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Thursday December 10, 2009

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Ted Talks

Marc Pachter: The art of the interview



Marc Pachter has conducted live interviews with some of the most intriguing characters in recent American history as part of a remarkable series created for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. He reveals the secret to a great interview and shares extraordinary stories of talking with Steve Martin, Clare Booth Luce and more.


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Education

Nottingham Trent University and Desire2Learn Win JISC Grant to Enhance Learning Repository and VLE Experience

JISC funded SHARE project provides significant step forward in extending a learning object repository (LOR) to support teaching and learning

Kitchener-Waterloo, ON, and Nottingham, U.K. – Desire2Learn Incorporated (Desire2Learn), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise eLearning solutions, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Nottingham Trent University, one of the company's largest clients in the U.K.

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Boards

Top 10 Issues Facing Corporate Boards: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) Looks Ahead To 2010

TORONTO - What topics will be top of mind for C-level executives and corporate boards in 2010? BLG, Canada's largest law firm, anticipates the top 10 issues for corporate governance in 2010:

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Health Innovation

McMaster University launches first online training on bleeding disorders in Canada

New continuing education program launched through machealth.ca website

HAMILTON - McMaster University, in partnership with the Canadian Hemophilia Society and Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, has launched Canada's first online, interactive educational program on bleeding disorders.

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Environment

Registration is now open for Sustainable Waterloo's

Educational Forum: The Implications of Copenhagen

Waterloo - As the goals and potential outcomes of the much anticipated 15th UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen continue to shift daily, the only certainty seems that the impacts on future GHG reductions will be complex.

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HST

Liberal MPP Sandals Votes In Favour of the Harmonized Sales Tax

Queen’s Park – Liberal MPP Liz Sandals (Guelph) yesterday voted for the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) as the McGuinty Liberals used their majority to raise taxes for Ontario families.

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Winter Fun

Get outside, get active and save this season!

Pick up a grade 4 or 5 SnowPass for your child and give them hundreds of reasons to stay active this winter.

Kitchener - Winter is just around the corner and rather than staying inside this winter the Canadian Ski Council encourages you to get out and have fun hitting the slopes! Skiing and snowboarding are some of Canada’s most popular winter sports and one of the best ways to stay active this winter.

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Growth

Avison Young secures prominent market leaders for Mississauga operation

Leading Canadian commercial real estate firm adds five new brokers and marketing support, continuing its plan to add top talent and marketshare in Mississauga region

TORONTO - Avison Young, Canada's largest independently-owned commercial real estate services company, announced today that it has hired Jeff Flemington, Trevor Ellis, Kurt Love, Ben Sykes, David Binns and Stephanie Stevens to join its Mississauga brokerage operation. All six professionals were formerly with DTZ Barnicke in Mississauga.

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Survey

THE BELLE OF THE BALL … OR LAMPSHADE LARRY?

Office Holiday Party Behaviour Affects Career Advancement

TORONTO - Santa isn’t the only one making a list of naughty and nice this holiday season. A new survey by The Creative Group suggests managers also pay attention to how employees behave at their company holiday events.

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Food Drive

Stuff A Bus Kick Off

Cambridge - Please join us Friday, December 11th at 12 noon as we Kick Off the start of the Stuff a Bus Campaign. Marie Bottrell (Juno Nominee Recording Artist), will join us to perform a couple of songs of the Season, as well as friends of the Food Bank, local Politicians and Food Bank Board Members at noon.

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Health innovation

NEW DNA TEST FOR VARIOUS PATHOGENIC BACTERIA IS MUCH FASTER THAN CURRENT GOLD-STANDARD SYSTEM

Identification of sepsis-causing bacteria using a new microarray platform* is highly accurate and delivers results an average of 18 hours faster than the current gold-standard system, which uses techniques based on detecting inhibition of growth of bacteria through antibiotics.

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Appointment

Sirius Genomics Announces Change in Leadership

VANCOUVER - Sirius Genomics, a developer of pharmacogenomic diagnostics, announced yesterday that Chris Wagner has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, replacing Dr. Brad Popovich.

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New Years Eve

Gore Mutual offers over 70,000 free taxi rides this New Year's Eve

Cambridge - Gore Mutual Insurance Company is once again offering their Ontario automobile clients a free taxi ride on New Year's Eve. "We are very proud of our New Year's Eve taxi offer," says Kevin McNeil, President and CEO, Gore Mutual. "As a safety conscious company, we have been offering this program for many years because keeping families safe is important to us."

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Acquisition

The envision Group Completes Third Acquisition for 2009

OTTAWA - The envision Group is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed the acquisition of Ottawa based Arnone Paving and Concrete Ltd. (Arnone).

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Labour

Federal Government Must Release Details of Xstrata Agreement, CAW Insists

TORONTO - The CAW is demanding that the federal government release the details of the agreement it made with Xstrata when it took over Falconbridge in 2006, to see if that deal is violated by Xstrata's plans to close its copper and zinc operations at Kidd Creek, near Timmins, Ontario.

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Energy

SunEdison and SkyPower Receive Canadian Solar Award

Canadian Solar Industries Association Honors First Light Solar Energy Park in Stone Mills, Ontario

Toronto - SunEdison along with project partner, SkyPower, have been awarded the "Solar PV Project of the Year for Ground Mount" by CanSIA, the leading solar association in Canada.



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