At the 2008 EG conference, famed puzzle designer Scott Kim takes us inside the puzzle-maker's frame of mind. Sampling his career's work, he introduces a few of the most popular types, and shares the fascinations that inspired some of his best.
Guelph - Integrative Biology Prof. Paul Hebert and the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO) are featured today in the Wall Street Journal. The article focuses on how DNA barcoding has been used recently to detect mislabelled fish sold at stores and restaurants in New York and around Ontario.
Desire2Learn is once again an award recipient in the Association of Marketing & Communication Professionals MarCom Awards
Kitchener-Waterloo – Desire2Learn Incorporated has been honored with a Platinum MarCom Award in the Association of Marketing & Communication Professionals (AMCP) 2009 competition. Desire2Learn received the award for its FUSION 2009 Users' Conference material.
Ottawa – CognoVision Solutions Inc., a company founded by Carleton University alumni, was chosen as the nation’s most innovative firm at the 2009 Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX). CIX is billed as Canada’s most important gathering of the key players in the innovation economy.
Kingston - A collaborative research team led by Queen’s University’s School of Nursing has been awarded $1 million to investigate ways to resolve patient safety and risk issues in the Canadian health-care system.
WATERLOO – Wilfrid Laurier University has announced two senior interim appointments involving Laurier Brantford and the Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work.
WATERLOO - High school students in Waterloo Region will participate in Canada's only federal-provincial government conference simulation at the University of Waterloo next Monday (Dec. 7) and Tuesday (Dec. 8).
TORONTO - Sun Life Financial Inc. announced new appointments for several senior executives to leverage its leadership strength more broadly across the Company. "Leveraging our leadership capabilities across our operations is a core part of Sun Life's enterprise strategy," said Donald A. Stewart, Chief Executive Officer.
Right now there are potential customers for your business trying to decide whether or not to choose you. Unfortunately, most of them can't see much difference between you and your competition. You've all got good quality products or services. You all seem to have competent, helpful people. It all pretty much just looks the same. That leaves one factor to drive the decision: price.
WATERLOO – Jacob Bell, a double-degree business graduate from Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, has captured the Ontario gold medal for the highest mark in the province on the 2009 Canadian Chartered Accountants’ Uniform Evaluation (UFE). This is the second year in a row that a Laurier graduate has won this prestigious title.
"The global financial crisis could push 11 million more people into poverty and another 23 million to the brink of poverty in Eastern Europe and central Asia by 2010, according to a new World Bank report, [The Crisis Hits Home].... The revealing study of how families are dealing with the effects of the crisis shows they are being hit by the credit market squeeze, rising prices, and growing unemployment...."
OTTAWA - The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, made the following statement regarding the purchase of Nortel's Enterprise Solutions business by Avaya Inc.:
Students from the Public Relations program of Conestoga College have developed their skills and expressed their community spirit by working with the Alzheimer Society of Kitchener-Waterloo in developing a new initiative to mark the society’s 25th anniversary. The students’ creative ideas and writing have helped the charity launch its first-ever Christmas direct mail fundraising appeal.
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