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Spring Webinars: Innovation; Medical Isoptopes; #Charter@40

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Spring Webinars: Innovation; Medical Isoptopes; #Charter@40

  • Date: March 23, 2022, 12:00 am to
  • Location: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbceGf4FA5NxXuYv0qNwsow/videos
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Watch these webinars on PearsonTV, out YouTube channel (link noted above)

1. An Innovation Plan for Canada….post Covid
Wednesday, March 23, 2022; 4:00 to 5:00 pm ET

Honorable Navdeep Bains, Vice-Chair of Global Investment Banking, CIBC; former Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry.

John Knubley, Corporate Director and Strategic Advisor; former Deputy Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development.

Brian Gallant is an Advisory Board member of the Pearson Centre; CEO of SPACE Canada and former Premier of New Brunswick.

Navdeep Bains and John Knubley in conversation with Brain Gallant will discuss their recent report, “Getting Canada Back on Track after COVID-19 with a Comprehensive Innovation Plan”. A new innovation plan needs to address new issues including climate change, supply chain challenges, and the digital economy. It must engage all Canadians, including women, Indigenous, and Black entrepreneurs. Inspired by Canada’s Olympic ‘Own the Podium. mantra, the country must be ambitious, with each player taking full accountability for action.

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2. Building Canada’s Medical Isotope sector; Opportunities & Challenges
Monday, March 28, 2022; 12:15 to 1:15 pm ET

Yvonne Jones, MP (Labrador, NL), Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources

James Scongack, Chief Development Officer & Executive Vice-President Operational Services, Bruce Power.

Moderator: John Aldag, MP (Cloverdale—Langley City, BC), Chair, Standing Committee on Natural Resources, House of Commons

Host: Andrew Cardozo, President, Pearson Centre

Canada and Ontario have played a key leadership role in establishing the value of medical isotopes and have cemented themselves as global leaders in production and supply. Key infrastructure has been harnessed and developed, and ongoing investment in people and skills has led to Canada developing one of the most sophisticated and supportive medical isotope production ecosystems in the world. In recent weeks, world events have also affected supply chains creating new challenges and opportunities.

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3. The Charter @ 40

Read | Discuss | Post
Marking the 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Live webinar on Friday, April 1, 2022; 12 noon ET

Join us to hear Canadians Read key sections of the Charter, Discuss their importance, and then we Post. This is the launch of a national discussion on what the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms means to people. We encourage other Canadians to Read|Discuss|Post their comments on social media on this defining constitutional document during the month of April.

Panelists will include:
uOttawa constitutional expert, Prof. Carissima Mathen,
Ottawa City Councillor Catherine McKenney and others with various perspectives on the Charter.

While attendance is free to all of our webinars, Please consider donating to The Pearson Centre to support the conference. www.thepearsoncentre.ca

Be sure to watch all our previous webinar’s here on The Pearson Centre’s Youtube Channel.

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