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Globe and Mail
6 days ago
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Northview Residential REIT Announces July Distribution
Not for distribution to U.S. newswire services or for dissemination in the United States. CALGARY, Alberta, July 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northview Residential REIT (the ' REIT ') today announced its July 2025 cash distribution amounts on its outstanding Class A Units, Class C Units and Class F Units (collectively, the ' Units ') in the amount of C$0.091146 per Unit (C$1.09 per Unit on an annualized basis). The distribution will be payable on August 15, 2025 to holders of Units of record at July 31, 2025. About Northview Residential REIT The REIT is a publicly traded real estate investment trust established pursuant to a declaration of trust under the laws of the Province of Ontario for the primary purpose of indirectly acquiring, owning and operating a portfolio of income producing rental properties in secondary markets within Canada. To learn more about the REIT, visit or contact: Todd Cook, President and Chief Executive Officer Northview Residential REIT Tel: (403) 531-0720 Email: tcook@ Sarah Walker, Chief Financial Officer Northview Residential REIT Tel: (403) 531-0720 Email: swalker@
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
NASA targets July 31 for Crew-11 launch while Ax-4 mission won't return until next week
There's nowhere to park right now at the International Space Station for NASA's next Commercial Crew Program launch, but a slot should clear next week allowing for the launch of Crew-11 as early as July 31. That's because the private Axiom Space Ax-4 mission that arrived to the space station two weeks ago could depart as early as Monday, according to an update Thursday from NASA and SpaceX officials. The station only has room for two of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft at a time. Right now it has the newest Dragon named Grace, used by Ax-4 when it launched from Kennedy Space Center on June 25 arriving to the station one day later, and the Crew Dragon Endurance that was used by Crew-10 when it launched from KSC back in March. Once Ax-4 departs, it will allow for SpaceX to send up Crew Dragon Endeavour flying for a record sixth time launching from KSC's Launch Pad 39-A as early as 12:09 p.m. on the last day of the month. 'We're excited for this Dragon, named Endeavour by its first crew, to carry four more astronauts to space in a few weeks,' said Sarah Walker, director of Dragon Mission Management at SpaceX. It first flew the Demo-2 mission in May 2020 taking up to space NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, marking the return of U.S.-based launches for astronauts following the retirement of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. It has since flown the Crew-2, Axiom-1, Crew-6 and Crew-8 missions. 'This Dragon spacecraft has successfully flown 18 crew members representing eight countries to space already, starting with Bob and Doug,' Walker said. SpaceX now has five human-rated spacecraft, with Crew Dragon Grace having just made its debut on Ax-4 last month, but Endeavour is the fleet leader. In total, the company's five Crew Dragons have flown 18 times with 70 humans on board. NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich said teams have had to work through 360 different design units on the Dragon to sign off on it to go beyond the original limit of five flights per spacecraft, although some Dragon parts are certified to fly up to 15 missions. 'We've had to go through and do a recertification effort of Dragon, working hand-in-hand with SpaceX to get to six flights,' he said. 'This Dragon has a number of upgrades. We continue to try to improve our risk posture for crew safety.' That includes improved drogue parachutes and a new heat shield. The launch July 31 would mean a very long transit to the station, a more than 39-hour trip that would dock early Aug. 2. If it can't make the July 31 launch target, there are options to fly Aug. 1 to 3 and Aug. 5 to 7. 'As always, NASA and SpaceX work closely to ensure that all teams and hardware are ready to fly,' Walker said. 'So we still have multiple reviews and tests ahead of us prior to launch, and each one of those gives us an opportunity to step back to talk to each other, to review the data, listen to the hardware and mitigate any risks for a safe flight.' The four members of Crew-10 would then prep for their return home on Crew Dragon Endurance. They would leave no earlier than Aug. 5 and land in the Pacific for what would be only the third time, following the Fram2 landing earlier this year and the Ax-4 landing coming up shortly. 'We're also super excited for the first time for Commercial Crew return of our vehicle, our crew, to the West Coast,' Stich said. For Crew-11, it will send up NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov. Cardman and Fincke's flights come after having previously assigned flights pulled because of issues with Boeing's Starliner. 'We have been training together since roughly September of last year,' Cardman said. 'We were all in the unique position of actually training with previous crew assignments. What that has meant for us is an incredible bond that is rooted in gratitude and resilience.' Cardman was supposed to command the Crew-9 flight that flew up to the station last fall with only two instead of the normal four astronauts. That was because that mission was needed to fly home two NASA astronauts who were left behind on the station by Starliner during its first crewed test flight last summer. NASA ultimately decided to send it home without crew because of safety concerns, and that caused a domino effect that removed Cardman and other other NASA astronaut from their planned Crew-9 flight. Cardman, a rookie, will command the mission, while Fincke will be making his fourth launch to space having flown on both the space shuttle and two Soyuz missions. 'I'm looking forward to riding on a Dragon,' Fincke said. Fincke was originally assigned to fly on the first Starliner test flight, and then was bumped to be on what was supposed to be the first operational flight, Starliner-1. But when that flight will happen is up in the air, and reliant on Boeing fixing the safety issues on Starliner. A crewed flight may not happen until late 2026. Russia's Platonov is also a first-time flyer while Yui is making his second spaceflight having previously flown on Soyuz. The quartet is expected to be at the station for at least six months, but could potentially stay closer to eight, Stich said. They will become part of Expedition 73 and then 74 as the International Space Station, which has been crewed nonstop since late 2020. 'We'll be marking that huge milestone of 25 years of continuous human presence on the space station, and this will be the crew that will be on board to mark that milestone for us coming up,' said NASA's Bill Spetch, operations integration manager for the space station. He stumped for the station's contribution to NASA during that run including its work that helps NASA's current major objectives. 'We've really done an amazing amount of work advancing scientific knowledge, demonstrating new technologies, and really doing all of the things that help prepare us for human exploration of the moon and Mars,' he said. 'A lot of the technologies that we've proven out on space station over these 25 years are being used in those next-step programs.' Veteran Fincke, a member of the 1996 class of NASA astronauts, is happy to return for what will be his fourth stay on the station. 'I remember when space station was just pieces here on the ground, and I cannot say how amazed and proud I am of human beings from all over this planet working together pretty darn well,' he said. ---------------
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Big names to take to stage at York's Grand Opera House for St Leonard's Hospice
York drag queen Velma Celli is staging an event for St Leonard's Hospice reports MAXINE GORDON YORK'S most famous drag queen is hosting a charity concert in memory of his mum and in support of St Leonard's Hospice. Ian Stroughair (aka York drag queen Velma Celli) has joined forces with his friend Sarah Walker - daughter of the late Heartbeat author Peter Walker - to organise the show, titled Voices United: Rubies for our Angels. It will take place at York's Grand Opera House on Friday July 18 at 7.30pm and star Velma Celli as well as Jess Steel, Stuart Allan, Joanne Theaker-Spencer, Laura Castle, and Jonny and the Dunebugs, among others. Tickets are available from The evening of music will be in honour St Leonard's Hospice which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. York drag queen Velma Celli is organising a fundraiser for St Leonard's Hospice in July. Image supplied Ian said: "My dear mum Pauline Kennington passed away after her battle with cancer eight years ago in St Leonard's Hospice. A horrible time made much easier by the wonderful kindness of the angels at St Leonard's. "By awful freaky coincidence, my dearest friend Sarah Walker and her family lost their legendary dad and husband Peter Walker just weeks before my mum and then devastatingly so her precious sister Tricia Walker just months later. An utterly heartbreaking time for all." Peter and Tricia Walker Retired policeman Peter was better known as writer Nicholas Rhea, whose Constable series of books was turned into the hugely popular TV series Heartbeat. Sarah said: "This will be a charity fundraising concert in memory of my dad, sister, and my Ian's mum who all died in St Leonard's Hospice York within months of each other. It is also the hospice's 40th anniversary, so we felt it a fitting time to do it this year." She added: "Both Ian and I have long wanted to repay the hospice for the support our families received at the most difficult of times. Ian came up with the idea of a charity show after learning that St Leonard's receives just a quarter of its annual running costs from the NHS. The other six million pounds has to come from fundraising. We want to do our bit to help.' All of the artists are donating their time and talent for free so as much money as possible will go directly to the hospice, added Ian. Sarah Atkinson, community and events manager at St Leonard's said: "We're really excited about the upcoming Voices United evening at the Grand Opera House as we celebrate our 40th anniversary. St Leonards Hospice in York Image: Supplied "The compassionate care we provide at St Leonard's Hospice is only possible thanks to the incredible generosity of our community, and we very much appreciate the continued support. So, book your tickets for a glittering evening of entertainment and join us in celebrating both the talent and spirit that make our work possible."
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Watershed council to host event aimed at landowner partnerships, resources
Necanicum Estuary Logs lay strewn among seagrass in Necanicum Estuary Natural History Park in Seaside. The Necanicum Watershed Council is inviting residents and private landowners to learn more about natural resource conservation at a first-of-its-kind event this Saturday. The event — which will bring environmental nonprofits and agencies from across the community together in one room — is part of the watershed council's Necanicum Together campaign, an effort supported by a grant from the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board aimed at building partnerships with private landowners. As part of the program, the nonprofit has engaged in landowner outreach, and in September it hosted a 'get to know your watershed council' event. 'At that meeting, we heard a wide variety of concerns, so everything from erosion to invasive weeds,' said Operations Director Sarah Walker. 'As a watershed council, there are only so many things that we can do, and so it seemed like the next step was to try and get all of those resources into one room for landowners.' That's exactly the goal of Saturday's event. Walker said residents will have the opportunity to learn from different agencies at information tables, engage in a question and answer session and hear from speakers from the Necanicum Watershed Council, North Coast Watershed Association and Tillamook Estuaries Partnership. Other participants include the Clatsop Soil and Water District, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, North Coast Land Conservancy, Clatsop County OSU Extension Services and Master Gardener Association, PNW Native Landscapes and the Chinook Indian Nation. 'Ideally what we'd hoped for is that people leave with a roster of contacts of who they call when they need to call them,' she said. Much of the land in the Necanicum Basin is owned by Nuveen Natural Capital – an entity that the watershed council already has a strong working relationship with for restoration projects, Walker said. As the nonprofit continues its efforts with Necanicum Together, however, she said the hope is to bring other individual landowners into the conversation, too. 'Connecting with those folks not only lets us ID like, 'Oh, this is a great place for river restoration, and we can come onto your private property and help,' but also, our regular outreach and education messages about how to protect the watershed, that really should be digestible to most everybody that lives here,' she said. The event is from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Bob Chisholm Community Center in Seaside. People can RSVP at 'We're just excited to try it out and see if it's helpful for the folks that come, and then also helpful for all of the organizations that are working in the same place, essentially, with the same goal,' Walker said.
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Cisco's top exec spent 25 years climbing the ladder at one firm—she tells Gen Z and middle managers ‘you just need to be patient'
Gen Z and millennial workers think job-hopping is the only way up the ladder these days. But Cisco's U.K. CEO's career journey proves that patience could be key to long-term success. Company loyalty is dying. Research has shown that 75% of employees leave their gig before ever getting promoted; They're giving their bosses just 3 years to promote them before concluding the job is a dead end and jumping ship. But Cisco's new U.K. chief has a word of warning for young workers who expect a raise and a shiny new job title every year: 'You just need to be patient in the journey,' Sarah Walker tells Fortune—and middle managers need to be 'really patient.' She would know. The 45-year-old boss spent 25 years climbing the ranks at the Fortune 500 Europe telecommunications giant BT. In that time, Walker went from joining the sales team at the £14.21 billion British ($17.7 billion) legacy brand to leaving as its director of corporate and public sector. Following a mini micro-retirement, she joined Cisco as managing director before being promoted to lead its U.K. and Ireland arm just two years later. In Walker's rise to the top, some promotions came in as little as a year and a half—others took longer than 6 years. 'When I started in sales, we faxed contracts and waited, we didn't have email that we could use with customers, just good old fashioned letters,' she explains. 'So patience was a byproduct of how we lived at that time.' 'As a society, we've moved on to where everything is immediate and that does bleed into people's expectations of how quickly progression should be made and the pressure that people put on themselves to say, 'I have to get promoted within a year and if I haven't, then that means I'm not on the right trajectory, and therefore I'm going to go elsewhere and see if I can get there any quicker.'' However, outside of the seemingly constant wins on your LinkedIn feed, in reality, progression takes time, Walker warns. Plus, waiting for the right opportunities matters more than rushing to take up the next step up on paper—and failing. 'Different stages of your career, the step-ups can become bigger,' she says. 'A lot of the time, you find that in the middle management level, that's the time to be really patient because the higher up you go within an organization, the bigger exposure, bigger pressure, less opportunity to fail in many instances, and it's more visible.' In other words, slow and steady wins the race when it comes to sustainable success. 'There should be no time constraints on how quickly you progress,' she adds. 'You need to make sure that you're moving at the right time and the right pace.' 'As long as you never feel that you are stagnant, you feel that you're being appropriately challenged, you're learning new skill sets, you know that you're moving forward.' The trouble with being patient and trusting that a promotion will come in time is that there is a real chance that in 5 years you're still in the same role—when you could have job hopped at least twice, gained new skills, and a significantly higher salary. So, how can you tell whether or not your employer is worth investing years of your time in? For those early in their careers, it all comes down to whether or not you've ever actually vocalized with your manager where you want your career to go, Walker says. The CEO says it's on you, the worker, to outline your ambitions to employers and build a personal development plan. However, if your managers are aligned with your career goals, you're working together through that plan, and opportunities are coming up—but you're being bypassed—then, Walker says, that's a big red flag. 'Maybe there isn't the right level of movement above you to create that opportunity, that's the point where you'd start to have different conversations,' she highlights, adding that if your boss has been in the same role for eons and is looking pretty comfortable, then it's time to ask, what's next? 'Be really clear on whether you think those opportunities will exist, or whether you've reached the ceiling within the organization and in the environment that you're in, and if something external opens up those different opportunities,' she concludes. 'But if you haven't got a plan and that hasn't been kind of aligned to a mentor or a coach or a sponsor, it will be difficult for you to calibrate whether it is the right time or whether you've developed enough to be expecting of that next opportunity.' Her advice for those in middle management who may not see a promotion on paper for some time? Start looking for opportunities to grow your influence and skillset beyond your day-to-day responsibilities, like taking up a NED role. 'Be really clear on what personal progression looks like outside of a promotion, pay rise, grade increase, so that you still have those cognitive ways of knowing that you are moving forward, even if the job title hasn't changed,' she says. 'People who do that could be at the same level of an organization for a really long period of time, but they've developed and grown.' This story was originally featured on
