Biologist Juliana Machado Ferreira, a TED Senior Fellow, talks about her work helping to save birds and other animals stolen from the wild in Brazil. Once these animals are seized from smugglers, she asks, then what?
VANCOUVER, B.C.– The GLOBE 2010 Welcome Reception had an air of celebration as the GLOBE Foundation announced the winners of the 2010 GLOBE Awards for Environmental Excellence. The awards, now in their 8th edition, are presented to Canadian companies that excel in sustainable business practices, develop progressive technologies and offer outstanding services.
New research from the University of Sheffield (UK) shows that increasing alcohol prices, for example by establishing a minimum unit price or banning all supermarket and off-licence discounts, could reduce consumption, deaths, and health care costs in all population subgroups.
World Bank - “Conserving fresh water is becoming increasingly important around the globe, a new report from the World Bank's Internal Evaluation Group (IEG) says, so the World Bank should encourage countries to charge for water.
Guelph - Prof. John Walsh has been appointed to a second five-year term as vice-provost for the University of Guelph-Humber. The announcement was made March 22, 2010 by Maureen Mancuso, the University of Guelph's provost and vice-president (academic), and Michael Hatton, vice-president (academic) at the Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.
TORONTO - Want to pull off an April Fools’ joke that will go down in company history? Not so fast. Nearly 6 out of ten (58 per cent) of advertising and marketing executives interviewed by The Creative Group consider April Fools’ pranks unsuitable for the office.
Open Text Everywhere Unleashes Business Content, Processes and Applications to Follow Mobile Users on the Go
WATERLOO - Open Text Corporation, the preeminent provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, said today it's extending the reach of its ECM solutions to mobile devices in a bold new strategy designed to help organizations harness the power of today's mobile workforce to increase productivity.
Toronto - The University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) has received notification from the Scarborough Campus Students' Union (SCSU) of the results of its referendum on a financial levy to support a new athletics and recreation complex.
WATERLOO - Three top student teams will participate in the inaugural VeloCity Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (VEB), the first residence-based program of its kind in North America, to be held this summer at the University of Waterloo.
York researchers awarded two of SSHRC’s largest grants to study long-term residential healthcare and global suburbanism
TORONTO - Two teams led by York University researchers have received $5 million in research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
OTTAWA - Professor Lori Beaman, of the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, has been awarded $2.5 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) as part of the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI) program.
WATERLOO – Laurier’s Interdisciplinary Arts Conference on March 27 will feature Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, war correspondent and best-selling author. Through his keynote address, Hedges will take the audience from Jerry Springer and wrestling to corporate boardrooms and the White House.
Bayfield – The Little Inn has been awarded the CAA Four Diamond Award for Lodging and Dining. This will be the 15th consecutive year for Lodging and the 12th consecutive year for Dining. This award recognizes the Little Inn of Bayfield’s continues commitment to providing superior dining and accommodations.
Public Info Session held in Portland, Maine on Friday, March 26
Boston, Mass. – The federal deadline to make lead safety the standard of care for renovations and painting projects in pre-1978 housing is April 22, 2010.
Geneva, Switzerland, 24 March 2010 – President Kikwete of Tanzania will welcome over 700 leaders from around the world to the 20th World Economic Forum on Africa.
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