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HST, spinoffs, nerves, Canada Day
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June 30, 2010
“Hated” Sales Tax
In less than 24 hours the HST (Harmonized Sales Tax), which many people angrily refer to as the “Hated” Sales tax will take effect in B.C. and Ontario. Andrey Pavlov, a business administration professor who regularly comments on tax issues, empathizes with home buyers worried about the HST driving up the cost of new homes. But he stresses, “Focusing on this represents very short-term thinking in my view. First, HST implementation will make B.C. more competitive and boost the economy and income to more than offset the increase in cost. Second, businesses involved in home construction now face lower taxes and a streamlined process, which reduce construction costs, and ultimately reduce the cost of new homes.”
Andrey Pavlov, 604.763.3696; apavlov@sfu.ca
Budding entrepreneurs earn government backing
The British Columbia Innovation Council (BCIC), a provincial government crown agency, has partnered with SFU Venture Connection, a multi-stakeholder initiative that nurtures student and alumni business spinoffs. Janice OBriain, Venture Connection manager, can explain how this partnership will benefit the more than 1,000 students and alumni currently under the SFU program’s mentoring and services wing.
Janice OBriain, 778.782.8728; jobriain@sfu.ca
Why some animals are slow but smart
According to new SFU research, there’s a speed limit on the information super-highways that route important messages through the nervous systems of animals. And while it may make larger mammals slower than their more petite animal kingdom cousins, it may also make them smarter.
Biomedical physiology and kinesiology professor Max Donelan and graduate student Heather More led the study, just published online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B on June 30.
Max Donelan, 604.992.4986; mdonelan@sfu.ca
Celebrating diversity on Canada Day
Using a multi-media digital program called Embodied Poetic Narrative, Kathryn Ricketts is producing and performing stories about people who are displaced. Ricketts, an SFU doctoral student in art education, a sessional instructor at SFU Contemporary Arts and a dancer, says many of her performances are about immigrants’ sense of displacement.
Kathryn Ricketts, 604.788.4022; krickett@sfu.ca
In less than 24 hours the HST (Harmonized Sales Tax), which many people angrily refer to as the “Hated” Sales tax will take effect in B.C. and Ontario. Andrey Pavlov, a business administration professor who regularly comments on tax issues, empathizes with home buyers worried about the HST driving up the cost of new homes. But he stresses, “Focusing on this represents very short-term thinking in my view. First, HST implementation will make B.C. more competitive and boost the economy and income to more than offset the increase in cost. Second, businesses involved in home construction now face lower taxes and a streamlined process, which reduce construction costs, and ultimately reduce the cost of new homes.”
Andrey Pavlov, 604.763.3696; apavlov@sfu.ca
Budding entrepreneurs earn government backing
The British Columbia Innovation Council (BCIC), a provincial government crown agency, has partnered with SFU Venture Connection, a multi-stakeholder initiative that nurtures student and alumni business spinoffs. Janice OBriain, Venture Connection manager, can explain how this partnership will benefit the more than 1,000 students and alumni currently under the SFU program’s mentoring and services wing.
Janice OBriain, 778.782.8728; jobriain@sfu.ca
Why some animals are slow but smart
According to new SFU research, there’s a speed limit on the information super-highways that route important messages through the nervous systems of animals. And while it may make larger mammals slower than their more petite animal kingdom cousins, it may also make them smarter.
Biomedical physiology and kinesiology professor Max Donelan and graduate student Heather More led the study, just published online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B on June 30.
Max Donelan, 604.992.4986; mdonelan@sfu.ca
Celebrating diversity on Canada Day
Using a multi-media digital program called Embodied Poetic Narrative, Kathryn Ricketts is producing and performing stories about people who are displaced. Ricketts, an SFU doctoral student in art education, a sessional instructor at SFU Contemporary Arts and a dancer, says many of her performances are about immigrants’ sense of displacement.
Kathryn Ricketts, 604.788.4022; krickett@sfu.ca