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The Bank of Canada is calling for nominations under its Fellowship Program for 2015. This program fosters excellence in research in Canada, and develops partnerships with experts outside of the Bank.

Canadian universities are invited to nominate exceptional academics for the two prestigious research awards available through this program: the Fellowship Award and the Governor’s Award.

The Bank of Canada promotes the economic and financial welfare of Canada through its activities in four main areas: monetary policy, currency, the financial system and funds management.  The recent experience of the financial crisis and its aftermath has shown that issues related to central banking go beyond traditional monetary policy theory. The Bank therefore wishes to encourage applications from candidates across a broad range of fields.

The Fellowship Award provides financial support for a term of up to five years to professors in tenure or tenure-track positions at a Canadian university who are widely recognized for their expertise and excellence in areas important to the Bank’s mandate, and whose leading-edge research contributes to the development of knowledge and research capabilities in those areas.

The Governor’s Award provides funding for a term of up to two years to exceptional assistant and associate professors at a Canadian university who have demonstrated the potential to make exemplary research contributions in fields supporting the Bank’s mandate. Candidates must have obtained a PhD within ten years of applying for the award.

Nominations for these awards must be submitted by Friday, 14 November 2014. For more information on the Fellowship Program, award requirements and the nomination process, please visit the Bank’s website or call 613 782-8888.

Source:: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/2014/09/calls-nominations-2015-fellowship-governors-awards/

The team at Integrated Sustainability Consultants Ltd. (Integrated Sustainability) is pleased to announce that company President Stuart Torr is being recognized as an Honouree of the 2015 Delta Management Clean50 Awards in the “Consultants” category.

WireService.ca Press Release (09/18/2014) Calgary, AB – Canada’s Clean50 Awards are announce annually by the Delta Management Group to recognize those 50 individuals or small teams, from 16 different categories, who have done the most to advance the cause of sustainable and clean capitalism in Canada over the past 2 years.

Honourees are chosen after rigorous screening and research by Delta Management with advice from internal researchers and external advisors. They are selected from a pool of over 550 well qualified candidates from across the country. Delta’s criteria in determining Honourees is to consider carefully actual measurable accomplishments, demonstrated innovation, collaboration with other organizations, and the power of the Honouree’s contribution to inspire other Canadians to take similar action.

“The process to narrow down to just 50 this year was extremely difficult-the great news is that there are many wonderful and committed leaders in organizations across Canada, working in many different fields, who are all concerned about the course of Canada’s future if we don’t take action-and are doing so themselves. These individuals are rarely waiting for regulations to drive their organizations forward -but are leading by example. The individuals we choose for the Clean50 this year are true leaders, and should be an inspiration to all Canadians” said Gavin Pitchford, Chief Talent Officer of the Delta Management Group.

“We are extremely excited to have Stuart be selected as an Honouree in Canada’s Clean50 for his ongoing leadership in sustainability. When Stuart founded Integrated Sustainability he envisioned a more holistic approach to providing engineered solutions, one which was not commonly provided by engineering consulting firms in Canada. Three and-a-half years later, sustainability is not only a part of our name, it is the cornerstone of the way that we think, communicate, design/deliver projects, and measure success. Integrated Sustainability’s teams not only provide effective water, waste, and energy solutions to our clients, but also enable our clients with new ways of thinking and delivering projects differently. With Stuart’s leadership, Integrated Sustainability is making a difference in industry and providing a rewarding organization for talented people to be a part of,” said Oksana Kielbasinski, Director of Sustainability and Risk for Integrated Sustainability.

In addition to being named to the 2015 cohort, Stuart, along with Mrs. Kielbasinski and other past and present Honourees, will be participating in the “Clean50 Summit 4.0” on Toronto Island on September 17, to spend a day amongst peers and colleagues tackling common sustainability challenges.

For more information about Integrated Sustainability, or to interview Stuart please visit www.integratedsustainability.ca or email info@integratedsustainability.ca

About Integrated Sustainability

Integrated Sustainability was founded in 2010 by Stuart as a niche full-service engineering consulting firm specializing in servicing Canada’s Oil and Gas Industry with sustainable answers to water, waste and energy management problems. Through a growing reputation for providing unique and effective solutions to clients through the entire lifecycle of projects, the company has grown rapidly. Other corporate awards include OilWeek’s Rising Star 2014 and being selected as a finalist for the Calgary Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year Award in the “Breakout Business” category. The innovative approach taken by the Integrated Sustainability team helps clients drive to a radically enhanced return on investment with more sustainable solutions for all industry stakeholders.

Source:: http://www.wireservice.ca/index.php?module=News&func=display&sid=12365&title=stuart-torr-of-integrated-sustainability-honoured

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