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WEBINARS
Recordings
Wednesday, June 3rd Recording
Frederic Gonzalo is a sought-after keynote speaker and trainer, with over 25 years of experience in the travel and hospitality sphere
Communicate Moving Forward
While there is still a lot of uncertainty amidst this Covid-19 pandemic across the globe, many destinations are slowly starting to shift gears as deconfinement is gradually taking place. Is it too soon to promote travel in this context? Is it enough to simply be inspirational for better times to come? There are many actions travel marketers ought to take right now to get ready for when demand will return in greater strides. In this 45 minute webinar, we will cover:
– The three pillars of an effective digital marketing approach for travel brands
– What changes you should make to your website in this evolving context
– How your email and newsletter efforts must adapt to the new reality
– The importance of maintaining a dynamic presence on key social media platforms
Frederic Gonzalo
Download the complete presentation transcript with supporting visuals
Peter Greenberg, “The Travel Detective”, CBS NEWS TRAVEL EDITOR
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
“The Future of Travel”
ENTERTAINMENT! JUST HAVE SOME FUN!
Circ de Soleil Presentation of “O Show’
from the Bellagio Las Vegas! FREE!
Watch this exiting a breathtaking 90-minute show in HD! You get front-row seat views and More! The Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas offers its magnificent circus performance “O Show” for *FREE* Normally ticket price ranges from USD107 – USD460!
Skal Canada
Go To Meeting platform – Clubs can use the platform to host Executive/ Board meetings 8 am to 8 pm Central Monday – Saturday. You can host a meeting and display agendas/ documents etc.
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DID YOU KNOW!
Share stories of your local heroes, volunteers and businesses helping fight COVID-19.
WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg company’s ventilator design could be a critical part of the battle against COVID-19.
Cerebra Health Inc. announced Thursday the ‘Winnipeg Ventilator’ has been picked as the ventilator of choice by Next Generation Manufacturing Supercluster. It was chosen by a national consortium of leading engineers and manufacturers as part of the federal government’s response to COVID-19.
Dr. Madgy Younes, Cerebra’s scientific founder, developed the original Winnipeg Ventilator. The design was licensed and used as the basis for commercial ventilators throughout the 1990s and 2000s. The units were also used during the 2003 SARS epidemic. This is a very cost-effective solution and easily ramped up for high volume manufacturing.
“The nature of respiratory distress in patients with COVID-19 requires different approaches to ventilatory support in different patients, and in the same patient at different times,” Younes said in a statement. “This means the ventilator must be able to deliver a range of ventilator modes and oxygen concentrations of up to 100%. While all standard commercial ICU ventilators meet these requirements, it is very difficult to manufacture such ventilators at the scale and speed required for the COVID-19 pandemic and they are very expensive.”
VANCOUVER ISLAND – Local pulp mill supplies materials for medical protective equipment in both Canada and U.S.
Harmac Pacific, whose facility is located in Nanaimo, B.C., produces a type of pulp that is used by U.S. manufacturers to make make products that include paper gowns, surgical masks and caps, some of which are then shipped to Canada. The company says one of those customers recently doubled its order, prompting the facility to shift its production to focus on pulp for medical-grade paper.
OTTAWA: Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, said the hand-held DNA analyzer from Ottawa’s Spartan Bioscience will offer rapid test results for health services in rural and remote areas that otherwise must send their samples to laboratories in larger centres.
Dubbed the Spartan Cube, results can be had in less than an hour and do not require the specialized expertise and equipment of a large lab. Tam said the number of devices ready for shipment “is constantly being updated,” but said the procurement contract is for 14,000 per month in the upcoming months.