Doug Ford to donate councillor's salary to charity

Doug Ford, president of Deco Labels and Tags, recently elected Toronto city councillor, and older brother of Toronto mayor-elect Rob Ford, plans to donate his entire councillor’s salary (about $100,000 annually) to community organizations during his four-year term of office.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontovotes2010/2010/10/26/15840566.html

Label printer Rob Ford elected Toronto's 64th mayor

In today’s municipal election, Rob Ford, CFO and principal of Deco Labels and Tags and a Toronto city councillor for the past decade, has just been elected mayor of Toronto.  His older brother, Doug Ford, Jr., has also just been elected the replacement city councillor in Rob's old ward.  

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20101025/election-day-101025/20101025/?hub=TorontoNewHome

http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/10/25/ford-brothers-to-band-together-at-city-hall-doug-wins-ward-2/

Rob is scheduled to take over as mayor on December 1^st. As far as we know at PrintAction Magazine, it will be the first time a printer has occupied the city’s mayoral office since William Lyon Mackenzie was elected Toronto’s first mayor in 1834.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004947

Dead Sea Scrolls going digital on Internet

An inspiring example of the use of digital and Internet technologies to share knowledge and preserve the historical, cultural, and spiritual heritage of humankind.

"The images will be equal in quality to the actual physical viewing of the scrolls," the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69I2KE20101019

Canada & U.S. lag behind on gender equality

Both Canada & the U.S.A. finally made the top 20 nations in the 2010 Global Gender Gap Report, placing 20^th & 19^th respectively.  But we still lag behind 18 other countries — including Lesotho, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka. We’ve gotta improve! 
http://www.weforum.org/en/Communities/Women%20Leaders%20and%20Gender%20Parity/GenderGapNetwork/index.htm