Congratulations to Rebecca for winning the Student Achievement Gold Award at the 8th annual southwest region Ontario Global Traders Awards. The award goes to students who have contributed to the export success of Ontario’s business community.
CAMBRIDGE, ON, April 20 /CNW/ - The McGuinty government honoured southwest Ontario’s top exporters for their exceptional contributions to the province’s economy at the 8th annual southwest region Ontario Global Traders Awards ceremony held in Cambridge today.
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Rebecca has completed three co-op terms in the International Sales and Marketing department of Apotex Inc., a leading Canadian pharmaceutical company. In January of 2005, Rebecca was given the opportunity to work for a new subsidiary of Apotex in Sydney, Australia, as a liaison between the new office and its headquarters in Canada.
I saw on Chris’s site that PeterM wrote about uws.
Reports of UWStudent.org’s death have been greatly exaggerated. While the site has been down for almost a year, there is new life on that old domain.
uws has been down for much less than a year. It will be good to see its return and that people are talking about it.
MikeP posted a comment on a story about uws from last year on 28 March 2006.
Funny about UWS being still offline. It predates me, so I feel no attachment to it at all. Nevertheless, I wonder if it could be made into a cross-campus bulletin board? SLC is already filling its old role of news discussion, but yeah.
I think it is important to offer that discussion, but no organization is effectively filling the role of news reporting. Chris gives a better description of uws’s performance in the past.
In UWS’ prime, researched and fact-checked news would break for most people, and UWS covered all spectra of campus controversy – news that actually effected they way UW students lived and learned. Much more important to the community than a gossip blog, where not a single fact has been checked.
Missy called me up in the afternoon on Good Friday. We are planning to go to Ottawa. Do you have any plans for the weekend?
She said Hanno was going to a Raptors game in Toronto that night. So, either we would drive up in the afternoon and he would take bus or train, or we would go up Saturday morning. As trips go I am flexible, but I suggested that we get him in Toronto after the game and drive through the darkness to save time and him from travelling alone.
She was meeting for lunch and had some work to do, but suggested we be ready to leave at 19:00. I went to the house and discussed development with Roka. About 17:25 I returned to my house to pack, she gtalked me and said she was just getting to work.
Shortly after Schami messaged me to play. Affirmative! I’ll be over in 20 minutes. He arrived drank some water and we threw a football around on BMH. At about 19:00 we walked back and I got a call from Missy saying let’s go at 20:00.
We got on our way at about 21:00. I had made some fougasse and brought kohlrabi. She had strawberries, pears, and chocolate covered espresso beans.
We talked on the way. We picked Hanno up at a hostel and off to the national capital. On the way it was dark, foggy, and rainy. I got a call back from Ooms, she was with AMcD and said we could sleep in the basement. We would probably be arriving at 03:00.
We arrived all right. They got up and let us in though it was early in the morning. Hanno slept on a fouton, Missy on the couch, and I slept on the floor.
In the morning I got up and read some Maclean’s until others got up. Eventually we got up and went to Woodboro. We had breakfast at the bagelshop. Then A and O went for the weekend and we went to the Canadian War Museum - Musee Canadien de la guerre. We saw a war propaganda display and also the permanent display which traced wars in our country from first contact to the present.
While in the first part Missy asked me some questions about issues and terminology about the first peoples. I explained some things to her. As I was talking I realized that a volunteer John was listening and nodding. I asked for confirmation and he complimented the extent of my knowledge.
We were in the useum until it closeed around 17:00. Then we went further into downtown and parked on Queen Street near Connor and walked to the parliament buildings. We walked around the back looking at the cats, the statues and the view. After that we walked around the market and eventually went to Luxe for dinner. Hanno had beef stroganoff, Missy had pasta, and I had nova scotia salmon.
Then we walked around and ended up at a pub she had a KLB Rasberry Wheat and I had a Hoegaarden. Then off to sleep.
The next day I got up and everyone else was asleep so I went to the bakery and got some croissants and pains de chocolat.
We went downtown again and he and I went to tour the parliament buildings and she went to walk around. We went up the peace tower and looked in the memorial chamber, but he was too tired to take the full tour so we went to Cafe M at Rideau and Sussex.
She met up with us and we went to the market. We bought a candle dish and beeswax candle for O and golfball chocolates for A.
We left them in the house and spelt out a message with scrabble letters. Then we went to the bakery for a snack. On our return to the car O had arrived home and so we talked for a bit, but departed soon after.
We left at about 16:50 and arrived at about 22:00
At writing group on Monday, Record brought up some CBC Radio piece about people who confuse bilingual packaging for being unilingual. That is, I gather, like thinking that your soft drink is “root beer racinette.”
I pointed out the thing about the Canadian spelling for yoghurt, “yogourt,” possibly coming from the packaging where it might say “stirred yogourt brasse.” In that case the single word is used for both languages.
My roommate had this conditioner — usually called revitalisant in french labelling — called revitalising conditioner. This prompted me to wonder what the french label would say. Would it have two similar words? On the other side of the bottle it said “revitalisant energisant.”
