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• Government Appoints Chair to the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy

  - 2008-06-23

  Canada's Minister of the Environment, John Baird, today announced the appointment of Robert Page as chair of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy NRTEE. This appointment is effective immediately. "Mr. Page brings with him a wealth of experience and expertise that will continue to greatly...

  Tags: Canada, Dr., environment, Environmental, Government, University of Calgary

• Canada's New Government Invests $109.5 Million to Fund 126 Canada Research Chairs; Researchers to focus on health and economy.

  - 2007-09-10

  CALGARY, ALBERTA, Sep 10, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- The Honourable Diane Ablonczy, Secretary of State Small Business and Tourism, on behalf of the Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canada Research Chairs Program, announced today in Calgary an investment of...

  Tags: Benefits, Canada, cell, Government, HEALTHCARE, investment, Minister, SOFTWARE, University of Calgary

• The University of Calgary

  - 2005-07-01

  The University of Calgary, along with community partners from the Alberta Veterinary Medical Association, the Calgary Zoo and the Alberta Beef Producers, has introduced a veterinary degree program that is a first in North America that combines animal health and human medicine. "The cornerstone of this program is its integration...

  Tags: Government, HEALTHCARE, University of Calgary

• Power and terror: Noam Chomsky in our times

  - 2003-03-16

  Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky In Our Times--I saw this instructive documentary, followed by a panel discussion about the pending war in Iraq, with about 800 people at the University of Calgary on January 29. By interviewing Noam Chomsky and following a series of public talks he gave in the...

  Tags: Dr., Government, HEALTHCARE, Iraq, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, terror, U.S., University of Calgary

• Nature opens up the Northwest Passage.

  - 2000-09-25

  On August 24, a team of researchers aboard the catamaran St. Roch II stopped on the remote Arctic island of Keeuna to visit five graves believed to contain remains of members of the doomed Franklin expedition of 1845. The stopover of the St. Roch II represented a...

  Tags: Arctic, Canada, FINANCE, Government, NETWORKING, U.S., University of Calgary

• Nature opens the Northwest Passage.

  - 2000-09-25

  On August 24, a team of researchers aboard the catamaran St. Roch II stopped on the remote Arctic island of Keeuna to visit five graves believed to contain remains of members of the doomed Franklin expedition of 1845. The stopover of the St. Roch II represented a...

  Tags: Arctic, Canada, FINANCE, Government, NETWORKING, U.S., University of Calgary

• Daring to use the 'A' word.(First Nations? Second Thoughts )

  - 2000-06-05

  A new book expands the aboriginal policy debate by urging assimilation, not segregation It is not true that Tom Flanagan has never been on an Indian reserve. The University of Calgary political scientist was fishing for trout on the Bow River in the foothills...

  Tags: Benefits, Canada, Government, reserve, University of Calgary

• Stephen Randall.(Brief Article)

  - 2000-05-22

  AWARDED: To Stephen Randall, dean of social sciences at the University of Calgary; the Grand Cross, Order of Merit, by the government of Colombia, for his academic research on the South American country. He has spent the past 33 years researching and teaching in Colombian universities,...

  Tags: Colombia, Government, SOFTWARE, University of Calgary