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Emerson, The Hon. David L., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 2007), 21 Sep 2005, 16-26     Entering public life and what that was like for the speaker. The economy in Canada. A changing world and how that might effect Canada's economy. Concerns - what the speaker worried about. Ways to get ready. Anticipating threats and opportunities. Where we go from here. Where not to go. The ...

Vennat, Michel, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 2002), 25 Oct 2001, 160-169     How important small business is to Canada. Small Business Week in Canada. The impact of the events of 9/11 on business. Canada's position in facing this difficult period. The excellent health of our financial institutions. The resonse of the BDC. Other influences such as the globalisation of markets and growing ...

Dunn, Frank A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 2005), 4 Dec 2003, 109-121     Perspective regarding the global impact of today's telecommunciations industry. The speaker proceeded under the following headings: Accelerated Impact; Productivity Dividend; Emerging Markets; Broken Business Model; The Transformed Network; The Road Map

McLennan, John, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 2004), 30 May 2002, 24-36     Canadian telecommunications. How Canada can establish itself as a global leader in the next phase of opportunity and growth in the global information and communications industries. Information-based applications, technologies, services and solutions for export to customers around the globe. Competitive carrier industry as a fundamental building block of a 21st-century ...

Monty, Jean C., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 2001), 28 Sep 2000, 88-98     Some remarks about Toronto's Olympic bid and about Bell Canada. Convergence, pushing communications companies to acquire content and e-commerce capabilities, media companies to merge wiwth distributors, and entertainment conglomerates to join dot-coms at the altar of the Internet. BCE as sthe only company in Canada to have sizable stakes in ...

Scrivener, Robert C., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1969), 6 Mar 1969, 208-219     Today's economy and that of tomorrow possibly to be called the "electronic era." The telecommunications network that Canadians take for granted equal to the best in the world and used at a lesser cost than in any other country. How such a network came about and how it is used. ...

Sirois, Charles, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1997), 28 Nov 1996, 246-258     What it means to be global. Ways in which we're already there, but just don't notice. 1997 to bring a tide of change in telecommunications, as it becomes truly global, as it is supposed to be. The global communications industry in the midst of the most profound changes in its ...

Holding, William Frederick, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1952), 17 Jan 1952, 185-198     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto. Reference to Sir Wilfred Laurier's statement that the 20th century would belong to Canada. What Sir Laurier saw in Canada and Canadians to prompt him to make this statement. Recognition of Canada's considerable progress. Canada's ...

Eadie, Thomas Wardrope, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1954), 29 Oct 1953, 41-51     A new era in the telephone industry. Telephone service sharing in that remarkable trend of the modern world—the elimination of the effects of time and distance. Aspects and details of telephone development. Direct dialing for long distance calls. New equipment to provide this service. The presentation, during the address, of ...

McCaffrey, John L., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1954), 11 Feb 1954, 191-201     The creation of a separate company to serve Canada one of the first important acts of the present International Harvester Company. The United States company formed in 1902, and International Harvester of Canada created just one year later, in 1903. The Hamilton works of the Canadian company this year completing ...

Hurtubise, Lionel, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1998), 6 Nov 1997, 150-167     Some key issues critical to the information technology and communications markets. Sharing the speaker's experiences as the Canadian CEO and now Chairman of a large multinational company doing great things in Canada. The lessons learned by a global company such as Ericsson about competing successfully in a business arena defined ...

Van Lennep, Emile, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1974), 22 Oct 1973, 57-69     A brief history and review of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since its inception in 1961. Characteristics of the 24 member countries (including Canada). A discussion of market economies. Two major themes of this address are: "the major changes that are at present under way in our ...

White, Robert, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 9 Feb 1984, 230-242     Signs of recovery from the recession, and who got left out. Statistics with regard to productivity, domestic processing of resources, machine production, profits, investments. Business perspectives about the recession and the recovery. Comments on various political statements, phrases and policies, such as "internationally competitive," "export orientation," "free trade," "high tech," ...

Caplan, David L., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1999), 19 Nov 1998, 228-239     Some meaningful dialogue about Canada's future economic prospects. Some views about where the speaker thinks we are headed, or where we ought to be headed. Turbulence and uncertainty clouding the near-term outlook. The urgent need for Canada to continue to become less dependent on commodities and better-known for its world-class ...

d'Aquino, Thomas, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 13 Jan 1983, 169-182     Canada and the economy. The role and responsibilities of business in Canada's national life, and what business leaders of Canada are doing to help us recover from the deep wounds of recession. The recent report of the Social Affairs Commission of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, "Ethical Reflections on ...

Beigie, Carl E., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1982), 8 Oct 1981, 21-35     A brilliant economic future for Canada, only if the disciplines of harsh reality are realized, and steps taken in the near term to restore reasonable balance to the economic system. The policy of monetary gradualism embarked upon six years ago. The basic goal to bring down inflation a failure. Problems ...

Dobson, Wendy, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1987), 4 Dec 1986, 162-174     The underlying issue to the proposal by Canada's government to negotiate a trade agreement with the United States government: "Canada's ability to respond to the changed global economic environment in ways that ensure future growth in Canadians' living standards." Some of the major changes that have occurred in the world ...

Bonner, Robert W., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1975), 21 Nov 1974, 114-125     Why 1975 will be a "significant and dramatic year in our contemporary history." Since 1971, a period of "considerable material prosperity joined with a period of not inconsiderable inflation." The results of those factors. The contemplation of a recession. Four considerations that might affect our conventional thinking about material progress: ...

Ferchat, Robert, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1996), 19 Oct 1995, 183-192     "There are no limits except those that are self-imposed." Thoughts and comments on the Quebec situation. "Breaking down the barriers that keep us from realising all the opportunities within our reach." A focus on one of those opportunities in the speaker's industry of telecommunications, particularly in the wireless world: cellular ...

Young, Dr. John, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1970), 30 Oct 1969, 80-90     This address begins with a series of questions, the first one being "What price, then, must we pay for price stability?" and continuing, "What will it cost us individually and, as a nation, to bring the present inflation under control?" "And once this inflation has been brought under control, what ...