EY announces 23 female founders selected for the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women™ Class of North America 2023, including six Canadian entrepreneurs. This year’s women winners will be officially recognized at the EY show Strategic Growth Forum® on November 9. Canadian women entrepreneurs include: Bunny and Taran Ghatrora, Flower | Surrey, British ColumbiaBlume creates award-winning, clean and simple skincare for Gen Z and beyond. Formulated for sensitive and acne-prone skin, Blume’s mission is to restore confidence to the 60% of young “women” who say their self-esteem plummets at puberty. Sheena Russell, Made locally | Dartmouth, Nova ScotiaMade with Local’s mission is…
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The bank’s five-year commitment will support the training of entrepreneurs by the CIE in Central Pa. HARRISBURG, Pa., October 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — M&T Bank (NYSE: Mountain biking) strengthens its partnership with the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology by investing $250,000 in the center’s programs aimed at promoting entrepreneurship through Central Pennsylvania and beyond. The bank’s five-year commitment will help CIE empower innovators to build successful businesses through programs designed to provide infrastructure and access to resources for startups with a focus on publicly-owned businesses. minorities and women. M&T will also work…
For on 40 years, the United States has been involved in Afghan affairs, whether secretly send weapons to Afghan “freedom fighters” or to the occupation of the country in an attempt to “liberate” it. Season after season, I’ve seen Afghan characters portrayed only as victims or perpetual warriors, unable to find stories about our diaspora culture that aren’t tied to war or political conflict.“Secrets and Sisterhood: The Sozahdahs,” a new reality show premiering on Hulu/Disney+ June 7, follows the trials and tribulations of an Afghan family of 10 sisters based in Los Angeles. The series is structured like a nostalgic…
Written by Nick Blenkey US Ambassador to Greece George Tsunis greets Elefsina workers after the ceremony formalizing the granting of a $125 million US loan. (Photo: DFC) The US development finance agency, Development Finance Corporation (DFC), has signed a financing agreement to provide a $125 million loan to ONEX Elefsis Shipyards and Industries (ONEX) to rehabilitate and modernize the Elefsina Shipyard (l (former Neorion Elefsis) near Athens, Greece. The Greek government has formally approved the transfer of the shipyard, currently undergoing bankruptcy restructuring, to ONEX October 11subject to final court approval, which came on October 20. The financing of the…
In his upcoming book, the Bangor Daily News writer Emily Burnham paints a picture of the Queen City half a century ago. Through more than 150 images, many from the BDN photo archives, “Downtown, Up River: Bangor in the 1970s” captures Bangor at a crucial moment in its transition from its past as a lumber capital of the world to a city. it would become. Below is an excerpt from the book, published by Islandport Press and due out Tuesday. Don’t tell anyone, but I didn’t grow up in Bangor. I was born in 1982 and grew up in the…
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Packing the Venue: Crowds go wild for a performance by Damn Tall Buildings at the 2023 Sisters Folk Festival, which annually draws large crowds and fills hotels in and around the central Oregon town. Photo courtesy of the Oregon Arts Commission. Art, as the cultural philosophers of the 19th century clearly declared, is for art’s sake. And maybe that’s the case. But in practice it also has other objectives, some controversial, some practical. We live, for example, in an age that places a strong emphasis on statecraft (one of the main things that art for art the philosophers reacted). And…
If you want to travel the world but are short on time and money, you can visit 70 countries without leaving Alabama.Going to the Mobile International Festival on Saturday, November 18 will give you a sense of the people and cultures of the world that call Alabama home.You can experience the clothing, food, music, dance, art, crafts, languages and exotic goods of 70 countries, all found in Mobile.The theme of the festival is “Your Passport to Adventure”.Mobile is a multicultural community, a cosmopolitan city. These peoples and cultures from far away, now American and American, present their roots at the…