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OTTAWA, Jan. 14, 2013 /CNW/ - Lixar IT Inc. has been working in stealth mode with Delphi and Verizon for the last nine months to develop and deliver a first-in-class Vehicle Diagnostics system that connects your mobile device to your car in the blink of an eye.  This innovative new cloud-based automotive connectivity service, announced by Delphi and Verizon at CES, has received glowing reviews and won a "CES 2013 Editor's Choice Award from Popular Mechanics". "For a long time...

TORONTO, Jan. 9, 2013 /CNW/ - This morning, Noreen Taylor, prize founder and chair of the Charles Taylor Foundation, and Vijay Parmar, President, PH&N Investment Counsel, RBC Wealth Management welcomed a standing-room-only crowd of publishers and journalists, who gathered at The King Edward Hotel to hear the names of the five authors shortlisted for The 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction presented by RBC Wealth Management. This year's jurors are broadcast...

OTTAWA, Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Plasco Energy Group Inc. (Plasco or the company) today announced that it will build a 150,000 tonnes per year Waste Conversion Facility in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The announcement comes after the City of Ottawa announced on December 14(th) signing agreements with Plasco. The Facility will be built to the Plasco Conversion System (PCS(TM)) design and will incorporate three proprietary Integrated Converting and Refining System (ICARS(TM))...

OTTAWA, Dec. 7, 2012 /CNW/ - The Honourable Bal Gosal, Minister of State (Sport), will make an announcement about ParticipACTION on Monday in Ottawa. The Minister will be joined by Paul Calandra, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Member of Parliament (Oak Ridges-Markham), Kelly Murumets, CEO of ParticipACTION, Olympic athletes Derek O'Farrell (rowing) and Michael Tayler (kayak slalom), and Paralympic athletes Todd Nicholson (sledge hockey) and Amy...

OTTAWA, Dec. 7, 2012 /CNW/ - The Honourable Bal Gosal, Minister of State (Sport), will make an announcement about ParticipACTION on Monday in Ottawa. The Minister will be joined by Paul Calandra, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Member of Parliament (Oak Ridges-Markham), Kelly Murumets, CEO of ParticipACTION, Olympic athletes Derek O'Farrell (rowing) and Michael Tayler (kayak slalom), and Paralympic athletes Todd Nicholson (sledge hockey) and Amy...

Give your blanket, share your story, and be part of artist Marie Watt's Blanket Stories installation OTTAWA, Dec. 4, 2012 /CNW/ - The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) invites the public to help create a work of art by donating a wool or natural fibre blanket with a story to tell to artist Marie Watt. The blankets will be part of the artist's ambitious installation Blanket Stories: Seven Generations, Adawe, and Hearth, which will be shown at the NGC next year, as part of the summer...

For Ottawa scientist and neonatologist Dr. Bernard Thébaud, even a major paper that answers five significant questions still doesn't seem quite enough in his determined path to get his laboratory breakthrough into the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Dr. Thébaud's proposed therapy would use stem cells from umbilical cords to treat a disease previously thought to be untreatable — bronchopulmonary dysplasia, or BPD. "BPD is a lung disease described 45 years ago in which we have made...

TORONTO, Dec. 4, 2012 /CNW/ - Noreen Taylor, founder of The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, is pleased to announce that for the second year in a row, gift buyers have a shopping list of books to buy for Christmas, and a window on the titles still in the running to be shortlisted by prize jurors Susanne Boyce, TV broadcast chief, Richard Gwyn, award-winning author and political columnist, and Joseph Kertes, educator and award-winning author. Mrs. Taylor commented,...

Espial Will Also Demonstrate Innovative RDK Client and IP Back-Office Solutions OTTAWA, Dec. 4, 2012 /CNW/ - Espial, a leader in on-demand TV software and solutions, today announced that it will be exhibiting and presenting at the 2012 RDK Developers Community Conference to be held Dec. 11-12 at the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York. During the event, hosted by Comcast and Time Warner Cable, Espial president and CEO Jaison Dolvane will participate in a panel discussion titled...

TORONTO, Dec. 4, 2012 /CNW/ - Noreen Taylor, founder of The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, is pleased to announce that for the second year in a row, gift buyers have a shopping list of books to buy for Christmas, and a window on the titles still in the running to be shortlisted by prize jurors Susanne Boyce, TV broadcast chief, Richard Gwyn, award-winning author and political columnist, and Joseph Kertes, educator and award-winning author. Mrs. Taylor commented,...