In the spectacular large-scale projects he's famous for (such as "Waterfalls" in New York harbor), Olafur Eliasson creates art from a palette of space, distance, color and light. This idea-packed talk begins with an experiment in the nature of perception.
Kitchener - The School of Pharmacy at the University of Waterloo has been granted Provisional Accreditation status by the Canadian Council for Accreditation of Pharmacy Programs.
Cambridge - On the average jobsite, only 50% of the time is spent actually working. Another 15% of a worker's time is spent looking for materials. Which of course means they are moving around, which accounts for just about another 8% of their time. These are just some of the figures to come out of study conducted at the University of Calgary.
WATERLOO - The University of Waterloo will have a more dynamic website with up-to-date information for the public and campus visitors as a result of web content management software donated by Open Text, a global leader in enterprise content management and Canada's largest software company.
St. Thomas, Ontario – Goodwill Industries, Ontario Great Lakes is growing, creating jobs, serving hundreds facing layoff and helping to sustain the environment by recycling millions of pounds of donated goods.
Guelph - Members of the University of Guelph's Rural Women Making Change (RWMC) research group are taking their success story to the United Nations. They'll speak at the 6th annual UN Youth Assembly, which runs Aug. 5 to 7 in New York City, discussing a program that helped change the lives of young women in a rural Ontario town and how it could do the same for women around the world.
TORONTO - The Board of Directors of the OMERS Administration Corporation has unanimously approved the appointment of Michael Latimer as OMERS Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer (CIO), effective January 1, 2010.
London - Betelgeuse is the second brightest star in the constellation of Orion, a red supergiant, one of the biggest stars known, and almost 1,000 times larger than our Sun.
TORONTO - CCH, Canada's premier provider of tax and accounting, compliance and research tools, announced that its tax and accounting software division has been awarded a renewal of the coveted Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Maturity Level 2 designation by the David Consulting Group (DCG) of Paoli, Pennsylvania.
HAMILTON - McMaster University workers will be rallying today to protect the pension plan of current and future workers, protesting against the university's attempts to bring in sweeping changes to the plan.
Lancet - An Article published in an upcoming edition of The Lancet shows that pregnant women could be at increased risk for complications from H1N1 flu.
Passion within the workplace -- does the topic get your attention? It should, but not because this article addresses romantic relationships at the office. We're talking about company leaders creating passion -- as in a boundless, extremely fervent fondness and commitment -- for the job and company.
TORONTO - Sun Life Financial Inc. announced yesterday that it has entered into an agreement with the China Everbright Group to reposition Sun Life Everbright Life Insurance Company Limited to capture a larger share of China's growing financial services sector.
GUELPH - Trans-Lucent Markets ULC, North America's leading Transportation Expense Management Solutions (TEMS) provider, continues their streak of innovation with the launch of the newest version of the AccuFreight Transportation Expense Management Solution (TEMS 3).
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