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Food Insecurity
Jan. 28, 2021 12:30 p.m.
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Safari to Kenya
Feb. 04, 2021 12:30 p.m.
Presenting his Kenya Safari, you may know the current East York Rotary Club President, Bob Bryers as the MC of the Lobster Night at Whistlers for 9 consecutive years. Bob has also co-ordinated tree planting for his club and been in integral member for many years. On February 4th Bob will take us virtually on his Kenya Safari. So after a year of being stuck at home, let's join him on February 4, for on his amazing adventure, and let our imaginations run wild!!!! |
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Early Valentine Social
Feb. 11, 2021 7:00 p.m.
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Giving Blood During The Lockdown
Feb. 18, 2021 12:30 p.m.
Rachel Solomon from Canadian Blood Services will talk to us about getting donors during this stay at home order. She will share how we can help and what their current needs are during the Pandemic. Rachel Solomon, Event Coordinator in Toronto. I have been in the role for almost two years, previously volunteering for the organization. My typical role is to recruit new blood donors into our clinics and make sure all blood donation events in Toronto run smoothly. I am extremely passionate about Canadian Blood Services and the work we do here as I recently had a family member require a lifesaving blood transfusion. That gave me a whole new outlook on my job and a greater appreciation for everything we do at Canadian Blood Services. I am excited to share my knowledge and passion for blood donation with everyone around me. Candian Blood Services The role of Canadian Blood Services is to provide lifesaving products and services in transfusion and transplantation for Canadian patients, and to safeguard Canada's systems of life essentials in blood, plasma, stem cells, and organs and tissues. To ensure we can continue to meet the needs of patients in Canada, we need everyone who is healthy to book and keep their blood donation appointment for weeks and months ahead. We remain open throughout the pandemic to provide essential products for patients in need. There are over 5,000 appointments to be filled across Canada this month. |
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Unicorn In The Woods
Feb. 25, 2021 12:30 p.m.
Gordon Pitts is an author, public speaker, and business journalist with more than forty years of experience writing about management, strategy, and leadership. His new book, Unicorn in the Woods, How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers Are Changing the Game, is the eighth he has published. escribed as “the dean of Canadian business storytelling,” Gordon has also written Kings of Convergence: The Fight for Control of Canada's Media; In the Blood: Battles to Succeed in Canada's Family Businesses; and The Last Canadian Knight: The Unintended Business Adventures of Sir Graham Day. His first book, Storming the Fortress: How Canadian Companies Can Conquer Europe in 1992, was published in 1990. Five of his books have been National Business Book Award finalists. He is a former senior writer and feature editor in The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business section. For years, he wrote the “At the Top” interview feature in the Monday Report on Business and the “Exit Interview” in the monthly Report on Business Magazine. Since 2014, Gordon has been the Business Writer-in-Residence at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University.
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Blake Boultbee Youth Outreach Service
Mar. 04, 2021 12:30 p.m.
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Boots On The Ground
Mar. 11, 2021 12:30 p.m.
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Canada Wide Bike Ride
Mar. 18, 2021 12:30 p.m.
David Knoppert is a retired Neonatal Pharmacist and Rotarian from London who is biking virtually across Canada to raise funds for a Stove Project in Nicaragua. David will attempt to ride his stationary bicycle 7,176 km coast to coast across Canada. Riding 40km per day, 25 days each month. He started on Oct 1st. |
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CTL Education
Apr. 01, 2021 12:30 p.m.
Byron Wilfert & Dr. Resham Vineyak will talk about CTL Education which tutors students in low income and marginalized communities. Their Story: CTL Education was launched as an outcome of Covid-19 outbreak switching our focus on building Canadian High Schools globally (using Ontario High School Diploma) to make the same available online through our in-house built technologies and assembled teams of educators and support team. We have discovered Covid-19 has created a need to offer our High School teaching as after school support services in Canada to Canadian students beginning November 16th, 2020. We are also scheduled to start a FREE High School after hours support services for the children of Front-Line Workers beginning December 1 st , 2020 and a Global campaign working with TVO-ILC for enrolling and educating Global students for Ontario High School Diploma and then through our facilitation to Canadian Universities and Colleges as their chosen advanced or applied education destination. Through our non-profit organization, Educate Me Canada Programs, we are confident to be able to mobilize individuals, corporates, non-profits and public sector support to provide a solid and meaningful after hour High School support programs towards Canadian student communities either for FREE or a very affordable pricing. During these challenging times both emotionally and financially, we believe our contribution will be our ways to make a difference. About CTL Education In an age of constantly changing educational needs and during this challenging times through COVID-19, at CTL Education we offer a strong supportive environment committed to students and their individual approach to learning, leading to admission into major Canadian universities as a private provider of High School Support Programs not only on the key Science, Technology, Engineering |
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How Australia Dealt With Covid
Apr. 08, 2021 12:30 p.m.
Anne Chellingworth talks about life & COVID in Australia. Anne's Bio: I was born in Chester, England but have been fortunate to live my life in primarily 3 countries. My formative years were in New Plymouth, New Zealand. At aged 19 I travelled to England, working there for several years until emigrating to Canada in 1970. The first 10 years were spent in Montreal, Canada. In my last 5 years there, I worked with Harold Greenberg in Astral Film Productions. My role was Assistant to Harold and Public Relations Co-ordinator. During my time with Astral they produced such movies as “Porky’s”; “City on Fire and “A Man called Intrepid” a TV mini-series starring David Niven & Michael York. I assisted Harold each year organising parties for the Montreal World Film Festival and the Toronto Internal Film Festival and prepared information packs for Investors. I also had the opportunity to visit several film sets both in Montreal ‘City on Fire” where I met Henry Fonda and Shelley Winters and Mobile, Alabama where we were filming “Death Ship” starring Richard Crenna and George Kennedy. I left Montreal and Astral after the birth of my daughter when we moved to Toronto and then later after the birth of my son, we moved to Ottawa. In 1988 we relocated to Wellington, New Zealand. In 1999 I took a role in the Financial Services industry. Initially on a project differentiating service for Financial Advisers and then as an Executive Assistant. After my divorce in 2002 I moved to Brisbane, Australia. I stayed in the Financial Services industry and moved into an Event organiser role with a large Insurance Company. My daughter who represented NZ in the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne now lives with her husband and 2 children in Melbourne, Australia. My son returned to Toronto Canada in 2012, where he still resides and works in the film industry as an Editor. |
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Classification Talk
Apr. 15, 2021 12:30 p.m.
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Successful Rotary Fundraising
Apr. 22, 2021 12:30 p.m.
Ross Farrelly of Palgrave Rotary Club discusses how in a rural village they raise $80-100K per annum. Here's a little more about Doug:
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Tridel’s BOLT Program
Apr. 29, 2021 12:30 p.m.
Raly Chakarova of Tridel talks about their BOLT Program which recruits youth for careers in construction in priority GTA neighbourhoods. Raly is the Executive Director of the BOLT Charitable Foundation. BOLT was started by Tridel with a mandate to assist under-resourced youth connect to careers in construction through raising awareness, career exploration, and financial support for skilled training and post-secondary education. Prior to this role, Raly was the Director of Policy at the Toronto Region Board of Trade, leading its work on talent and trade. One of the policy reports she authored at the Board was the high profiled “Help Wanted: Modernizing Employment and Skills Training Services in Ontario" [PDF] that looked at improving workforce development practices in the province. A big reason for joining the BOLT Foundation was to put the principles of that report into practice. As a former senior advisor to provincial cabinet ministers, including Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development and Growth, Raly has an in-depth and practical understanding of government policy. Raly is a Board Member of ACCES Employment, a member of RESCON's Anti-Racism Roundtable, and member of the Women in Construction Committee at George Brown College. She holds a Master of Public Administration from Queen’s University and a Specialist in International Development and Political Science from University of Toronto. |
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Incoming President’s Address
May 06, 2021 12:30 p.m.
Next year's TERC President Shaheynoor Talukder lays out her plans for the 2021-2022 year. Shaheynoor was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where she completed her B.A. in Biology and minor in Cross Cultural Studies. She moved to Toronto to complete her M.Sc. in molecular genetics at the University of Toronto, where she also worked for two years as a Research Associate. She obtained her law degree at the University of Ottawa. Since becoming a lawyer in 2013, Shaheynoor has been practicing estate and business law in Toronto. She is also the Vice-Chair of the adjudicative Toronto Local Appeal Body tribunal. Shaheynoor is an animal lover and proud mommy of two cats. Her other passions include playing video games, reading science fiction and fantasy novels, hiking, watching animation and action movies in theaters, and eating out (when that was possible). She is actively involved in her community and a member of different community organizations. |
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Update From Bethany Baptist
May 13, 2021 12:30 p.m.
Jim Parker has been pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in East York since 1996. Jim is also an active member of the Pape Village BIA, and is Founder and Chairperson of East York Strategy -- a collaborative effort to reduce crime and create good in our neighbourhood through providing positive activities with positive people for the youth in our community. Jim has also coordinated Bethany's Food Bank since 2013, including serving three times as many clients each week during Covid. Jim lives in East York with his wife and three daughters, and enjoys cheering on the Jays and taking rides on his jetski. He will talk about the experiences serving food bank clients during Covid, as well as trying to positively engage the youth in our community through these challenging times. We will also hear from a couple of people who have been directly impacted for good by our Rotary Club’s support of their food bank. |
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Classification Talk
May 20, 2021 12:30 p.m.
Toronto East Rotary Club member Amanda Maragos will give her Classification Talk. Amanda is the Director of Client Services & Volunteer Programs for Philip Aziz Centre for Hospice Care & Emily's House Children's Hospice in downtown Toronto. She is an experienced professional specializing in Hospice Palliative Care client/patient programming and supports, in addition to Volunteer Management (particularly in both the healthcare and social services sectors) for almost 15 years. Equipped with program development & communication skills and leadership abilities she currently manages and develops programming that supports clients (adults and children) in both a community-based hospice and a 10-bed residential paediatric hospice (that also employs a volunteer team of over 350 people). She also provides volunteer and staff education and consultation for various Toronto not-for-profit organizations; providing insight and best practices for programs that often support vulnerable people. She is also a volunteer herself - contributing her time to serve her community as a board director, client support volunteer and standards advisor for 3 separate organizations. Advocacy for volunteerism and inclusive healthcare for all is a practice that is close to Amanda's heart and one of her passions! She loves to see compassion and connectivity lead to acts of kindness and personal growth for all stakeholders. She loves comic books, sci-fi culture, art, music, tai chi, and food! Especially food. |
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Trivia
May 27, 2021 12:30 p.m.
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A Tale of Two Security Stories
Jun. 03, 2021 12:30 p.m.
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Introduction to Fife House
Jun. 10, 2021 12:30 p.m.
Nadine Sookermany is the Executive Director of Fife House, the largest supportive housing provider to people living with HIV/AIDS in the country. She comes to this work as an educator, community activist and advocate. Nadine is the former Executive Director of Women’s Health Clinic, a community health center that delivers quality patient-centered care through a feminist lens in Winnipeg, Canada. She brings decades of senior leadership experience in the non-profit sector to her work in the area of community and social services, health, equity and accessibility. She holds a Women’s Studies and Political Science degree from the University of Manitoba, along with the completion of graduate courses at the University of Toronto, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE). Nadine also held the position of professor with the Assaulted Women’s and Children’s Counsellor/Advocate and Social Service Worker programs at George Brown College in Toronto for over 12 years. She is incredibly passionate about community- based health and harm reduction, and this passion has guided her work as a community leader, human resources practitioner and social justice advocate for over 25 years. |
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Supporting Vulnerable Communities
Jun. 17, 2021 12:30 p.m.
Allison is a food entrepreneur and consultant who works with social purpose organizations to develop programs that support marginalized communities. Due to the effects of COVID-19 and its impact on the food industry, Allison is focused on planning and implementing food access programs to support vulnerable members of under-resourced communities and food incubation programs to support food entrepreneurs throughout all stages of their journey. Join us for a session with food entrepreneur and impact consultant Allison Gibson to learn about her work supporting the most vulnerable members of our communities via food access programs, and how you can get involved with supporting her initiatives or starting your own. - For the session Allison will discuss: |
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President's Dinner
Jun. 24, 2021 6:00 p.m.
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The Role of Ravines in Flood Protection, Wildlife, Challenges and How Toronto Field Naturalists Help
Jul. 15, 2021 12:30 p.m.
Bio: Ellen Schwartzel is President of the Toronto Field Naturalists. Ellen's career in environmental policy included 23 years with the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, and she was Ontario's Deputy Environmental Commissioner from 2014 until retiring in 2018. Ellen received her BSc and MSc in Botany at the University of Toronto.
Ellen Schwartzel, the president of the Toronto Field Naturalists, will introduce Toronto’s ravine landscapes - nature at our doorsteps. Her talk features ravine wildlife, the role of ravines in flood protection, and how these lands have changed over thousands of years. She will also sketch out the 21st century challenges facing the ravines and their biodiversity, and the ways Toronto Field Naturalists are lending a hand. Photos and art by TFN members bring the ravines to life in a Zoom format. The presentation is about 30 minutes, followed by Q’s and A’s.
About the Organization: Toronto Field Naturalists connects people with nature in the Toronto area. We help people understand, enjoy, and protect Toronto’s green spaces and the species that inhabit them. We have been offering guided walks, lectures, stewardship and citizen science initiatives since 1923. We also own and manage several nature reserves. |
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Everything You Wanted to Know About District Grants But Were Afraid to Ask
Jul. 22, 2021 12:30 p.m.
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