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• Industry Canada: Minister Emerson Announces Expert Panel on Commercialization.

  - 2005-05-18

  OTTAWA, ONTARIO, May 18, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX The Honourable David L. Emerson, Minister of Industry, today announced the creation of a panel of experts to advise the Government of Canada on how to ensure more new technologies and products make their way to...

  Tags: Canada, commercialization, Dr., Government, Government of Canada, Research In Motion Ltd., Strategy, University of Waterloo, wireless

• An analysis of local economic development program in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

  - 2002-01-01

  Abstract The experiences and adaptation of a western market economy, local economic development process are examined in a small business and economic development pilot project in Ivano-Frankivsk, western Ukraine. The following aspects are discussed: continuing education training: team building; community participation; data gathering; and strategic economic development and planning....

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• Government.

  - 2001-07-01

  Arthur Carty, HFCIC, president of the National Research Council, and former dean of research at the University of Waterloo, has been moved to the level of officer of the Order of Canada.

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• How Safe Is Our Water?(Walkerton, Ontario, Canada, E. coli tragedy)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-05-01

  People like David Rudolph, a professor of earth sciences and hydrogeologist the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, say many positive developments have occurred in the wake of the Walkerton disaster, a deadly outbreak of E. coli the water supply of Walkerton, Ontario, late last spring....

  Tags: Government, Manufacturing, Ontario, SECURITY, University of Waterloo

• state of Canadian Studies at the year 2000: Some observations, The

  - 2000-04-01

  Much has changed, and some things have not, in the quarter century since the publication of To Know Ourselves, the report of the Commission on Canadian Studies. The chair of the Commission offers some observations about the current status of Canadian Studies and shares some concerns about the future of...

  Tags: Canada, Concordia University, Government, Institute, knowledge, SOFTWARE, Strategy, University of Washington, University of Waterloo, Y2K

• Introduction to the Mathematics of Demography

  - 1994-06-01

  Reviewer: A. Hoque Sharif, ASA, University of Waterloo, OntarioDemography--the statistical and mathematical study of human population--is now widely taught in social science, bio-science, and in bio-statistics. But the subject is no longer restricted to social science. The techniques of mathematic demography are now widely used by demographers, epidemiologists, actuaries, economists,...

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