Archive - Jul 13, 2010

Broadband across Canada? - World Congress on Information Technology coming in 2012

From the Montreal Gazette 

Canadians 'doomed to be digital tourists' - Is Montreal ready to showcase itself as a leader in 2012's 18th World Congress on Information Technology?

By David Crane, Montreal Gazette July 2, 2010

MONTREAL - In something of a coup, Montreal was chosen to host the 18th World Congress on Information Technology in 2012, beating out the United States, which had expected to be the host.

96 First Nations in the bottom 100 communities across Canada with well-being gap getting worse

From the Toronto Sun

First Nations’ well-being gap getting worse

By MINDELLE JACOBS, QMI Agency - July 13, 2010 12:00am

There is no more agonizing example of the mistaken belief that heaps of money alone will mend broken lives than the ongoing socio-economic catastrophe engulfing Canada’s aboriginals.