Speaking at a London girls' school, Michelle Obama makes a passionate, personal case for each student to take education seriously. It is this new, brilliant generation, she says, that will close the gap between the world as it is and the world as it should be.
East to West, Newfoundland and Labrador to British Columbia
Hamilton - 12 high school student champions will come to McMaster University to represent their home towns at the Second Annual CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee (CCNBB) on May 29-30. Each one will be competing for the right to be called the Best Brain in Canada.
Waterloo Region - Waterloo Region Home Builders’ Association (WRHBA) is pleased to announce its 36th President, Mr. Brian Blackmere. Brian has been a member of WRHBA’s Board of Directors since 2005 and was appointed President on May 26, 2009.
Statscan - Lower revenues contributed to declines in profits as Canadian corporations reported operating profits of $55.1 billion in the first quarter of 2009, down 11.8% from the prior quarter. Declines were prevalent across the economy as 18 of 22 industries reported lower profits.
St. Jacobs – Local Owen Sound resident Chris Taylor, was surprised to learn he was the grand prize winner of a 2009 Toyota Tundra while making a routine visit to his local Home Hardware Building Centre. Chris entered a ballot for the contest in January while in attendance at Home Hardware’s Tough as Nails Contractor Show in Orangeville with local business Steve Doherty Construction of Owen Sound.
World News - "The global market for carbon emissions trading doubled in value last year, despite the global economic slowdown in the second half of 2008, but actual realized emissions cuts fell, the World Bank said on Wednesday.
MONTREAL - Private investment is an essential part of economic recovery and must be encouraged, according to the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI). "Private investment totals more than $270 billion annually, nearly 10 times as high as the public investment announced in the recovery plan in the federal budget", MEI president and CEO Michel Kelly-Gagnon said.
Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Protection Agency is strengthening safety measures for soil fumigant pesticides. The safety measures will reduce fumigant exposures to bystanders—people who live, work, attend school, or spend time near agricultural fields that are fumigated—and increase overall safety of fumigant use by requiring greater planning and compliance.
A boss sits down to have a meeting with his employees. They've fallen short of a goal, and so the boss asks: "What happened? What approach did you use? How did you attempt to meet your goal?" One by one, the employees give him a litany of reasons, all of them centered on situations, experiences and the steps they took in attempting to reach the goal.
There is no harmony in the tune the Provincial Government is singing to the home building industry or the new homebuyer.
Waterloo Region - If the Province is successful in adopting the proposed harmonized GST and PST legislation then consumers in Waterloo Region will join their counterparts in the GTA by absorbing a disproportionate share of the whopping $800 million tax increase that will be paid by new homebuyers across the province.
World News - "A group of exporting countries drummed up support on Tuesday to reach a deal soon in the World Trade Organization's (WTO) long-running Doha round as the best way to tackle protectionism in the economic crisis.
TORONTO - Hydro One announced the appointment of Dan Santerre as Director of Hydro One Remote Communities Inc., which distributes electricity to remote communities in Northern Ontario.
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM and BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - The rapidly developing M2M (machine-to-machine) market suffered a setback in 2008 with growth in cellular module shipments stalling overall compared with 2007, according to a new Worldwide Cellular M2M Market Forecast released today by leading analyst firm and M2M specialist Beecham Research.
As a statistical demographic, they control more than half of the discretionary spending, they hold more than 70 percent of the country’s wealth and a behavioral trend that indicates that they are still spending that money, even during the recession.
World News - "A lethal cocktail of war, natural disasters and economic volatility led the international Red Cross to paint a picture of rising global instability Wednesday as it announced record annual expenditure.
Multi-Year Contract Covers All Levels of Ontario Provincial Government, Including Ministries, Agencies and Crown Corporations
WATERLOO - Open Text(TM) Corporation, announced that the Ministry of Government Services, representing the Government of Ontario, has established a 10-year contract for ECM solutions from Open Text, Canada's largest software company.
Desire2Learn will co-present session on creating accessible courses in a Learning Management System (LMS) at The University of Guelph's Aiming for Accessibility Conference
Kitchener-Waterloo – Desire2Learn Incorporated, will co-present a session entitled "Beyond Alt Tags: Creating Accessible Courses in a Learning Management System (LMS)" at The University of Guelph's Aiming for Accessibility Conference Wednesday, May 27, 2009.
Kitchener - The Children’s Museum is launching their most recent science-based endeavour this morning. The GEEE! in Genome, which is produced by the CanadianMuseum of Nature in Ottawa and Genome Canada, has been brought to the Children’s Museum of Waterloo Region by the Ontario Genomics Institute.
Net Income Doubles Year-over-Year On Record Operating Performance
WATERLOO - Descartes Systems Group, a global on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) logistics solutions provider, announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 first quarter (Q1FY10) ended April 30, 2009.
CHICAGO - In a move that stands to create jobs, boost local economies, improve aging drinking water and wastewater infrastructure and protect human health and the environment for people in the State of Ohio, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded almost $279 million to Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
Waterloo Region - Junior Achievement - a charitable, non-profit organization dedicated to providing business education and stay in school programs to young people are hosting a fundraising event to help support there 10 business education programs.
Washington, D.C. - Bulgaria has become the 29th country to join the international climate change initiative called Methane to Markets (M2M). The M2M partnership is comprised of more than 900 public and private sector organizations, as well as countries, including the European Commission.
IRVING, Texas and PHOENIX - Caris Diagnostics (Caris Dx) -a provider of integrated anatomic pathology and oncology testing services, announced the appointment of a nationally-renowned oncologist, David Loesch, MD, as Director of Oncology, Clinical Trials and Services.
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