut more than 3,000 jobs or about 1.5 percent of its total staff amid a slump in demand, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
TORONTO - With the economic downturn, business owners may be feeling the impact on many of their investment vehicles. Family trusts, holding companies, securities portfolios - as well as the potential loss in value of the business itself - are just a few of the areas that privately held business owners are keeping a close eye on. But while there are many reasons to be cautious at this time, opportunities for tax minimization may exist in the lower values just waiting to be taken advantage of.
CAMBRIDGE - ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. ("ATS") today announced it is reducing its Cambridge workforce by approximately 80 full-time employees and its Photowatt France workforce by approximately 160 temporary workers in order to bring the workforce inline with customer requirements.
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Sony Ericsson sparked fresh fear of crumbling consumer demand on Friday when the world's No 4 handset maker said it would sell barely half of the phones it sold last quarter.
Earnings per share of 11 cents with a record 9th consecutive quarter of revenue growth
TORONTO - Cyberplex Inc. a leader in online performance-based advertising solutions, customer acquisition strategies and technology development, announced its financial results for the fiscal year-ended and fourth quarter-ended December 31, 2008.
Kitchener - P&P Data Systems of Toronto is a leader in software systems and services for the health care field, aiding physicians and health institutions in their quest for speed and efficiency in handling client needs.
London - A newly published study found patients actually have more control of their high blood pressure (hypertension) when treated with less medication. The study led by Dr. Ross D. Feldman, a clinical scientist with the Robarts Research Institute at The University of Western Ontario recommends a simplified and more effective method of treating hypertension using low doses of single pill combinations, rather than multiple pills.
Kitchener - Today Union Gas and the Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute (HRAI) will present Conestoga College with the donation of a rooftop HVAC (heating/ventilating/air conditioning) unit, which will be used for practical, hands-on learning by faculty and students at Conestoga’s Gas Technician Training Centre, located at the Waterloo campus.
Toronto - A research project from an associate professor of marketing at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and his colleague at MIT's Sloan School of Management has received one of 11 research awards announced today from the Google and WPP Marketing Research Awards Program.
OTTAWA - Each Canadian generates, on average, five tonnes of greenhouse gases a year that are linked to climate change. The good news is there are things each of us can do to reduce our ecological footprint without having to make drastic changes to our lifestyles.
TORONTO - The protests and disturbances on our campus around global issues in recent weeks have underlined key principles that the university has always stood for and will always stand for.
· Kumanan and McFadden had the pleasure of meeting with representatives of the London/Middlesex Immigrant Employment Council (LMIEC) in London on Tuesday to discuss employer engagements approaches and challenges, and share ideas about what works and what doesn’t. It was a very productive meeting and we hope to expand the interactions to include employers in the future.
London - Keeping some of Western’s best graduates in London to join our city’s workforce is one of the goals of a new ‘Job Shadowing Experience’ being launched by the Faculty of Social Science at The University of Western Ontario.
"...Lawmakers on Wednesday said they support US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's call to significantly increase funding for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator John Kerry said there was bipartisan support on the panel for providing additional resources....
OTTAWA - The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, and the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of International Trade, welcomed the creation of the Auto Supplier Support Program, announced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury March 19, 2009.
Chicago, Ill. - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is making available the most recent reporting on the amount of toxic chemicals released in Michigan and the U.S.
Chubb Launches Media Liability Platform in Response to Industry Convergence
TORONTO - Last night at the Canadian Film Centre, Chubb Insurance Company of Canada launched MediaGuard(TM), an errors and omissions (E&O) liability insurance policy, which is available in the United States and Canada. Recognizing that media and non-media companies are now disseminating information and other content through multiple channels, Chubb recognized the growing need for this form of E&O liability coverage which can help provide financial protection against a broad array of traditional and emerging media-related exposures.
New York - Bernard Madoff's accountant was arrested and charged with turning a blind eye to the Wall Street scammer by not carrying out required audits that might have detected the estimated $65-billion Ponzi scheme.
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