Thursday March 3, 2011

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Ted Talks

John Hodgman: Aliens, love -- where are they?

Humorist John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfect memory of falling in love.

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Ted Talks

TEDxWaterloo 2011 – Live Feed

internationally recognized CHRISTIE MICROTILES ON DISPLAY at TEDxWaterloo

Starting at 1:00PM, we’ll broadcast the event as it happens. Meanwhile, here is a snippet from last year’s event.

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Trades

Skills Canada - Ontario Celebrates Skilled Trades

Waterloo - Skills Canada - Ontario Annual Celebration Gala “Building Futures One Dream at a Time.” This event raises money to cover the travel costs of Ontario students advancing from the Ontario Technologi- cal Skills Competition to the Canadian Skills Competition.

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Business Development

Digital media and mobile applications have found fertile ground in Waterloo Region.

Waterloo - The new Communitech Hub, a 30,000 square foot “sandbox” located at The Tannery District opened in October 2010 and has quickly become the place to be for all things digital.

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Funds

Canadian Asset Manager successfully closes its 2011 series Fund of Funds for Developing Countries

WATERLOO - Sarona Asset Management announced that it had successfully closed the 2011 series offering of its Sarona Frontier Markets Fund I LP on January 31st, with over $22 million in investor commitments raised.

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Art and Culture

Bullas Sculptures find new home at Centre in the Square

The Bullas Sculptures are back.

Kitchener - Once hidden away in a city storage room, the restored sculptures are the only examples of figurative public art from the mid-20th century in the city’s public art collection. The sculptures – two sea goddesses riding on the backs of dolphins -- were recently installed at Centre-in-the-Square.

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Health

ColonCancerCheck, Kitchener Rangers and Guelph Storm team up to fight colorectal cancer Get checked from behind

Kitchener – Ontario Hockey League Kitchener Rangers and Guelph Storm have joined with Cancer Care Ontario and the Waterloo Wellington Regional Cancer Program to take a slap shot at colorectal cancer.

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Charity

Former MP takes the helm at the rare Charitable Research Reserve

Cambridge - A robust Executive Director search, underway for most of 2010 in order to find the next leader of the rare Charitable Research Reserve, has ended and the Board of Directors couldn’t be happier.

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Communications

uxWaterloo Hosts Best-Selling Author Scott Berkun at Quarry Integrated Communications

ST. JACOBS - uxWaterloo is hosting best-selling author and public speaker Scott Berkun at Quarry Integrated Communications Wednesday, March 2nd for a discussion on ‘creative thinking hacks’. This is the second time Berkun has spoken for uxWaterloo, a local organization dedicated to improving the user experience of products and services.

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Arts and Culture

Elora Festival and Singers – Bach’s Mass in B Minor

Guelph - Grammy-nominated Elora Festival Singers will perform Bach’s great B minor Mass in Guelph on Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. Considered one of the greatest creations of all times, this spectacular work represents the pinnacle of Bach’s creative genius. Noel Edison will conduct the Singers with orchestra and soloists in this monumental work in the glorious acoustics of the Church of our Lady Immaculate in Guelph.

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Education

Full-Day Kindergarten To Be Offered In 900 More Schools Providing A Good Start For Children And Making Life A Little Easier For Parents

Toronto - Almost half of Ontario’s four-and-five-year olds will benefit from full-day kindergarten in September 2012. That school year, around 900 more schools will start offering full-day kindergarten — which means that a total of about 120,000 children will benefit.

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Media Competition

Canada's Top Advertising Professionals to Judge The Globe's Young Lions Competition

TORONTO - The Globe and Mail, Canada's official representative of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, revealed a jury of top advertising executives who will judge Canada's Young Lions, a qualifying competition that will send eight rising stars from Canada to the storied festival held in Cannes.

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Education

Show them the money: Do the math!

Female students urged to pursue careers in business and finance

TORONTO – Youth in Motion, a federally registered charity and innovator of the national Top 20 Under 20™ Award program and Career Learning Days for students, will host an inspiring day for young women to learn about the many rewarding career opportunities available in the business and finance sectors when your studies help you acquire STEM skills - Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

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Community Services

Our City, Our Services, Our Future: Toronto Women Deliver Letter to Mayor Ford on Service Cuts

Toronto - Facing cuts to key public services including transit, libraries, recreation, and community centres, women representing diverse communities and groups gathered today to speak to the Mayor and the press to ask that services be reinstated. On March 12, Toronto women will rally to defend city services as they mark the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day.

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Mining

The Fraser Institute: Global Survey Names Alberta as Top Destination for Mining Investment, Saskatchewan Ranks Third While Quebec Falls to Fourth

TORONTO - Alberta has surpassed Quebec as the world's most attractive jurisdiction for mineral exploration and development, according to the Survey of Mining Companies: 2010/2011, released by the Fraser Institute, Canada's leading public policy think-tank.

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Research

Carleton PhD Student Invited to Work With World Experts on the Aging Process

Ottawa – Nikolai Chepelev, a PhD biology student at Carleton University, will be leaving Saturday to work with some of the top world experts on aging. He will join scientists at the University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology for a month, thanks to a $2,500 research fellowship awarded to him by the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine.

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Product Index

Farm Product Price Index

Statscan - In December, prices farmers received for their commodities rose 7.9% from December 2009, as both the livestock and animal products index and the crops index increased.

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Health Survey

Canadian Health Measures Survey: Adult obesity prevalence in Canada and the United States

Statscan - The prevalence of obesity among adults in Canada is lower than it is in the United States. From 2007 to 2009, 24.1% of adults in Canada were obese, based on measured data, below the prevalence of 34.4% in the United States.

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Guest column

What to do about bad leaders

By Doug Williamson

The world is full of bad leaders. Luckily for the rest of us, they are pretty easy to spot and tend to have limited impact because they generally do not have much influence or staying power.