Empire Club of Canada

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada Chief Justice McLachlin spent her formative years in Pincher Creek, Alberta and was educated at the University of Alberta, where she received a B.A. (Honours) in Philosophy in 1965. She pursued her studies at the University of Alberta and, in 1968, received both an M.A. in Philosophy and an...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Lou Eccleston, Chief Executive Officer, TMX Group With A Sesquicentennial Series Event: 165th Birthday for TMX Group Limited and the TMX Group’s Outlook for the Next Few Years The Empire Club of Canada’s TMX Group luncheon is scheduled for Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at One King West. This event is part of The Empire Club of Canada’s Sesquicentennial Series, celeb...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  Jorge Araya, President and CEO, Imperial Tobacco Canada One of Toronto's best known business reporters, Mike Eppel of 680 News, will sit down with the CEO of Imperial Tobacco Canada, Jorge Araya, to discuss these issues and look at where this industry is headed in the next 10 years. Some of what is happening will surprise people who tend not to focus on th...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  Kenneth Courtis, Chairman, Starfort Investment Holdings On Have We Entered a G2 World Kenneth Courtis is an economist, entrepreneur and adviser to world leaders. Since leaving Canada as a graduate student he has spent most of his working career in Tokyo. But having watched economic progress in China, and done business there, he foresees sweeping implicatio...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Michael Burns, CEO, Invictus Games Toronto 2017 Michael Burns is CEO of Invictus Games Toronto 2017, the largest international adaptive sport competition in the world featuring ill and injured soldiers and veterans. Burns brings to Invictus more than 20 years of experience in marketing, financial services, technology and entrepreneurship. Burns took a leave of a...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Honourable Michael Chan, Minister of International Trade On Securing Ontario’s Long Term Economic Growth and Stability Through Free Trade and Diversification Michael Chan was first elected to the Ontario legislature as the MPP for Markham in a byelection in 2007. He was then elected as the MPP for Markham—Unionville in 2007, and re-elected in 2011 and 2014. He i...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  The Evolution of the Real Estate Industry Panel: Diversity, Culture and Workplace Panelists:  Sheila Botting, Partner and Canadian Real Estate & Construction Leader, Deloitte. Sheila Botting, Partner and Canadian Real Estate & Construction Leader, Deloitte Michael Brooks, CEO, Real Property Association of Canada Toni Rossi, President, Real Est...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  Honourable Dominique Anglade, Québec’s Minister of Economy, Science and Innovation With Québec: Leading the Race for a Smart and Global Economy Québec's Minister of Economy, Science and Innovation, Dominique Anglade, is a dynamic force in the creation of economic growth initiatives, thereby helping to make Québec a leader in highly competitive knowledge se...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  Reconciliation on Bay Street Panel: In Through The Business Door The 92nd Call to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee is a call issued to corporate Canada. Ron Jamieson, The First Senior VP of Aboriginal Banking at EMO and member of the Conference Board of Canada's Council on the Corporate Management of Aboriginal Affairs, and JP Gladu, Presid...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  The Honourable Eric Hoskins, Minister of Health and Long Term Care With Ontario’s Vision for Transforming Health Care Dr. Eric Hoskins was first elected to the Ontario legislature as the MPP for St. Paul's in 2009. He was re elected in 2011 and 2014. Hoskins currently serves as Minister of Health and Long Term Care. Hoskins was previously appointed as Mini...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  The Future of Canada's Cultural Institutions Panel How are our cultural institutions evolving to meet the 21 Century needs of our communities and our cities? The Empire Club welcomes the new leaders of Canada’s largest cultural institutions, Josh Basseches, Director and CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum, and Stephan Jost, Director and CEO of the Art Gallery...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Michael Chong, Leadership Candidate, Conservative Party of Canada On My Vision for the Conservative Party Michael Chong is a five term Member of Parliament for Wellington Halton Hills. He served in the federal cabinet as Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs and is known for getting his democratic reform bill passed as a private member's bill, an unusual accomp...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  Surviving Canada’s Housing Market Panel: Strategies for Home Ownership Surviving Canada's Housing Market in the age of 30% Growth A panel featuring: Alex Avery, Managing Director, Institutional Equity Research, Global Markets, CIBC Capital Markets John Pasalis, Founder and President, Realosophy Jeff Rubin, Economist and Author of The End of Growth Moderate...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  The Honourable Charles Sousa, Ontario’s Minister of Finance On The Path to Balance The Path to Balance: Slated to deliver a balanced budget this spring for the first time since the 2008, 2009 global recession, join us to hear Ontario's Minister of Finance, The Hon. Charles Sousa on the government's plan to continue to grow the economy, create jobs and inve...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Kevin O’Leary: Leadership Candidate, Conservative Party of Canada On Awakening Canada’s Economic Advantage Awakening Canada's Economic Advantage Canada has an incredible economic foundation. We have a talented and hardworking workforce, vast natural resources, and a diversified economy. We have a strong and caring society, with a proud history of hard work and e...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: The Honourable Tracy MacCharles, Ontario's Minister of Government and Consumer Services With Consumer Protection, New Homes, and the Homebuilding Industry Tracy MacCharles was first elected to the Ontario legislature in 2011 as the MPP for Pickering Scarborough East. She was re elected in 2014. MacCharles currently serves as Minister of Government and Consumer S...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  The Honourable Bill Morneau, Canada's Minister of Finance With Budget 2017: Working for the Middle Class The Empire Club of Canada in partnership with the Canadian Club presents The Honourable Bill Morneau, Canada's Minister of Finance. Budget 2017: Working for the Middle Class Canada's Finance Minister, the Honourable Bill Morneau, PC, MP will address The...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  The Honourable Steven Del Duca, Ontario’s Minister of Transportation Ontario's Minister of Transportation, the Hon. Steven Del Duca has a proven track record of outstanding community involvement and a clear dedication to public service. First elected to the Ontario Legislature in September 2012, in less than two years he secured approval of the Highway 427...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  Christopher Wein In Conversation With Jennifer Keesmaat On City Building in Canada in the Twenty First Century Cities are being built in a significantly different manner than they were even just a generation ago as both planners and developers spend more time thinking about macro issues such as climate change, traffic flow, sustainability and energy conser...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  Honourable Yasir Naqvi, Attorney General of Ontario A first generation Canadian, Yasir and his family arrived in Canada in 1988 after the Pakistani government imprisoned his father for leading a pro democracy march. With an upbringing deeply rooted in the values of democracy, social justice and compassion, Yasir feels it is important to be involved in the...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  His Worship Mayor John Tory, Mayor for the City of Toronto John Tory is the 65th Mayor of Toronto. Born and raised in Toronto, Mayor Tory has spent his career promoting and giving back to the city he loves. As a lawyer, talk show host, businessman, Member of Provincial Parliament and Leader of the Official Opposition at Queen's Park, and finally as Mayor,...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  Evening Event with Dr. Catherine Zahn, President and CEO of CAMH 2017 For Mental Health The Empire Club and CAMH for host an Evening Event filled with fascinating conversation, networking and hors d'oeuvres. While mental health care has gone from restraint to recovery and from confinement to community over the past 150 years, people with mental illness fac...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: For Whom The Road Tolls Panel: A Debate On Traffic In The GTA and Whether There Are Tolls In The Region's Future Ms. Mahrokh Arefi, CEO, Emovis Technologies America in the New York area Ms. Arefi has over 25 years of experience in design, implementation and operation of transportation and transit technologies, including recent All Electronic Toll Collection prog...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents:  Ambassador David MacNaughton, Canada's Ambassador to the United States David MacNaughton presented his credentials as Canada's Ambassador to the United States on March 3, 2016. As a seasoned entrepreneur and political strategist, Mr. MacNaughton brings a unique set of skills and experiences to his new role as Ambassador. In the 1980s, Mr. MacNaughton trans...

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Annual Investment Outlook 2017 featuring lan Russell, President and Chief Executive Officer, IIAC, David Rosenberg, Chief Economist, Gluskin Sheff and Associates Inc., and Jonathan Lewis, Chief Investment Officer, Fiera Capital lan Russell is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Investment Industry Association of Canada, IIAC, a position he has held sinc...