- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 18:00:21 -0400
- To: WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Microsoft Canada to host Bill Gates innovation visit to Toronto
MISSISSAUGA, ON, Aug. 1 /CNW/ - Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief
Software Architect of Microsoft Corp. will visit Toronto on August
20, 2002 to participate in a series of activities. Media will have
the opportunity to attend the following events:
[range of plutocratic business events elided]
7:00 p.m. CNIB Louis Braille Gold Medal Presentation
Capitol Event Theatre, 2492 Yonge Street
1. Presentation of the international Louis Braille
Gold Medal to Bill Gates by Dr. Euclid Herie,
Past-President, World Blind Union and Chair,
Louis Braille Museum Committee, WBU
2. Bill Gates and a blind child, demonstrating
the Children's Discovery Portal -- the world's
first portal for blind children, sponsored by
Microsoft Canada
PHOTO/CAMERA OPPORTUNITIES
- Pool feed available
- Designated area for media
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I'm sure the full release is up at Newswire somewhere, but they
cunningly fail to provide a search engine.
En tout cas, see press release:
<http://www.cnib.ca/eng/about/news/braille_medal.htm>
I'll be there, by the way-- with bells on!
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