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UBC, UNB receive funding from feds, Bell for innovation programming The Government of Canada and Bell each recently announced planned investments in cleantech and cybersecurity development totalling $3.1 million at two Canadian universities. Through Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD), the federal government is investing $1.9 million to fund the creation of a cleantech innovation hub at the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Okanagan campus. Across the country, telecom giant Bell is investing $1.2 million to support a comprehensive cybersecurity education progra...

fire Nov 2, 2020 NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports from near the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia after an electrical fire knocked out power to the Parkway House Apartments early Monday morning. After being awakened by fire alarms, residents sat in SEPTA buses and their cars to stay warm. Residents were later told it could be up to 30 days before they can return to... Philadelphia Oct 16, 2020

Dec. 15, 2020 This summer, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) awarded over $42 million in Youth Apprenticeship Readiness grants to 14 organizations to increase youth participation in new or existing Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAPs). This investment marks the first federal initiative targeted specifically at youth apprenticeship since the School-to-Work Opportunities Act nearly 25 years ago, and will provide resources to expand apprenticeship opportunities at a critical time for young adults. In particular, the investment encourages programs to improve apprenticeship access and outcom...

Business, you have the forefront of feeling the tech impact. it's such a powerful impact for everybody, it's been so stimulating for the economy. essentially the people now want to spend on prevention, want to have those services like hair rejuvenation or skin rejuvenation for the extensions, like you mentioned were doing their dna sequencing, understanding how not to get sick and how to prevent that. >> so people are spending money on themselves. and they are feelings of freedom to do that kind of thing that they may not have wanted to do in the past. >> that's music to the whole economy, bec...

Conference. over 5,000 developers here to listen to announcements we will see on the phones the next few months. one interesting one which is unexpected. a tech addiction tool. screen time. apple is now giving us the ability to monitor how much time we're spending on our phones. certain features allow us to look at the numbers. for me it will be scary. the ability to take the power back and focus more. i spoke to tim cook about it. >> tell meut your tech habit. >> i have been using it and i have to tell you i thought i was fairly disciplined abouthis issue. i was wrong. when i began to get the...