Monday July 11, 2011

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Ted Talks

Nina Tandon: Caring for engineered tissue

Tissue engineer and TED Fellow Nina Tandon is growing artificial hearts and bones. To do that, she needs new ways of caring for artificially grown cells -- techniques she's developed by the simple but powerful method of copying their natural environments.

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Communications

Federal funding helps University strengthen ties with Africa

Waterloo - Wilfrid Laurier University is building stronger ties with Africa thanks to $264,000 in federal funding. The funding will support international internships and video conferencing technology that will give Laurier students an international perspective without getting on a plane.

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CAW

CAW to picket Kitchener long term care home

KITCHENER Staff at Front Line Healthcare will hold an information picket Monday July 11, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m., outside the Victoria Place Retirement Home located at 290 Queen Street North. The workers have set up the picket in protest of the impending layoff of full-time and part-time guest attendants.

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Solar Energy

Ready for the summer sun: rooftop solar panels generating electricity for Ontario

GUELPH – Just in time to take advantage of the summer sun, the solar panels installed on the roof of Guelph Hydro’s facility at 395 Southgate Drive are up and running, generating power for Ontarians under the Ontario Power Authority’s Feed-In Tariff program.

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Economic Development

Business Retention A Priority in Cambridge

Manufacturing Sector Weighs in on Cambridge Climate for Business

Cambridge - Cambridge City Council will receive a report on Monday July 11th which provides a snapshot of the local manufacturing sector which is based on a recent survey. The survey stems from one goal of the City’s Economic Development Strategy ‘Designing the Future’ which identified reaching out to manufacturers to better understand factors affecting business performance.

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Award

Safety Excellence Award

Guelph - ZeroQuest is designed to assist companies in building a sustainable health and safety program using a four- level process—Commitment, Effort, Outcomes and Sustainability. In order to be awarded the ZeroQuest Outcomes award, Guelph Hydro was required to assess efforts to maintain and sustain its health and safety systems, while checking and identifying areas for improvement and correcting any deficiencies.

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Employment

Canada's Job Market Stuck in Neutral, Auto Union President Says.

TORONTO - "Canada's job market is still stuck in neutral. It is high time the federal government acknowledge and address this fact," said CAW President Ken Lewenza in response to the present Labour Force Survey release. Lewenza challenged the rosy labour market picture portrayed by Statistics Canada noting that the good news story of 28,400 new net jobs in the month of June is overshadowed by the fact that growth was found mostly in part-time work.

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Communications

Shuttle Atlantis launched with yeast developed by Canadian researchers

TORONTO – When NASA’s final space shuttle mission launched it carried four astronauts and some unusual passengers – yeast cell growth experiments developed by Canadian researchers at the University of Toronto’s Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research.

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Environment

“Green” Facility Receives LEED Certification

GUELPH - Guelph Hydro is pleased to announce that Phase II of its office on Southgate Drive in Guelph has officially received LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the Canada Green Building Council.

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Virtual Fair

Worlds First Virtual Tourism Fair

Canada and the USA host Spain´s first virtual tourism fair, organized by Tourspain.

Toronto - Canada and the USA host Spain´s first virtual tourism fair, organized by Tourspain. The Tourist Offices of Spain in Canada and the USA support the initiative from IMASTE to promote this first fair running from the 6th to the 13th of July this year.

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Farming

Why do honey bees ‘bee’have the way they do?

TORONTO - What makes a worker bee a good worker? The answer may be both nature and nurture, says York University professor Amro Zayed, who is studying the genetic basis of honey bee behaviour in order to create better bee colonies.