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BOLTON PIECE - PRINT VERSION
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LOCAL Council – what are the worst images conjured up when thinking of those words?
Let me make it easy for you.
Lazy employees that take forever to process requests, generally unhelpful and bored, unfulfilling positions that can transform a new recruit full of fresh ideas and faith in the system, to the jaded staff that many of us have encountered at our local councils.…
CONSUMERS PACKAGING
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S LEADER in glass bottle making, Consumers Packaging Inc. has
appointed a new trouble shooter Brent Ballantyne as its Chief Restructuring Officer, a move that is expected to lead to an increase in bottle prices for the Canadian drinks industry.…
RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN utilities will be able to apply for grants from budgets of Euro 1.7 billion, which has been earmarked for energy, transport, sustainable development and global change and of Euro 3.6 billion, for information society research – including telecommunications – if proposals from the European Commission for a new framework research programme, are agreed.…
RESEARCH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN manufacturing industries will be able to apply for grants from budgets of Euro 1.7 billion, which has been earmarked for energy, transport, sustainable development and global change and of Euro 1 billion for aeronautics and space – if proposals from the European Commission for a new framework research programme, are agreed.…
CANADA - UNIONISATION
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN farmers are awaiting a Supreme Court of Canada decision, which could allow farm workers in Ontario the right to establish effective unions and engage in collective bargaining.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union challenged the provincial Progressive Conservative government’s constitutional right to repeal legislation imposed by a previous social democratic government in 1995, which allowed the province’s farm workers to unionise and bargain collectively.…
IDIOTS GUIDE COMPUTER SECURITY
Keith Nuthall
INTRODUCTION
IMAGINE the scene. You are a managing director of a new delivery service. You have bought computers, stationary, furniture, filing cabinets, vans and telephones. Advertising has been placed and orders are expected. You are ready to go.
Just one problem.…