Canadian Freedom & Information Act

Access To Information Act 

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Purpose 2. (1) The purpose of this Act is to extend the present laws of Canada to provide a right of access to information in records under the control of a government institution in accordance with the principles that government information
should be available to the public, that necessary exceptions to the right of access should be limited and specific and that decisions on the disclosure of government information should be reviewed independently of government.

Former SNC-Lavalin CEO

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Pierre Duhaime leaves SQ headquarters in Montreal on Wednesday, November 28, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes.

By: The Canadian Press, Published on Mon Feb 11 2013

MONTREAL—Pierre Duhaime, the former chief executive of Canada’s biggest engineering firm, has been granted more flexibility to travel within the country pending trial on fraud charges.

Duhaime, a prominent Quebec businessman and once the head of engineering powerhouse SNC-Lavalin, was formally charged with fraud on Monday. He was not in the courtroom as his lawyer, Michel Massicotte, pleaded not guilty on his behalf. A change was made to conditions surrounding Duhaime’s release. Initially, he was forbidden from leaving Quebec. The Crown has now agreed he can travel elsewhere in Canada — but not go beyond its borders.

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The Canadian Home of The Future

Efficient energy , sometimes simply called energy efficiency, is the goal of efforts to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services. Energy efficiency and renewable energy are said to be the “twin pillars” of a sustainable energy policy. Both strategies must be developed concurrently in order to stabilize and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Efficient energy use is essential to slowing the energy demand growth so that rising clean energy supplies can make deep cuts in fossil fuel use. If energy use grows too rapidly, renewable energy development will chase a receding target. Likewise, unless clean energy supplies come online rapidly, slowing demand growth will only begin to reduce total carbon emissions; a reduction in the carbon content of energy sources is also needed. A sustainable energy economy thus requires major commitments to both efficiency and renewables.[29]

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New Online Research Tool

The Global Information Network

I am really happy to see a tool like Similarweb.com developed for two reasons. First it gives users an alternative to the traditional Google Analytics frame works and second it displays the information beautifully in an easy to understand format. This is a functional tool that allows any business owner, researcher, or organization the ability to gain important data and intelligence on the streams of communication that are most important for there interest. 

The Globe & Mail Website Report

Theglobeandmail.com- New website

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A Pep Talk from Kid President to You

A Pep Talk

We all need a little encouragement every now and then. Kid President, knowing this, has put together a video you can play each morning as you wake up or to share with your friend who needs a kick in the right direction. Take a moment and spread some encouragement.

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The Politics of Principle

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A comprehensive biography of former premier and current senator, Catherine Callbeck, was released in November. Written by Island historian and political scientist, Wayne MacKinnon, the book, entitled, The Politics of Principle, details Callbeck’s career from her first public involvement as a volunteer in her local community, through her groundbreaking election as Canada’s first elected female premier and subsequent service in the Senate of Canada.

While Callbeck’s public persona over the past 35 years is well-known, this detailed biography examines her early life and discusses the family and community influences which instilled the values which she carried throughout her political career.

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Milton Friedman: Is Capitalism Humane?

Lecture 

Famous Milton Friedman Quotes

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstance and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible. – Interview With John Hawkins regarding Bush Tax Cuts

When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union — like public housing in the United states — look decrepit within a year or two of their construction. – Free to Choose: A Personal Statement.

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Milton Friedman: “Capitalism and Freedom”

Rights of Workers (Q&A)

“I’m not a Conservative, a conservative is someone who wants to keep things the same as they are, I am a liberal in the truest essence of the word. The modern liberal is only liberal with other people’s money. The word liberal, means oven pertaining to freedom, a true liberal is somebody who believes in freedom.” –  Milton Friedman

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Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.9 in D-Major

The Symphony No. 9 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1908 and 1909, and was the last symphony that he completed.

Explanation of the Movements

The first movement embraces a loose sonata form; the work opens with a hesitant, syncopated motif which is to return at the height of the movement’s development as a sudden intrusion of “death in the midst of life”, announced by trombones and marked within the score “with the greatest force”.
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The second movement is a dance, a Ländler, but it has becomes distorted to the point that it no longer resembles a dance. The movement contains shades of the second movement of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, in the distortion of a traditional dance into a dance of death. For example, Mahler alters traditional chord sequences into near-unrecognizable variations, turning the rustic and mostly diatonic C major introductory Ländler into a vicious whole-tone waltz, saturated with accidentals and frantic rhythms.  Continue reading →

3M CEO On Innovation

George Buckley On innovation

Facing economic challenges in the West, the chief executive of 3M looks to emerging markets for new opportunities and more scientists.

What is innovation acording to Wikipedia ?

innovation and econInnovation is the development of new customers value through solutions that meet new needs, inarticulate needs, or old customer and market needs in value adding new ways.This is accomplished through more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments, and society. Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the use of a better and, as a result, novel idea or method, whereas invention refers more directly to the creation of the idea or method itself. Innovation differs from improvement in that innovation refers to the notion of doing something different (Lat. innovare: “to change”) rather than doing the same thing better.