At TEDxNYED, former "young Republican" Larry Lessig talks about what Democrats can learn about copyright from their opposite party, considered more conservative. A surprising lens on remix culture.
WATERLOO - The results of the latest national Youth Smoking Survey (YSS) indicate that youth are not seeing cigarillos as harmful as cigarettes, supporting the need for impending Bill C-32.
OTTAWA - The Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council is pleased to announce the release of the report Who's Working For You: A Demographic Profile of Tourism Sector Employees. The report uses customized census, labour force survey, and business register data to provide employment statistics for each of the industry groups included in the tourism sector:
Guelph - Local business, being the driving force behind a strong community, adds to the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of Guelph. The majority of what business contributes to the community is not well known which is why the Guelph Chamber of Commerce would like to recognize these contributions in a series of columns titled “Appreciating Business”. Our first column will profile the University of Guelph.
Statscan - Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 1.5% in the first quarter of 2010, after growing 1.2% in the fourth quarter of 2009. Final domestic demand advanced 1.1% as spending on housing as well as consumer goods and services continued to grow. Real GDP increased 0.6% in March, a seventh consecutive monthly advance.
OSHAWA - After ten days of tense competition against 15 other North American universities, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) has vaulted to the top group of teams in the EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge automotive engineering design competition.
TORONTO - Steelmaking is an increasingly knowledge-intensive industry, requiring a highly skilled workforce and creating the foundation for a productive modern economy, according to a comprehensive study co-sponsored by the United Steelworkers, the Canadian Steel Producers Association and the Canadian Steel Trade and Employment Congress.
Kitchener - Thanks to the generosity of The Cowan Foundation, in the form of a $100,000 grant, Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning has been able to create a Chair in Workforce Development.
Hamilton - University Senate has approved the merger of the School of Medicine’s five Basic Sciences departments into a new Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences.
Toronto - Grant Thornton Productivity Improvement announced the release of their latest white paper entitled “Managing cultural change to drive productivity and profit.” The key conclusion of the paper is that productivity cultures, the most important ingredient in creating lasting productivity gains, are the product of deliberate and meaningful changes to employee behaviour.
The increased risk of breast cancer associated with a range of common genes is not affected by lifestyle factors including use of hormone replacement therapy, age at birth of first child, obesity, and alcohol consumption.
OTTAWA - Canadians will benefit from new research that will examine the social, economic and environmental advantages that co-operatives provide to communities across the country in goods and services such as housing, child care, health care and financial services. The announcement was made by the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), while speaking to the Canadian Co-operative Association in Ottawa.
Pension Risk TrackerTM Indicates Extreme Volatility in Plan Deficits since Beginning of May
TORONTO —The significant volatility in the equity and bond markets since the beginning of May has had a detrimental impact on the accounting positions of Canadian defined benefit positions, according to Hewitt Associates, a global human resources consulting and outsourcing company.
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