Thank you for RSVPing that you
will be attending in-person
at the next Toronto Whiff@RCMI meeting
which starts at 6:00 PM, Tuesday, Sept 27th, 2022
To complete your RSVP:
You must now make a $108 Interac Payment to treasurer@whiff-of-grape.ca.
[A PDF “cheat sheet” on how to make Interac e-Transfers
to the Whiff may be downloaded from here.]
Once payment has been received,
you will be sent a final confirmation
along with details regarding the RCMI and meeting protocols.
6:40 PM, November 29th, 2022
Ted Barris is an award-winning journalist, author, and broadcaster. His writing has regularly appeared in the national press, as well as magazines as diverse as Air Force, esprit de corps and Zoomer. He has also worked as host/contributor for most CBC Radio network programs, WNED’s Canada Files, and on TV Ontario. And after 18 years teaching, he recently retired as a full-time professor of journalism at Toronto’s Centennial College.
In 2022, HarperCollins publishes Ted’s 20th non-fiction book, his largest work to date, on the longest battle of WWII, the Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory (coming in Sept. 2022).
Barris is the author of 19 bestselling, non-fiction books, including a series on wartime Canada: Juno: Canadians at D-Day, June 6, 1944 … Days of Victory: Canadians Remember 1939-1945 … Behind the Glory: Canada’s Role in the Allied Air War … Deadlock in Korea: Canadians at War, 1950-1953 … Victory at Vimy: Canada Comes of Age, April 9-12, 1917 … Breaking the Silence: Veterans’ Untold Stories from the Great War to Afghanistan.
Continue reading Ted Barris, Author, Journalist, Latest Book: Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory, November 29, 2022
Jean Paul (JP) Gladu is currently Principal of Mokwateh and previously served as the President and CEO of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) from September 2012 until April 2020. Anishinaabe from Thunder Bay, JP is a member of Sand Pont First Nation located on the eastern shores of Lake Nipigon, Ontario. JP completed a forestry technician diploma in 1993, obtained an undergraduate degree in forestry from Northern Arizona University in 2000, holds an Executive MBA from Queens University and the ICD.D from Rotman School of Management University of Toronto.
JP has over 25 years of experience in the natural resource sector. His career path includes work with Aboriginal communities and organizations, environmental non-government organizations, industry and governments from across Canada. Currently, JP serves on the board of Suncor, Noront Resources, Chair of Boreal Leadership Champions and previously served on the Board of Ontario Power Generation and past Chair of the Mikisew Group of Companies. He is a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and served as the Chancellor of St. Paul’s University College Waterloo from 2017 to 2020. His previous appointments include Canadian Electricity Association Public Advisory Panel, Colleges and Institutes Canada (previously ACCC), the Northern Policy Institute, Canadian Foundation for Economic Education, advisory member to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, a committee member to the Ontario Provincial Forest Policy Committee.
In 2014, he was identified as a Diversity 50 Board Ready Candidate from the Canadian Board Diversity Council and a recipient of the Community Service Award – Transformation Awards from Diversity Magazine. JP is an accomplished public speaker with countless engagements not only across Canada but internationally as he shares the challenges and successes of Indigenous business and the growing Indigenous economy in Canada today.
As a father to his daughter Chloe, along with a passion for his community, his culture and traditions; JP brings the past, present and future to the table, moving non-Indigenous and Indigenous business toward sustainable partnerships and shared economic prosperity.
Specialties: Leader, excels at understanding people and values, in-depth and skilled negotiator, financial sourcing, proposal development, building confidence in others, strong work ethic, excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and strategist with a long-view.
During my career, I went from ‘health’ care to ‘wealth ‘care! After completing a nursing undergraduate degree at Queen’s and a graduate degree in health administration at the University of Alberta, I spent 20 years in health care, primarily working in tertiary care hospitals. During the 1990s recession, I sought another opportunity and spent 26 years at Scotia Wealth Management, where I built and led a wealth advisory practice in a role I loved.
In 2019 I was diagnosed with stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and given a life expectancy of six months to three years. As the reality hit, it’s not surprising my priorities shifted. By February 1, 2020, I successfully transitioned my practice to another Scotia Wealth advisor to spend my remaining time with family and friends doing what I enjoy.
Recent advances in cancer diagnostics and treatment are helping more cancer patients live longer, and higher quality lives. Biomarker testing, an advanced diagnostic test, identifies patients eligible for therapies that more precisely and effectively target their tumour cells. As a result, patients experience fewer toxic side effects than conventional therapy, such as chemotherapy and radiation. As the grateful beneficiary of advanced biomarker testing at Sunnybrook Hospital, I lead an active life and live beyond my ‘best before date’!
A Sunnybrook Oncologist will join me to supplement my patient experience with medical knowledge. I’ll discuss how the things I’ve learned and continue to learn about lung cancer, including its challenges, stigmas, and recent ground-breaking advances, led me to become an advocate. I’ll talk about my fundraising success and the difference this will make in the lives of lung cancer individuals.
The overriding theme is that anyone with lungs can get lung cancer; it should be on everyone’s radar.
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Name RSVP Status
Ken Bahen
Yes
Ingrid Bahen
Yes
Robert Baines
Yes
Peter Baines
Yes
Ian Brown
Yes
Michael Butler
Yes
Jim Cairncross
Yes
Brian Carter
Yes
Roger Clarkson
Yes
George Denier
Yes
Gary Getson
Yes
David Glue
Yes
John Hackett
Yes
William Hewitt
Yes
Robert Hyland
Yes
Dale Jeffries
Yes
Trevor Jones
Yes
William Kinnear
Yes
Tom Leverty
Yes
Charles MacRae
Yes
Jean-Luc Major
Yes
Janet Major
Yes
John McComb
Yes
Dorothy McComb
Yes
Stuart McKay
Yes
Douglas McWhirter
Yes
Robert Milnes
Yes
John Paterson, Sr.
Yes
Burt Retter
Yes
Tom Sanderson
Yes
Peter Seybold
Yes
Paul Warrington
Yes
Ted White
Yes
John Wildman
Yes
Bill Boughner
No
Graeme Clark
No
Douglas Davis
No
Gary Durno
No
Warren Finlay
No
Tom Fischer
No
John Fraser
No
Eugene Harrigan
No
George Hayhurst
No
Robert Hutcheson
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Don Johnson
No
Clifford Lax
No
Mike Mackey
No
Bill McNaughton
No
Doug Mills
No
Don Morrison
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David Murray
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Dave Pelletier
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Chris Portner
No
Christopher Ricketts
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Peter Simmie
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Keith Sjogren
No
Dan Sullivan
No
Gordon Tamblyn
No
Chris Twigge-Molecey
No
Garnet Watchorn
No
Lee Watchorn
No
Brian Westlake
No
Richard White
No
Michael Willson
No
Rob Woodrooffe
No
Jon Allen
No Response
Aubrey Baillie
No Response
Bill Barnett
No Response
Vipin Bery
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Peter Brieger
No Response
Hank Bulmash
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Bob Clapp
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Andrew Clark
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Bev Collombin
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Ross Cullingworth
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Gordon Currie
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Phil Dawson
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Rod de Courcy Ireland
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Robert Deluce
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Chris Dobson
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Ian Farquharson
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Paul Fisher
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Jock Fleming
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Bill Fleury
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Gary German
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Blake Goldring
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Speaker's Guest
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Norman Hardie
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Naeem Hasan
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Peter Hatcher
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Harold Hetherington
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Jim Hilborn
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Kevin James
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Tom Jamieson
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Gord Kaiser
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Sarwar Kashmeri
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Charles Kennedy
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Andrew Kirsch
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Robin Labatt
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Bill Langlois
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John Lee
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David Lewis
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Don Lindsay
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James Lockyer
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Phil MacDonnell
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Bart MacDougall
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Walter McCormick
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John McKenna
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Hugh McLelland
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Anthony Miller
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Mike Miller
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Steven Moorhead
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Germán Morales
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Michael Morgan
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Bob Morrison
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Matey Nekov de la Camp
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Lawton Osler
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Ken Powell
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Darcy Rector
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Michael Robinson
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Peter Russell
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Ashok Sajnani
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Edward Seagram
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Brian Sheedy
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Peter Sisam
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Ian Smart
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Ted Southey
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Albert Steenburgh
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David G. Temple
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Paul Torrie
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Lake Trevelyan
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Christopher Turney
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Rudi Vezer
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Jack Way
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Robert Adams
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Robin Barstow
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Bob Blair
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Henry Borden
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David Cameron
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Michael Charles
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Don Comish
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Peter Douglas
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Ronald Foreman
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John Gardner
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Peter Goring
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Mike Innes
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Tim Kennish
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Harry Knight
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Paul Potvin
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David Ross
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David Warren
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Norair Yeretsian
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Thank you for RSVPing that you
will be attending virtually
for the next Toronto Whiff@Home meeting.
The Zoom session will open at 7:30pm
for social chat with fellow Whiff@Home guests.
We anticipate that the Speaker’s presentation
will commence at ~8:15pm.
The details for joining the Zoom meeting
will be emailed to you and resent just before the meeting.
Thank you for RSVPing that you will unfortunately
NOT be attending the Whiff@Home meeting on Sept 27th.
Hope to see you at the next Whiff meeting on
October 25th, 2022
Want to change your Sept 27th RSVP response? Click here.
NATO Goals & Canada’s Role Robert Charles Jefferys Baines, CD, MA, is the President and CEO of the NATO Association of Canada, where he is focused on communicating the importance of NATO and the international-rules based order to Canadians. The Association is a charitable non-profit which hosts events across Canada, publishes hundreds of articles online every year and engages young Canadians about NATO through social media. Robert is a regular commentator on NATO issues in the Canadian media and has represented the NATO Association at the side conferences of the 2016 NATO Warsaw Summit, the 2018 Brussels Summit and the 2019 NATO Leaders’ Meeting in London.
Continue reading Robert Baines, CEO, NATO Association of Canada, September 27, 2022
4:40 PM, April 26th, 2022What do archaeologists do when the world is at war?
Surprisingly, many of them turn spy. During wartime, archaeologists on all sides have become involved with military intelligence, turning their in-depth knowledge of the land and the peoples they studied to support their countries at war. This was no more apparent than in the Middle East where prominent archaeologists played a very political game during the First World War. Some of these names, such as T.E. Lawrence, also known as Lawrence of Arabia, would become legendary. Others, when the war was over, simply went back to their museums and their excavations.
Continue reading Dr. Amy Barron, PhD, “Digger, Teacher, Soldier, Spy”, What do archaeologists do when the world is at war? April 26, 2022
Andrew Kirsch served as an intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for just under a decade (2008-2016). He held roles as a policy analyst and a field investigator, ultimately leading the special operations security team running covert warranted operations. Andrew’s talk will explain the need for the sort of grunt work he mostly did to make the sexier, tip-of-the-spear assignments possible; describe the challenges of “online dating from off the grid”; and burst a few bubbles for anyone gulled into mistaking Hollywood for reality.
Continue reading Andrew Kirsch, Inside Canadian Intelligence: A behind the scenes look at what the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is, what it does, and what it’s really like to serve on the front lines defending Canada against the evolving threats to our national security, March 29, 2022
