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Vancouver’s Blue Orca Meets Tel Aviv’s n-Trance

April 15th, 2010 · No Comments

By Lauren Kramer
The Vancouver-based company BlueOrca Tech, which specializes in helping its clients protect their digital assets while ensuring that those assets are accessible and usable, has entered in to an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Tel Aviv-based n-Trance Global. N-Trance Global Tech Ltd is a privately held company founded in 2004 that develops, [...]

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Tags: Business · Hi-Tech & Innovation · Lauren Kramer

My Meeting With The Prince of Jordan

March 1st, 2010 · No Comments

By Karin Kloosterman
Karin, a Canadian-Israeli, meets Prince Hassan of Jordan at a water security conference in Switzerland last week.
It was a meeting of minds, water minds. Water consultants, ambassadors who’ve built water treaties, and government specialists and negotiators from around the Middle East and Europe gathered in Montreux, Switzerland for a two-day workshop on Water [...]

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Tags: Environment · Karin Kloosterman

You still get change on the bus in Israel

December 25th, 2008 · No Comments

By Paul Shindman
Isn’t Israel that bastion of, well, un-safeness? Isn’t it one horribly ferociously unsafe place for men, women and children?
Ha ha! Fooled ya again. It just ain’t so. All those front page stories about war and terrorism and strife? Well, they’re just front page stories. And getting on the bus is just another page [...]

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Tags: Travel