Toronto: North York General Hospital (NYGH) has formally launched the largest fundraising campaign in its history. This is the most ambitious comprehensive campaign to be undertaken by a Canadian community hospital. The $150 million fundraising initiative will support facility upgrades, new technologies and equipment, research and education, as well as emerging priorities. Two Canadian [...]
May 7 2012 | Posted in
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Wellington-Halton Hills: The Conservative MPP from this riding is very unhappy that the ruling Liberal MPPs in the Ontario Legislature voted to defeat a resolution that he introduced, calling upon Government to commit itself to a plan to begin paying down the provincial debt once the budget is balanced. The resolution, brought forward [...]
Apr 30 2012 | Posted in
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How many schools in the world are providing free of charge laptop to each student in the school? Well, the answer may not be encouraging. But I know about one school in Pakistan’s cosmopolitan city Karachi, where the school provides free of charge One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). The name of School is Rahnuma Public [...]
Nov 28 2011 | Posted in
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Ottawa: Deepak Obhrai, MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, participated in the 42nd Pacific Islands Forum in Auckland, New Zealand. Obhrai headed the Canadian delegation to the forum, which was held on September 7-8, 2011. “Canada appreciates this opportunity to engage in discussion on issues of concern to [...]
Sep 19 2011 | Posted in
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Brampton: More than 40 youth and their family members participated in the family picnic organized by the Youth Leadership Development project by India Rainbow. The purpose of the picnic was to engage the families of the youth mentors and mentees in an informal gathering with lots of games, songs, activities and [...]
Aug 22 2011 | Posted in
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Ottawa: The National Household Survey (NHS) is currently underway. Statistics Canada has announced that 4.5 million Canadian households are being asked to participate. The information collected is vital to communities for planning services, such as child care, schooling, family services, housing, roads and public transportation, and skills training for employment. [...]
Jun 10 2011 | Posted in
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Life will become easy for mobile subscribers in India from January. In a move aimed at curbing unsolicited marketing calls, the regulator on Wednesday announced a number of measures including heavy penalties on defaulting tele-marketers, limiting the number of short messages to 100 a day, no telemarketing calls between 9 PM and 9 AM even [...]
Dec 3 2010 | Posted in
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Toronto’s: When it comes to education, the McGuinty government is often perceived as being on the side of teachers (or at least the Union’s), and that does not automatically make him on the side of the students, for whom the teachers are paid, or many parents. Parents who are really keen on their children’s education, [...]
Nov 12 2010 | Posted in
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Houston: Shell, the number one selling gasoline brand in the US, will continue its efforts to educate consumers about the benefits of using high quality gasolines in their vehicles by giving away thousands of gallons of Shell Nitrogen Enriched Gasolines to drivers coast-to-coast on Friday, October 15. To ensure consumers have a firsthand opportunity to [...]
Oct 15 2010 | Posted in
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