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CNBC
5 days ago
- Business
- CNBC
San Francisco rolls out Microsoft's Copilot to city staff
CNBC's Kate Rogers discusses public sector AI adoption with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie as the city announces it is rolling out Microsoft's Copilot to its 30,000 employees.
CNBC
5 days ago
- Business
- CNBC
San Francisco brings AI tools to 30,000 city employees
San Francisco is bringing Microsoft Copilot to 30,000 city employees in a push to cement its role as a global AI leader. Kate Rogers sat down with Mayor Daniel Lurie to discuss the rollout and how technology is rapidly changing the city.
CTV News
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- CTV News
‘A magical place' : New little free library brings poetry to the Fredericton Botanic Garden
Fredericton Mayor Kate Rogers (left) and Fawn Parker, the city's newest poet laureate, are pictured beside the Little Free Poetry Library in the Fredericton Botanic Gardens. (Courtesy: Fawn Parker) There's a poetic new addition to the Fredericton Botanic Garden. It's now home to a Little Free Poetry Library. 'It gives the message that poetry is for anybody and everybody,' says Fawn Parker, the city's fourth Poet Laureate, who is behind the initiative. 'You don't have to be really well-read or experienced. It's just there for you.' While 'little free libraries' are a common sight around the region, this one in the park caters specifically to poetry. It was unveiled on Tuesday and contains donated books that include works by New Brunswick poets Lynn Davies and Ian Letourneau. Little Free Poetry Library The new Little Free Poetry Library at the Fredericton Botanic Gardens is pictured. (Courtesy: City of Fredericton) 'You can take something. You can leave something. You can just read something and put it right back. I really want it to feel like it belongs to the whole city,' says Parker. Parker started her two-year position as Fredericton's Poet Laureate in September 2024. The 31-year-old, who is working on her PhD in writing at UNB, came into the role with the goal of making poetry more obtainable. 'I just find poetry is so often inaccessible or feels inaccessible,' says Parker. 'Even to me as someone who was a writer and studies writing in the institution, it just feels like it's a language that we're not really taught to speak. And because there's that kind of difficulty of getting into it, I think a lot of people don't try or pre-emptively think it's not for them. And I just think that's so untrue. I think poetry can be anything, whether it's simple or it's rhyming or it's really complicated.' The Little Free Poetry Library was built by woodworker Vic Dunphy. The design, with its red metal roof and distinct 'backwards' orientation, pays homage to late Fredericton-native and internationally acclaimed poet Bliss Carman's home that's still standing in the city's downtown. library under construction The Little Free Poetry Library is pictured, under construction in Vic Dunphy's woodworking shop, before it was installed in Fredericton's Botanic Garden. (Courtesy: Fawn Parker) 'Finally seeing it installed and available was fantastic because it actually has the true likeness of Bliss Carman's home, which makes it a bit unique,' says Julie Wright, a board member for the Botanic Garden. 'It's just a wonderful addition.' The Garden is located on a 21-hectare property at the west end of Odell Park and is open to the public, free of charge, year-round. 'It's also located in our NB Literature Garden,' says Wright. 'So, when you walk through that particular garden, there is a little a poem or something specific that has been done by a New Brunswick author for each of the different plants.' Poet sign One of the signs honouring New Brunswick authors in the Fredericton Botanic Gardens is pictured. (Courtesy: Julie Wright) The community garden, which is marking its 35th anniversary, had a local company create custom bookmarks for the celebration. 'We thought that'd be something nice to be able to put in it as well,' says Wright, who hopes people will take the opportunity to sit down with a poem on one of the Garden's memorial benches. 'The garden's kind of a magical place, and poetry is a little magical as well. They're just a good fit for one another to be able to read a beautiful little poem while you're looking at some beautiful plants and listening to the birds sing.' Bookmark A custom bookmark created to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Fredericton Public Gardens is pictured (Courtesy: Julie Wright) Parker says she hopes to continue making poetry more accessible by adding free books to spaces like waiting rooms, long term care homes, and hospitals. 'Spaces that maybe feel a little isolated or lonely, and where it wouldn't be easy to go to the library or go to a bookstore,' says Parker. 'Just have books kind of right there for people to grab.' For more New Brunswick news, visit our dedicated provincial page.
CTV News
09-07-2025
- Health
- CTV News
Fredericton creates strategy to recruit more family doctors
The City of Fredericton is supporting provincial efforts to attract more doctors with a welcome strategy that targets family medicine residents and medical students. The welcome strategy highlights the city's close community and quality of life through information and activities. The city's goal is to support Horizon Health Network and the Department of Health hire and retain more professionals in Fredericton. The initiative first began in 2021, but recently videos highlighting the benefits of living and working in the Fredericton region have been an added element. 'What new graduates want, and we've learnt from them, is what we are offering is collaborative practices,' said Health Minister John Dornan. 'Where you can work with other new graduates, senior graduates, mid-career graduates, as well as other care providers, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physiotherapists.' Nearly four in 10 New Brunswickers currently living in the province's Health Zone 3, don't have access to primary care. 'The City of Fredericton resides in Health Zone 3, where only 63.5% of provincial population reported having access to a primary health care provider in 2024 according to the New Brunswick Health Council. The provincial average is 77.2 per cent,' a news release from the city said. In addition to provincial partners, the city is working with: 'As municipal leaders, we hear firsthand how the lack of access to primary care is impacting our residents and our local economy,' Mayor Kate Rogers said. 'Becoming engaged on the physician attraction file through promoting all our city has to offer is one way to support provincial partners as they work to recruit more healthcare professionals to the Fredericton region.' Fredericton city council contributed $10,000 earlier this year to the New Brunswick Medical Education Foundation to support scholarships for two family medicine residents who commit to working in Fredericton. With files from Avery MacRae For more New Brunswick news, visit our dedicated provincial page.
CNBC
20-06-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Darden up on strong sales results
CNBC's Kate Rogers joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the latest earnings from Darden.
