Michael Geist reports:

Copyright and Canada's Small and Medium Sized Businesses

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Thursday October 25, 2007

David Akin points to a recent Strategic Counsel survey (full report, executive summary) conducted on intellectual property awareness within Canada's SME community. The findings suggest that intellectual property issues rank well down on the priority list for most Canadian businesses. Most know little about IP and profess limited concern about the current framework. Indeed, 78% of respondents do not have significant concerns over intellectual property violation or infringement. What does that say about the government's decision to prioritize copyright reform?

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Palonek

Edward Palonek

The Eva Rothwell Resource Center formerly the The Robert Land Public School will have a satellite health clinic that will provide partner primary health services and community outreach program for area residents.

Families in the area will have access to a nurse practitioner for primary care, a social worker and a client advocate to help connect them to a broad range of community resources.

"It’s just spectacular," Robert Land Community Association chair Don MacVicar told me this afternoon. "What a marvelous gift for the families in the neighbourhood."

Edward Palonek opens community center

Robert Land School is now officially the Eva Rothwell Resource Center.

Robert Land School on Wentworth Street North closed in June, 2004. Yesterday it officially became the Eva Rothwell Resource Center, named for the mother of benefactor Edward Palonek . She attended Robert Land as a girl.

The old classrooms have new uses. One is a parent/child drop-in program, another is a drop-in room for teens, already so popular that its hours have been extended. The old school library is becoming an innovation center. There are after school homework programs, summer day camps, karate, dance, basketball and football.
With 48,000 square feet of space, there are ambitious plans under way to make the school the go-to place for neighborhood children, teens, parents and seniors alike.
The resource center will be a place to learn, to socialize, to look for a job, to see a doctor or police officer, to turn to for start-up furniture, warm clothes, or emergency food -- all of it free of charge.
Several programs are already up and running, just the beginning of a long list that will come on stream over the coming year. There are negotiations under way with potential tenants for the upper floor of the old school. Their rent will pay the cost of operating the rest of the building.