While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
WATERLOO REGION - Sustainable Waterloo is pleased to announce the launch of the Regional Carbon Initiative and its first three Pledging Partner organizations. Sustainable Waterloo is a not-for-profit that guides organizations in Waterloo Region towards a more environmentally sustainable future. To do so, Sustainable Waterloo facilitates collaboration between industry, local government, academia and NGOs, with a focus on the high-tech sector.
Kitchener – For the first time in over 15 years, the National Youth Orchestra of Canada (NYOC) will perform at the Centre In The Square (CITS). Joining this year’s orchestra are three members of our own Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony’s Youth Orchestra Program (YOP). The performance, conducted by Alain Trudel, takes place on August 6 at 7:30pm.
Waterloo Region – During the 10th annual Waterloo Region Commuter Challenge held May 31 – June 6, 2009, commuters in Waterloo Region found their own solution to cut greenhouse gas emissions, avoid rising gas prices, and get more active by taking transit, biking, walking, and carpooling to work instead of driving alone. Many organizations across Canada worked hard to achieve high participation rates for this nationwide challenge.
TORONTO - Many non-Aboriginal Canadians are bewildered or angered by Aboriginal activism including actions such as blockades because they have been raised with romantic images of Aboriginals as people from the past, says York University professor Susan Dion.
MONTREAL - The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) presented its first Award for Excellence in Innovation in Civil Engineering at the CSCE Annual General Meeting and Conference held May 27-30 in St. John's, Newfoundland. The award, sponsored by Canam Group, was bestowed on the Ontario-based firm Cast ConneX Corporation for the development of high-strength connectors specially designed to improve building safety in seismically active zones.
Mountain Equipment Co-op reaches three million member mark and grows operations
VANCOUVER - As Canadians prepare to celebrate the country's 142nd birthday, Mountain Equipment Co-op(TM) (MEC), Canada's largest co-operative and leading outdoor retailer, is celebrating a milestone of its own - surpassing the three million member mark.
Open Text ECM Suite Now Provides Online Access to 5 Terabytes of Official Documents within Shared Services Center
WATERLOO - Open Text Corporation announced that Austria's Federal Computing Center, the leading IT services organization for the country's federal government, is now offering Enterprise Content Management (ECM) as a shared service using the ECM Suite from Open Text. Open Text's scalability and its breadth of ECM solutions and expertise for SAP applications contributed to the center's decision to implement the Open Text ECM Suite to help manage more than 30 million documents annually.
Province to provide an additional $6.4 million to address funding gap
Kitchener - Kitchener Centre MPP John Milloy and Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Leeanna Pendergast announced today an additional $6.4 million in provincial funding for St. Mary’s General Hospital’s Redevelopment Project.
Survey Finds Most Executives Expect to Maintain Current Staffing Levels
TORONTO - Employers are expected to remain cautious about adding information technology (IT) professionals in the third quarter, according to the Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Repot. Five per cent of chief information officers (CIOs) expect to hire full-time employees in the next three months, while 11 per cent anticipate personnel reductions. The majority of respondents, 80 per cent, plan to maintain current staffing levels.
Guelph - For the second consecutive year, the Guelph Jazz Festival - started by a University of Guelph professor - has been shortlisted for the 2009 Premier's Awards for Excellence in the Arts. The awards, administered by the Ontario Arts Council, will be announced June 23.
Kitchener - Monday night, Compass Kitchener, a citizens' advisory group, presented its second annual year-end report card to council which ranks the progress the city is making on achieving the community priorities identified in the City of Kitchener Strategic Plan.
"Banks in the 16-nation eurozone face $283 billion of further losses this year and next as the recession forces them to write off bad loans, the European Central Bank (ECB) warned Monday [in its Financial Stability Report].
Kingston - Doctors treating people with advanced terminal diseases should openly discuss their patients’ approaching death and help them make preparations with their families, says a Queen’s University expert in end-of-life care.
Ottawa – Two Carleton researchers have received more than half a million dollars to help sustain the salmon fisheries off the coast of British Columbia. Professors Steven Cooke and Bill Willmore, along with collaborators at the University of British Columbia and Memorial University in Newfoundland, have received $587,600 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Strategic Fisheries and Aquaculture Initiative to increase the sustainability of the Pacific salmon fisheries.
Waterloo - Adele Ciccone-Estrela, a PhD candidate in Laurier’s community psychology program, was awarded the 2009 Patrick O’Neill Prize for Student Research at the Canadian Psychological Association’s annual convention in Montreal.
KITCHENER - History was made Monday nightt when Kitchener Council voted in favour of entering into an agreement of purchase and sale with Andrin Investments Limited for the redevelopment of the Centre Block property in downtown Kitchener -- a fair deal that balances the interests of the city and the developer.
OTTAWA – The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, announced that the Government of Canada is supporting research to find alternatives to nuclear-produced Technetium-99m, the principal medical isotope affected by the current shutdown at the Chalk River nuclear reactor.
Seasoned Executive to Oversee Branding, Promotional Strategies in Newly-Created Post
TORONTO - Golf Town -- Canada's largest golf retailer with unequaled selection and competitive prices at 47 locations coast to coast -- has appointed Ryan Brown as Vice President, Marketing, to oversee branding and strategic business development.
Someone’s next drive home could be much more exciting
St. Jacobs – Home Hardware is offering their customers the chance to win 1 of 3 Canadian-made 2009 Toyota RAV4’s in their recently launched ‘Drive Home a Toyota Sweepstakes’.
Waterloo - The City of Waterloo has applied for government funding to help cover the costs of making significant improvements to Lexington Road, from Weber Street to University Avenue.
Sooner, or later, everyone loses loved ones - that's life. Although the circumstances can be vastly different, it's expected to be in the natural course of events; a chronological progression from oldest family members on down. Even when the passing of a loved one is on the horizon - whether naturally from old age, or a critical illness - there's disbelief when the event finally takes place. An unexpected death makes matters even worse.
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