At TEDxUSC, David Logan talks about the five kinds of tribes that humans naturally form -- in schools, workplaces, even the driver's license bureau. By understanding our shared tribal tendencies, we can help lead each other to become better individuals.
Kitchener – At a special event held at its head office on Queen Street South in Kitchener yesterday, Cathy Brothers, Executive Director of Catholic Family Counselling Centre announced to those in attendance that the organization has changed its name to Mosaic Counselling and Family Services. ____________________ Education Innovation
Conestoga College students receiving real-life work experience, businesses reaping benefits of cost-effective innovations that help increase productivity, profitability
Kitchener – More than 2,000 Ontario college students – including many from Conestoga College – successfully put their research and innovation skills into practice with about 400 small and medium-sized businesses across the province, thanks to a first-of-its-kind program connecting the two groups.
TORONTO - Travelocity released the results of its 2009 Travel Rudeness Poll, highlighting poor hygiene, seat kicking and rowdy students as among Canadians' top travel peeves. Still, the North America-wide poll reveals that Canadians are predictably polite when it comes to dealing with certain vacation irritations.
Kitchener - College enrolments are booming as more and more Ontarians realize two things: a college education is a stepping stone to productive, rewarding career skills, and colleges provide great value for the consumer’s education dollar.
Queens Park - Citizen groups fighting to protect natural areas need some protection against intimidating legal tactics, warned the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario in his new Annual Report, released yesterday at Queen's Park.
Toronto - A staggering 275,000 Canadians attended The Word On The Street book and magazine festivals in Vancouver, Toronto, Kitchener and Halifax on Sunday, September 27, 2009. For the first time, the festivals were connected by LongPen technology to hold Canada's first live coast to coast book launch of Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood.
Statscan - In 2007, although the majority (57%) of manufacturing plants in Canada using advanced technologies indicated they had bought them from other companies, 4 out of every 10 (42%) developed these technologies themselves or modified existing ones rather than buying them off the shelf.
WATERLOO REGION – What are the people in Waterloo Region most concerned about? Where do we need to improve and what are we doing well? Where should we, as a community, devote time and energy if we want to ensure that our community is a healthy, vital place to live, work, play, and grow?
Toronto - The Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto was named as one of the world's 30 best schools for educating the design thinkers and innovators of the future by BusinessWeek in a feature posted to the magazine's website on September 30.
Waterloo - Two scientists who invented the first semiconductor image sensor have been awarded part of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics. Canadian-born Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith were honored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for inventing the CCD (charge-coupled device) in 1969 at Bell Labs in New Jersey.
WATERLOO - Canadians are growing more positive about a wide range of investments amid the current economic news, according to a national poll for Manulife Financial, Canada's leading insurance and wealth management company.
TORONTO - Researchers at the University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have discovered a previously unidentified form of circulation within the human eye which may provide important new insights into glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness.
Green Sheet - In the fall of 2008, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Worldwide revealed plans to introduce their branded PIN-debit cards into Canada. MasterCard launched several pilot programs for its Maestro Debit Card in early 2009. As a condition to entering the market, the company agreed to set transaction fees to mirror those of Interac, Canada's not-for-profit debit network collectively owned by Canadian banks.
Toronto – From three-dimensional printers that turn ideas into hand-sized plastic models and laser systems that cut more parts in less time using less energy, to new developments in smart robotics, exhibitors at the upcoming Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show 2009 (CMTS 2009)
Waterloo Region - Canada’s Technology Triangle Inc (CTT) and its partners are offering an exceptional Business and Investment Attraction Mission to Germany from November 22 to 27, 2009 on the theme of Green Energy/Clean Tech. A key area of the mission will focus on Wind Technologies.
TORONTO - A growing number of Canadians are finding work in jobs that are considered precarious and that provide less than a decent standard of living as employers continue to eliminate or outsource hundreds of thousands of full-time jobs, said CAW President Ken Lewenza.
Objective of LivelyUp Sustainable Buildings Training Centre is to create a new generation of energy-efficient homes and builders in Ontario
ALMONTE - Determined to help create a new generation of energy-efficient homes by training a new generation of builders to use the most advanced materials and green construction techniques, Homesol Building Solutions has successfully partnered with building materials company Owens Corning to create a green building training centre in the heart of the Ottawa Valley.
"World Bank President Robert Zoellick Tuesday hailed the emergence of the G20 as the world's premier economic policy forum, but insisted that his organization represented a 'G186' that should have strong ties with the G20.
"The G30, a group of prominent bankers, policymakers and economists, called on Monday for sweeping reforms to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), warning that the impetus for change would wane as pain from the financial crisis fades.
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