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A Canada Day letter to my godchild for her 25th birthday
A letter to Rosalind born on the 150th anniversary of Canada looking towards her 25th birthday and our 175th anniversary.
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Jeff - Embrace the diversity, flourish with the country
Jeff’s passion for friends and community has allowed me to vividly experience his immigrant journey in Canada: sometimes as a bystander, sometimes as a…
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Joe - Canada, My Home Away from Home
Joseph Teo is one of the co-founders of HeyOrca. HeyOrca is a successful software startup out of my alma mater that I am happy to help by advising Joe.
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Phil - Watch out for bears; they are cunning
Phil Veale is a software developer extraordinaire, UK transplant and a man of immense cynical and sarcastic wit.
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Boris - Give back to this society!
A startup entrepreneur and now investor, Boris Wertz has backed some of the best Canadian startups through Version One Ventures.
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Derek - Get serious about driving innovative entrepreneurialism
Focused, smart and one of Canada's best exports now living and working with tech people in the United States
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Grant - Open Borders and Open Minds
Let's not be protectionist and inward looking. Let's lead locally and internationally and be fearless.
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Sarah - Let’s tear up the Indian Act!
From St. Johns, NL to Bella Bella, BC, Sarah Norris has definitely lived on the east/west extremes of our country.
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Stephen - Pristine and chaos all in one
Stephen Wild is a photographer extraordinaire in Kingston, Ontario. Stephen is always happy to entertain you with a smile while teaching the hordes of…
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Niketh - Resist provincialism. Think like a globalist, live like localist.
Niketh Pareek is almost the definition of multi-culturalism. A Canadian of Indian heritage who grew up in Kuwait, lives in Montreal, Quebec and is…
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Sylvia - Change, but don't. Hug a tree.
Sylvia Warkentin is the second of the Warkentin family in the series and travelled almost 'coast to coast to coast'
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Rebecca - Let’s fix the education system
Rebecca MacDonald is a tour de force. Rebecca impresses upon her friends the urgency of looking at the “here and now”.
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