News

• Take your new system to the limit
  July 27, 2010
  Last month in this space I gave some advice to consider before buying a security system. I’m the first to recognize that it is easy to say, but can be difficult to actually do. In this issue I will present a list of criteria developed by some really smart people that I worked with at Brookfield Properties.
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• Air cargo security program aims to improve safety, but at what price?
  July 14, 2010
  In the wake of September 11, 2001, countries around the world have aimed to improve air cargo safety measures in order to prevent terrorist attacks and keep their populations safe. On May 24, at airports across the country, six federal ministers unveiled the Air Cargo Security Program, a $95.7-million investment that will be phased in over the next five years.
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• G20 Toronto: 9 Strategies for surviving the summit
  June 22, 2010
  From June 26 to June 27, 2010, the City of Toronto will be hosting the G20 Summit, a high-profile meeting of heads of state, national leaders, and economic specialists from around the globe, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada and President Barack Obama of the United States. The G20 Summit represents one of the largest security events in Canadian history, and will demand a considerable amount of resources from both public and private organizations. Security costs for the event are estimated to be over one billion dollars.
  
  
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• Don MacAlister named 2010 Security Director of the Year
  June 15, 2010
  Don MacAlister, Executive Director of Integrated Protection Services for Fraser Health in Langley, B.C. has been named the 2010 Security Director of the Year.ӬӬA unanimous choice for the Canadian Security editorial advisory board, MacAlister manages an extensive portfolio that includes four regional health-care authorities in British Columbia.
  
  
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• Contemporary granted licence to do business in Ontario
  June 15, 2010
  The Private Security Investigative Services Branch has confirmed that Contemporary Security Canada picked up its licence to operate as a licensed agency in Ontario June 14.
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• "Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History"
  June 08, 2010
  By Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell
  ISBN: 978-1-4027-6651-0
  
  The blurbs from various advance reviews of "Flawless" are uniformly positive, many well past the point of gushiness. Scattered over the book’s dust jacket, they speak of “whodunits” and “the stuff of action films” — all descriptive of the pages inside that recount in detail a 2003 diamond theft that was at once meticulously planned and carefully executed, and also pedestrian and mundane.
  
  
  
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