Loretta Napoleoni details her rare opportunity to talk to the secretive Italian Red Brigades -- an experience that sparked a lifelong interest in terrorism. She gives a behind-the-scenes look at its complex economics, revealing a surprising connection between money laundering and the US Patriot Act.
Increase the heat and reduce the smoke from your woodstove
Huntsville - Everyone wants to save some money on their heating bills, while maintaining a "green" lifestyle. But we can't all afford the more expensive, occasionally less convenient, options of geothermal, solar, or wind power.
New Five-Storey Building Doubles Size of Open Text Headquarters
Waterloo – Open Text™ Corporation, Canada’s largest software company and a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), today unveiled plans to expand its Waterloo facility to two buildings, doubling the company’s footprint at its headquarters location. Construction of the second building is expected to get under way in July, 2010 and project completion is slated for the summer of 2011.
Kitchener - December 14th, 2009-Flanagan Foodservice Inc. was awarded a multiyear contract by Wendy’s Restaurant of Canada to distribute the full line of foodservice supplies to all Wendy’s locations in Ontario and Quebec.
TORONTO - York University has been awarded a grant to establish a European Union Centre of Excellence (EUCE). Recognized for the excellence, breadth and depth of its EU studies and scholarly activities, York will receive funding of $480,000 over three years to integrate the University’s existing research, teaching, outreach, and networking activities on Europe and the European Union (EU) and introduce and facilitate new activities on the EU and EU-Canada relations.
International leaders from business, science, arts join call to PM Harper
COPENHAGEN - President Mikhail Gorbachev and The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell have joined prominent business leaders, scientists and artists calling on Prime Minister Harper to "dispel perceptions of defeatism" and to "rally the Canadian people" toward a clean energy economy in a joint letter delivered today.
Organizations are counting on value beyond short-term synergies
TORONTO - A track record of effectively managing people-related issues during an acquisition are far more likely to have a very successful deal. This is the conclusion of a recent study by the Canadian Financial Executives Research Foundation (CFERF, the research institute of FEI Canada, the professional membership association for senior financial leaders), and sponsored by Towers Perrin.
Statscan - Canadian industries operated at 67.5% of their production capacity in the third quarter, down marginally from 67.7% in the second quarter. Widespread declines in capacity use among non-manufacturing industries more than offset increases among manufacturing industries.
TORONTO - Blue Green Canada will be attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen calling on the Harper Government to support a strong international agreement to address climate change that will result in good green jobs for Canadians.
Buyers remain nervous about the economy but few believe house prices will drop again, according to Royal LePage Advisor Survey
TORONTO - As the Canadian real estate market continues to rebound from a steep decline a year ago brought on by the recession, home buyers remain nervous about the stability of the economy, according to a survey of 1,225 Royal LePage agents and brokers across Canada. However, few buyers think home prices will decline again.
Cambridge - Kelly Sue Labus, Executive Director of Nutrition for Learning and Bill Davidson, Executive Director of Langs Farm Village Association join together in celebrating 15 years of Breakfast Club programming to community youth.
London - Kevin Goldthorp, Chief Executive Officer of Toronto’s Sunnybrook Foundation, is being welcomed back to The University of Western Ontario, this time in the role as Vice-President, External. His new position includes responsibility for achieving success with Western’s $500-million fundraising campaign that launched in October.
Study finds moderate levels of government venture capital support can lead to positive enterprise performance while excessive levels could be detrimental
New York, USA – Industries with private equity activity grow more rapidly (as measured by total production, value added and employment) and experience no more volatility in the face of industry cycles than other industries. In some cases, industries with private equity activity are less volatile, particularly in terms of employment.
Hamilton — If you are spending the holidays with big Uncle Frank or bossy Aunt Minnie and wondering whether you would be better off with another family, spare a thought for the humble cichlid fish.
Guelph - A University of Guelph integrative biology professor has received an international research grant to investigate biocultural diversity within aboriginal cultures in India.
To avoid 2010 fees and charges, building permits must be issued before city hall closes on Dec. 31 at 12 noon. If the permit is not issued, 2010 rates will apply.
Wateroo Region - Non-Residential Development Charges ($ Per Square Foot of GFA*)
TORONTO - The Investment Industry Association of Canada (IIAC) announced today that the Association has entered into deliberations with the Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation (CDCC) to develop a central counterparty (CCP) and netting utility for Canada's fixed income market.
Toronto — Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney announced today proposed regulations to better protect the rights of live-in caregivers and to make it easier for them and their families to obtain permanent residence in Canada.
OTTAWA - The Government of Canada is facing a landmark legal challenge in the country's top court for failing to take action on global warming -- specifically for refusing to respect a federal law that requires reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
New York - The pharmaceutical industry’s latest attempt to sabotage the work of the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property—commonly referred to as IGWG—reached a new low last week when the non-governmental organisation, Intellectual Property Watch, noticed two privileged IGWG draft documents and an analysis of the drafts by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) on Wikileaks, a website that anonymously publishes sensitive infor-mation.
Waterloo - emPOWERed by Gowlings, a local women’s networking group founded by the Waterloo Region office of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, has volunteered to assist House of Friendship deliver Christmas Hampers this Holiday season.
WASHINGTON - Great Lakes Inter-agency Task Force Chair and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson today announced $13 million in federal funding to prevent Asian carp from migrating further toward the Great Lakes.
WATERLOO - More than 1,000 Ontario high school students will learn about health and movement at the University of Waterloo's Kinesiology Lab Days taking place until Wednesday, Dec.16.
Academy Award-Winning Director and Twentieth Century Fox Enlist IMAX(R) 3D to Complete Format Menu for Moviegoers
LOS ANGELES - IMAX Corporation and Twentieth Century Fox announced that James Cameron's Avatar will open in 178 IMAX(R) theatres domestically on December 18, 2009, simultaneously with the motion picture's premiere in conventional theatres.
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