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Congratulations to our clients @LockheedMartin @LMCanadaNews @L3HarrisTech @CAE_Inc @Seaspan @MoreThanShips and @MDA_maxar who ranked 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 in @CDRmagazine ’s Top 75 defence companies ranking http://www.canadiandefencereview.com/2020_top_75_defence_co

Yesterday, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains announced a $49 million dollar grant to help fund a nation-wide health data platform. The Digital Health and Discovery Platform (DHDP) is a network to be used by doctors and researchers to fast-track the advancement of treatments and cures for diseases, initially setting its sights on cancer. The project is being led by the Terry Fox Research Institute, who recently was awarded $150 million over the next five years to create the ne...w Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network. The Terry Fox Foundation and the network's foundation partners will contribute matching funds to this Health Canada grant. Along with Montreal startup Imagia and their advanced AI technology, these networks will allow oncologists to provide personalized medicine to their cancer patients. The government funding announced yesterday for the DHDP is coming from stream 4 of the Strategic Innovation Fund, and will also help create highly skilled job and training opportunities across the country. The Terry Fox Research Institute has been a pro bono client of Prospectus for the last several years, and Bill Pristanski chairs the Board of Directors at the Terry Fox Foundation. Prospectus is excited to get this revolutionary network off the ground using innovative research and AI capabilities from both TFRI and Imagia to cure cancer in our lifetime. Pristanski was at the announcement made yesterday in Montreal.

Ericsson North America announced last week that they will be launching a global artificial intelligence accelerator lab in Montreal, joining other tech giants like Google, Facebook and Microsoft. The new, specialized lab will focus on using AI and other automation technologies to create data-driven products and services, technologies that will impact and evolve 5G networks. Prospectus is thrilled to be working with Ericsson to get these advanced technologies brought to Canada..., and to continue making Montreal a technology hub in North America. Bill Pristanski and Bruce Hartley attended the announcement by Ericsson, Navdeep Bains, and Emmanuella Lambropoulos in Montreal.

Symcor's Chief Data Governance and Privacy Officer Della Shea spoke in front of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics committee yesterday. Read more about her comments at committee here: https://bit.ly/2G27P4p

Prospectus welcomes creative agency Neptune Blue (https://neptune.agency) to our firm. Read the full press release here, http://prospectusassociates.com//prospectus-welcomes-nept/ The addition of a full-service creative agency expands Prospectus’ public affairs toolbox and allows us to offer our clients comprehensive public affairs campaigns that are fully integrated with their government relations strategy and objectives. We are also now able to deliver stand-alone creati...ve services projects in-house including brand development, video, websites, advertising, graphic design, etc. Prospectus and the Neptune Blue creative team are responsible for the game-changing #DontLetGoCanada (www.dontletgocanada.ca) public awareness campaign to inform Canadians about Canada’s great history in space and the importance and benefits of investing in space science and technology. On February 28, 2019, the Government of Canada announced $2 Billion for Canada’s space program, including partnership in the NASA-led Lunar Gateway a project that will see humans return to the Moon and set the stage for further exploration to Mars.

Today, the Government of Canada announced $2 Billion for Canada’s space program, including partnership in the NASA-led Lunar Gateway a project that will see humans return to the Moon and set the stage for further exploration to Mars. Prospectus and Neptune Blue, who on behalf of Canada’s space sector, planned and executed the #DontLetGoCanada public awareness campaign to inform Canadians about Canada’s great history in space and the importance and benefits of space science and technology, applaud the Government’s vision in choosing to continue to invest in space. This is great news for Canada’s space sector, for Canada, and for the world! Read the full press release here:

On February 18, 2019, the University of Waterloo, with the support of the High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom, brought the Waterloo Innovation Summit to London, England. The event featured Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland and U of W Chancellor Dominic Barton as well as world-renowned Waterloo researchers and startups in next-generation computing and human-machine interaction. William Pristanski serves as a member of the Board of Governors and the Senate at the University of Waterloo. He holds an Honours Co-op Bachelor of Mathematics (Computer Science and Statistics) from the University of Waterloo. Many Prospectus clients are innovation leaders in their economic sector.

The Prospectus team had our Christmas party this past weekend at Signatures Restaurant. A wonderful evening celebrating the past year with family and friends. Thank you to everyone who made 2018 such a success, and we are looking forward to what 2019 has in store! Happy holidays

To honour the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth, the South Africa High Commission in Canada held a special event at Global Affairs Canada featuring the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney. Prospectus' William Pristanski and Robert Near helped plan the event. Read more about it on our blog:

Bill Pristanski attended the Hockey of Hall of Fame this past weekend. The NHL has been a client of ours since 1996. One of the highlights for Pristanski was attending the dinner on Sunday evening to honour Willie O’Ree, who became the first black man to play in the NHL on January 18, 1958. Willie was inducted into the Hall of Fame in the Builder category at the ceremony on Monday. The magnitude of Willie O'Ree's hockey career as a black player cannot be underestimated. The ...second black player to join the NHL was Mike Marson, and that did not take place until the 1974-75 season with the Washington Capitals. O'Ree's NHL career, albeit brief, opened the door for other players of various races to dream about NHL careers. While working for a San Diego hotel in 1998, the NHL hired Willie as the Director of Youth Development for its diversity task force. The NHL/USA Hockey Diversity Task Force is a non-profit program that encourages minority youngsters to play hockey. The results are palpable. In addition, NHL players are now required to enroll in a pre-season diversity training seminar, and race-based verbal abuse is punished through suspensions and fines.

On October 30, Bill Pristanski attended the annual President’s reception in Federation Hall to thank the University of Waterloo’s major donors. The keynote speaker was Professor Strickland. Earlier this fall, the professor became the first living woman to ever win the Nobel Prize for Physics. Strickland, who helped revolutionize laser physics, shares half the $1.4 million Nobel Prize with French laser physicist Gérard Mourou. Together they paved the way toward the shortest ...and most intense laser pulses created by humankind. The team’s research has a number of applications today in industry and medicine everything from laser eye surgery to laser printers. Pristanski, a Sir James Dunn Scholar and DesCartes Fellow, holds an Honours Co-operative degree in Mathematics (Computer Science and Statistics) from the University of Waterloo. He is currently serving on the Board of Governors of the University of Waterloo. A globally focused institution, celebrated as Canada’s most innovative university for 27 consecutive years, Waterloo is home to the world’s largest post-secondary co-operative education program and encourages enterprising partnerships in learning, research and discovery.

Thank you to everyone who came to our Canadian Aerospace and Defence roundtable event yesterday held at the Rideau Club hosted with Baker McKenzie. Thank you as well to speakers Lieutenant-General (Ret.) and Member of Parliament for Orléans, Andrew Leslie and Lieutenant-General D. Michael Day for your insights into the industry and Canada's future within it. Additional thank you to event moderator, The Honourable Peter MacKay. The discussions were informative and had a refreshing element of humour. Thanks again to all attendees, we are looking forward to future events like this one.