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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
CHICAGO, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Ryerson Inc. (the "Company") today
announced that it will not consummate its exchange offer (the "Exchange
Offer") of 12% Senior Secured Notes due 2015 and Floating Rate Senior
Secured Notes due 2014 registered under the Securities Act of 1933 for
outstanding senior secured notes of the same series issued on October 19,
2007 (the "Initial Notes") on or before...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some recent research findings from professor Avner Levin of Ryerson University in Toronto may prompt CIOs to re-examine their views around employee privacy. Dr. Levin is co-author of the study The Next Digital Divide: Online Social Network Privacy, which explores the attitudes and perceptions of young social networkers to privacy and security, as well as organizational policies, practices and...
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Torontoist (Free subscription) | yesterday
During Nuit Blanche last weekend the iconic Sam the Record Man sign was lit up over Yonge Street one last time. Now the sign is coming down as demolition begins and the new owners, Ryerson University, transform the site into a Student Learning Centre . It will not disappear for long, however: last year Toronto City Council voted to designate the entire building a heritage site in order to protect...
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Slaw (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
I’m pleased to report that Lesley Harris will be joining Slaw as an occasional contributor. Lesley is a lawyer, consultant and author who works on Canadian, U.S., and international copyright law, licensing and digital property issues. Based in Washington D.C, she’s a member of the bar in Ontario and is the author of several books including “Canadian Copyright Law” published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of 4.7 per cent. "As fees increase, I just see my future getting really sad," said second-year Ryerson student Salvador, who is working on her second degree. "I have even contemplated taking a year off, to just work, so I can start paying off my debt."In Ontario, the average tuition increase this year is just under the 5 per cent tuition fee cap the province implemented in 2006 to rein in...
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Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... addition to his work in radio, McLean is a prolific and bestselling author; professor emeritus at Ryerson University in Toronto and former director of the broadcast division of the School of Journalism; and three time winner of Canada’s Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour . His most recent books feature stories about the fictional couple Dave and Morley, and their family, friends,...
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Greenthinkers (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... for gravity feed technology. Participants included: Lloyd Alter, architect, associate professor at Ryerson University School of Interior Design, teaching sustainable design, and writer at TreeHugger.com, led the notable participants through the Symposium as moderator. Alter recently posted his own review of ZeroWater® and the Symposium on Treehugger.com. Elizabeth Royte, author of Bottlemania...
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small dead animals (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
And my brother who went to Ryerson Polytechnical at the same time Taliban Jack was teaching there sent me this anecdote: "I had Jack Layton as a teacher at Ryerson U. and even in a class dominated by Liberal and leftist types, Jack was never taken seriously. The height of the year was when Jack showed us a Marxist cartoon reel (30 minutes) with a communist rat explaining to us how bad...
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MisterBryans' (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... of thousands who braved a chilly night to see an army of rubber duckies floated onto a pond at Ryerson University, or the City Hall turned into a giant video-game display, were “ordinary working people.” Such individuals were undoubtedly among the estimated 175,000 who turned out for Montreal's Nuit Blanche in March, or among the millions of Canadians who enjoy the work of the many recipients...
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CityNews: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
It is a moment that many thought would never come, akin to the day Eaton's declared bankruptcy and disappeared into Canadian history. Monday is the moment the face of Yonge St. changes if not forever at least for a few years - it's the day the iconic Sam The Record Man sign disappears from Toronto's landscape. The marquee is being taken down so that new owner Ryerson University can refurbish...
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Boston 1775 (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Last month I was chatting with Richard Ryerson, former editor-in-chief of the Adams Papers , about not finding any use of the phrase “Intolerable Acts” in 1774-75. He in turn reminded me that many books credit another phrase that we use a lot when speaking of the Revolution—“founding fathers”—to Warren G. Harding . So I figured I’d try to confirm that. Harding was certainly fond of the phrase,...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... here." The witness, speaking to an editor with The Eyeopener, the student newspaper at nearby Ryerson University, said the victim attended Jean Vanier High School. Comments on this story are moderated|
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... times. Every now and then we get rough seas.” Jeffrey Dvorkin, a former NPR ombudsman now with the Ryerson School of Journalism in Toronto, described the tensions as “growing pains as NPR uses its considerable editorial and creative muscle to use the Internet to maximum effect.” The fears come down to whether enhancing the NPR.org Web site will encourage listeners to bypass the individual...
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CityNews: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
... of many battles, eventually ending when City Hall declared the spinning discs a heritage landmark. Ryerson took over the building where the mighty record store stood for years, and has plans to rebuild it. But fans of the famous symbol will get one last chance to see it in all its neon glory this weekend, during , the all night art show. Your final opportunity to see it in action will happen...
