David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square's worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the ocean.
Waterloo - Building on last year’s Envisioning Laurier initiative, the university has begun work on developing a Campus Master Plan. Over the course of 2009, staff at Laurier will be working with IBI Group, a local planning company, to create a document that will guide the physical development of the Waterloo and Brantford campuses in the coming decades.
NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc is in talks that could see the U.S. government take a bigger stake, a source said, sparking a recovery in the battered share price of what was once the country's most valuable bank.
TORONTO - Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and the Lac Seul First Nation (LSFN) announced that the 12.5 MW Lac Seul/Obishikokaang Waasiganikewigamig station located near Ear Falls, Ontario is in commercial operations. The project will operate as a partnership between LSFN and OPG.
Guelph - Get rid of Bisphenol A (BPA) in anything consumed by babies. That's the recommendation of a University of Guelph toxicologist and a graduate whose new study found that the chemical lingers in the bodies of newborns and infants.
TORONTO - Researchers at York University and the University of Toronto have uncovered genetic evidence that plants are capable of evolving at a rapid pace when nature’s reproductive clock is ticking.
Conestoga is one of Ontario's largest providers of apprenticeship education and has a reputation for quality in developing apprenticeship curriculum.
Kitchener - On February 13, Ontario Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities John Milloy visited the Waterloo campus of Conestoga and before an audience of apprenticeship students and faculty, College officials, and local community and industry leaders, announced funding for three initiatives to advance apprenticeship learning at Conestoga and benefit the regional economy.
Kitchener - Donald Klaehn of Kitchener, a student in Conestoga’s two-year Paramedic diploma program, has been named winner of the 2009 Joan Homer Student Leadership Award. Homer was formerly Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology of Ontario(now known as Colleges Ontario).
London - A month long speaker series sponsored by Western, The Humanist Association of London and Area, and the London Public Library will honour Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, as well as the 150th anniversary of his principal work, “The Origin of Species.”
Statscan - Canada lost nearly 322,000 manufacturing jobs from 2004 to 2008, with more than one in seven manufacturing jobs disappearing over the period.
Slightly less than the 1.2% increase observed in December.
Statscan - Compared with the same month last year, downward pressure in January came mainly from lower gasoline prices, but also from a sharp decline in the cost for purchasing and leasing passenger vehicles. Upward pressure on the all-items index came mostly from higher food and shelter prices.
Waterloo, ON – Cinematheque Waterloo is pleased to offer movie-going audiences a chance to see Hiroshi Teshigahara's film Antonio Gaudí in 35mm film gauge at the Original Princess Cinema for two days only – February 22 at 2:00 pm and February 23 at 7:00pm. Director of the University of Waterloo's School of Architecture, Rick Haldenby, will introduce the film on February 23.
OTTAWA - On February 20, 2009, the Honourable Tony Clement, Canada's Minister of Industry, and the Honourable Michael Bryant, Ontario Minister of Economic Development, confirmed they have received restructuring plans, as requested in December 2008, from Chrysler Canada Inc. and General Motors of Canada Limited.
"The world is suffering from a global job crisis, and Asia-Pacific economies, which are highly dependent on exports, will find themselves in deep trouble this year with a high unemployment rate, labor officials said at a meeting being held in Manila.
"The World Bank said on Friday that six of the EU's ten newest member states could see growth of zero to plus 2 percent this year, even though they have been hit especially hard by the global crisis.... The Bank said growth was possible in the Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, but it warned that the outlook may deteriorate.
Cambridge - Rimowa, the renowned German luxury luggage-maker, will showcase its new North American made products in the 2009 Travel Goods Show, taking place in Las Vegas on March 3-5.
LOS ANGELES - Dancing Star Foundation, which has been committed to vital environmental, cultural and animal-protection issues around the world for 16 years, today issued the following public statement regarding the false and heinous allegations that have been circulating primarily in the blogosphere:
Guelph - Jazlyn J and Company of Guelph, Ontario is pleased to announce the release of "Jazlyn J and the Opposites" , written by Renne Bruce and illustrated by Robin Oakes.
GUELPH - The Board of Directors of Co-operators General Insurance Company ("Co-operators General") announced a quarterly dividend of $0.3125 per Non-Cumulative Redeemable Class E Preference Shares, Series C, payable March 31, 2009 to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 5, 2009.
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