The seminar runs from 10am to 5pm at the Indigo Hotel (123 Metcalfe Street). There is no charge for this event, and lunch is included.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Ian Lee (Carleton University) – The Myth of Inequality in Canada – time to roast Chicken Little
• Ravina Bains (Fraser Institute) – Property Rights and Canada’s First Nations
• Tsvetelin Tsonevski (Foundation for Economic Education) – Why Socialism Fails
• Georges Bragues (University of Guelph Humber) – The Future of the Welfare State

Those interested in attending are asked to register online at http://www.liberalstudies.ca/events/economics-freedom/

This year’s speaker is the Honourable James K. Bartleman, OC OOnt, who served as Ontario’s 27th Lieutenant Governor from 2002 to 2007. As a member of the Mnjikaning First Nation he was the first Aboriginal Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

Mr. Bartleman will be presented with an Honorary Doctorate degree in recognition of his distinguished public service and dedication to promoting literacy and raising awareness of mental health issues.

Where:

Wednesday, September 25, 2013
River Building Room RB 2220
2nd Floor River Building
Carleton University

When:

5:00 p.m.

Honorary Degree Convocation Lecture by James K. Bartleman

6:45  – 7:30 p.m.

Reception (complimentary light refreshments) Atrium, 2nd Floor, River Building

Seating is Limited.

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• When: Thursday, June 20th, 2013, 6-9 p.m.
• Where: Room ME 3380, Mackenzie Building, Carleton
• Register: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/7029249675/Carleton

There is a growing culture of sustainable business practices and rapidly increasing demand for environmentally friendly technologies in all around the world. Governments are promoting a shift towards energy efficiency and clean technologies, and companies are making major strategic investments in support of products and processes that reduce the environmental footprint. The leading sustainability business models combine green and blue innovation to increase positive social impact.

Sustainability can be a driver of huge business success and simultaneously have a positive impact on people and the planet. However, many companies are accused of riding the sustainability wave as a publicity stunt and greening in words only rather than action. We need entrepreneurs and leaders with the courage and conviction to take bold action ahead of others. We also need radically new business models that create true value for the environment and the society, bring competitive advantage to companies, and have the potential to transform industries globally.

In this presentation, Mika Westerlund from the Carleton University’s TIM program will talk about what we can learn from the global sustainability business leaders. In the talk, he will discuss the need for a new sustainability oriented business culture; describe emerging sustainability business models that aspiring entrepreneurs can create or adopt; and present recent research and sustainability trends.

About the Speaker:

Mika Westerlund is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business and teaches in the Technology Innovation Management program. He previously held positions as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley and in the School of Economics at Aalto University in Finland. Prior to academic career, he was entrepreneur in the IT industry.

Mika earned his PhD degree in Marketing from the Helsinki School of Economics. His doctoral research focused on software firms’ business models and his current research interests include sustainability, open innovation, business strategy, and management models in high-tech companies. Mika’s has researched these areas in Europe and the North America, and spent a year in London Business School, UK, as a visiting scholar

TIM Lecture contact: Kevin Burr,  burr@sce.carleton.ca

Host: Carleton University’s Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program http://www.carleton.ca/tim

The TIM program attracts talented engineers and computer scientists who wish who wish to launch and grow their own businesses as well as personnel driving innovative initiatives in medium- and large companies. The TIM program offers a thesis and project options and it is the backbone of the Lead to Win business ecosystem.

TIM program contacts:

• Tony Bailetti:         Bailetti@sce.carleton.ca
• Steven Muegge:   Smuegge@sce.carleton.ca
• Mika Westerlund: Mika_Westerlund@carleton.ca
• Michael Weiss:     Weiss@sce.carleton.ca
• Jonathan Wells:   Jonathan_wells@carleton.ca

Time: 11:30 to 1:30*

Place: Political Management Common Room (2420-R River Building, Mezzanine level/2-R)

Presenters:

• William Morrison, Wilfrid Laurier University
• Jean-Pierre Voyer, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation
• Jennifer Robson, Carleton University

          Chair: Chris Waddell, Carleton University

*The panel session is open to Carleton faculty and students community until 1:30. 

Investing in a Foundation for the Future:
Innovative Financing for Early Childhood Education

Decades of research has shown that the experiences of a child’s early years will lay the foundation for their education, behaviour and health as an adult. Governments around the world have been recommitting to early education programs over the last few years, but these programs require a massive investment of people, time and money. In uncertain economic times, budgets for education – and early human development, in particular – are often the first to suffer.

AKFC is pleased to welcome Dr. Marito Garcia, Lead Economist and Program Manager at the Human Development Department of the Africa Region of the World Bank, to introduce innovative financing mechanisms that can change the nature of education program funding worldwide, and the impact on the world’s poor. Dr. Garcia will explore how the education world might learn from experiences in other fields to tap into conditional cash transfers, create social impact bonds and design education credits to infuse new energy and resources into laying a solid foundation for the next generation.

We hope you will join us:

Thursday, May 16, 2013
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat
199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1N 1K6

Please note that there is no parking at the Delegation. Street parking is available nearby, on Boteler Street, Dalhousie Street, Parent Avenue, and Bolton Street. Please take care to respect all posted parking regulations. The Delegation has visitor entrances on Sussex Drive and Boteler Street.

To attend this event in person or watch the live webcast, click here to register.

Infectious diseases are the single largest cause of livestock mortality worldwide, disrupting international agricultural trade and contributing to food insecurity.  In sub-Saharan Africa, livestock production is vital to the livelihoods of millions of small-scale farmers and accounts for 25% of national income in some countries. 

Funded by the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund, Canada and South Africa’s expertise in vaccine research is being put to work to develop and test a cost-effective and easy-to-administer single-dose vaccine that will protect cattle, sheep, and goats from multiple livestock diseases.  A second project, involving researchers from Kenya and Canada, is developing a vaccine to protect cattle against contagious bovine pleuropneumonia – a highly contagious bacterial disease of cattle that has serious economic and trade consequences in sub-Saharan Africa

Join us to hear Dr. Andrew Potter, director of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan, and Dr. David Wallace, senior researcher at the Agricultural Research Council in South Africa, talk about the work that their two teams are doing on livestock vaccine development in Africa.

When: Tuesday, May 7^th 2013, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Where: IDRC, 150 Kent Street, 8^th Floor, W. David Hopper Room
RSVP:  Jayne Bergeron at 613-696-2537  or email jbergeron@idrc.ca

Attendance is free but seating is limited.

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You are invited to attend a talk by Jonn Axsen entitled Electric vehicles: Matching low-carbon technology to people and policy.

For decades, the promise of electric-powered vehicles has inspired hope for a clean, low-carbon, petroleum-free transportation system. So where are these electric vehicles? Dr. Jonn Axsen draws from in-depth market and technical research to explore society’s readiness for such a transition — and outline the policies required to get there.

RSVP: sppa_events@carleton.ca 

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