Bill Stone, a maverick cave explorer who has plumbed Earth’s deepest abysses, discusses his efforts to mine lunar ice for space fuel and to build an autonomous robot for studying Jupiter’s moon Europa.
Kitchener - Terry Reidel, Executive Director of The Frank Cowan Foundation and Greg Barratt, Executive Vice-President Business Development, Cowan Insurance Group recently visited Conestoga to give President John Tibbits the second installment of a $200,000 pledge from the Foundation for Conestoga’s Career Centre.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. sales of existing homes likely rose to their highest level in 10 months in July, according to a Reuters poll, as buyers rushed to take advantage of a tax credit for first-time homeowners.
New application advances strategy to give travellers convenient mobile options
MONTREAL - Air Canada today became the first North American airline to release an Apple(R) iPhone(TM)/iPod touch(R) application. The free App will make it convenient for travellers with Apple devices to retrieve electronic boarding passes, track flight information in real-time, receive notification of itinerary changes and obtain other details about Air Canada flights.
TORONTO - The Ontario government will invest $5.2 million in three York University programs designed to help highly skilled newcomers to Ontario become licensed and find jobs in their field more quickly.
QUEBEC CITY - CAW delegates gathered from across the country in Quebec City have re-elected this afternoon Ken Lewenza as CAW National President, Jean-Pierre Fortin as Quebec Director and elected Peter Kennedy as National Secretary-Treasurer.
GUELPH - BIOREM Inc. announced that it has retained The Equicom Group Inc. ("Equicom") to provide Biorem with strategic investor relations and financial communications services.
TORONTO - Thinking about "friending" your boss on Facebook? You may want to reconsider. According to a recent survey, approximately seven in ten executives are uncomfortable being friended by the employees they manage (72 per cent) or their bosses (69 per cent).
People have various reactions to stress and tough times. This was dramatically demonstrated recently on a plane from Dallas to Atlanta. As it started heading out the pilot shut down the plane announcing that there was bad weather in Atlanta and the plane was going to be grounded for some time.
OTTAWA - The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, announced an $8.7-million repayable investment in support of a next-generation mobile satellite communications research and development (R&D) project undertaken by EMS Technologies Canada Ltd. (EMS SATCOM).
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