Tag: Ted Hsu
M.P. Ted Hsu Joins Protestors Outside Japanese Embassy
Kingston & the Islands M.P. Ted Hsu joined demonstrators outside the Japanese embassy yesterday, calling for Japan to formally recognize and apologize for its use of “comfort women” during the military expansion by Japan during the 1930s and 1940s. Over 200 people demonstrated at the Sussex Drive embassy in Ottawa on Wednesday Afternoon, demanding that [...]
PARTEQ Innovations Awarded $50,000 to Build Angel Investor Network
The technology transfer office of Queen’s University, PARTEQ Innovations, has received $50,000 from Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario’s to build a local network of “angel” investors. The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for FedDev Ontario, made the announcement during a keynote address delivered at the 2011 National Angel Summit today. Kingston’s own [...]
Kingston MP Ted Hsu Voted 1st Runner Up, Rookie of the Year
Last night, Maclean’s and L’actualité magazines – in association with the Historica-Dominion Institute and Presenting Sponsor TD – celebrated the 5th annual Parliamentarians of the Year awards. The ceremony was attended by members of Parliament, journalists, and other prominent Canadians at the Château Laurier hotel in Ottawa. During the event, Kingston and the Islands MP [...]
Queen’s University Professor Wins Prestigious Trudeau Fellowship Prize
Within a week of Queen’s University being visited by M.P. Justin Trudeau, political studies professor John McGarry has been honoured as one of four recipients of a Fellowship named for his father, the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Trudeau Fellowships were established by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and awarded to individuals who achieve high [...]
Kingston Sustainable Energy Organization to Award Local Innovators & Leaders
SWITCH presents the first SWITCH Sustainable Energy Awards at St. Lawrence College in Kingston on Friday, October 21 at 11:30 AM. Leaders and innovators in sustainable energy will be honoured in five categories: Sustainable Energy Innovation, Community Leadership, Kingston Hydro Conservation, Rural Initiatives, and Urban Initiatives. The Awards honour businesses, corporations, institutions, organizations, economic development [...]
Actua Receives $1.25 Million to Promote Science to Underpriviledged Youth
More Southern Ontario children will be able to experience innovations in science with an investment in Actua, a national science, engineering and technology youth outreach network, some likely at Queen’s University in Kingston. Each year, Actua’s growing network of member organizations reach more than 200,000 young Canadians in more than 450 communities nationwide, and lists [...]
CBC: Ted Hsu, the Future of the Liberal Party?
In a recent CBC television segment, reporter Leslie MacKinnon spent the day with Kingston MP, Ted Hsu. The interview, which aired this past weekend, begins with MacKinnon proposing: “Could Ted Hsu be the future of the Liberal Party?” Her narration continues by describing Hsu as trilingual – fluent in English, French, and Mandarin – with [...]
Kingston’s Ted Hsu Receives Two Liberal Portfolios
This Wednesday, interim Liberal Party leader Bob Rae announced his party’s 28-member shadow cabinet, formed from both returning and his newest members of parliament. Kingston & the Islands MP, Ted Hsu, was named the Liberal Critic for Science & Technology, and for the Federal Economic Development Agency of both Southern and Northern Ontario. Sean Casey, [...]
Liberal Candidate Ted Hsu Holds Virtual Town Hall Meeting
Last night, Liberal candidate Ted Hsu (pictured here with the Hon. Peter Milliken) held a virtual town hall meeting with more than 6,000 Kingston and area constituents. The teleconference enabled Hsu to expand on some of the topics raised in previous local Party debates as well as providing a Q&A platform for participants to ask [...]
International Conference on Renewable Energy Hosted at Queen’s
Global experts in the fields of renewable energy and energy and environmental policy were at Queen’s University this weekend for the first official workshop of the Matariki Network of Universities (MNU). Scholars from seven prestigious post-secondary institutions presented new research in energy and energy policy, and explored opportunities for future collaboration with other participants. Institutions [...]
