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Harper Government Supports Promising Clean Technologies

rschuster — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:38:26 +0000

Calgary, Alberta, January 25, 2012 – The Harper Government is showing its commitment to a green Canadian economy with a $22 million investment to help eight new clean technology projects from across the country reach commercialization. The announcement was made today by the Honourable Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources, and Vicky Sharpe, President [...]

UofT CGEN Group awarded Gates Foundation grant

Editor — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:40:32 +0000

TORONTO— From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail, Published Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 8:30AM EDT Article by KIM MACKRAEL

The project sounds simple enough: design a new toilet for use in developing countries, where access to running water, electricity and sewage is limited.

But the details are daunting. The human waste needs to be processed and sanitized, and it [...]

Regulations Announcement Favourable for PharmaTrust

drichardson — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:27:40 +0000

Please see below the resulting coverage from Friday’s announcement concerning the passage of the regulations enabling remote dispensing in Ontario.

The Globe and Mail – Press ‘D1’ for amoxicillinhttps://secure.globeadvisor.com/servlet/ArticleNews/story/gam/20110323/SRTECHSMBPHARMAATL
The Toronto Star – Ontario Rolling out ATM-like Drug Machines
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/956708–ontario-rolling-out-atm-like-drug-machines

Metro Montreal – Des distributrices de [...]

Red flags on green energy

drichardson — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:32:40 +0000

February 17, 2011- Toronto, ON. This is an interesting article on the environmental effects of green energy by Dr. Jatin Nathwani from the University of Waterloo.

At this point, there should be no debate that a transition to a sustainable electricity system is a necessary development for Ontario. However, this is likely where any [...]

Canada picks up pace in patents

admin — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:59:10 +0000

Ottawa and Toronto — From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Jan. 17, 2011
BARRIE McKENNA, RICHARD BLACKWELL

Canada is winning patents at a record pace, as companies push to innovate despite sluggish research and development spending in the wake of the recession.

U.S. patent authorities issued a record 5,223 patents to Canadian [...]

Canada and the Cleantech 100

drichardson — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:10:26 +0000

Toronto, October 26, 2010 – Two weeks ago the Cleantech Group, an American research and investment company focused on clean technology, released its list of the 100 most promising clean technology companies in the world (cleantech.com/GlobalCleantech100.cfm). North America placed a whopping 57 countries on the list; however, only two of those 57 companies [...]

Carbon Pricing as a Catalyst for Innovation and Sustainability

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:41:26 +0000

The following article recently appeared in The Globe and Mail and the Sustainable Prosperity blog linked here.

A tool to meet the productivity challenge: carbon pricing

(July 9, 2010) ROGER MARTIN AND ALEXANDER WOOD

Roger Martin is dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of [...]

Mindfirst Sources Funding for Five 10 MW Solar Projects

Henry Vehovec — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:34:01 +0000

In the fall of 2009 many Ontario developers rushed to submit applications hoping to gain approval for a limited number of 10 MW solar projects that would be able to fit within the estimated 4,000 MW of available capacity on the Ontario grid. Despite an abundance of applications there still appears to be several isolated [...]

Looking East-West Rather Than North-South

Henry Vehovec — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:46:58 +0000

The SDTC Investment Committee (IC) meetings are always fascinating because of the many wonderful and interesting projects and technologies that are discussed and reviewed. Also very interesting are the sidebar conversations with fellow IC members during breaks, before and after the closed-door sessions.

Tom Sweeney, an IC member now based in Dubai, had many thought [...]