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Pharma Canada – Industry News, Whitepapers, Guides & More

PHARMA SYMPOSIUM CANADA Finding the Path to an Accessible and Sustainable Market Towards a New Way of Evaluating Orphan Drugs at CADTH Patients with rare diseases have always felt that orphan drugs should be evaluated differently. Now it appears that public payers are coming around to their point of view. READ MORE >> April 29,…

Storytelling – A Valuable Tool in Litigation

**STORYTELLING**   Part of the fabric of our society is storytelling. It is everywhere. We remember stories, we want to see and hear them. They sell products via ads, newspapers, books, magazines and movies. Our caveman ancestors probably only communicated through stories. From when we were children we were told stories and they usually had…

BC Natural Gas Symposium – Industry News

Kenney to consider local exemptions to TFW program after provincial complaints – See more at: http://www.hrreporter.com/articleview/21737-kenney-to-consider-local-exemptions-to-tfw-program-after-provincial-complaints#sthash.HmmqMz7D.dpuf Kenney to consider local exemptions to TFW program after provincial complaints – See more at: http://www.hrreporter.com/articleview/21737-kenney-to-consider-local-exemptions-to-tfw-program-after-provincial-complaints#sthash.HmmqMz7D.dpuf Kenney to consider local exemptions to TFW program after provincial complaints – See more at: http://www.hrreporter.com/articleview/21737-kenney-to-consider-local-exemptions-to-tfw-program-after-provincial-complaints#sthash.HmmqMz7D.dpuf Program To Fund Aboriginal LNG Training Kenney…

BC Natural Gas Symposium – Industry News

Kenney to consider local exemptions to TFW program after provincial complaints – See more at: http://www.hrreporter.com/articleview/21737-kenney-to-consider-local-exemptions-to-tfw-program-after-provincial-complaints#sthash.HmmqMz7D.dpuf Kenney to consider local exemptions to TFW program after provincial complaints – See more at: http://www.hrreporter.com/articleview/21737-kenney-to-consider-local-exemptions-to-tfw-program-after-provincial-complaints#sthash.HmmqMz7D.dpuf Kenney to consider local exemptions to TFW program after provincial complaints – See more at: http://www.hrreporter.com/articleview/21737-kenney-to-consider-local-exemptions-to-tfw-program-after-provincial-complaints#sthash.HmmqMz7D.dpuf Federal Budget 2015 Will Lay Out Tories’…

BC Natural Gas Symposium – Industry News

Kenney to consider local exemptions to TFW program after provincial complaints – See more at: http://www.hrreporter.com/articleview/21737-kenney-to-consider-local-exemptions-to-tfw-program-after-provincial-complaints#sthash.HmmqMz7D.dpuf Kenney to consider local exemptions to TFW program after provincial complaints – See more at: http://www.hrreporter.com/articleview/21737-kenney-to-consider-local-exemptions-to-tfw-program-after-provincial-complaints#sthash.HmmqMz7D.dpuf Kenney to consider local exemptions to TFW program after provincial complaints – See more at: http://www.hrreporter.com/articleview/21737-kenney-to-consider-local-exemptions-to-tfw-program-after-provincial-complaints#sthash.HmmqMz7D.dpuf Global supply glut threatens British Columbia’s LNG…

Regulatory Compliance for Financial Institutions – Industry News

  BNP Paribas hires ex-U.S.Treasury official for compliance job BNP Paribas has hired a former top official at the U.S. Treasury Department’s sanctions office, people familiar with the matter said, part of the French bank’s effort to build up its compliance department after its record settlement over sanctions violations. Sean Thornton, a former chief counsel…

Regulatory Compliance for Financial Institutions – Industry News

  New Regulations Drive Financial Firms, Global Vendors to Partner on Risk Issues Financial services firms are asking global service partners to work with them more closely to comply with new US banking regulations, and providers have been receptive, according to findings by the Duke University Offshoring Research Network (ORN). The Office of the Comptroller…

Cybersecurity – Industry News

Cyber security entrepreneurs: balancing secrecy and publicity As an address, “Nimrod House, Enigma Business Park”, seems particularly ap­pro­p­riate for a company in­vol­ved in encryption and secure communications for the British military. A German Enigma machine was used by Allied codebreakers to decipher intelligence in the second world war, while the Nimrod was a UK maritime…

Payments Compliance – Industry News

Keeping the Bank Account at the Center of Payments Changing consumer behavior in payments is something banks cannot ignore. With an increasing number of startup and non-financial technology companies operating in the world of payments, making sure the bank account remains at the center of each payments is a main point of focus for the…

Public Procurement – Industry News

If Canada wants to build roads and bridges, it needs infrastructure banks Mark Twain famously said, “Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” The same could be said about infrastructure in Canada today: “Everyone – on all points on the political spectrum – talks about infrastructure but nobody suggests serious, coherent…

Public Procurement – Industry News

Tories to tackle broken military procurement system The equipment needs of the Canadian military will be assessed with a more skeptical eye under the Harper government’s new system of defence procurement. The strategy, released Wednesday, also puts greater emphasis on arms exports by developing policies to “support international sales opportunities.” The plan introduced by Public…