The Ottawa Women's Canadian Club

fall season

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  • “My journey to the Supreme Court of Canada”

    The Honourable Michelle O’Bonsawin was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on September 1, 2022, and served as a justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Ottawa from 2017-2022. She holds a Doctorate in Law from the University of Ottawa where she also taught part-time. She is the author of various publications and afrequent guest speaker on Gladue principles, Indigenous issues, as well as mental health, labour, and privacy law. Justice O’Bonsawin grew up in Hanmer, Ontario, a small Francophone town near Sudbury. She is a fluently bilingual Franco-Ontarian and an Abenaki member of the Odanak First Nation.

    Peter Brown is a Lanark based jazz and blues pianist/singer who entertained us during our 2023 Holiday Event.

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  • Advancing women’s leadership and inclusion to support diversity, equality and inclusion goals with Clare Beckton

    Speaker: Clare Beckton, BA, LLB (Sask.), MPA (Harvard), (Fulbright Scholar and Littauer Fellow)

    Clare Beckton is a lawyer, a former senior executive including as head of Status of Women Canada, entrepreneur, author of Own it-Your Success Your Future, Your Life and many articles, sought after speaker, mentor and coach and award-winning advocate for advancing women’s leadership and for diversity and inclusion. She serves or has served on several non-profit Boards including chair of the Queensway Carleton Hospital Board, a member of the Harvard Women’s Leadership Board and now as chair of the Beechwood National Cemetery Board.

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  • Analysis and insights on the 2024 US Election results

    Bruce Anderson has been one of Canada’s leading market and opinion researchers for more than 30 years, and is one of Canada’s leading commentators on public opinion and political affairs.

    Bruce has held senior strategic leadership roles at Decima Research, the EarnscliffeStrategy Group, Anderson Insight, and Abacus Data. In 2011, he co-founded spark* advocacy, Canada’s leading public affairs boutique, where he is currently Chief Strategy Officer.

    Bruce was a regular member of CBC’s popular “At Issues” panel, and joins Peter Mansbridge and Chantal Hebert on “The Good Talk” podcast every Friday – one of Canada’s top political podcasts and YouTube shows.

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  • Bringing Care and Anti-Poverty Work, Back to the Centre

    Speaker: Senator Kim Pate

    Senator Pate is a member of the Order of Canada, a recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case, the Canadian Bar Association’s Bertha Wilson Touchstone Award, and six honourary doctorates among other awards. She has made significant contributions to public education around the issues of women’s inequality and discriminatory treatment within social, economic and criminal legal spheres. She was appointed to the Senate as an Independent Senator in November 2016 after being the Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies from January 1992.

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  • Democratizing Music Education: Perspectives, Examples and Explorations

    Speaker: Joan Harrison, MM (Yale), PhD (uOttawa)

    Joan combines her experiences as a cellist, educator, and entrepreneur, to manage the Capital Strings and Voices Collective (CSVC) whose mandate includes building community through the arts. Currently, CSVC is collaborating with youth from Kitigan Zibi First Nations Reserve to provide music lessons in concert with youth from Ottawa. In 2020, Joan was one of two Canadians awarded a Global Leaders Fellowship to receive an intensive year of executive training for agents of social change.

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  • ELSIE REFORD and her Amazing Garden: A Story of Patience, Persistence and Passion

    Dr. Della Stanley, retired professor of Canadian History and Canadian Studies who taught at
    Queen’s University, Saint Mary’s University and Mount Saint Vincent University will captivate us
    with the story of Elisie Reford – an amazing woman. A few years ago, Dr. Stanley spoke to us
    about her unique connection with the history of the Canadian Flag, her father having supplied
    the initial design. On September 18, she will share with us her interest in Elsie Reford who
    along with Lady Drummond founded the Canadian Women’s Club in Montreal in 1907, and who
    in middle age, adopted a new passion – gardening.

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  • History Unfinished: Voices & Stories

    Speaker: Debra Davis

    Debra has an extensive background in the private, volunteer and public sectors working at local, national and international levels. She is an active feminist, supporting women candidates as a political organizer, managing a Canada-UK women’s program as part of her duties as Counsellor Public Affairs at the Canadian High Commission in London (1999-2001), serving as a board member of the Arab International Women’s Forum (2001-2010) and the Ottawa Women’s March, (2019-2020). She is actively pursuing her long held interest in the history of women, the equality movement and social justice. Debra co-founded The Women’s History Project in 2021.

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  • Hungary & Canada—Transatlantic Allies Meeting New Challenges in a Changing World – SPEAKER POSTPONED

    With H.E. Mária Éva Vass-Salazar, Ambassador of Hungary to Canada.

    Ambassador Vass-Salazar is a career diplomat with 25 years of experience in the Hungarian foreign service. Prior to her current assignment, she was Head of Department for Northern Europe covering bilateral relations with 13 countries. Before that she was Head of Department for Science Diplomacy. Ambassador Vass-Salazar served as Deputy Chief of Mission in London, as Political Counsellor in Washington DC, and as Political Officer at the Hungarian Delegation to NATO. She holds an MA in history and a PhD in international relations.

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  • Life for Women in Policing: Past and Present

    Speaker: Assistant Commissioner, M.O.M., Louise Lafrance (retired)

    In 2013 joined a select group of Senior Officers becoming the second RCMP woman ever to hold the Commanding Officer’s post at ‘Depot’ Division in Regina, Saskatchewan. In this role, she was responsible for the selection of the Instructional Staff as well as for the content, delivery, and monitoring of the Cadet Basic Curriculum.

    She will be accompanied by her daughter, AlexAnn Lafrance-Robineau, Constable who joined the RCMP in July 2015 and in the spring of 2020, transferred to Ottawa as part of the Musical Ride.  She took on the role of trainer for new horses, including Noble, the horse that was recently gifted to King Charles III.

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