Sentences with phrase «other centres of»

Other centres of innovation and excellence emerged, among them Black Mountain College in North Carolina, the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, the California College of Arts and Crafts, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the Penland School of Crafts and the Pilchuck Glass School.

An impressive range of museums and other centres of culture.

Chalker adds that the government also supports work in other centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, which house seed collections.

Not exact matches

There was also the report recently issued by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre that found internet and other telecommunications services are unaffordable for a large number of Canadians.

When we had Cisco doing their innovation centres here, one of five in the world, recently we had a couple of other global companies that have come here, they talk about that as being an important consideration.

We are also looking at other areas, such as evaluating the possibility of associating with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Global Centre for Endowment Consultancy, which will be integrated into our business model.

The deregulation in 2010 of the yuan in Hong Kong turned the city into a RMB investment hub, a position for which London, Singapore and other financial centres are now vying.

The centre launched in January with the support of PwC among others.

Last year, the company surveyed a portion of its call - centre staff on health and wellness with the help of Scienta Health and found many suffered from headaches, obesity and other preventable problems.

In 1995, Ralph Gregory took the concept of the hosted business centre — where you lease an office or room but share reception, office machines and additional amenities with others — a step further when he founded Intelligent Office in Boulder, Colo..

The reception centre marked the beginning of a number of other similar initiatives in the region this year, such as helping improve search - and - rescue efforts in the waters around the island.

Much of the reporting on the first McGowan government budget has centred on payroll tax hikes and the new gold levy, but there is a lot of other stuff in there that bears examination.

The other words that should be front and centre, of course, are «jail time.»

While the debate was lively and heated — Krugman remarked to Gingrich, «I think we need to go outside and throw spreadsheets at each other,» — it was clearly centred on the problem of wealth in America, not Canada.

And while it's clear the Liberals hope to use their tax changes as a sort of parable for the standing - up - for - ordinary - workers part of their broader discourse — a centre - left populism that Trudeau believes other like - minded leaders, such as Hillary Clinton, forgot to defend, to their peril — the specific tax changes in question didn't appear on the Liberals» radar because the current arrangements are unfair.

Because they aren't responsible for collecting the taxes for these payments, «a provincial government and its voters are incited to always demand more from the centre, shifting a large part of the costs to the taxpayers of other provinces,» argues Université du Québec economist Pierre Lemieux.

I can't speak for other Canadian cities, but here in Toronto the debate over congestion has centred on what kind of public transit additions we need.

There are already two Chanel stores in Toronto, but they're exactly where you'd expect them: Yorkville and the Yorkdale Shopping Centre, in the company of other luxury retailers.

For more than a decade, the threat of terrorism has contributed to rising oil prices, global instability and insecurity in major financial centres — in other words, it's been a major drag on business.

Rogers Centre and other stadiums are among the early adopters of digital surveillance, and with good reason — the larger the area to be monitored, the more sense Avigilon's ultra-high-resolution cameras make.

Sears's move into the Eaton Centre — along with several other prime locations across the country — following the collapse of the centre's namesake in 2002 gave the retail giant a huge advantage over the competCentre — along with several other prime locations across the country — following the collapse of the centre's namesake in 2002 gave the retail giant a huge advantage over the competcentre's namesake in 2002 gave the retail giant a huge advantage over the competition.

Maintenance: A 25 - year - old building will inevitably lack the state - of - art air - handling systems, elevator cabs and other construction technology found in newer buildings, such as the nearby RBC Centre, completed in 2009.

Political risk consulting company Eurasia Group says that other measures the Trump administration may soon roll out could include blocking Chinese cloud services companies from establishing data centres in the U.S.; a renewed emphasis on restricting sales of Chinese telecommunications equipment to major U.S. operators; and prohibiting Chinese acquisitions of U.S. firms in sectors such as artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, semiconductors and biotechnology.

The centre acts as a catalyst to exploit the concentration of academic and health sector talent in the private sector, at the University of Toronto (in medicine, law, economics, and bioethics among others) and the Rotman School.

And so it is left to Don Walker, the company's chief executive officer and a 24 - year company veteran, as well as other managers, to sustain the unique Magna corporate culture that includes profit sharing and stock ownership for employees, an employee charter of rights and generally small factories that are individual profit centres and encourage managers to be entrepreneurial.

Yussuff and one of the other task force members, Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn.

SeenIt last raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from Housing.com investor Vineet Singh, Dalmia (in personal capacity), and Tanvi Rangwalla, head of Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at IIM Ahmedabad, among others.

While many are skeptical about whether or not this tax was the right policy tool, an influx of foreign investment capital, as seen in the Lower Mainland and other urban centres, does contribute to skyrocketing housing prices.

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), ACORN Canada (ACORN) and National Pensioners Federation (NPF) today reacted negatively to the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) rejection of their review of the CRTC's previous decision to deny creating a fund to ensure all Canadians, including lower - income Canadians, have equal access to broadband and other telecommunications services.

«After two years of developing global interest in B.C.'s LNG potential, this year's budget has selected four or five other key industries for strategic investment and growth — from the film industry to mining, aerospace, and a Maritime Centre of Excellence.»

Funded through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) and with support from the Canadian Innovation Centre (CIC) and a consortium of other non-profit Regional Innovation Centres, including MaRS, the program is geared to train as many as 450 entrepreneurs over 15 months, and provide as much as $ 4 million in seed financing to qualified applicants.

The additional $ 10 - million gift from the CCMF to the centre will strengthen its teaching and research activities and could include enhanced programs, curriculum development and the recruitment of new faculty, among other initiatives.

Beyond the universities, Canada has other publicly and privately funded incubators and centres of excellence, where entrepreneurs can learn to start and grow a business.

Playing to its town - centre location, such as close proximity to the motorway network and access to a skilled labour pool, the project masterplan envisages a mix of new office space, a business - class hotel and other complementary uses such as retail and leisure.

That tallies with other measures of liquidity, such as trading volume and the average size of transactions (Graph 1, centre panel).

The school will be expanding their team of facilitators and moving into other global startup centres in the coming months.

The first platform of its kind in North America, SVX is led by the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing in close collaboration with TMX Group Inc., and is supported by the Government of Ontario, KPMG, Torys LLP, J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, and many other partners.

May 26 and 27, 2017 at the Palacio de Minería, Calle Tacuba 5 in the Historic Centre of Mexico City «We call on social movements, trade unions, farmers, indigenous nations, migrants, environmentalists, human rights groups and all other interested sectors / organizations from Mexico, United States and Canada to come together to strengthen trinational work in the -LSB-...]

We empower over 3,000 members to succeed within a jurisdiction that covers approximately 2,500 square kilometres including Hamilton, Burlington, Glanbrook, Grimsby, West Lincoln, Caledonia, Dunnville, Hagersville and other small centres south to Port Maitland on the shores of Lake Erie.

It retracted that decision, but in 2013 it struck a fatal blow, demanding $ 229,000 in rent, and forcing the centre to move to other premises that required $ 300,000 worth of renovations.

SVX is led by the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing, in close collaboration with TMX Group and with support from the Government of Ontario, Torys LLP, KPMG, RBC, the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and a host of other partners.

One of the platforms for MaRS commercialization programs is the MaRS Centre, a convergence facility for life science, information technology and other related disciplines.

Other projects include the restoration of the Cancer Society Centre, Senior Citizen Centre and St Andrew's Kirk Elderly Home in The Bahamas; the construction of a new multipurpose room at Petite Savanne Primary School in Dominica; and the provision of school supplies to children in St Lucia.

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«If the EU and the UK come to a successful resolution, that could possibly put the US and Japan and some other entities in a difficult position because now you've got a joint position of two different strong financial centres united, and here is the best a way forward.»

Corporate offices, university campuses, hospitals and other built environments will be empowered to create environments where the user is placed at the centre of the service delivery.

I don't agree that cosmologists are wrong to look for other explanations before deciding that the CMB map indicates that we are near the centre of the universe though.

Those who are running food banks, debt centres and all manner of creative projects are beginning to realise that they can work more effectively when they collaborate with other churches.

And will the system of public funding for Christian schools — centred on the fact that such schools existed long before those established by any other authority in Britain — cease if the schools insist on retaining their Christian identity?

«Have we forgotten», he continues, «that Jesus Christ is the true centre of all that we do because we have become too focused on other demands of school life?