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June 1, 2002
By
Canadian Consulting Engineer
CANARIE, Canada's advanced internet development organization, is building a new version of the high speed network that links researchers and scientists across the country. CA*net 4 will be based on po...
CANARIE, Canada’s advanced internet development organization, is building a new version of the high speed network that links researchers and scientists across the country. CA*net 4 will be based on point-to-point optical wavelengths and will be one of the fastest networks in the world. Whereas a decade ago users of CA*net 1 could download the Canadian Encyclopedia in nine minutes, when CA*net 3 came along they could do it instantaneously. Now CA*net 4 is eight times as fast again.
P.Eng. What?
In a survey conducted for the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, only one-quarter of the general public could name the professional designation for engineers.
Pigs in s…
The federal Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development has found that agricultural manure waste in the Great Lakes basin is a serious environmental threat. Livestock operations in Ontario and Quebec produce combined volumes of manure equivalent to the sewage of more than 100 million people. — source Canadian Water Quality Association.
Art for rent
Are your office walls dreary? Want to inspire clients with your cultural and aesthetic sense? Canada Council rents out items from its contemporary Canadian collection of 18,000 works to private sector businesses. Rentals are for two-year periods with costs ranging between $120 to $1,800 per year. Call the Art Bank at 1-800-263-5588 x 4636.
