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Codexis Announces Appointment of Masad Damha, PhD, and Jim Lalonde, PhD, to Strategic Advisory Board

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024
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This board is now comprised of experts across oligonucleotide synthesis and manufacturing and was established to help guide the Company’s strategic direction, providing critical insights to inform the continued development of Codexis’ ECO Synthesis™ manufacturing platform.

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  • This board is now comprised of experts across oligonucleotide synthesis and manufacturing and was established to help guide the Company’s strategic direction, providing critical insights to inform the continued development of Codexis’ ECO Synthesis™ manufacturing platform.
  • “We are thrilled to have Masad and Jim lend their decades of experience in oligonucleotide research and development to our Strategic Advisory Board,” said Stefan Lutz, PhD, Senior Vice President of Research at Codexis.
  • Dr. Damha is a co-founder of Anagenis, Inc., a start-up with proprietary antisense technologies (ANA and FANA).
  • Presently, Dr. Lalonde serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Willow Biosciences and as a Scientific Advisory Board member at Bota Biosciences, bitBiome, Curie Co. and Invizyne.

Power Corporation Announces Executive Appointment

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024
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MONTRÉAL, Feb. 14, 2024 /CNW/ - Power Corporation of Canada (TSX: POW) ("Power Corporation" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Mr. Jake Lawrence as Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, effective March 18, 2024.

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  • MONTRÉAL, Feb. 14, 2024 /CNW/ - Power Corporation of Canada (TSX: POW) ("Power Corporation" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Mr. Jake Lawrence as Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, effective March 18, 2024.
  • "I am delighted to welcome Jake to Power Corporation," said R. Jeffrey Orr, President and Chief Executive Officer.
  • Mr. Lawrence will replace Mr. Gregory D. Tretiak, who joined Power Corporation in 2012 as Chief Financial Officer.
  • Mr. Lawrence will also serve as Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Power Financial Corporation, a subsidiary of the Corporation.

Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announces judicial appointments to the Federal Court

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Monday, February 12, 2024
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OTTAWA, ON, Feb. 12, 2024 /CNW/ - The Honourable Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointments under the judicial application process established in 2016.

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  • OTTAWA, ON, Feb. 12, 2024 /CNW/ - The Honourable Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointments under the judicial application process established in 2016.
  • Julie L. Blackhawk, General Counsel at the Department of Justice Canada in Ottawa, is appointed a Judge of the Federal Court.
  • This includes 64 appointments since the Honourable Arif Virani became Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada on July 26, 2023.
  • Federal judicial appointments are made by the Governor General, acting on the advice of the federal Cabinet and recommendations from the Minister of Justice.

K-12 School, Post-Secondary Programs, Community Theatre, Childcare and Outdoor Recreational Fields Proposed for an Expanded Community Hub in Wasaga Beach

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Thursday, October 19, 2023
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“On behalf of the Council of Wasaga Beach, we could not be more excited about this partnership,” said Mayor Smith.

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  • “On behalf of the Council of Wasaga Beach, we could not be more excited about this partnership,” said Mayor Smith.
  • This will offer students a dynamic environment for education programming, a resource for research and study, and a hub for education, sport and community engagement.
  • This will fill a current facility void in the Wasaga Beach community and help support the growth of a strong arts and culture sector in Wasaga Beach.
  • Simcoe County has provided a letter of support to bring much needed child care facilities to the community hub.

Avalon Expands Partnership Agreement with Metso of Finland for its Lithium Processing Facility and New Technology & Innovation Centre in Ontario

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Thursday, October 19, 2023
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Metso to provide testing and engineering equipment procurement and related services to develop and commercialize Avalon's Thunder Bay lithium processing facility.

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  • Metso to provide testing and engineering equipment procurement and related services to develop and commercialize Avalon's Thunder Bay lithium processing facility.
  • Avalon and Metso to cooperate on the recycling of used batteries and the refining of battery chemicals for recycle use.
  • The expanded partnership agreement follows a memorandum of understanding from July 2023 that enabled Metso and Avalon to develop an innovative, sustainable methodology to produce commercial lithium hydroxide from petalite mineral feeds.
  • "Avalon is proud to import world-leading innovation and processing technology solutions to help ensure that Canada leads the NetZero economy of the future.

Federal Ministers, The Hon. François-Philippe Champagne, The Hon. Patty Hajdu and Other Dignitaries Tour Avalon's Planned Lithium Processing Site in Thunder Bay, ON

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Thursday, October 12, 2023
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Patty Hajdu, Minister of Indigenous Services and FedNor and other officials for a private tour of the Company's planned lithium processing site in Thunder Bay, ON.

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  • Patty Hajdu, Minister of Indigenous Services and FedNor and other officials for a private tour of the Company's planned lithium processing site in Thunder Bay, ON.
  • The delegation toured Avalon's 383-acre industrial property on Strathcona Avenue that features major transportation infrastructure including, road, rail and deep-water port access.
  • A proportionate level of financing is now required to develop a secure, fully on-shored supply of lithium raw material to manufacturers.
  • The Avalon processing facility in Thunder Bay will operate as a regional hub, helping generate associated investment flow across Ontario.

Canada invests in Thunder Bay projects to clean up and protect the Great Lakes

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023
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THUNDER BAY, ON, Oct. 10, 2023 /CNW/ - The Great Lakes are essential to the health and well-being of millions of Canadians, natural ecosystems, and the economy.

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  • THUNDER BAY, ON, Oct. 10, 2023 /CNW/ - The Great Lakes are essential to the health and well-being of millions of Canadians, natural ecosystems, and the economy.
  • $108,500 for Lakehead University to implement the Thunder Bay Area of Concern Wildlife Habitat Strategy and facilitate community engagement.
  • These local projects will help to advance Canada's commitments under the Canada–United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the Canada–Ontario Agreement on Great Lakes Water Quality and Ecosystem Health.
  • "Canada is making transformative investments to clean up the Great Lakes, targeting key areas of concern like Thunder Bay.

Book review: African thinkers analyse some of the big issues of our time - race, belonging and identity

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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They are the subject of the book The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race and Belonging, edited by Benjamin Maiangwa, a political scientist at Lakehead University in Canada.

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  • They are the subject of the book The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race and Belonging, edited by Benjamin Maiangwa, a political scientist at Lakehead University in Canada.
  • The contributors are academics, mostly early career scholars and doctoral candidates in African and North American universities.
  • In a world increasingly divided by supremacist ideologies, the insights in this collection of essays are highly relevant.

What the book’s about

    • Some of the essays are autobiograpical; some are literary criticism; others scholarly analyses.
    • Among them are ideas about naming, indigeneity, land, citizenship, identitarian disparity, diasporic (un)being, immigration and migration, and the political economy of (un)belonging.
    • The volume is structured into three parts: Identity, Coloniality, and Home; Diaspora, Race, and Immigration; and Belonging: Cross-Cutting Issues.

Critical probing and analysis

    • The chapters inspired by personal experiences do as much critical probing as those framed by hardcore analyses.
    • The contributions don’t sound jointly rehearsed, but represent a form of dialogue.
    • Readers will find a kaleidoscope of interrelated but distinct compelling arguments on matters of race, identity and belonging, and the violent and paradoxical patterns they take in the postcolony.
    • He welcomes readers with questions that invite them to ruminate on place and identity construction and the way it determines relations.

The construction of race

    • It stresses racial signifiers – indigenous, native, white, black – as markers which mask, confuse, distress and misrepresent.
    • In some people they produce false triumphalism and superiority and in others they activate demeaning nervousness.
    • And it is this matter of invented racial/cultural identity that the conversation in chapter 12 of the book foregrounds.

Interconnected humanity

    • This volume is a force in the promotion and celebration of the dignity of human differences.
    • The humanistic ring in this book results from a conviction that the human or spiritual identity trumps all other ones, including institutionalised discriminatory ways of being and exclusionary policies and regulations, all of which enable the questioning of other people’s humanity.
    • The contributors’ insistence is on interconnected human relations and, to borrow from the Canadian novelist and essayist, Dionne Brand, on life –
      It is life you must insist on.

Dryden Gold Corp Enhances Its Management Team & Board of Directors

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
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Dryden, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 14, 2023) - Dryden Gold Corp. ("Dryden Gold or the Company") is pleased to announce two important additions to it management team and Board of Directors.

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  • Dryden, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 14, 2023) - Dryden Gold Corp. ("Dryden Gold or the Company") is pleased to announce two important additions to it management team and Board of Directors.
  • The Company has also strengthened its Board with the addition of Janet Lee-Sheriff as Independent Director.
  • Dryden Gold is a privately held company with extensive property holdings in the Dryden District of Northwest Ontario.
  • Trey Wasser, Dryden Gold CEO, commented, “Dryden Gold has now consolidated 100% of a large strategic property package in the under-explored Dryden District (See Figure 1).

Fraser Institute News Release: Canada’s high government spending and debt accumulation did not produce economic growth during COVID

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Thursday, May 11, 2023
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- During the pandemic, despite high levels of government spending and debt accumulation, Canada’s economy underperformed compared to most other advanced countries, finds a new study published today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.

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  • VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- During the pandemic, despite high levels of government spending and debt accumulation, Canada’s economy underperformed compared to most other advanced countries, finds a new study published today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
  • And yet, from 2019 to 2022, among the same 40 countries, Canada ranked 29th on per-person GDP growth (a common measure of prosperity), and had the 2nd largest drop in employment in 2020.
  • Canada’s economic performance during the pandemic was in contrast to many other advanced countries—Ireland, for example, actually reduced its government debt (as a share of its economy) while increasing the rate of per-person economic growth more than any other industrialized country.
  • To protect the Institute’s independence, it does not accept grants from governments or contracts for research.