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The Importance of Strong
Independent Businesses in Canada From September 1987 to date, Catherine Susan Swift
has been with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. She
became Chairwoman in June 1999 after being named Chief Executive
Officer in July, 1997 and President in May of 1995. She first served
CFIB as Vice-President of Research and Chief Economist, then as
Senior Vice-President, Provincial Affairs, Senior Vice-President,
Administration, Senior Vice-President, Legislative Affairs and
subsequently Executive Vice-President. Ms. Swift is a CFIB Board
Governor and Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the Board.
Among her various responsibilities is coordinating policy issues at
both federal and provincial levels of government and representing
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Journalists Under Fire:
the Psychological Hazards of Covering War Dr. Feinstein received his medical degree in South Africa.
Thereafter he completed his training in Psychiatry at the Royal Free
Hospital in London, England, before training as a neuropsychiatrist
at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square in London. His Master of
Philosophy and Ph.D. degrees were obtained through the University of
London, England. He is currently a Professor of Psychiatry at the
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June Bash 2010 The format of the 2010 June Bash was the traditional social event without a speaker and back, once again, at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club - without a doubt, the finest dining view of the city there is! It was a geogeous evening with a fabulous four course dinner in the main dining room overlooking the harbour watching a fabulous sunset. It was a great finale to our 2009-10 campaign.
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Wrongful Convictions in Canada James
Lockyer obtained his LLB at the
University of Nottingham in 1971 and
is a member of the Bar in England and the
Law Society of Upper Canada. From 1972 until 1977, he was an
Assistant Professor at the Law Faculties of
McGill University and
the University of Windsor,
teaching corporate and civil law. He also helped to organize
demonstrations against local landlords and the Chilean junta of
Augusto Pinochet.
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April 27, 2010
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Life as the Physician-in-Chief
Dr. Robert Hylton Hyland graduated in
Medicine from the University of Toronto in
1973. He then completed his postgraduate training in Internal
Medicine and Respirology in Toronto and Winnipeg. He returned to
the University of Toronto in 1978 and was appointed on staff at the
Wellesley Hospital at that time. He remained on staff at the
Wellesley Hospital until 1998. During that time, he became Chief of
the Division of Respirology and Critical Care Medicine and
eventually Physician-in-Chief. After the amalgamation of the
Wellesley Hospital and St. Michael's Hospital in 1998, Dr. Hyland
became Associate Physician-in-Chief at St. Michael's Hospital, Chief
of the Division of Respirology and Medical Director, Respiratory and
Medical Services of the
Inner City Health Program.
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March 30, 2010  "warm, engaging and the absolute best teacher ... a pioneer, sage, diplomat, leader, recruiter and scientist - a St. Michael's luminary" - Dr. Bob Howard, CEO St. Michael's Hospital 
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We Know What You're
Thinking John Wright is Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Ipsos Reid's North American Public Opinion Polling Division and has been their Media Polling Partner architect and spokesperson since he arrived at the company in 1989. At almost $1.6 Billion annually, Ipsos is the second largest market and opinion research company in the world. For the decade before that he was Vice President with an advertising and public relations firm and served in both the political and corporate worlds in government relations. In all, he's worked for almost 30 years on Public Affairs assignments for clients of every dimension. John has had his own radio show on CFRB for almost 15 years with one of the top political commentary panels in the country, and regularly co-hosts and anchors Canada's business news network’s (BNN’s) daily market closing show SqueezePlay. He’s also appeared on every major news channel—from CNN to Al Jazeera—and been quoted, literally, everywhere in print around the world. His “outside of work” activities are diverse and extensive: he holds an Honourary Appointment with the Canadian Forces as Honourary Lieutenant-Colonel of The Ontario Regiment, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, and is on the boards of the Hincks Dellcrest Children's Mental Health Centre, the Canadian Journalism Foundation, The Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington, Canada Company, the Historica-Dominion Institute and Cancer Care Ontario. An Arbor award recipient from the University of Toronto, and former Ontario Legislature Intern, he's previously been a founder and now lifetime member of the Public Affairs Association of Canada, Vice Chair of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies, and member of the board for a diverse range of organizations -- from Clarica Life Insurance to Alzheimer's, from Heart & Stroke to the Empire Club of Canada, and from the Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health to the Association for the Defence of the Wrongly Convicted. And in his free time, he's co-authored two national best-selling books with colleague Darrell Bricker: "What Canadians Think About Almost Everything" (2005) and their latest "We Know What You’re Thinking" (2009).
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February 23, 2010
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An Insider's view of the 2010 Winter Olympics Chris Rudge was named chief executive officer of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) in January 2003. Rudge is a member of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games’ (VANOC) Board of Directors. He has an extensive knowledge of international, national and provincial sports policies and their effects. Chris’ sports background includes experience as an athlete, teacher, coach and administrator. He began his professional career as a physical education teacher with the Toronto Board of Education, teaching both junior and senior high school students. A lacrosse fan, he played competitively with the Syracuse Stingers of the National Lacrosse League (NLL). He also served as director of personnel with the NLL's Les Caribou de Québec, and coached the Canadian National Field Lacrosse Team.
Chris has long been active on a number of boards in the corporate,
cultural and education sectors. He currently serves as a Director of
The Paxen Group and on the boards of Merrill Lynch, Canada; National
Ballet of Canada; and Country Day School, where he is vice chairman.
He is also involved with the School of Graphic Communications
Management at Ryerson University and University of Toronto’s
Department of Athletics Restricted Funds Committee. Previously, he
was a member of the Province of Ontario's Olympic Trust and
Waterfront Development Board and Chairman of the Town of Vaughan’s
Recreation and Sports Advisory Committee.
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January 26, 2010
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The Connection between Human
Beings and the Places They Inhabit Dr. Colin Ellard is an experimental psychologist at the University of Waterloo, the director of its Research Laboratory for Immersive Virtual Environments and an international expert in the psychology of navigation. The results of his research in the areas of animal behaviour, cognitive mapping, human navigation and neuroscience have been published in scientific journals for more than 20 years. Colin Ellard lives and regularly gets lost in Kitchener, Ontario. In his talk, Ellard described how a scientific approach to the connection between human beings and the spaces and places they inhabit influences the design of the built environment. Are the principles that underlie our spatial behaviour relevant to decision-makers who design hospitals, nursing homes, factories, or even urban streetscapes? How do such principles vary across the lifespan? Colin explained why he feels that the solutions to the world’s most important problems lie more in understanding our psychology than in advancing our technology. Its a story he's told in his recent book Where am I? Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon But Get Lost at the Mall
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November 24, 2009
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The Backstage History Marlene Smith is known to many of us as the tireless producer and through her passionate involvement with Toronto theatre. Since the founding of her Godspell Company 37 years ago, she has brought to the community nearly fifty Broadway musicals. At this year’s Dora Awards ceremony, theatre producer and Studio 180 board member Marlene Smith earned the Silver Ticket Award, which is presented to an individual who has excelled in her career while also making a major contribution to the development of Canadian theatre. Marlene has been producing and co-producing live theatre for 40 years, including the long-running Cats (1985/87) – the first “mega-musical” to play in Toronto with an all-Canadian cast and production team which grossed $40 million. She was borne into the theatre as a child of the manager of the lakefront theatre, The Palais Royale, that stands to this day. She can recount with bold recollection hiding behind the curtains, having slipped out of the family apartment above, to witness musicals of the earlier century. Many actors and actresses gave her knowing winks as they went about their on-stage entertainment. Marlene served as co-manager of the Historic Elgin/Winter Garden Theatre in its first five years of its latest revival. During her tenures, she introduced many raw actors who went on to their special places on Canadian and American stage. Her showbiz career began as Director of Group Sales for Hair at the Royal Alexandra Theatre (1970). After working as publicist and company manager for the legendary Godspell (1972/73 - starring Andrea Martin, Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, et al), she co-produced her first show (with Susan Rubes), What’s A Nice Country Like You … Doing in a State Like This? for Theatre in the Dell. She has produced or co-produced such productions as Ain’t Misbehavin’ (1980), I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road, Piaf, Tomfoolery (The Ports), Damn Yankees (Royal Alexandra Theatre), Arsenic and Old Lace (1988-Hart House Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors (1985-Crest Theatre), Side by Side by Sondheim, The Wizard of Oz, Napoleon-1994 (Elgin Theatre) and The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) (1997/98-Bathurst Street Theatre). She has also produced important fundraisers such as the star-studded It’s Always Something which raises money for Gilda’s Club of Greater Toronto, named in honour of the late comedienne Gilda Radner; and DQ, a fundraiser for Casey House, the most prominent Aids Hospice in Canada. Smith has also given much to both the theatre and larger communities, serving on numerous boards and advisory groups, including those of the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, the Shaw Festival and the Toronto Hospital Board. She currently sits on the Boards of Hart House Theatre, Theatre Museum of Canada, Performing Arts Lodges (PAL) and Studio 180.
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September 29, 2009
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We've changed the World ...
Edward Burtynsky is known as one of Canada's most respected photographers, and his remarkable depictions of global industrial landscapes are in the collections of several major museums around the world. Exploring the intricate connection between industry and nature, combining the raw elements of mining, quarrying, manufacturing, oil development, shipping, and recycling into eloquent, highly expressive visions, he has portrayed beauty and humanity in the most unlikely of places. Edward Burtynsky’s large-scale colour photographs reveal the many facets of nature as it is transformed through human industry. Exquisitely detailed and exactingly rendered, his images strike an intricate balance between a somber reportage and a powerfully seductive aesthetic. His work is an attempt to comprehend the scale of production attending this most politicized of resources. “These landscapes are about us, our dreams, our desires and our needs. We have totally disconnected ourselves from these landscapes by living in urban centres. I didn’t enter the work to create it as a political tool,” he says, “but there is a political aspect to it, like there is to most art. … I feel it’s far more interesting to position the work as a point of departure for discussion about what these landscapes mean to us, to our daily existence.” Burtynsky's work has been exhibited at and collected by major museums across North America and abroad including the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; the Bibliotheque National, Paris, France and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Edward Burtynsky is the subject of a recent award winning documentary film Manufactured Landscapes and was one of three to win the inaugural TED Prize in 2004. Most recently, Edward Burtynsky was appointed to the Order of Canada, the country’s highest honour for lifetime achievement. Books by Steidl include China (2005) and Quarries (2007). Edward's extensive CV and online radio and TV interviews can be found on his website which details his prolific works. Some of his art is on display locally in the Nicholas Metivier Gallery. Edward is also on the board of www.worldchanging.com, a media organization that comprises a global network of independent journalists, designers and thinkers covering the world's most intelligent solutions to today's problems. He created this thought provoking video to promote it. By June, Edward will be nearing completion of his next major project, Oil – a decade’s worth of photographing the world's largest oil fields, refineries, freeway interchanges and automobile plants. The Whiff is indeed fortunate to have Edward give us a sneak peak at his upcoming October book release and exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. He’ll lead a discussion addressing the inherent tension between preserving and exploiting nature in the name of progress and about where we are going and how we are doing it.
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2009 June Bash June 23, 2009 6:30PM at the Granite Club
[Trailer: Manufactured Landscape: (.mov) 2:02min] Download a printable version of this meeting notice here
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Galileo's Revolution: Celebrating 400 Years of the Astronomical Telescope
John R. Percy (BSc Math & Physics 1962, MA Astronomy 1963, PhD Astronomy 1968, all University of Toronto) is a professor emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, in Mississauga (UTM). His research interests include variable stars and stellar evolution, and he has published over 200 research papers in these fields. He is the author of "Understanding Variable Stars" (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He is active in science education (especially astronomy) at all levels, throughout the world. He has edited or co-edited the proceedings of the five major international conferences on the topic. His education interests and experiences include: teaching development at the university level; development of astronomy/space curriculum for Ontario Schools; development of resources for educators (including www.cascaeducation.ca); pre-service and in-service teacher education; lifelong learning; public science literacy; the roles of science centres and planetariums; the role of skilled amateurs in research and education ("citizen science"); high school and undergraduate student research projects; international astronomy education and development; and multicultural astronomy. He is Director of the undergraduates Science Education program, and the Early Teacher Program at UTM, and is cross-appointed to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. He has served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, the Royal Canadian Institute, The American Association of Variable Star Observers, the International Astronomical Union Commissions on Variable Stars, and on Astronomical Education and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. He has served as Honorary President of the Science Teachers' Association of Ontario, and as Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Ontario Science Centre. He was recently the recipient of the Royal Canadian Institute's Sandford Fleming Medal, for contributions to public awareness and appreciation of science and technology, the U of T School of Continuing Studies' Citation for Exceptional Commitment and Achievement in adult learning, and the Distinguished Educator Award of OISE. In 1999, he received the Jack Bell Award from the Science Teachers' Association of Ontario "for outstanding and continued contributions to science education in Ontario", and he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2003, he received the University of Toronto's Northrop Frye Award, for exemplary linkage of teaching and research, and in 2006, he received the inaugural U of T President's Teaching Award.
Factoid: He and his wife, Marie, who directs the Neurognetics Lab at
Toronto's Surrey Place, have
twin asteroids named after them.
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April 28, 2009
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The Best Laid Plans
Terry Fallis graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in 1983 from
McMaster University where
he became engulfed in university student politics. After graduation,
he turned his back on engineering and
joined Jean Chretien's full-time
staff for the federal Liberal Leadership campaign. Following that,
he served on the political staff in the short lived Turner
government and subsequent Loyal Opposition until 1985. He returned
to Toronto where he was a Legislative Assistant to Robert Nixon,
then-Treasurer in the Peterson government.
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March 31, 2009
“Amusing, enlightening — and Canadian,
and it deftly explores the Machiavellian machinations of Ottawa’s
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What is Wrong with the Alzheimer's Brain? Dr. Claudio Cuello is a Professor of Pharmacology and has just been re-appointed by the Senate at McGill University for a second five-year term as Charles E. Frosst/Merck Frosst Chair in Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Dr. Cuello and his research group conduct research into the pathology of Alzheimer's Disease. This Research Chair was endowed in 1999 on the 100th. Anniversary of the founding of Charles E. Frosst & Co., Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, with the funding collaboration of the-then Medical Research Council of Canada, Merck Frosst Canada, the family of Charles E. Frosst, and McGill University. The Frosst family continues to play a strong role in support of this research. Alzheimer's Disease is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly, presenting itself clinically by debilitating loss of memory and learning. Progressive failure of the capability of neurons to transmit nerve impulses correlates closely with cognitive impairment, and Dr. Cuello's group conducts vital research into the mechanisms associated with this synaptic degeneration. A specific peptide, beta-amyloid peptide (A-beta), is considered responsible for the pathogenesis of the disease. Expression of this peptide leads to toxic effects in the brain. Research in Dr. Cuello's group is focussed on the pathways that occur in rats as well as in humans, with the approach that variations in the levels of the peptide could influence signalling mechanisms that lead to the disease's deleterious results. Dr. Cuello will speak about What is Wrong with the Alzheimer's Brain. (A view from the basic sciences). His remarks will convey an understanding in lay terms, while he will utilise slides that will demonstrate current understanding. [Click here for a sample of one of his slides.] Aging population has revealed an increased tendency for Alzheimer's in the elderly, and we are experiencing an increasing number of family members who have developed the associated symptoms. This meeting will provide an excellent opportunity to learn about these problems from one of Canada's leading researchers. Dr. Cuello will be both interesting and informative. Claudio Cuello earned the MD (Buenos Aires) in 1965 followed by the Ph.D. (Oxford) in 1986. He is Doctor Honoris Causa (1991) (Ceara, Brazil) and Doctor in Medicine Honoris Causa (2000) Kuopio, Finland. He is also Fellow, Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Cuello was Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at McGill University from 1985 to 2000. He is a past Staff Scientist for the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, U.K. (1985-1978), Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Neuropharmacology and Neuroanatomy at Oxford University and Fellow and Medical Tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford (1978-1985). Dr. Cuello leads a research team working on multidisciplinary aspects of aging, models of Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology, degeneration and repair of the CNS. He has contributed to his field of research with pioneering publications on dendritic release of neurotransmitters, the localization and role of central and peripheral neuropeptides, trophic factor-included repair and synaptogenesis and novel application of monoclonal antibodies in the neurosciences. His research activities have been conducted at the University of Buenos Aires, Antarctica (annual campaign 1966), the University of California in San Francisco, the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and McGill University. He has received numerous recognitions in Canada, such as the Heinz Lehman Award, the Novartis Award and has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is an Honorary Professor at the Norman Bethune University (China) and Buenos Aires University (Argentina) and named Highly Cited Neuroscientist by the Institute of Scientific Information, USA. Dr. Augusto Claudio Guillermo Cuello's scientific accomplishments until 2001 have been summarized in Vol 3. of “The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography”.
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February 24, 2009
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The Beauty of Art: Handmade/Digital Sara Diamond is the President of the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) - Canada's foremost university of art and design. She holds degrees from Canada and the United Kingdom in social history, communications, digital media theory and computer science. She is currently a member of the Ontario Ministry of Culture Minister's Advisory Council on Arts & Culture, the Board of Directors of the Toronto Arts Council Foundation and of ORANO, Ontario's high speed network. She is a founding member of CONCERT and the Chair of the OMDC funded Mobile Experience Innovation Centre. She has received numerous research awards for her work in visualization, mobile content design, wearable technologies and collaborative tools. She is a visualization software researcher and developer www.codezebra.net. Diamond created and was Editor-in-Chief of www.horizonzero.ca, an on-line showcase for new media art and design, in collaboration with Heritage Canada. Diamond participates in peer review publication and diverse editorial boards such as Leonardo on-line and Convergence. She provides media consulting to Heritage Canada, SSHRC, CFI, Industry Canada, CHRC and DFAIT, as well as international governments, institutions and agencies as diverse as China, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Finland, Australia, Brazil and the USA. Prior to her presidency at OCAD, Diamond was the Director of Research for the prestigious Banff Centre. She created the renowned Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) in 1995 and led it until coming to Toronto in 2005. Diamond developed international summits and business development workshops and accelerators that explored the near future of new media. She built alliances between artists, designers, architects, scientists, social scientists, and international and Canadian businesses. Diamond taught at Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, The California Institute for the Arts and remains Adjunct Professor, University of California, Los Angeles in the Design/Media Department. In 2007 she was named one of Canada’s fifty most significant artists as part of the Canada Council’s fiftieth anniversary celebration. Her work resides in collections such as the National Gallery of Canada, where she was honoured with a retrospective in 1992 and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Family Night January 27, 2009
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The Fall of the Civil Courts and the Rise of Mediation
Not every dispute is amenable to a mediated settlement. But what
other options are there to court proceedings? Alternative Dispute
Resolution (ADR) includes dispute resolution processes and
techniques that fall outside of the government judicial process.
Despite historic resistance to ADR by both parties and their
advocates, ADR has gained widespread acceptance among both the
general public and the legal profession in recent years. In fact,
some courts now require some parties to resort to ADR of some type
before permitting the parties' cases to be tried. The rising
popularity of ADR can be explained by the increasing caseload of
traditional courts, the perception that ADR imposes fewer costs than
litigation, a preference for confidentiality, and the desire of some
parties to have greater control over the selection of the individual
or individuals who will decide their dispute.
ADR is generally classified into four types: Negotiation,
Mediation, Collaborative Law, and Arbitration. Beyond these basic
types of ADR, there are forms that include Case Evaluation, Early
Neutral Evaluation, Family Group Conference, Neutral Fact-finding
and Ombuds.
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Meeting the Challenges of the New
CBC Canadians want a public broadcaster that is more
relevant to them; more relevant to their lives at a time when
Canadians and their interests are more diverse than ever before, and
they are feeling the impact of continuous change. Some Canadians
worry that their public broadcaster risks becoming too commercial,
but few believe taxpayers alone can provide it with the resources it
needs to provide the service Canadians want. Like all organizations,
for CBC/Radio-Canada to succeed it must have stable long-term
funding in order to be able to run its operations effectively and to
plan for the future.
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The Economic and Financial Outlook
"At the core of any central bank is a governmental licence to
print money -- an alchemy of such general wonder and fascination
that there is no shortage of running commentary."
from the Preface of
Making Money: An Insider's
Perspective on Finance, Politics, and Canada's Central Bank
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June Bash 2008
Our speaker, Derek Hatfield, is the first and only Canadian to
qualify for the upcoming single-handed, non-stop without assistance,
race around the world, the Vendé Globe
2008. For more details on the AroundTogether opportunity with the Spirit of Canada visit www.spiritofcanada.net and VendeeGlobe Skippers - Derek Hatfield (1) pitchpoled - to capsize end over end in heavy surf
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Emergence of Northern Democracies Dr. Ernest S. ‘Tiger’ Burch is one of North
America’s leading social anthropologists and historical enthnographers
who has researched and written extensively about the northern peoples,
especially those of northwestern Alaska and the central Canadian
Sub-Arctic. With the emergence of newly-established ‘democratic’
regions, notably Nunavut covering the vast area from northwest and
northeast Hudson’s Bay to the North Pole, Canada has a new and particular
interest in how these peoples are acclimatizing and how their lives
are developing.
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The Real Beauty of Botox Dr. Chris Boulias
is centrally involved at West Park Healthcare Centre with the spasticity
clinic, treating patients who are undergoing rehabilitation following
a stroke or other medically-related condition that causes muscles
to continually and involuntarily contract.
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Space Dr. Bondar is a neurologist and
researcher. After internship in internal medicine at Toronto General
Hospital, she completed post-graduate medical training in neurology
at the University of Western Ontario; neuro-opthalmology at Tuft’s
New England Medical Center (Boston) and the Playfair Neuroscience
Unit of Toronto Western Hospital; and carotid Doppler ultrasound
and transcranial Doppler at the Pacific Vascular Institute (Seattle).
She was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine (Neurology), McMaster
University, 1982-84; Scientific staff, Sunnybrook Medical Centre,
Toronto, 1988-present; Visiting Research Scholar, Department of
Neurology, University of New Mexico, 1993-95; Adjunct Professor,
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, 1992-1994; Distinguished
Professor, CATE, Ryerson, 1992-present; Visiting Distinguished Fellow,
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University,
1993-94; Visiting Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology,
University of Western Ontario, 1994-present.
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A Former Commissioner's Reflections After due deliberation the Junta has drafted the following questions for our speaker:
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The Future of
Higher Education in Ontario Squee's background includes an Honours BA in History and a Master's Degree in Modern British History from Bishop's University, a Master's Degree in Educational Administration from the University of Massachusetts, a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, and a Doctorate in Educational Administration from the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Gordon has been active locally, nationally, and internationally in education matters, and, more recently, his many contributions have been recognized through three honorary Doctorate degrees in Laws (Guelph), Civil Law (Bishop's), and Letters (New Brunswick), each honoris causa. His distinguished career has attracted the awards of many medals and citations, and his great abilities have attracted his commitment to provincial and national committees, as well as through significant international involvements, for the advancement of education. Notably, he served an unprecedented three terms as Chair of the Committee of Presidents of Community Colleges in Ontario. Recently, he accepted responsibility as President of the Corporation of Bishop's University.
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A Man for All Seasons John is a playwright, philosopher and mathematician:
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A Cornucopia
of Crime & Terrorism - Closer than you think! Chris Mathers spent most of his adult life working undercover
for the RCMP, US Drug Enforcement Administration and the US
Customs Service. Posing as a gangster, a drug trafficker and
finally as a money launderer, Mathers has done it all, and his
book, "CRIME SCHOOL: Money Laundering" tells it all.
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Chindia -
Global Implications of Rapid Changes in China & India Alan's talk focused on these key facts: Did you know?
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The Politics
of Law and Order · Born in Vendoglio, Italy, 1942 ·· Awarded the Order of Ontario in 2003
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Chief
of Police - Toronto, 2002-2005 · Ontario Commissioner of Emergency Management, 2005-2006 · Front and centre in policing controversies on: o Drug and homicide squads and criminal intelligence o Racial profiling statistics o Outreach to gay community through a fab cover story oo Child pornography investigations & associated media coverage o Opposition to external reviews on police conduct in Toronto o Controversy surrounding sons of a former chief o Operation True Blue – windshield stickers for donors.
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The Washington
diaries 1981-1989
Allan Ezra Gotlieb, public servant (b at Winnipeg, Man 28 Feb
1928). A Rhodes scholar and international lawyer with a reputation
for intellectual toughness, Gotlieb joined the Department of
External Affairs (now FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE)
in 1957, a year after being called to the Bar of England (Inner
Temple). He was assistant undersecretary and legal adviser 1967-68.
A member of P.E. TRUDEAU'S inner circle, he was deputy minister
of the new Department of Communications 1968-73 and of Manpower
and Immigration 1973-76.
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Are We Ready for What the Future Holds??
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Equalization
and the Fiscal Imbalance Fred Gorbet is currently the CIT Chair in Financial Services
and Co-Director of the Financial Services Program at the Schulich
School of Business, York University. He has extensive experience
in public policy advice and formulation, particularly with regard
to financial institutions and energy policy. During a 25-year
career in the Canadian public service, he served as Senior Policy
Advisor to the Department of Energy, Director of Policy for
the International Energy Agency in Paris, Associate Secretary
to the Cabinet for Strategic Policy and Deputy Minister of Finance.
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Condelezza
Rice’s Vision of a “New Middle East” Good or Bad?
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