For the past several months, a colleague of mine has been spending much of his spare time preparing for the launch of an amazingly unique Twitter movement in support of Alzheimer’s disease research (his father is currently battling the disease). The idea is called “A Million Tweets to Remember” (1MTweets) to properly honor their memories. It launches today – September 21st – World Alzheimer’s Day, and any help is needed to get the word out. (more…)
Adam van Koeverden exorcised some demons at the world canoe and kayak championships on August 17. Almost exactly a year after his disappointing eighth-place finish at the 2008 Olympics in the 1,000-metre kayak race, van Koeverden won the bronze medal after setting the early pace in the K-1 1,000 final.
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Why Your World Is about to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization by Jeff Rubin is one of fourteen books to make the longlist for the 2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. (more…)
Canadian senior journalist with CBC Television, Keith Boag, will end a five-year run as CBC’s chief political correspondent in Ottawa to report out of Los Angeles, where he will cover the California region and beyond. (more…)
Captures gold and silver at World Championship tune-up
Olympian Adam Van Koeverden finished with gold in the men’s K-1 1,000 and silver in the K-1 8,000 at the World Cup canoe and kayak circuit in Racic, Czech Republic on Saturday, May 9. Van Koeverden is preparing for the world championships in August in Dartmouth, NS, where he says it will be important for the Canadian paddlers to flex their muscles before a home crowd.
The Secrets of Personal Marketing Success.
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Jeff Mowatt’s book about to be released.
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On Tuesday, April 20, The Toronto Star’s Staff Reporter Joseph Hall contacted the Professional Speakers’ Bureau to ask what a motivational speaker would say if he had an opportunity to go into the Toronto Maple Leaf dressing room prior to the 7th game of the first round of the 2004 playoffs with the Ottawa Senators. (more…)
At the 20th Anniversary of the Great Valentine Gala held on February 14, 2004, more than one thousand friends and supporters of the Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons gathered at Toronto’s Royal York Hotel for a cherished rite that has become one of this country’s signal tributes to the aspirations and achievements of Canadians with disabilities. (more…)
Informative and provocative while addressing controversial issues with panache.
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