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Listing (TSXV = LO Frankfurt = LE2A) ROUYN-NORANDA, QC, March 4, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - LOUNOR EXPLORATION INC. is pleased to announce the start of a drill program on the Matagami Gold Property. The property is located in the Matagami mining camp and is comprised of 106 mining claims located in the Isle-Dieu Township, Province of Quebec, covering a total area of 1,632 hectares. The Matagami mining camp has a long history of producing base and precious metals with at least 15 mines...
MONTREAL, Feb. 28, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Valener Inc. ("Valener") (TSX: VNR), the public investment vehicle in Gaz Métro Limited Partnership ("Gaz Métro"), will hold its annual meeting of shareholders on March 27, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. (Montréal time) at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, 159 Saint-Antoine Street West, Room 511 A-E, Montréal (Québec). The annual meeting agenda includes the election of directors and the appointment of the independent auditor. Shareholders,...
Engineering and consulting firm furthers commitment to Canadian market MONTREAL, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Arup, a multidisciplinary engineering and consulting firm with a reputation for delivering innovative and sustainable designs, announced today that it has opened an office in Montreal, Quebec. Active in Canada since 2000 when it opened its Toronto location, Arup has had a presence in Montreal to deliver the design of the recently opened Autoroute 30. The office will be led...
MONTREAL, Feb. 27, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Normand Champigny, Chair of the Board of Directors of Minalliance, is pleased to announce the appointment of Isabelle Poirier as its Executive Director. "An experienced communicator and an expert in economic development, Isabelle Poirier has led initiatives particularly in the resource field. Her mandate is to help us continue the dialogue with the Quebec public on the economic, social and environmental issues associated with development of...
MONTREAL, Feb. 22, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Technology CEOs attending the prestigious CEO Vision event at Mont-Tremblant elected Daniel Handfield, Médiamed technologies as "2013 Investissement Québec CEO of the Year". The CEOs in attendance selected the winner by a secret ballot following presentations by the three finalists highlighting their entrepreneurial achievements for 2012. Organized by the Quebec Technology Association in conjunction with Investissement Québec, this honour...
SHERBROOKE, QC, Feb. 22, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Dr. Martin Richter (pharmacology), investigator with the Centre de recherche clinique Étienne-Le Bel (CRCELB) at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS) and professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS), and his collaborators have identified a new function of the enzyme matriptase, present in the human respiratory system, that can activate a viral protein involved in...
VANCOUVER, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Commerce Resources Corp. (TSXv: CCE, FSE: D7H, OTCQX: CMRZF) (the "Company" or "Commerce") is pleased to announce additional results from the on-going metallurgical programs on the Company's 100%-owned Ashram Rare Earth Element (REE) Deposit. Significant metallurgical advancements have been made since those detailed in the Company's News Release dated November 15(th), 2012. Highlights -- Production of reproducible, high-grade,...
Listing (TSXV = LO Frankfurt = LE2A) ROUYN-NORANDA, QC, Feb. 19, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - LOUNOR EXPLORATION INC. is pleased to announce that it has closed a private placement for a total amount of CDN $130,000. The placement consists in 390,000 common shares at a price of $0.05 per share representing $19,500 and 1,841,667 flow-through shares at a price of $0.06 per share representing $110,500. Each share is accompanied of one share purchase warrant that gives the right to subscribe...
Motion and ProContact deliver innovative end-to-end mobility solutions Quebec (PRWEB) February 16, 2013 Informatique ProContact is proud to announce it is now a Gold Partner of Motion Computing®, the worldwide leader in rugged tablet PCs and mobility solutions. Through this partnership, Informatique ProContact and Motion® will work together to deliver comprehensive, industry-leading mobile computing solutions to business customers. Informatique ProContact is proud to provide...
MONTREAL, Feb. 13, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Dr. Alain Moreau has been named Director for Research at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center (Sainte-Justine UHC), succeeding Dr. Guy Rouleau. Dr. Alain Moreau is a world-renowned research scientist in the area of molecular genetics of pediatric scoliosis. He is fully aware of the major challenges affecting research in Quebec and Canada, and is knowledgeable about the clinical issues faced by university hospital centers. He has...
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Symbol: CRSU2 Group: Dicot Family: Rosaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Tree Shrub Native Status: L48 N CAN N Synonyms: CRCH80 Crataegus champlainensis Sarg. Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:NY, WI Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed...
Symbol: CAQU4 Group: Monocot Family: Cyperaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Graminoid Native Status: CAN N Distribution: Carex×quebecensisLepage [bigelowii × saxatilis] distribution:CAN(QC) Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class ...
The Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus), or Red-back Salamander, is a small, hardy woodland salamander. It inhabits wooded slopes in Eastern North America, west to Missouri, south to North Carolina, and north from southern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces in Canada to Minnesota. salamander. It is also known as the Northern Redback Salamander to distinguish it from the Southern Redback Salamander (P. serratus). The Red-backed Salamander is found mostly in two color variations: the...
Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis, synomym B. lutea), is a species of birch native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and southern Quebec west to Minnesota, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia. It is the Provincial tree of Quebec and the name reflects the color of the tree's bark. This medium-sized deciduous tree reaches 20 m tall (exceptionally to 30 m) with a trunk up to 80 cm diameter. The bark is smooth, yellow-bronze, flaking in fine...
Comptonia is a genus of a single species, Comptonia peregrina, in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales. This shrub is native to eastern North America, from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia, and west to Minnesota. The common name is Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it is not a fern. Several fossil species have been discovered, showing that the genus once had a much wider distribution throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
