HRM arts funding in crisis - The Chronicle Herald
26 May 2012, 4:36 am
Municipal funding for arts and culture in Halifax Regional Municipality is in crisis. Unlike most Canadian cities, HRM does not provide stable and predictable arts funding. This has been a hard year for many annual events. Because Halifax has a system of ...

Metro Vancouver to seek P3 funding for incinerator project - The Vancouver Sun
25 May 2012, 5:52 pm
Metro Vancouver will apply for P3 Canada funding for its proposed incinerator project to convert the region's trash into energy despite concerns from most Burnaby and Vancouver directors that involving private investors will significantly ...

Part One: Pension planning — funding our golden years - The Vancouver Sun
25 May 2012, 3:21 pm
Canadians are worried about their future. A majority say they live paycheque to paycheque and have no financial plan. In a poll by the Canadian Payroll Association, 57 per cent said they’d face financial difficulty if their pay was delayed by ...

Tories spurned Quebec towns to give 'cultural capital' funding to Calgary - Calgary Herald
25 May 2012, 1:27 pm
OTTAWA — The Harper government has spurned the advice of experts recommending that it spend money to promote culture in two Quebec towns and Ontario's Niagara region, choosing instead to split the more than $3 million between Niagara and ...

Amid funding concerns, West Shore school districts grapple with rising costs of fuel and pensions - PennLive.com
25 May 2012, 9:09 am
How many school district officials does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Answer: One, provided that the school district can afford the lightbulb. The countdown to the final budgets for the West Shore’s four school districts is about over.

SocGen Search for funding Takes Bank to German Car Buyers - Businessweek
25 May 2012, 2:57 am
Societe Generale SA (GLE)’s quest for funding is prompting the bank, France’s second-largest, to mine sources not tapped before: German car loans and Dim Sum debt. Seeking shelter from Europe’s resurgent sovereign debt crisis, Societe ...

Cannes 2012: Europe's Film Organizations Attack New EU funding Rules - Hollywood Reporter
24 May 2012, 11:05 am
The proposed new rules would cut funding for Hollywood films shooting in Europe and could make cross-border co-productions more difficult. COLOGNE, Germany - The heads of Europe's public film funding bodies have attacked proposed changes to European law ...

UPDATE 1-Chinese developers face survival test as funding crunch intensifies - Reuters
24 May 2012, 3:12 am
HONG KONG May 24 (Reuters) - The funding crisis for mainland Chinese property developers is intensifying, ratings agencies say, with real-estate builders facing spiking borrowing costs and a limited ability to raise cash at a time when sales and ...

Juniper Networks Invests In Video Conferencing Startup Vidyo, Bringing Total funding To About $100M - TechCrunch
22 May 2012, 4:08 pm
Video conferencing startup Vidyo announced Tuesday that it has received a strategic investment from Juniper Networks as part of the network equipment vendor’s Junos Innovation Fund. The funding comes alongside existing Vidyo investors such as ...

Removing mental health stigma bigger priority than funding: health minister - news.nationalpost.com
22 May 2012, 3:03 pm
OTTAWA — Canada needs to deal with the stigma surrounding mental health issues before it can go on to tackle funding questions, says federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq. Now that the country has a new, national, mental health strategy, all ...