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Inder Singh Joins Axelera AI Board of Directors

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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Axelera AI , provider of world’s most powerful and advanced solutions for AI at the Edge, today announced Inder Singh, former Chief Financial Officer of Arm, has been appointed as the newest member of the Axelera AI Board of Directors effective immediately.

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  • Axelera AI , provider of world’s most powerful and advanced solutions for AI at the Edge, today announced Inder Singh, former Chief Financial Officer of Arm, has been appointed as the newest member of the Axelera AI Board of Directors effective immediately.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231018237802/en/
    Inder Singh, newest member of the Axelera AI Board of Directors.
  • “It’s an honor to join Axelera AI’s Board of Directors, a high-performing team that is disrupting the AI landscape,” notes Singh.
  • Fabrizio Del Maffeo, Co-Founder and CEO of Axelera AI, said, “We are thrilled to welcome Inder as a new member of Axelera AI’s Board of Directors.

Shoppers Drug Mart supports Reconciliation in Healthcare with donation to Women's College Hospital's Ganawishkadawe Center for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health

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Friday, September 29, 2023
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TORONTO, Sept. 29, 2023 /CNW/ - Today, via the Shopper's Foundation for Women's Health, Shoppers Drug Mart announced a $100,000 donation to the Ganawishkadawe Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health at Women's College Hospital.

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  • TORONTO, Sept. 29, 2023 /CNW/ - Today, via the Shopper's Foundation for Women's Health, Shoppers Drug Mart announced a $100,000 donation to the Ganawishkadawe Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health at Women's College Hospital.
  • The donation will support a variety of important health-related outcomes for First Nation, Inuit and Metis women, including medical education, health promotion, advocacy and research.
  • "Shoppers Drug Mart and the Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health are proud to support Women's College Hospital and the Center for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health, who are diligently working to address the diverse needs of Indigenous women," says Jeff Leger, President, Shoppers Drug Mart.
  • Beyond this donation, Shoppers Drug Mart is committed to embedding reconciliation practices into its pharmacy spaces.

Indigenous leaders help design new CPA program to address barriers to accounting profession

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023
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The program for Indigenous learners , a partnership between the Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Alberta (AFOA Alberta), the CPA Western School of Business and CPA Canada, aims to help remove systemic barriers for Indigenous learners and increase Indigenous representation in the accounting profession.

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  • The program for Indigenous learners , a partnership between the Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Alberta (AFOA Alberta), the CPA Western School of Business and CPA Canada, aims to help remove systemic barriers for Indigenous learners and increase Indigenous representation in the accounting profession.
  • “The impact of Indigenous students seeing themselves in the accounting texts and material is so profound.
  • For Maureen Moneta of the Metis Nation of Alberta, CPA and member of the CPA Alberta Board of Directors, the program is not about trying to help Indigenous people.
  • Program partners and Indigenous subject matter experts are currently creating the next two courses to be delivered to Indigenous students in January of 2024: Introductory Managerial Accounting and Core 2.

First Customers Receive World's Most Powerful Edge AI Solutions from Axelera AI

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
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Axelera AI , provider of world’s most powerful and advanced solutions for AI at the Edge, today announced the first shipment of its Metis™ AI Platform to its Early Access Program customers.

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  • Axelera AI , provider of world’s most powerful and advanced solutions for AI at the Edge, today announced the first shipment of its Metis™ AI Platform to its Early Access Program customers.
  • To learn more about Axelera AI at the AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit, click here .
  • The Metis AI Platform offers practical Edge AI inference solutions, catering to companies developing next-generation computer vision applications.
  • At the AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit 2023 in Santa Clara, taking place from September 12-14, Axelera AI will be presenting on how to successfully bridge the Cloud-Edge AI Gap.

Grosvenor Donates $250,000 to PREA Foundation's Programs to Provide Commercial Real Estate Opportunities for Diverse High School Students

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Monday, August 21, 2023
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Grosvenor, a privately held international property owner and developer with a 70-year track record in North America, has donated $250,000 to Pension Real Estate Association's (PREA) programs designed to open doors for diverse, economically disadvantaged high school students to pursue careers in commercial real estate. The donation is funded by The Westminster Foundation, which represents the charitable activities of the Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor businesses. Funds will be distributed over five years to PREA Foundation to support two programs focused on providing a pathway for students to pursue opportunities within the industry.

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  • WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Grosvenor, a privately held international property owner and developer with a 70-year track record in North America, has donated $250,000 to Pension Real Estate Association's (PREA) programs designed to open doors for diverse, economically disadvantaged high school students to pursue careers in commercial real estate.
  • Funds will be distributed over five years to PREA Foundation to support two programs focused on providing a pathway for students to pursue opportunities within the industry.
  • The REEX JumpStart Scholars in Commercial Real Estate program was created to introduce students of color to the potential of a career in commercial real estate.
  • We are proud of this partnership to help increase career opportunities for underrepresented young people in the commercial real estate industry."

Flash News: OKX DEX Integrates with Linea Bridge and Orbiter

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Tuesday, August 8, 2023
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OKX has today integrated Linea Bridge and Orbiter to provide better cross-chain trading for users.

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  • OKX has today integrated Linea Bridge and Orbiter to provide better cross-chain trading for users.
  • By automatically finding the best trading route and cross-chain bridge, this integration allows OKX to provide industry-leading low prices and ease of use when swapping ETH to Linea.
  • Orbiter Finance is a decentralized cross-rollup bridge for transferring Ethereum native assets.
  • OKX Wallet is a universal crypto wallet available on multiple platforms and interfaces, including app, web and web extension.

CAP Demands Resignation of Crown Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023
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Ottawa, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 27, 2023) - The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples has lost faith in Crown Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller after years of ignoring and excluding hundreds of thousands of off-Reserve, non-status, Metis and Southern Labrador Inuit Indigenous people.

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  • Ottawa, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 27, 2023) - The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples has lost faith in Crown Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller after years of ignoring and excluding hundreds of thousands of off-Reserve, non-status, Metis and Southern Labrador Inuit Indigenous people.
  • In recent months, Marc Miller has decided to exclude CAP and urban Indigenous voices from the proposed National Reconciliation Council and Canada's UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Right's of Indigenous Peoples) Action Plan.
  • And furthermore, on National Indigenous Peoples Day when unveiling the action plan and intentionally excluding CAP, Minister Miller decided to credit another National Indigenous Organization for the historic CAP/Daniels Case that affirmed the rights of off-Reserve Indigenous Peoples and the federal government's responsibility.
  • CAP is profoundly disappointed with, and concerned about Canada's current Crown Indigenous Relations Minister, and hopes the government will recognize its missteps and faults in recognizing our People.

Axelera AI Raises $50M to Democratize Edge AI

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Monday, May 22, 2023
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Through their Metis AI Platform, Axelera AI redefines boundaries and provides access to industry-leading Edge AI products .

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  • Through their Metis AI Platform, Axelera AI redefines boundaries and provides access to industry-leading Edge AI products .
  • “We believe that Axelera AI is in a unique position to capture the rapidly developing edge AI market with a strong combination of next-generation hardware and software.
  • “As one of the first investors in Axelera AI, we are happy to see additional strong investors joining the journey.
  • At the Embedded Vision Summit 2023 in Santa Clara, taking place from May 22-24, Axelera AI will be presenting their Metis AI platform and demonstrating its value proposition.

ALX Resources Corp. Samples 1.77% U3O8 in Outcrop at the Bradley Lake Uranium Project, Saskatchewan

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023
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In May 2023, ALX applied to the Government of Saskatchewan for a surface exploration permit, including ground geophysics, for follow-up exploration at Bradley Lake.

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  • In May 2023, ALX applied to the Government of Saskatchewan for a surface exploration permit, including ground geophysics, for follow-up exploration at Bradley Lake.
  • The exploration plan includes detailed geological mapping, prospecting and a time-domain EM ("TDEM") survey to seek geophysical targets related to the area of the Bradley Lake showings.
  • Carpenter Lake consists of 8 claims totaling 16,872 hectares (41,691 acres) located on the southern margin of the Athabasca Basin sandstone formation near Cree Lake, SK.
  • Carpenter Lake is the subject of a joint venture, with ALX holding a 60% interest and Pacton Gold Inc. (formerly Noka Resources Inc.) holding a 40% interest.

MetisDAO Deploys Aave Protocol V3 to Accelerate the Decentralized Finance Economy

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Monday, May 8, 2023
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By integrating the Aave V3 protocol for Metis markets, DeFi users will be able to take advantage of the combined benefits of Metis’ network speed and security and the Aave Protocol’s industry-leading features.

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  • By integrating the Aave V3 protocol for Metis markets, DeFi users will be able to take advantage of the combined benefits of Metis’ network speed and security and the Aave Protocol’s industry-leading features.
  • The deployment of Aave V3 to the Metis Layer 2 network will unlock new on-chain liquidity and DeFi capabilities for users across Aave and Metis.
  • “The integration of Aave Protocol V3 brings enhanced capital efficiency with valuable new security and risk mitigation features,” says Metis co-founder, Kevin Liu.
  • The Aave Protocol is widely recognized as an industry-leading DeFi liquidity protocol with $ 5.5 billion in total value locked (TVL).