By Lauren Kramer
Noveko International Inc., a Montreal-based biotech company founded in 2002, has made an agreement with Zer Hitech in Israel for exclusive distribution of its antimicrobial masks and respirators, biodegradable air filters, purification systems and hand sanitizers.
Zer Hitech is contracted by Sarel, the Israeli health-care products company, to supply Noveko masks to health-case establishments [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
 

Vancouver is in for a dose of musical comfort as Israeli artists’ Habanot Nechama - The Comfort Girls - are coming to town.
The three lady vocalists will play at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver’s Norman Rothstein Theatre on January 17, 2010.
Singers Yael Deckelbaum, Karolina Avratz and Dana Adini are renowned [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Docs have been doing it for years, but now nurses may soon discover the joys of job-swap too. Mary Agnes Beduz, director of nursing education and development, and Leslie Vincent, senior VP of patient services and chief nursing executive, both at Mount Sinai Hospital, visited Tel Aviv this past April.
Their goal was to [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
A Canadian-born doctor who moved to Israel in 1995, was in Montreal recently to discuss his research. Dr. Karl Skorecki has so many titles they need a line of their own. He’s director of medical and research development at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, and professor of medicine at the Rappaport [...]

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By Paul Shindman
The quest for your charitable donations is never ending: United Way, Cancer Society, Hospitals, church building fund, little league teams - 1001 causes each one justified, needed, valuable. Your charitable donations help make Canada a greater place for all. Charity is part of all cultures around the world, all religions, and all [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
When they break ground on renovations to the Joseftal Hospital in Israel in February 2010, Canada will be there. Symbolically, at any rate.
The UJA Federation of Greater Toronto has raised $1 million towards the new emergency facility at the hospital. The facility will include a main intake hall, trauma unit, hypobaric isolation [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Last month the province of Manitoba announced it would commit $100,000 a year for three years toward collaborative research with Israel on HIV/AIDS, influenza and swine flu. The research will be conducted by scientists in Manitoba and Jerusalem under the Global Research Exchange Program, a project initiated by Canadian Friends of Hebrew University.
This [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Smart Hand, a pan-European program to develop a life-like artificial hand, has just released its prototype now functioning on a man in Sweden. Interfacing nerve endings with the mechanical device is Prof. Yosi Shacham from Tel Aviv University.
It is one of the world’s first thought-controlled prosthetic devices –– an artificial life-like hand, and it [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
While Canada’s Israel blog is not at all about politics, we sometimes report on politicians from these two countries who are laying the foundations for peace and economic collaboration.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Israel just sent Canada’s Israel this update that Canada’s Deputy Foreign Minister Leonard Edwards and his entourage are meeting [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
A Torontonian will receive an honourary doctorate from the University of Haifa November 15, at a tribute dinner in Toronto. Dr. Michael Dan, the recipient, is the former CEO of the drug firm Novopharm Biotech, and is being feted for his commitment to human rights, philanthropy in Canada and Israel, and his support [...]

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