Empire Club of Canada

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Samer Salameh, Executive Chairman of Pacific Future Energy With Building Our Future and Protecting our Coast: Why Building the World's Greenest Refinery is the Key to Unlocking Asian Markets The issue: Canada has a problem. We are blessed with a resource oil needed by people around the world. However, we are selling 97 per cent of our oil exports to one customer...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Investment Outlook 2015 featuring Ian Russell, Thomas Caldwell and Avery Shenfeld lan Russell is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Investment Industry Association of Canada. IIAC. a position he has held since its inauguration in April 2006. Prior to his appointment at the IIAC, Mr. Russell headed the Industry Relations and Representation group of the...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, 29th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario At The Empire Club Holiday Luncheon The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell was installed as Ontario's 29th Representative of Her Majesty The Queen on September 23rd, 2014. She is an energetic and highly regarded renaissance woman, an accomplished civil servant with wide ranging interests, and...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Janet L. Ecker, President and CEO, Toronto Financial Services Alliance With P3s are Working: The Role of the Financial Sector in Successful Infrastructure Projects and Why You Should Care Janet L. Ecker is President and CEO of the Toronto Financial Services Alliance, TFSA, a growing public private partnership dedicated to building Toronto as an international fin...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Critical Role of Transparency in the Fight Against Corruption Featuring Claire Woodside and Pierre Gratton In Conversation With Akaash Maharaj The linkages between resource revenue transparency, improved oversight, and development outcomes from extractive industries. For governments worldwide, mining investment holds promise of change: the opportunity to increas...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Shelley Broader, President and CEO of Walmart Europe, Middle East, Africa and Canada With Leadership Today: Staying Ahead of the Curve in Today’s Hyper Changing World As the world's largest retailer, Walmart is at the forefront of the constant transformation shaping the global retail climate as consumer needs continue to grow and evolve. Within this context Wal...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  Greg Sorbara, Chancellor, York University; Chair, The Sorbara Group Advisory Board With Reflections on Two Very Different Governments Within The Battlefield of Ontario Politics Greg Sorbara has enjoyed one of the most successful careers of any Ontario politician, and in two different Liberal administrations. He was appointed minister of finance by Premier...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Joseph Pennachetti, City Manager of Toronto with Looking Forward: Investing for the Future Joseph P. Pennachetti was named City Manager for the City of Toronto in October 2008, with overall responsibility for 37,000 staff, an Operating budget of about $11 Billion and a 2014 to 2023 Capital Plan of $28.5 billion. Toronto is Canada’s largest city and the 6th large...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Naheed Nenshi, Mayor of Calgary: The Two Calgaries Mayor Naheed Nenshi is currently serving his second term and is Calgary’s 36th mayor. During his first term in office, Mayor Nenshi’s leadership resulted in many positive changes in Calgary to build better communities, keep Calgarians moving, and transform government to reinforce a culture of constant citizen fo...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: How Google Works, Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg in conversation with Amanda Lang What we all want to know is How Google Works. So Google Chair Eric Schmidt and their former head of products, Jonathan Rosenberg, have written a new book about exactly that. This exclusive event held in partnership with Ramsay Talks to hear IT pioneer Eric Schmidt unveil how G...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Toronto Mayoral Debate 2014 Featuring John Tory, Olivia Chow and Doug Ford Moderated by Ryan Doyle Moderator:  Ryan Doyle, NewsTalk 1010   Panelists:  John Tory, Toronto Mayoral Candidate    Olivia Chow, Toronto Mayoral Candidate    Doug Ford, Toronto Mayoral Candidate *The content presented is free of charge but please note th...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Ed Clark, Group President and CEO, TD Bank Group: Final Major address as TD's CEO This will mark Ed Clark's last major public address as TD's CEO. Ed Clark was appointed Group President and Chief Executive Officer of TD Bank Group on December 20, 2002. On April 3, 2013, Ed announced his intention to retire as President and CEO effective November 1, 2014 at age 6...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Hina Rabbani Khar, 26th Foreign Minister of Pakistan: Realizing South Asia's Potential, Beyond Conflict, Perspective from Pakistan Ms. Hina Rabbani Khar began her political career in 2002 in the government of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and subsequently served in the Finance Ministry and Foreign Ministry as Minister of State. After successfully contesting the 20...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: The Honourable Charles Sousa, Minister of Finance, Province of Ontario With Looking Ahead: A Strong Plan for Ontario Charles Sousa is the Member of Provincial Parliament, MPP, for the riding of Mississauga South and Ontario's Minister of Finance. Charles also serves as the Vice Chair of the Treasury Board and Management Board of Cabinet. Previously, he has been...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Paul Bedford, Ken Greenberg and Patrick Luciani In Conversation With Christopher Hume On Visions for the Toronto of the Future Toronto regularly makes the list as one of the world's 10 most livable cities, and is viewed by many in Canada and abroad as a city that works on a number of fundamental levels. It is, of course, nothing more and nothing less than the ma...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: What Will WorldPride Mean to Toronto: A Panel featuring Scott Mullin, Rev. Brent Hawkes, Gavin Crawford and Kevin Beaulieu in discussion with Kristyn Wong Tam Toronto is the first North American city to host WorldPride. For ten days in June this city will be the focus of international LGBTQ communities. There are very few facets of Toronto life that won't experi...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Dr. Geoff W. Taylor, Chief Scientist, POET Technologies Inc With Spirit of a Pioneer Series Dr. Geoffrey Taylor, POET Technologies Chief Scientist, discusses POET's semiconductor solution in the industry's race to sustain Moore's Law beyond the constraints of traditional silicon, and POET Technologies' Executive Chairman and CEO, Peter Copetti. POET is developi...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Honourable Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario With Jobs, Opportunity and Security for Today and Tomorrow Kathleen Wynne is Ontario's 25th Premier and the first woman to serve in that role. She was first elected to the Ontario legislature in 2003 as the MPP for Don Valley West, and she became the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in January, 2013. She has focus...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: J. Robert S. Prichard, Chair, Metrolinx With Transforming the Way the Region Moves: Metrolinx’s Current and Future Plans J. Robert S. Prichard is chairman of Torys LLP, a leading international business law firm with offices in Toronto, Calgary, Montreal and New York. He is also chair of Metrolinx, the regional transportation agency for the Greater Toronto and Ha...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: His Excellency Georgiy Mamedov, Russian Federation Ambassador to Canada With Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea: The Russian Perspective The Empire Club of Canada is excited to launch a new series of events, The Ambassadors Speak. Continuing the Club's 110 year tradition of providing Canada's podium of record to the world's newsmakers, groundbreakers, and opinion leade...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Hon. Bernard Valcourt, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development With Increasing Aboriginal Participation in the Workforce Bernard Valcourt was first elected to the House of Commons in 1984 and re elected in 1988. In 1984, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue and to the Minister of State, Science and Technolo...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: His Excellency Vadym Prystaiko, Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada With Ukraine and Russia: The Ukrainian Perspective Recent events in the Crimea have been difficult for everyone involved in this part of the world, but no one has found the situation more difficult than Ukraine itself. Where does this country stand on these issues and how will it deal with what it an...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: John Campbell, President and Chief Executive Officer, Waterfront Toronto With Our Waterfront - Progress Report John Campbell, Waterfront Toronto's President and CEO, provides a progress report on the revitalization of Toronto's waterfront and learn how waterfront renewal is building an enduring legacy of economic returns and social benefits for the city, provinc...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Peter Aceto, President and CEO, ING Direct Canada With Leading in Times of Change: The cornerstones of Transformational Change Change is rampant and it is fast. Today, you either position your organization to adapt quickly or you'll end up with your back against the wall. That is what Peter Aceto, President and CEO of ING DIRECT, will share with the Empire Club....

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Honourable Deb Matthews, Minister of Health and Long Term Care and Deputy Premier of Ontario With Ontario’s Action Plan for Health Care: Year Two Update Deb Matthews was elected to the Ontario Legislature by the people of London North Centre in 2003, and re elected in 2007 and 2011. In 2007 she was appointed Minister of Children and Youth Services and Minister...