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CG is gearing up for the Davenport PLA Fundraising Reception hosted by Christina Martins this evening! CG Group's Partner, Don Gracey, will be Chairing the Event and aiming to Move Davenport Forward!

The Annual Ontario Women Liberals Commission fundraising event was held last night at the new YWCA Toronto venue on Elm Street. Nancy and the CG Group were happy to again be involved in the event organization. The event is held under the banner of the Margaret Campbell Fund raising much needed financial support for women running for provincial election for the Liberal party. Approximately 200 people -- men and women -- attended. By any measure the event was a huge success with Premier Wynne inspiring the audience that included women caucus members, newly nominated women candidates and hopefuls still facing nomination contests. Nancy had the pleasure of thanking the Premier for her remarks while reminding the audience of the importance of political engagement. The funds raised last night may be put to good use if a spring election is called.

Wind Blowing in Favor of Renewables Again. A report today says Ontario electricity costs not increasing as a result of new renewables investments.

The analysis conducted for Environmental Defence by independent energy consulting firm Power Advisory LLC, shows that the cost of energy from solar, wind and bioenergy currently makes up about 9 per cent of an average electricity bill in Ontario.
Other forms of power make up about 48 per cent of the bill, while the balance is the cost of delivering power, a regulatory fee, tax and a charge to retire the debt on nuclear power plants.
Renewable power is often blamed for rising electricity costs, said Environmental Defence campaign director Gillian McEachern, but they “play a fairly small role in Ontarians’ electricity bills today.”

Check it out --
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/green-energy-costs-minimal-for-consumers-study-says/article17484685/

Green energy costs ‘minimal’ for consumers, study shows While renewable power is often blamed for rising costs, it plays a ‘relatively small role in Ontarians’ electricity bills,’ says Environmental Defence Canada

Toronto has been chosen as 1 of 4 Innovation Hub Spots! Bravo!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cisco-picks-toronto-as-one-of-4-global-innovation-hubs-1.2560861

Cisco picks Toronto as one of 4 global innovation hubs Cisco has announced Toronto will be the site of a $100-million global innovation centre dedicated to the “internet of everything.”

Samara released this interesting Infographic this morning featuring a visual analysis of riding association in the web world. 22% of riding associations have no websites at all and only 5 Websites provide information on how to become a candidate!! Why not take advantage of reaching out so Canadians’ views can be represented? This is just one of the ways that we believe any party, association or group can STRUT their stuff.

Mini Metro is a new app allowing users to build their own subway systems. It is surprisingly addictive given its user friendly design and feature-set. Recently released in trial version, we have a feeling that this app will likely appeal to Toronto transit fans as we all have our fair share of opinions regarding improvements and comparisons to other transit systems. The game however it quite difficult! Try it out!

http://youtu.be/EoOjTMn7oN0

Mini Metro Alpha Trailer Mini Metro, coming soon to all sorts of platforms! Play the alpha at the Mini Metro website, http://dinopoloclub.com/minimetro/. We're up on Steam Greenlight...

Happy 180th Birthday Toronto!
The CG Group was proud to provide secretariat services early on with Larry Grossman in the lead working on the Sky Dome. We also teamed up with Bob Fung on Toronto's Waterfront Revitalization Task Force. Toronto’s landmarks are exquisite! Today we celebrate a beautiful city.

Check out the Beautiful Olympics Google Banner accompanied by the Olympic Charter to commemorate the start of the games today! Will you be watching the opening ceremonies?

GO TEAM CANADA!

Happy Halloween from Nadiya snd Nancy. Rest of our team too shy to reveal their treat or treat costumes.

The CG Booth is ready to be shipped to Winnipeg for the CSAE Conference in Winnipeg next week. If you are joining the conference, come by and show us your strut!

A special wish to our friends, clients and colleagues celebrating Rosh Hashanah. Happy New Year: Shanah Tovah.

Great news today. It’s official. Premier Kathleen Wynne to be the 2013 Equal Voice EVE Award Recipient.
CG Is proud to be an event sponsor. Nancy Coldham is proud to be on the EV Toronto Executive , co-chair of communication and a member of the event committee.
Mark your calendars – Monday, September 23 at noon. Take out an EV membership and pay less for an event ticket -- – http://www.equalvoice.ca/join.cfm
The media advisory has a link to the tickets being sold via the Canadian Club -- : http://cnw.ca/R2u5