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Friday July 1, 2011 preview
Happy Canada Day Enjoy the Long Weekend
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Ted Talks
Dave deBronkart: Meet e-Patient Dave
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When Dave deBronkart learned he had a rare and terminal cancer, he turned to a group of fellow patients online -- and found a medical treatment that even his own doctors didn't know. It saved his life. |
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Education
College of Charleston Converts to Desire2Learn Learning Management System
South Carolina post-secondary institution selects Desire2Learn Learning Suite for ease- of-use and intuitive features
Kitchener-Waterloo, Baltimore, MD and Charleston, SC - Desire2Learn Incorporated , leading providers of enterprise teaching and learning platforms, announced that the College of Charleston has converted to Desire2Learn Learning Suite.
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Appointment
New Executive Director to Head up Kitchener-Waterloo Humane Society
Kitchener – The Board of Directors of the Kitchener-Waterloo Humane Society announced the appointment of Jack Kinch to the position of Executive Director of the KWHS, effective July 4, 2011.
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PSA
Love the chrome at Cruisin’ on King July 8
KITCHENER – Twenty-one years on, Cruising on King is still the greatest car show around! On Friday, July 8, the City of Kitchener will be holding its annual Cruising on King Street parade, one of Canada's largest classic and antique car parades.
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Literature
Local Award Winning Scientist, Author, and key Advisor to rare
Doug Larson, launches latest book the Storyteller Guitar at rare
Cambridge/North Dumfries - Doug Larson, award-winning scientist, lecturer, instrument maker, musician and author, launches his latest book, the Storyteller Guitar, continuing a journey to tell local stories, shared by an international community, including details of some of the rare Charitable Research Reserve’s own history.
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Arts & Culture
Laughter is the Main Course At the Drayton Festival Theatre
DRAYTON – A tremendous season of live theatre continues at the Drayton Festival Theatre with its third production set to open next month. Theatregoers will be left in stitches by the delicious comedy How the Other Half Loves, playing at the historic Opera House for three weeks beginning July 27th and continuing through August 13th.
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Career Development
LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN MEDQUEST 2011
Ingersoll – MedQuest is back in Oxford County again this year. From July 4 to 8, high school students from Ingersoll and Tillsonburg will participate in a summer camp focusing on medical professions and procedures.
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Appointment
BMW Group Canada announces new President and CEO.
Argentinean Eduardo Villaverde to arrive September 1, 2011.
RICHMOND HILL - BMW Group Canada announced the appointment of Eduardo Villaverde to the position of president and CEO, effective September 1, 2011. Villaverde replaces Manfred Braunl who has left the BMW Group.
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