Category: Economic

CanIt 9.2.0 release improves compound rules in Hosted CanIt Anti Spam Service.

WireService.ca Press Release (09/16/2014) – Roaring Penguin Software Inc., the email filtering experts, makers of the acclaimed CanIt-PRO, CanIt-Domain-PRO, CanIt Archiver and Hosted CanIt anti-spam and email archiving solutions, announce the release of CanIt 9.2.0.

Major New Features include:

Compound Rules have been enhanced with additional fields and relations, as well as a macro feature that lets you specify things like “envelope sender” in the data box; this permits extra flexibility when creating Compound Rules.
CanIt now tracks how often custom rules and compound rules are hit. These statistics let you evaluate the effectiveness of your rules and remove those that never or rarely hit. (Requires the log indexing component to be installed)

New Features added to Secure Messaging:

Secure Messaging can now be configured via the API.

The Secure Messaging portal can be specified to utilize a different Base URL than the one used for the rest of CanIt.

CanIt 9.2.0 is available as:

* CanIt-PRO, an anti-spam software solution suitable for small and medium-sized businesses.

* CanIt-Domain-PRO, spam filtering software for MSPs to host anti-spam for their customers.

* Hosted CanIt, a fully outsourced, hosted spam filtering service.

* CanIt Archiver, email archiving software.

About Roaring Penguin

Founded in 1999, Roaring Penguin Software Inc., the email filtering experts focuses on fighting spam at the mail server with the acclaimed CanIt and MIMEDefang product lines. Today, Roaring Penguin develops its anti-spam solutions and email archiving / email continuity software for customers that include enterprises, ISPs, MSPs, Universities, web hosts, and government offices. For more information, visit http://www.roaringpenguin.com.

Source:: http://www.wireservice.ca/index.php?module=News&func=display&sid=12356&title=anti-spam-software

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The Bank of Canada’s commitment to keep inflation low and stable requires that the value of the Canadian dollar be determined by markets, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen S. Poloz said today in Drummondville.

The Bank of Canada fosters strong, sustainable economic growth by aiming to keep inflation at the 2 per cent midpoint of a target range of 1 to 3 per cent, Governor Poloz told members of the Société de développement économique de Drummondville. Manipulating the value of the Canadian dollar is incompatible with this primary objective of the Bank, the Governor explained.

“Without a freely floating currency, prices, wages and unemployment could fluctuate markedly, and that would create havoc for people and businesses,” the Governor said, illustrating the point with a hypothetical scenario that examines what would have happened had the Bank tried to prevent the dollar from appreciating between 2005 and 2008. “A flexible exchange rate is essential for us to be able to pursue an independent monetary policy in the interests of Canada.”

Attempts to influence the exchange rate would do more harm than good, Governor Poloz said, adding that it is only in the event of an emergency that the Bank would consider intervening in currency markets. He also rejected the suggestion that the Bank could offer the exchange market verbal guidance on the value of the dollar.

“I believe in markets. Manipulating or trying to guide them is just not in our game plan,” Governor Poloz said. “It is the job of the market to watch the economic data unfold and grind out the implications for other financial markets, including the exchange rate, on a daily basis. That … is a tough job, but it is not ours.”

The Bank expects that the Canadian economy eventually will return to a sustainable, natural growth track as exports and business investment replace household spending as the main engines of growth. As foreign demand revives exports and investment, job markets will improve, the economy’s spare capacity will be absorbed, and inflation will return sustainably to the Bank’s target.

The Governor noted that “the global economy remains an uncertain place” but said the Bank is starting to see some encouraging signs, including higher investment spending in the United States, which is usually associated with stronger exports from Canada.

Source:: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/2014/09/floating-loonie-essential-bank-canada/

Kim Corrigan joins Obair Leadership in Calgary to provide coaching and consulting to leaders and managers to help them be successful when leading a change process.

WireService.ca Press Release (09/15/2014) – Change projects are not only common in organizations today but also often are unsuccessful. Failed change initiatives cause considerable workforce problems and financial risk for organizations. “The key is paying attention to the power of emotion in people”, says Change Consultant and Coach Kim Corrigan, who provides coaching to leaders and managers to help them be successful and produce quicker results when leading a change process.

Kim has joined Obair Leadership in Calgary, AB to provide another level of coaching and consulting to improve leaders’ effectiveness.

“I continually work with leaders at all levels in an organization that experience big problems with change. While they may have outstanding ideas for change, many do not have the skills to manage the people side. And that gets them into trouble,” says Dr. Bob Acton. “I’m really excited that Kim has joined Obair as she adds another dimension that can really help leaders. We simply want leaders to be successful.”

A top change management research firm Prosci reported that four of the top five obstacles a project faces are related to people including employee resistance, middle management resistance, poor executive sponsorship, and politics.

“What happens when leaders don’t use good people strategies when working within change?” Corrigan asks, who works with helping leaders and managers learn how to use emotional intelligence. “They end up creating the result they do not desire: resistance to the project and resistance to them personally.”

The key to managing this risk is to use a step-by-step approach to both understand the needs of employees and create powerful methods to bring people on board, says Corrigan, who has worked on numerous change projects.

Corrigan recommends using a three-phase approach to help leaders and managers work effectively in change project:

Use a structured organizational change management program to improve ROI
Utilize a step-by-step practical approach to create a deep understanding the needs of the people involved in the change.
Use natural communication and interaction strategies and techniques to get people onboard and find quick wins to build momentum their leadership practice.

For more information, go to www.obairleadership.com

Kim Corrigan, B.ScN, Change Management Consultant and Coach with Obair Leadership, works with leaders and managers to help improve their way of working with people going through change.

Bob Acton, Ph.D., President of Obair Leadership, is a leadership consultant and executive coach, trainer, and speaker. He works with talented, knowledgeable leaders to build practical solutions with their employees, peers, clients, and leader teams. With broad professional training, he combines extensive experience with knowledge of cutting-edge research to optimize leader performance and bottom-line results.

Source:: http://www.wireservice.ca/index.php?module=News&func=display&sid=12354&title=leadership-and-change-consultant-kim-corrigan

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The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 1/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 3/4 per cent.

Inflation is close to the 2 per cent target and is evolving as the Bank anticipated in its July Monetary Policy Report (MPR). Recent data reinforce the Bank’s view that the earlier pickup in inflation was attributable to the temporary effects of higher energy prices, exchange rate pass-through, and other sector-specific factors rather than to any change in domestic economic fundamentals.

The global economy is performing largely as expected. The recovery in Europe appears to be faltering as the situation in Ukraine weighs on confidence. In the United States, a solid recovery seems to be back on track, with business investment now making a significant contribution to growth. Global financial conditions remain very stimulative and longer-term bond yields have eased even further.

In Canada, stronger growth in the second quarter has brought GDP to almost exactly the level the Bank had projected in July’s MPR. Canadian exports surged in the second quarter after a weak winter, supported notably by stronger U.S. investment spending and the past depreciation of the Canadian dollar. While an increasing number of export sectors appear to be turning the corner toward recovery, this pickup will need to be sustained before it will translate into higher business investment and hiring. Meanwhile, activity in the housing market has been stronger than anticipated. The Bank still expects excess capacity in the economy to be absorbed during the next two years.  

Overall, the risks to the outlook for inflation remain roughly balanced, while the risks associated with household imbalances have not diminished. The balance of these risks is still within the zone for which the current stance of monetary policy is appropriate and therefore the target for the overnight rate remains at 1 per cent. The Bank remains neutral with respect to the next change to the policy rate: its timing and direction will depend on how new information influences the outlook and assessment of risks.

Information note:

The next scheduled date for announcing the overnight rate target is 22 October 2014. The next full update of the Bank’s outlook for the economy and inflation, including risks to the projection as well as the Bank’s annually-updated estimate of the economy’s potential, will be published in the MPR at the same time. 

Source:: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/2014/09/fad-press-release-2014-09-03/

Northern Protocol Inc. Computer Repair and Sales in Barrie, grows: opens a new location in Stayner, ON to better serve their clients in Collingwood, Blue Mountains, Stayner and Wasaga Beach.

Source: http://www.wireservice.ca/index.php?module=News&func=display&sid=12302&title=northern-protocol-grows

This award was established in 2004 to recognize the work of Canadians in the field of law enforcement in deterring and preventing the counterfeiting of Canada’s bank notes.

Source: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/2014/08/announces-recipient-2014-law-enforcement-award-excellence/