QHR Technologies Inc. announced its agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Clinicvault Inc., a privately held Calgary based company. Clinicvault provides data hosting services as an Application Service Provider to the growing Electronic Medical Records market. QHR participates in that market through its subsidiary, Optimed Software Corporation, whose EMR system is sold under the Accuro brand. The acquisition of Clinicvault will enable QHR to seamlessly integrate ASP services into its EMR client service delivery model and will set the Company apart from its competitors. QHR will acquire all the operating assets of Clinicvault including its enterprise class data hosting centre. The purchase will add approximately $600,000 in annual revenue and will increase QHR’s total annual revenue to approximately $4,500,000.

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When I saw the interview for this new service on Canada AM this past week I was thinking about what fun it would be to check on some of the history of the family by this new means.

In a world's first, Ancestry.ca, Canada's leading family history website, it launched online the Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935, which contains more than 7.2 million names, including 5.6 million of those who travelled from around the world to start a new life in Canada.

The collection is fully indexed by name, month, year, ship and port of
origin and arrival of more than 4,000 ships, and includes original images for more than 310,000 pages of historical records. It is the first time that these records have been indexed and made available online.

The Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935, the originals of which are held
by the Library and Archives Canada (LAC), are the official records of the
arrival of the majority of people accepted as immigrants in Canada during this key immigration period. The collection includes passenger lists from all the major ports of arrival including Halifax, Saint John, North Sydney, Quebec City, Montreal, Vancouver, Victoria and even east coast ports in the US where many arrived before proceeding directly to Canada overland.

Contained in the collection are records for a number of ships which
never made it to their final Canadian destinations, including that
of RMS The Empress of Ireland, a passenger ship which was rammed in dense fog on the St Lawrence River near Quebec on the 29th of May 1914 and sank in just 14 minutes. 1,012 passengers and crew drowned - a larger loss of life than when RMS Titanic sank.

Individual records include information such as the passenger's first and
last name, estimated birth year, year of arrival, port of arrival and
departure, ship name, occupation, final destination in Canada and other family members listed with their relationship indicated.

In addition to being a treasure trove of information on one's ancestors,
enthusiasts can also find names and images of records of some of Canada's and the world's most famous politicians and personalities, as well as the
anonymous ancestors of some of today's biggest names.

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The Brick is urging all Canadian retailers to come together and offer Canadian shoppers an extravaganza that makes shopping at home for the holidays an experience worth waiting for! The Brick President and CEO, Kim Yost, has declared Friday, November 28, 2008 the official launch date for 'Operation Red Friday' - Canada's answer to Black Friday in the United States. The Brick is proposing retailers go "head to head with our retail cousins in the south" on this day.

Black Friday in the United States refers to Thanksgiving Friday, where it
is the beginning of the traditional holiday shopping season. Black Friday is
not an official holiday, but many employees are off and take advantage of that day to begin their holiday shopping and it is one of the busiest retail
shopping days of the year.

As part of The Brick's marketing plan, stores will be open from 7:00 a.m.
to midnight on Friday, November 28. Savings of 20%, 30%, 40%, and up to 50% on selected products will be offered throughout the store. A TV campaign will run nationwide along with a 10,000,000 flyer distribution.

The Brick Group, together with its subsidiaries, is one of Canada's
largest volume retailers. The Brick Group's retail operations are located in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and the Yukon Territory.