Pandemic inspires changes to Greater Sudbury strategic plan

Posted on June 26, 2023
Upgrading of Pioneer Manor beds and innovating in provision of community housing among the topics addressed in revised 2019-2027 strategic planSince the City of Greater Sudbury came out with its 2019-2027 strategic plan four years ago, the world has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic. This has led to some revisions to the city’s strategic plan. The plan has been revised to include a new objective, under the category “focus on advancing caring services based on lessons learned through the COVID-19 experience.” Greater Sudbury city council got an update on revisions to the strategic plan at their June 13 meeting. You…

Small business makes a big difference for Swift Current family – SwiftCurrentOnline.com

Posted on June 26, 2023
A six-year-old Swift Current resident was thrown into an unexpected battle a couple of weeks ago, but the community has rallied together to help her fight. What started as a doctor’s appointment for an anticipated asthma diagnosis and inhaler prescription, ended with a ride from STARS to Saskatoon and a much scarier verdict for Rustyn Paul. The discovery in late May of a tumor compressing her lung has been allocated to T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, thanks to the attentive care of Dr. Pederson.It didn’t take long for someone close to the Paul family to pull the community together for…

Facebook to end news access in Canada over incoming law on paying publishers

Posted on June 25, 2023
CNN —Meta Platforms Inc plans to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada once a parliament-approved legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers comes into effect, the company said on Thursday.The legislation, known as the Online News Act, was approved by the Senate upper chamber earlier on Thursday and will become law after receiving royal assent from the governor general, a formality.The legislation was proposed after complaints from Canada’s media industry, which wants tighter regulation of tech companies to prevent them from elbowing news businesses out of the online advertising…

Marketing VP at Napa Valley’s Far Niente Wine Estates wins North Bay Influential Women Award

Posted on June 25, 2023
Kate McManus is a leader in marketing, business development and branding with more than 25 years of experience in the wine and spirits industry. As Vice President of Marketing at Far Niente Wine Estates, she focuses on building talented and dedicated teams by creating a positive culture fostering innovation and creativity. She has worked at top industry firms from New York to Napa, moving to the Bay Area to lead marketing activities at Constellation Brands for international wineries from New Zealand, Sonoma and Italy. At Delicato Family Vineyards, she built the marketing department and expanded trade and digital capabilities. McManus…

Canada Bread agrees to $50M fine for role in bread price-fixing scandal

Posted on June 24, 2023
Canada Bread has agreed to pay at least $50 million for its role in fixing the price of bread for years. The company made the revelation in an Ontario court on Wednesday, acknowledging that under a previous management regime, it colluded with its competitors in Canada’s bakery industry to work in unison to raise the wholesale prices they charge to grocery chains, pushing up prices for consumers in the process. The company — which makes dozens of brands of baked goods, including Dempster’s, Stonemill, Vachon and others — has been owned by Mexican food giant Grupo Bimbo since 2014, but…

The Business Plan Behind All Of Her Features

Posted on June 24, 2023
PARIS, FRANCE – MARCH 02: Nicki Minaj attends Balmain aftershow party as part of Paris Fashion Week … [+] Womenswear Fall/Winter 2017/2018 at Manko Paris on March 2, 2017 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor Boyko/Getty Images) Getty Images Nicki Minaj has once again made her mark on the Hot 100 chart with her latest single, “Pound Town 2,” which rockets up the rankings this week. The star rapper teamed up with original artists Sexyy Red and Tay Keith on a remix of the cut, propelling the track to new heights and proving it to be a real smash. This…

Uh-oh. More good news that may be bad for your economic health

Posted on June 23, 2023
At first glance, the response of “sold over asking” real estate signs may seem like an encouraging signal for the Canadian economy, especially for highly invested homeowners who have watched prices fall from last year’s highs. But a growing number of economists worry that a recent series of indicators, the latest being Wednesday’s rise in Canadian retail sales, may instead be a red flag for central bankers, leading them to more rate hikes that could ultimately make many Canadians feel miserable. With each new smidgen of optimistic data, money market traders point to a rising chance that central bankers will…

Scientists Pitch Medical Innovations at 2023 Biomedical Business Plan Challenge | Newsrooms

Posted on June 22, 2023
Standing on the stage at Uris Auditorium on June 1, Dr. Joe Zhou, an associate professor in regenerative medicine in medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, made the case for the necessity of developing new approaches to treating diabetes, a disease he called “a true epidemic of the modern world.” More than 400 million people globally live with diabetes. It leads to roughly 4 million deaths annually due to complications and racks up nearly a trillion in health care spending. Millions of diabetic patients rely on daily finger pricks to monitor blood glucose and insulin injections to control hyperglycemia. These are…