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Atom02 June 2011 The growing movement of opposition to industrial wind energy in Ontario, and the challenges Ontario’s Green Energy Act faces from a ...
Speaking on the day the Prime Minister’s party releases its much-anticipated election platform. Reference to previous speeches at for Empire Club. ...
Canadians as a great people up for a great challenge. The Liberal platform released two weeks ago. Stephen Harper’s platform released yesterday. ...
Pressures and challenges for the Canadian economy, the same as for the rest of the world. Working with our international partners to find ways to ...
Challenges facing the finance minister and how they are not as daunting as those facing families who have lost a job. Ontario grappling with this ...
A story from Saskatchewan. Friendly faces at the head table. Some introductions. Sources of perspective. Heady times for the province of ...
Introduction of panellists by Boyd Neil who continues to speak. The decline in trust in companies over the past few years. Social tools such as ...
Some particular introductions and welcoming remarks from the speaker. The speaker’s fascination with the connection between universities and cities. ...
A non-cheerful backdrop for the speaker’s talk. Encountering doom and gloom on the economic front. A backdrop that also provides valuable context for ...
Some opening humorous remarks about the speaker’s invitation to speak. Reference of the departure of Don Newman from the CBC. The speaker continues ...
A panel discussion led by Larry Stout and beginning with Christine Elliott: Personal bio graphical details. The needed debate about policy, ...
Jamie Watt: How Mr. Harper sees the outcome of the election. The challenges of even a stronger minority government. Several important milestones ...
The speaker’s family history with The Empire Club and The Canadian Club. Listening to lead. Questions the speaker has heard from Canadians. Taking ...
Several slides are shown during this speech. An acknowledgement of donors and others in the audience that helped to make the new AGO possible. ...
Pensions as front-page news. The wide-reaching affect of pensions. The very public debate about pensions – retirement security, affordability, ...
The speaker’s position as head of CBC/Radio-Canada. What he soon discovered about the public broadcaster after he arrived in 2008. The 29 services ...
Providing some insight on innovation. Innovation now as the prime driver of economic growth and how that is so. The experience of three companies ...
Some introductory remarks. The speaker in his fifth month as Chief of Defence Staff and how he is enjoying the job. His former job. A description of ...
The tendency to be pessimistic about the future of mankind right now and why. One of the greatest challenges presented by globalization. Future ...
Lynda Palazzi: A great time to talk about Gen Ys and Gen Zs- a huge group from 11-30 now in our schools and workplaces. How powerful these groups ...
The speaker’s participation in Ontario Teachers for almost 10 years. How we intend to give substance to the provincial government’s dream to create ...
A time of extraordinary economic challenge. Living in a global economy. The impact of the U.S. credit crisis. The speaker’s opinion as to what we are ...
Valerie Pringle and Margaret Trudeau in dialogue about children and youth mental health. Ms. Trudeau’s bipolar condition. Background and history to ...
Thomas S. Caldwell: Understanding the future by first understanding the present and the immediate past. A story. The current circumstances that we ...
The speaker’s response to the oft-asked question “Why did you get into the theatre business?” Getting the theatre bug. Co-productions with Canstage. ...
December 18, 2008<br></br> The Hon. David C. Onley<br></br> Lieutenant-Governor of ...
A definition of alternative energy – or what it isn’t. Narrow focus on alternative green energy. How things are changing for alternative energy. ...
Donald G.M. Coxe A quote from Leon Trotsky. A century that has begun with a redefinition of the capital markets and is continuing to do so. The ...
The presentation of the 2008-09 Ontario budget to the legislature yesterday. Stronger-than-expected growth in 2007. The growth expected in 2008. Some ...
The speaker delivering his final public speech as Governor of the Bank of Canada. What the speaker means by “financial system.” Why the Bank of ...
Greetings from the more than 65,000 physician-members of the Canadian Medical Association. The speaker addressing the club as the 140th president of ...
NATO; its operation in Afghanistan; its future and the vital role that Canada plays in the NATO alliance. Canada’s distinguished military history. ...
This is a moderated panel. John Ibbitson acts as moderator. The address is a series of questions and answers, an exchange of views. Questions from ...
Technology and the talent required that makes technology a vital part of our national economy. Reference to the Institute for Competitiveness and ...
Declaring a small bias. New York City. Some quotes about Americans and Canadians. The diplomat’s job. Some American and Canadian traits. The nature ...
An invitation to an accounting standard-setter as a reflection of the times. Finger-pointing at accounting standards as the cause of the current ...
Some introductory remarks. A story about the speaker’s sister. The gap between the Ontario we have and the Ontario that we deserve. A leadership gap. ...
A salute to the Empire Club of Canada. The Empire Club with an affinity for Aboriginal issues. The lands of Canada’s North and its Aboriginal peoples ...
