Cognitive researcher Nancy Etcoff looks at happiness -- the ways we try to achieve and increase it, the way it's untethered to our real circumstances, and its surprising effect on our bodies.
Waterloo's D.J. Demers is the new Screw You Recession! Summer Intern
TORONTO - The results are in and Waterloo's D.J. Demers is the official Screw You Recession! Summer Intern. After having his video hand-picked as one of Richard Branson's Fave Five and an interview process with Virgin Mobile, Demers is ready to jump head first into the Screw You Recession! world of blogs, cash-crunching, tip-gathering, and web-combing for the best recession news and cash-saving advice.
Urgent government action needed to protect Ontario Grape Growers
TORONTO - Ontarians who think they are supporting Ontario farmers by buying wine sold as "Cellared in Canada" are unknowingly supporting foreign grapes or grape products, the Ontario Greenbelt Alliance warned today. Under the current Ontario law, Cellared in Canada wines can contain up to 70% foreign grapes or grape product.
- C. Robert Kidder to be named Chairman of U.S. Automaker
- Sergio Marchionne to Serve as Chief Executive Officer
AUBURN HILLS, MI/TURIN, Italy - Chrysler Group LLC and Fiat Group announced today that they have finalized their previously announced global strategic alliance, forming a "new" Chrysler that has the resources, technology and worldwide distribution network required to compete effectively on a global scale. The new Chrysler will begin operations immediately.
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Top Schools Launch Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability
Ivey Business School joins Tuck, Duke & Harvard in alliance
LONDON - As environmental issues have grown in complexity and scope, there is growing interest from both the public and private sectors in corporate sustainability – the creation of viable business enterprises operated in a manner that protects the natural environment, and future economic and societal development.
Waterloo Region - Ontario is assisting low-income families who have missed a rent payment avoid eviction in Waterloo Region Under the provincial Rent Bank program, a tenant who is facing eviction for non-payment of rent can apply to the local rent bank to receive financial assistance.
Business confidence Index crosses the 100 mark first time since May 2008
TORONTO, - For the first time since May 2008, the Alberta Business Confidence Index from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) conducted by Leger Marketing has crossed the 100 mark. The overall Business Confidence Index is 101, up from 91 in March 2009 suggesting that business leaders are slowly becoming optimistic about the economic conditions.
Kitchener – Grade 10 students in Waterloo Region’s Catholic Schools continue to keep pace with the rest of the province on literacy test scores, according to the 2009 Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) results released yesterday by Ontario’s Education Quality & Accountability Office (EQAO).
Alliance includes 30 companies and organizations working to implement business-led solutions
Cape Town, South Africa - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and a group of CEOs announced today at a press conference during the 2009 World Economic Forum on Africa that Kenyan leaders will take over an innovative business alliance aimed at reducing hunger in Africa.
Business Services Industry Projected to See Greatest Hiring Increases
TORONTO - Employers are expected to be conservatively optimistic about adding accounting and finance professionals in the third quarter, according to the Robert Half International Financial Hiring Index. Twelve per cent of chief financial officers (CFOs) expect to hire full-time employees during the third quarter while 6 per cent anticipate personnel reductions. The net 6 per cent increase is up one point from the second-quarter forecast.
"The World Bank on Tuesday approved a $3.3 billion program, the 'Country Partnership Strategy 2010-2012,' to help Argentina keep its economic growth in the global downturn.
OTTAWA - Eligible cleantech, life science and technology companies are invited to apply to The Canada's Top 10(TM) Competition. Now in its 10th year, Canada's Top 10(TM) Competition promotes the 10 most promising companies from each of the following three sectors: life science, cleantech and technology, from across Canada to Canadian and international investors and partners. Winners are chosen by an independent expert panel of Canadian and U.S. venture capitalists. ____________________ Digital Age
The Canada 3.0 Forum hosted 1200 people, 67 speakers, 30+ demos in a Digital Media Showcase/ Bootcamp, and keynotes with Premier Dalton McGuinty, Minister of Research and Innovation John Wilkinson and Minister of Industry Tony Clement.
STRATFORD – The inaugural Canada 3.0 forum concluded Tuesday June 9, 2009 with the declaration that all Canadians should have the opportunity to participate in a fully digital world and reap the economic benefits of commercializing innovation.
"Canada and the World Bank have finalized an agreement for Canada to provide $200 million to the global trade-liquidity program, to support trade finance in developing countries, the government announced on Tuesday.
The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names & Numbers, ICANN, is up against the wall, and here are the top five reasons for which it may simply drop its greatest revolutionary idea of offering a brand new type of a designer domain name to fit the next generation of widely expanded Internet and cyber realities of tomorrow.
MONTREAL - Geoff Molson and his brothers Andrew and Justin confirmed today that they have made an offer for the acquisition of the Montreal Canadiens Hockey Team, the Gillett Entertainment Group and the Bell Centre.
OTTAWA - The Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of National Revenue and Minister of State (Agriculture and Agri-Food), would like to remind self-employed Canadians to file their income tax and benefit returns by June 15.
Reforms should not benefit only the larger, wealthier developing countries represented on the G20 at the expense of the world’s poorest countries
Cape Town, South Africa – While the London G20 Summit represented a step towards a more inclusive global governance system, further institutional reforms are badly needed to ensure the interests of low-income countries are adequately represented, according to national leaders and other participants gathered at this year’s World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town.
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