Friday Mar. 21, 2014 – 11am

Posted Mar 21, 2014 02:21:08 PM.

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11:00am- Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario and MP for Cambridge, Re: On behalf of the Honourable Rob Nicholson, Minister of National Defence, announced that the Government of Canada has awarded two contracts totalling $11.7 million to Cambridge’s Kodiak Group Holdings and LP Royer for two types of new Canadian-made boots for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). The Kodiak Group Holdings contract is valued at about $4.2M for 28,000 pairs.

11:30am- Carmi Levy, Independent Tech Analyst, Re: Our ancestors did some very “bizarre” jobs back in the day, but there are predictions that robots are going to replace a number of jobs and industries in the next decade. Telemarketers, accountants, and retail workers, and software bots could take even more jobs. What jobs/industries do you think will disappear in the coming years?

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