alumni UBC – Your Next Step: Art of Influence
What does it mean to be influential? While some people possess a natural talent to make themselves heard, for others it is a skill that requires years to perfect. However, it’s critical to develop this ability as it can mean the difference between achieving one’s goals and failing to mobilize the support or resources one requires. Hear from a panel of business and community leaders who have leveraged their mastery of the art of influence to achieve impressive results.
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This event took place on February 10, Wednesday 2016, 6:30-9:00pm in the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre.
Moderator
Andrew Chang – Host of CBC Vancouver News at 6 o’clock
Panelists
Janet Austin – CEO, YWCA of Metro Vancouver
Shayne Ramsay – CEO, BC Housing
Bob Rennie – Executive Director/Founder, The Rennie Group Ltd.
Lisa von Sturmer – Founder and CEO of Growing City
Speaker Biographies
Andrew Chang
Andrew Chang joined CBC News Vancouver as host in the summer of 2014, shortly after returning from Sochi as part of CBC’s broadcast team. He has also spent time in the host chair for other network shows such as CBC Radio One’s The Current, CBC News’ The National and CBC News Now.
Prior to coming to Vancouver, he spent a successful decade with CBC Montreal most recently as co-host of CBC Montreal’s supper-time newscast. He covered a number of memorable moments in Montreal’s history such as Montreal’s 2011 federal election night special, which saw the unprecedented rise of the NDP in the province, and the resulting collapse of the Bloc Québécois; the 2012 election-night assassination attempt of Pauline Marois and he was also the first, among local English television networks, to tell Montrealers about the assassination of mafia godfather Niccolo Rizzuto Senior.
Andrew worked previously as one of CBC’s chief staff reporters, covering breaking news at both the local and network level: from the Dawson College shootings, to the collapse of the de la Concorde overpass in Laval, to a month-long stint on the Parti Québécois campaign bus during the 2008 provincial election. During this time, Andrew was also working as a video journalist — interviewing various news-makers, writing and reporting, shooting and editing video. With a camera over his shoulder, Andrew spent years producing both news-length and feature-length reports.
On weekends, it’s a different story — when he is not being the doting father to his daughter, he spends his time snowboarding, hiking, and indulging in one of his many other passions: music.
Janet Austin
As CEO of the Vancouver YWCA, Janet Austin has overall responsibility for one of BC’s largest and most diversified non-profit organizations, offering services for 60,000 people annually in more than 30 locations throughout Metro Vancouver. The YWCA is an entrepreneurial non-profit, with more than 63% of annual revenues self-generated through related business activities – including a 155 room YWCA Hotel and a state-of-the-art, downtown-based Health and Wellness Centre – and fundraising.
The Vancouver YWCA provides a network of services for women and their families including early learning and care for children, permanent and transition housing, and support services for single moms. The organization also offers employment services for women and men, mentorship, leadership development, and school-based programming for youth.
Janet is a recipient of numerous awards including the Business in Vancouver Influential Woman in Business Award and the Vancouver Board of Trade Community Leadership Award, among many others. She was named to the WXN list of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women in 2008 and the Vancouver Power 50 in 2014.
Shayne Ramsay
Shayne Ramsay was recently listed in Vancouver Magazine’s 50 most powerful people in Vancouver; the magazine stated “When you’re CEO of the provincial agency responsible for creating social housing in one of the world’s most expensive real estate markets, you’re in the thick of one of the thorniest public-policy issues in the province.”
Since May 2000, Shayne has been the CEO of BC Housing. He was responsible for setting up the Homeowner Protection Office in 1998 and also served as its first CEO. The Homeowner Protection Office has been a branch of BC Housing since April 2010.
Prior to becoming the CEO, Shayne was the Director of Development Services for BC Housing, and the Director of Housing Policy and Program Development with the former Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing in B.C.
In addition to his work as CEO, Shayne serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Crown Corporation Employer’s Association, an agency that represents human resource issues for the provincial crown corporations in British Columbia. He is also Chair of Housing Partnership Canada, a peer network and business collaboration of social housing leaders committed to innovation.
Shayne has a graduate degree in urban planning from the University of Toronto.
Bob Rennie
Bob Rennie is founder of Rennie Marketing Systems, whose recognized leadership for envisioning new and innovative strategies in development risk management and marketing real estate has led to landmark projects such as restructuring the Olympic Village and Woodward’s – in Canada’s poorest postal code. Also known for having built a world renowned collection of contemporary art, Bob chairs the North American Acquisitions Committee at Tate Modern, is a member of the Tate International Council, serves as trustee for the Art Institute of Chicago and is the recipient of the Queen’s Diamond and Golden Jubilee awards, the Order of BC and a doctorate from Emily Carr University. He renovated and restored Wing Sang, the oldest structure in Chinatown, to include a privately funded museum space with regular exhibitions of works from Rennie Collection. All exhibitions are open to the public with free admission two days a week.
Lisa von Sturmer
@LisavonSturmer / @GrowingCity
Having started her career in television working for an MMA fight show and other various creative agencies as an editor, Lisa von Sturmer realized that she wanted to spend her life doing something positive that had a tangible impact on the community. In 2010, she quit her successful editing career, founded Growing City and never looked back.
Now an award-winning entrepreneur, Lisa has founded and co-founded two companies in the past 3 years. An active advocate for youth entrepreneurship, Lisa is a Canadian Delegate for the G20 Youth Entrepreneurship Summit where delegates from each G20 nation come together in tandem with the G20 to discuss policies governments can implement to encourage entrepreneurship as a solution to unemployment.
She also spends time speaking to youth groups and students on how to create businesses they love and shares the lessons she’s learned along the way and wrote Pitching to Win, a workbook designed to help those looking to pitch on Dragons’ Den or Shark Tank create deal-worthy pitches.
Lisa is also passionate about volunteering – and has made it a part of her company’s operations. Each month Growing City donates time, service or compost to a different local organization or charity. Under her direction, the company has grown over 100% in the past year and she is excited to continue bringing composting and recycling across the country!
She is a member of the 2012 Forum for Women Entrepreneurs prestigious e-Series program, and was recently accepted into the exclusive Entrepreneur’s Organization Accelerator program.
Lisa has won the 2012 Canadian Youth Business Foundation’s National Best Green Business award and 2010 Small Business BC’s Best Business Concept award
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Fojt, M., NBER Working Papers, & EU BookShop. (2011). entrepreneurship Emerald Group Publishing Limited. [Link]
Minniti, M. (2007). Entrepreneurship: The engine of growth. Westport, Conn: Praeger Publishers. [Available at David Lam Library – HB615 .E636 2007]
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Engaging Students in Open Education
Livestream:
Series: Open Education
Open education is a hot topic on post secondary campuses these days. This year UBC saw the #textbookbroke campaign led by the Alma Mater society – advocating for the use of open textbooks and open practices in the classroom to reduce costs for students; the adoption of open textbooks and resources in large multi section physics and math courses; and the continuing development of open teaching practices with Wikipedia projects and student produced, openly published content.
How do we engage students with open educational practices that go beyond making their work public to making it re-usable or available for others to build on? Why is open education important to students and to what extent can it enrich the teaching and learning environment?
Join us on March 10th from 1:30-3:00pm for a panel discussion highlighting open courses, projects and initiatives from UBC and beyond.
Lighting Talks: Each speaker will present for 8 minutes and respond to questions for 5 minutes. This will be followed by a broad panel discussion about open practice.
Event Details
When: March 10, 2016 | 1:30-3:00pm
Where: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, seminar room 2.22 A/B – map
Registration required
At this time we require everyone – UBC affiliated or otherwise – to register for the CTLT events system. If you already have a CWL please sign in. However, if you do not have a campus-wide login, then please register for a BASIC cwl account (you will see basic as the bottom option on the 3rd screen)
Panelists:
Christina Hendricks: Senior Instructor Philosophy
Jenna Omassi: VP Academic & University Affairs
Arthur Gil Green Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Geography, BC Campus Faculty Fellow
Derek Turner Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Geography
Rajiv Jhangiani, Psychology Instructor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Leah Keshet, Mathematics Professor
Eric Cytrynbaum, Associate Professor Department of Mathematics
Stefan Reinsberg, Physics instructor at UBC
Future Speaker Series – Barbra Meek: Colonizing Pasts, Indigenous Futures: Imagining Indigenous Languages Beyond the Present
The prediction for most Indigenous languages has been extinction. However, many Indigenous languages are still with us today, including some presumed to be gone. This means that someone somewhere has imagined a future for these languages, for current language users, and for future audiences. But, as with ideas of “success,” not all Indigenous language futures are unfolding in identical ways and not all paths lead to the same end or even to their own intended end. This talk is a reflection on the various efforts that have been imagined and implemented in order to predict and project a future for the Kaska (Dene/Athabaskan) language and some of the unexpected possible futures that have emerged along the way.
This event took place on March 2, 2016 in the First Nations Longhouse.
Speaker Biography
Barbra A. Meek is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Native American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Comanche citizen. Her research focuses on representations and performances of American Indian languages and speech, practically and theoretically. Much of her scholarship has focused on language endangerment and revitalization, having worked with First Nations in the Yukon Territory, Canada, on various aboriginal language projects since 1998. Her book, We Are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community (2010, University of Arizona Press) details this research and offers a socially grounded model for language revitalization. She continues to work with Kaska language teachers and advocates in their efforts to envision a future for the Kaska language. Her current book project is an edited volume with Paul Kroskrity on Native American publics and linguistic futures under contract with Routledge.
“Future Speakers” highlights both the struggles and the successes of Indigenous language revitalization and looks to a future where these languages are not only spoken, but thrive. The Museum of Anthropology, the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program, the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program, the Department of Linguistics, and the Department of Anthropology present a new lecture series supported by the Dean of Arts, and in partnership with the First Nations House of Learning and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, to spark a conversation about the futures of Indigenous languages in the 21st century.
14th Annual Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium
Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement (SAGE) Vancouver presents the 14th Annual Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium: Transformation through Indigenous Research and Knowledge
The University and Community have shaped each other for some time now. This year the Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium (IGSS) explores transformation through Indigenous Research and Knowledge by thinking about how research interacts with community and how community shapes research.
Graduate students involved in Indigenous research will share aspects of their research in presentation and poster sessions.
Event details
When: March 4, Friday 2016; 5-8pm | March 5, Saturday 2016; 8:15am-3:30pm
Where: First Nations Longhouse, UBC – 1985 West Mall. Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 – View Map
Please register here (no registration fee)
Agenda
March 4
5:00 – 5:30 pm: (light finger food provided)
5:30 – 6:30 pm: Keynote: Dr. Pamela D. Palmater
6:30 – 7:00 p: Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of SAGE (Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement)
7:00 – 8:00 pm: Social – Open mic, share talent, songs, dance, story
March 5
8:15 am – 9:00 am: Cultural Ceremony
9:00 am – 9:30 am: Registration; Continental Breakfast
9:30 am – 10:00 am: Welcoming; Witnesses
10:00 am – 11:00 am: Community Panel with respondent Dr. Palmater
11:00 am – 11:15 am: Break
11:15 am – 12:30 pm: Session 1
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: Lunch; Poster Sessions
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Session 2
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Closing; Witnesses
Light Breakfast and Lunch Provided
Hosted by the IGSS Planning Committee & SAGE
Sponsors: Simon Fraser University; UBC Faculty of Education’s Indigenous Education Institute of Canada; and SAGE (Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement)
Building Research Data Management Services and Infrastructure in Canada and at UBC
Dugan O’Neil, Compute Canada Chief Science Officer, and Chuck Humphrey, Director of Portage, will talk about collaborative initiatives for research data management and what they mean to various stakeholder communities, including, researchers, funding agencies, libraries, research service offices, ethics boards, IT units, and others. This is an opportunity to learn about developments in research data management services and infrastructure across Canada and to discuss current work, future directions, and opportunities at UBC. There will be plenty of time for a good discussion.
This event took place on March 1, 2016.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Wilson, J. A. J., Martinez-Uribe, L., Fraser, M. A., & Jeffreys, P. (2011). An institutional approach to developing research data management infrastructure. International Journal of Digital Curation, 6(2), 274-287. doi:10.2218/ijdc.v6i2.203 [Link]
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alumni UBC – Innovation city: Is Vancouver poised to make a quantum leap?
Entrepreneurs at companies like Slack and Hootsuite have put Vancouver’s $23 billion high tech industry on the map. But building the economy of tomorrow—not to mention a utopian, Star Trek future—means taking a step beyond the digital. We need fundamental leaps in computing power, clean energy, and smart materials.
Now a new set of innovators and disruptors are setting up shop in Vancouver, looking to harness the extremes of physics to build tomorrow’s technologies.
Join us as we chat with leaders at Vancouver quantum computing start-up D-Wave, magnetized target fusion pioneer GeneralFusion, and UBC’s world-renowned Quantum Matter Institute. These local, award-winning teams are on the long path in pursuit of game-changing solutions—warpdrive, transporters and holo-decks might be closer than we think.
This event took place on February 3, Wednesday 2016, 6:30-9:00pm at Roundhouse Community Arts Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver BC.
Moderator
Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson is a reporter for CBC News in Vancouver. She specializes in science and environment stories, from E. coli and isotopes to carbon offsets and killer whales. As a general assignment news reporter, she’s also covered kidnappings, earthquakes, and has won a RTDNA award for her live reports from the Stanley Cup Riot.
Before she became a storyteller, Lisa thought she was going to be a scientist. She graduated from UBC with an Honours degree in biology after pipetting stickleback DNA, counting kelp, and watching fish mating dances.
She returned to UBC for her master’s in journalism, focusing on science and risk communications. She still takes interest in things that many journalists hate, including animal carcasses and math.
Panelists
Vern Brownell
President and CEO
D-Wave
Burnaby-headquartered D-Wave is a world leader in superconducting quantum computers—computers that hold the potential to solve some of the world’s more difficult problems. Its systems are being used by Lockheed-Martin, Google and NASA. Co-founded by UBC alumni Geordie Rose, D-Wave has been granted over 110 US patents.
Dr. Michel Laberge
Founder, President and Chief Scientist
General Fusion Inc.
Founded by UBC graduate Michel Laberge, GeneralFusion has emerged as a global leader in magnetized target fusion. The Vancouver company is working to develop a reactor that compresses magnetically-confined plasma to fusion conditions—in pursuit of clean, cheap energy.
Dr. Jenny Hoffman
Professor, Physics & Astronomy-UBC
UBC Quantum Matter Institute
Researchers at UBC’s QMI are pushing the boundaries of materials research, investigating the fundamental mysteries of super conduction, nano-structures, magnetism, and even more exotic phenomena. Questions being asked at the QMI hold the potential to revolutionize electronics, telecommunications, energy, and next-generation computing.
Dr. Jonathan Bagger
Director
TRIUMF
TRIUMF is Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and accelerator-based science. It brings together technical, engineering, and administrative staff; university researchers and students; private-sector collaborators and licensees; international collaborators; and publicly funded agencies supporting basic research in Canada’s interests. TRIUMF connects Canada to the global science and technology community, and as a bridge between the academic and private sectors, drives Canada’s innovation engine with collaborative and joint projects. TRIUMF’s mission is: To make discoveries that address the most compelling questions in particle physics, nuclear physics, nuclear medicine, and materials science; to act as Canada’s steward for the advancement of particle accelerators and detection technologies; and to transfer knowledge, train highly skilled personnel, and commercialize research for the economic, social, environmental, and health benefit of all Canadians.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Haroche, S., DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books, & OpenEdition Books. (2013). Quantum physics. Paris: Collège de France. [Link]
Scheck, F., ebrary eBooks, & SpringerLink ebooks – Physics and Astronomy. (2007). Quantum physics. Berlin: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-49972-5 [Link]
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alumni UBC: Master Mind Master Class with Mohamed Fahmy
Notable Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy has spent his career in conflict zones covering major stories for outlets including New York Times and CNN. However, in December 2013, during his time as Egypt Bureau Chief of Al Jazeera International, Fahmy made international headlines when he and two colleagues were arrested by Egyptian authorities and charged with falsifying news and conspiring with the banned fundamentalist group, the Muslim Brotherhood. He was incarcerated for 438 days alongside ISIS terrorists and jihadists, during which time Egypt’s government faced mounting pressure to release the three journalists. In September 2015, the government pardoned Fahmy, allowing him to return to Canada, where he joined UBC’s School of Journalism for a term as a visiting professor. How did his incarceration change him personally as well as his views on media control and press freedoms? What role did diplomatic relations play in this case?
Mohamed Fahey shares his story with the UBC alumni community. Moderated by Margaret Gallagher, host of CBC Radio One’s Hot Air.
Master Mind Master Class is a new alumni UBC event series, offering an unprecedented look into the minds of modern thinkers making a unique impact on the world, and the lessons they’ve learned.
Speaker biography
Mohamed Fahmy is an Egyptian-born Canadian, award-winning journalist and author. Fahmy started his career covering the Iraq War in 2003 for the Los Angeles Times and has worked extensively in the Middle East, mostly for CNN. Most recently he covered the Arab Spring. In September 2013, he accepted a new post as the Al Jazeera English Bureau Chief based in Egypt. Four months into the job he was arrested and wrongly imprisoned on trumped up terrorism charges for 438 days. Upon his release last September, he joined UBC as an adjunct professor and started the Fahmy Foundation to provide financial assistance and advocate for journalists imprisoned worldwide. He is currently working on a new book about his experience.
This event took place on Tuesday, January 19, 2016, 6:30-9:00pm in the Jack Poole Hall, Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2001). Speech, media, and ethics: The limits of free expression : Critical studies on freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and the public’s right to know. New York;Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire;: Palgrave. [Available at Koerner Library stacks – KM204 .C645 2001]
Committee, P. J. (2013). Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World’s Front Lines Bloomberg Press [Imprint]. [Link]
Kesterton, W. H. (1967). History of Journalism in Canada McGill-Queen’s University Press. [Link]
Seib, P. M. (2012). Al Jazeera English: Global News in a Changing World (1st ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [Available at Koerner Library stacks – PN1992.92.A393 A43 2012]
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The Future of Canadian Refugee Policy: Moving the Discussion Beyond the Media Headlines
Canada has been lauded for its generosity in striving to welcome and resettle some 25,000 Syrian refugees over the coming months, a stark contrast to our neighbours south of the border. However, critics have expressed concern about whether such a large scale resettlement project can be undertaken in a safe and responsible way within such a short timeline.
In response to recent security concerns, Canada has limited the immigration flow to women, children and families and excluded single males – a decision applauded by some and criticized by others as being discriminatory. And, while providing asylum to 25,000 displaced Syrians is a good start, it pales in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of refugees taken in by European countries and the Middle East.
On Tuesday, February 2, our panel of experts addressed these critical issues regarding the influx of Syrian refugees to Canada and also discussed what this mass diaspora means for Canadians and for future Canadian immigration and refugee policies.
Presented by the Peter A. Allard School of Law, in partnership with alumni UBC
This event took place on February 2, Tuesday 2016, 5:30-8:00pm at CBC Studio 700, 700 Hamilton Street, Vancouver BC.
Moderator
Daniel Getz, JD’10, Executive Producer, CBC News Network with Ian Hanomansing
Panelists
Dr. Catherine Dauvergne, LLB’95, Dean, Peter A. Allard School of Law and an expert in the area of refugee, immigration and citizenship law.
Dr. Dan Hiebert, Professor, UBC Department of Geography and an expert on international migration including everything from Canadian immigration policy and security concerns to the integration of newcomers into Canada’s urban centres.
Mr. Chris Friesen, Director of Settlement Services, Immigrant Services Society of BC. who is leading a multi-year initiative to design and build a Metro Vancouver Regional Service Centre for Refugees.
Panelist Biographies
Daniel Getz, JD’10, Executive Producer, CBC News Network with Ian Hanomansing
Daniel Getz is the executive producer of CBC News Network with Ian Hanomansing, a newscast that airs three times nightly, tracking the latest national and international stories as they develop and unfold. Getz’s journalism career at the CBC has spanned more than 15 years, in roles such as researcher, reporter, field producer, senior show producer and now executive producer. He has also produced award-winning federal and provincial election specials. Getz returned to journalism in 2012, after a brief stint working as a litigator with an interest in media law in a large downtown firm in Vancouver. He is a graduate of the Peter A. Allard School of Law, the B.C. Institute of Technology, the London School of Economics and McGill University. Getz is also an instructor in the journalism program at BCIT, teaching media law to broadcast journalism students.
Catherine Dauvergne, LLB’95, Dean, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Catherine took up the Deanship of the Peter A. Allard School of Law in July 2015. Professor Dauvergne has been working in the area of refugee, immigration, and citizenship law for twenty years. She has written three books that take a broad perspective on the theoretical underpinnings of these areas of law, including considering how human rights principles and discourses fit into a migration and citizenship framework. Dauvergne has recently held a major research grant examining the failure of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms to protect non-citizens. She is currently working on an Australian Research Council grant analyzing gendered aspects of refugee determination. From 2013 to 2015, Dauvergne was the Research Director for the Michigan Colloquium on Challenges to International Refugee Law. In 2012, Catherine Dauvergne was made a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation in recognition of her contributions to public discourse in Canada. Her book The New Politics of Immigration and the End of Settler Societies will be published by Cambridge University Press early in 2016.
Dan Hiebert, Professor, UBC Department of Geography
Dan Hiebert has two main research interests. The first, and most important to him, is international migration. At the broadest scale, this includes the issue of policy and regulatory systems and how they shape migration, and also how people become mobile, with or without the consent of states. Hiebert tries to understand Canadian immigration policy within this wider context, and consider it in relation to the policies of other countries, especially in Europe and Australasia. At the local scale he studies the consequences of immigration in Canadian cities, highlighting Vancouver’s situation (with a foreign-born population approaching one million). More specifically, he looks at the integration of newcomers in the labour and housing markets of cities, and how this changes their residential structure and social relations. This work is highly integrated with public policy, and Hiebert participates in advisory roles at the local and national level in Canada, and also has regular interaction with government agencies in several other countries. Second, he is working with a large network of scholars on the issue of national security and its relationship with human rights and is particularly interested in the way this relationship evolves in a society like Canada’s, with a high degree of ethno-cultural diversity and strong transnational connections.
Mr. Chris Friesen, Director of Settlement Services, Immigrant Services Society of BC.
Chris Friesen has been the Director of Settlement Services, Immigrant Services Society of BC (ISS of BC), one of Canada’s largest multicultural immigrant serving agencies, for over 20 years. He is a frequent speaker on a wide range of immigrant and refugee settlement related topics both in Canada and abroad. Chris is currently leading a multi-year initiative to design and build a Metro Vancouver Regional Service Centre for refugees located in Vancouver. In spring 2016, this 58,000 square foot facility will become the first facility of its kind in the world, bringing together a variety of community and government services and organizations that will meet the immediate needs of refugees settling in BC. Among his many community leadership roles, Chris is currently President and a founding member of the Canadian Immigrant Settlement Sector Alliance (CISSA/ACSEI) as well as co-chair of the National Settlement Council. During 2013 Mr. Friesen was the NGO Focal Point for the UNHCR 2013 Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement in Geneva, Switzerland.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Adelman, H., York University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Refugee Studies, & Center for Migration Studies (U.S.). (1991). Refugee policy: Canada and the united states (1st ed.). Staten Island, N.Y;Toronto;: Centre for Refugee Studies, York University. [Available at Koerner Library – JV7243 .R44 1991]
HeinOnline U.S. Congressional Documents Library. (2013). Examining the syrian refugee crisis: Hearing before the subcommittee on the middle east and north africa of the committee on foreign affairs, house of representatives, one hundred thirteenth congress, first session [Link]
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