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Lazaridis, Mike, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 2007), 2 Mar 2006, 364-377     The importance of education. Exceeding our own limitations. Factors of stress and competition. Learning the tools of accomplishment. Some history of Research in Motion. The importance of the universi

Rothschild, Lord, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1965), 4 Mar 1965, 244-251     The speaker's personal background and some reminiscences. The ten years as Chairman of the British Agricultural Research Council. A visit to Shell's Laboratories and how that changed his life. Compar

Macallum, Professor A.B., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 14 Dec 1916, 320-326     The change that we must make in order to get efficiency in national life. The lesson this war is teaching us. The need to employ all the scientific lore that is available today to human kind, to appl

Polanyi, John C., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1987), 27 Nov 1986, 149-161     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto. A brief personal history, including the progress of the speaker's research. The role of his graduate students. Their int

Kerwin, Dr. Larkin, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1982), 12 Nov 1981, 101-114     The speaker's belief that Canada's future lies "in a certain kind of beauty." Aesthetics as a response to economics. Science worth pursuing solely as an artistic process. Culture's need for science a

Barker, Professor Lewellys F., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1910), 5 Jan 1910, 77-88     Progress over the last century in understanding the nature of disease; in finding out how to prevent disease; and in discovering cures for disease. This progress over the last century more than in al

Macdonald, H. Ian, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 26 Apr 1984, 372-386     Views on the future of Canada. Importance of education and innovation to Canada's future. The information revolution and its impact on Canada. Significance of knowledge skills and research and develo

Solandt, Dr. O.M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1953), 30 Apr 1953, 348-360     Dr. Solandt's recent return from a brief trip to India and Pakistan, and his attendance at a meeting of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Defence Science. This visit and an earlier one to Austra

McCallum, Professor A.B., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1917), 8 Mar 1917, 475-490     Functions and aims of the Canadian Research Council (CRC). Other research councils that had been established and active in promoting their objects before the CRC was founded. The CRC not called into