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Waterloo - Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) has announced ambitious plans to strengthen its position as a leading research institute. The comprehensive advancement program, ‘Expanding the Perimeter’, will continue to bring together public and private sector partners with a passion for the transformative power of basic research, building on PI’s celebrated and highly successful public-private funding model.
TORONTO, ON - Renowned University of Toronto physicist Richard Peltier has been chosen by the Franklin Institute to receive the 2010 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science. Peltier is the first Canadian to receive the $250,000 award, and joins a group of previous recipients that includes Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Kitchener – Former Kitchener resident and current Guinness World Record holder for memory, Dave Farrow will attempt to set a third Guinness World Record for world’s largest history class. This event will bring awareness to Alzheimer’s Society of Kitchener-Waterloo and will take place at Eastwood Collegiate Institute, Kitchener on October 25, 2009 at 3pm.
LONDON - StormFisher Biogas and Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw) announces an agreement that will see all the organic trimmings produced at Loblaw corporate grocery stores in South Western Ontario diverted to StormFisher's new renewable energy facility in London, Ontario.
The next 10 years will see 50 per cent of Boomer small business(1) owners retiring. Despite these numbers, a new BMO Retirement Institute Report predicts several factors will help prevent this retirement wave from punishing the Canadian economy
TORONTO - A BMO Retirement Institute survey released today reveals that 50 per cent of small business owners over the age of 45 plan to retire over the next 10 years which could represent a significant threat to the survival of their businesses and to the economy. However, findings from the BMO Retirement Institute show these threats could be reduced based on four mitigating factors:
TORONTO - Perry Miele, Chairman of Beringer Capital, a Toronto-based investment and financial advisory firm, is pleased to announce that Michael Sifton and Josef Prosperi have joined Beringer as Managing Partners.
Virtual Color Center, Inspiration Gallery and Online Workbook Construct Truly Immersive Experience for Today's Digital Designers
WATERLOO - Open Text, the global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), announced today that Behr Process Corporation, the largest provider of premium paints and stains to the North American Do-It-Yourself (DIY) home improvement market, has launched its newly enhanced BEHR.com supported by Vignette Content Management from Open Text.
Kingston - Queen’s University, the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico and the Harvard Medical School are teaming up to find ways to prevent obesity among pre-school children.
WATERLOO - The University of Waterloo is inviting members of the public to help celebrate International Year of Astronomy 2009 with a star-gazing party on Wednesday, Oct. 21.
WATERLOO – Wilfrid Laurier University will welcome Dr. Barbara Fiese, a pioneer in the field of family routines and rituals, as this year’s Hunsberger Memorial Lecturer.
MISSISSAUGA - Maxxam Analytics International Corporation, an OMERS Private Equity portfolio company, announced that it has acquired Burnaby, BC-based CANTEST Ltd., including its laboratory locations in Victoria and Winnipeg.
Guelph - University of Guelph art students will gain first-hand experience producing contemporary art projects and events thanks to an innovative collaboration between the University of Guelph's School of Fine Art and Music (SOFAM) and a downtown Toronto art gallery.
London - Is it safe for pregnant women to eat fish out of the Great Lakes? How is our environment affecting our health? Why are Aboriginal Canadians being especially hard hit by environmental toxins?
Kingston - Surprising findings from an international research team – including Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering professor Kurt Kyser – provide the first evidence of a “vegetarian” spider.
Waterloo - Open Text was selected this week as one of Waterloo Area's Top 15 Employers for 2010. This special designation recognizes employers in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Guelph area that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work.
EPALINGES, Switzerland - Mymetics Corporation, a pioneer in the development of mucosal focused vaccines for human infectious diseases, announced that the company had been selected to present their ground breaking results obtained for their preventative HIV-1 vaccine.
MONTREAL - Merck Frosst Canada Ltd. is pleased to announce that (Pr)ISENTRESS(R) (raltegravir) is now indicated for use in treatment-naïve HIV-1 infected adults in combination with other antiretroviral agents.(1)
Kingston - Queen’s University biologists are part of an international research team whose discovery of a rare sediment core in a remote Arctic lake provides compelling evidence of unprecedented environmental changes occurring over the past few decades.
Queen’s Park –MPP Sylvia Jones (Dufferin-Caledon) echoes calls from her Progressive Conservative colleagues for a full public inquiry into the Liberal billion dollar spending scandal at eHealth.
Kitchener - On October 17, the annual Waterloo Area’s Top Employers List was released, with MTE Consultants Inc. (MTE) earning a spot amongst the 15 local organizations honoured this year.
"The World Bank recommends the government of Armenia to diversify the economy and assure competitiveness, World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said at Sunday press-conference in Yerevan. She also said, 'if the government succeeds to get through these challenges, it will be able to assure further development of the country's economy.'
Cambridge - Gore Mutual Insurance Company is pleased to announce they were selected as one of Waterloo Area’s Top 15 Employers for 2010. This special designation honours employers in Waterloo region who offer exceptional places to work.
LONDON – IHS Jane’s warned the spike in mergers and acquisitions (A&M) activity in the defence industrial markets witnessed during the second quarter of the year may have been a false dawn as activity slid back sharply during the three months to 30th September.
Cambridge - Talk about your lunch and learn opportunity! Cambridge Mayor Doug Craig and Director of Facilities Bob Paul hosted a class of architectural students from the University of Waterloo’s Cambridge campus as part of ‘Local Government Week’.
Kitchener/Waterloo - Family & Children’s Services is in need of more foster parents in the community to care for children in crisis. There are over 500 children in care, and only 300 foster homes.
Raises over $35,000 for Nutrition for Learning Community support has never tasted so good!
Cambridge – Tim Hortons Smile Cookie campaign was a sweet success with over $35,000 being raised for the Nutrition for Learning. Over 35,000 of the special chocolate chunk cookies were sold between September 21-27 at Tim Hortons locations across the Cambridge area. A special cheque will be presented to Nutrition for Learning this October 20, 2009 at 12:30 at Tim Hortons located at 350 Hespeler Road, Cambridge, Ontario.
Cambridge - The Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank is busy getting ready for their Annual Christmas Distribution. One thing the Food Bank is in desperate need of is space to collect, sort and distribute the food and toys that are given out each year by the Food Bank.
Dubai welcomes back the World Economic Forum’s Summit on the Global Agenda from 20 to 22 November 2009
Geneva, Switzerland – For the second consecutive year, the World Economic Forum and the Government of Dubai will host the Summit on the Global Agenda from 20 to 22 November 2009.
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