Transport Canada
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Transport Canada (French: Transports Canada) is the department within the government of Canada which is responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of transportation in Canada. It is part of the Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities (TIC) portfolio. Transport Canada has its offices in Ottawa, Ontario.The Department of Transport was created in 1935 by the government of William Lyon Mackenzie King in recognition of the changing transportation environment in Canada. It merged two historic departments the former Department of Railways and Canals and the Department of Marine under one dynamic minister Clarence Decatur Howe who would use the portfolio to rationalize the governance and provision of all forms of transportation (air, water and land).
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How newspapers already receive below-the-line government subsidies
Whenever the subject is raised about the government providing subsidies for newspapers most publishers, despite the financial straits of their companies, reject the notion on press freedom grounds.
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Adapt.ly Adding Reach, Funds In Social Ads; Exponential Launches AppSnack For In-App
Here's today's AdExchanger. com news round-up. . . Want it by email? Sign-up here. Social Ads Reach Social ads platform Adapt. ly raised another $10. 5 million (Time Warner threw down) and announced a new product called Evergreen yesterday. TechCrunch says that the product echoes Facebook's own Reach Generator product. Adapt. ly CEO Nikhil Sethi tells TC that the product is [.
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Tim Armstrong isn’t selling TechCrunch
Despite the chatter that TechCrunch and Engadget are on the auction block, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong says the company’s tech properties aren’t for sale.
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Report: Local Web advertising will pass local print advertising next year
Borrell Associates Is it time for the Internet to declare victory? A Borrell Associates report out today says local Web advertising will pass local print advertising next year. Online spending was up 21 percent in 2011.
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MP: public authority ad changes 'would undermine local media'
Department of Transport receives strong response to consultation on removing the requirement for local traffic orders to be placed in newspapers.
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TC Media Signs Exclusive Agreements with Hearst Digital Media and Homes Publishing Group
(Press Release) MONTREAL, Feb. 28, 2012— TC Media is pleased to announce that it is once again growing its digital advertising representation offering thanks to new partnerships to represent sites from Hearst Digital Media, a unit of Hearst. . .
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Satnav summit aims to stop motorists driving up blind alleys
Transport minister hopes better co-operation between councils and manufacturers will help drivers get better directions.
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Eventia lobbies Civil Aviation Authority over implementation of ATOL reform
Eventia has welcomed the Government’s decision to allow more time for the industry to prepare for its ATOL reform by deferring implementation to April 2012. Following Eventia’s response back in September to the Government’s consultation on reforming the scheme, which provides financial protection for airline passengers and holidaymakers, Brian Kirsch, chairman of the Eventia Regulation [.
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Eventia to lobby Civil Aviation Authority over ATOL reform
Meeting and events industry association Eventia is to lobby the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) over its implementation of the Air Travel Organisers Licensing (ATOL) reform.
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11 new journalism jobs found today
Press Gazette has found 11 new jobs for journalists today. To view the daily archive of our journalism jobs search click on Journalism Jobs. Department of Transport has a vacancy for corporate web publisher & editor (£30,287). You will be an experienced web publisher & editor and will have web editing and writing skills.
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