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Deloitte Canada has acquired Groundswell Group, a Calgary-based artificial intelligence (AI) and data integration firm.
Following the deal, Groundswell’s 133-person team will join Deloitte’s Canadian consulting practice, under Omnia AI. Groundswell will also continue to serve clients in Western Canada. Deloitte Canada declined to disclose the financial terms of the acquisition to BetaKit.
Groundswell marks Deloitte Canada’s second acquisition of 2021, with its first being TWG.
Founded in 2001, Groundswell delivers a variety of services to help its clients capitalize on the value of data. The firm does not sell a specific software, however, its team provides niche expertise to firms spanning the oil and gas, retail, utilities, finance, and manufacturing sectors, among others.
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Davis statue featured in skin cancer campaign
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ALTON Miles Davis has been recruited to help raise awareness for skin cancer.
His statue on Third Street in Alton will be dressed up for Skin Cancer Awareness Month, according to Miles Davis Jazz Festival chairperson Lee Barham.
“It’s a one-day event, May 1, and the dressing will be removed at the end of the event,” he said.
The jazz festival board worked with Godfrey-based Pride Inc. to erect the bronze Davis statue in front of Chez Marilyn, 119 W. 3rd St., Alton, in 2015.
Lisa Woods, chief operating officer of The GroundSwell Group who works with Barham on the jazz festival, contacted Barham about two weeks ago to discuss the statue as part of the group’s Skin Cancer Awareness Month campaign. The Alton statue was selected as Illinois’ statue for the campaign.
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WASHINGTON House members may disagree on how well the COVID-19 pandemic is being handled, but they do seem to agree on one thing: workers in meatpacking and poultry processing plants should be given higher priority for vaccination than they are right now. It s becoming very clear through the entire COVID crisis that vaccines are the way out, said Rep. Andy Harris, MD (R-Md.), during a hearing on health and safety protections for meat, poultry, and agricultural workers held by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. Given the data we have gotten in the last couple of weeks that it seems that a single shot of Pfizer or Moderna is almost as good as two shots and hopefully the FDA will revise the EUA [emergency use authorization] to allow that we could be freeing up 20 or 30 million doses in the next month, some of which could go to these workers.