Résultats

 Callwood, June, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 2 Feb 1984, 220-229     Rights of the individual vs. society. A brief history of Canadian conservatism. Examples of civil liberty issues and how Canadians reacted to them. Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Now a faster reaction time to civil liberty issues. Problems with obscenity laws. Laws for control, not a moral code. Freedom of …

 White, Robert, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 9 Feb 1984, 230-242     Signs of recovery from the recession, and who got left out. Statistics with regard to productivity, domestic processing of resources, machine production, profits, investments. Business perspectives about the recession and the recovery. Comments on various political statements, phrases and policies, such as "internationally competitive," "export orientation," "free trade," "high tech," …

 Legge, Major General Bruce J., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 4 Mar 1984, 277-284     Welcoming remarks by the President of the Empire Club of Canada, Douglas L. Derry with a response from the Foundation Chairman, Major General Bruce J. Legge. A short review of the Empire Club's history, beginning in 1903, shortly after the resolution of the Alaska boundary dispute. Toast to the Empire …

 Careless, Dr. J.M.S., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 8 Mar 1984, 285-297     A rich descriptive and historical journey through the life of the city of Toronto from 1834 covering such diverse aspects as architecture, culture, business and industry, government, politics, community, and people.

 Marchment, Alan R., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 15 Mar 1984, 298-310     Changes in the market for financial services. The historical and emerging roles of banks, trust companies, insurance companies, and investment firms. Problems of fairness and equality of legislation effecting the operation of these institutions. Revision of the Bank Act of 1954. Historical and political reasons for the inequality. The need …

 MacEachen, The Honourable Allan J., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 22 Mar 1984, 311-321     Canada's stake and interest in multilateralism. Three specific examples of how Canada benefits from its participation in the United Nations: the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed by Canada in December, 1982; the International Atomic Energy Agency; Food aid channelled through the World Food Program. A …

 Smith, Dr. Stuart L., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 29 Mar 1984, 322-330     Changes in the world economy and Canada's place in it. Shift in focus from Atlantic to Pacific trade. Knowledge-intensive products. Decline in resource-based trade. Canada's record so far in the new economy not good. Suggestions for improvement: joint ventures with Japan; making use of intellectual property in Canadian universities.

 Jewison, Norman F., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 5 Apr 1984, 331-345     Shift in people of power to those of economic worth. A change in what Canada was to what it is; from a pioneer strength to being controlled by what we own and who sells it to us. Anecdotal personal history of Mr. Jewison. Discussion and analysis of Canadian culture how …

 Tinsulanonda, His Excellency General Prem, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 12 Apr 1984, 349-356     An introduction to Thailand, with emphasis on economic development over the past two decades. Ways of improving economic relations between Thailand and Canada.

 Macdonald, H. Ian, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 26 Apr 1984, 372-386     Views on the future of Canada. Importance of education and innovation to Canada's future. The information revolution and its impact on Canada. Significance of knowledge skills and research and development. Maximizing the potential of human resources. Problems with cutting university budgets. Suggestions for broader education; upgrading in competence of knowledge …

 Casaroli, His Eminence Agostino Cardinal, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1985), 14 Sep 1984, 44-60     A discussion of some of the problems and challenges facing the modern world, ones that "affect more closely the well-being, the progress, and the very existence of humanity; the ones which at the same time more directly call into play the Holy See's responsibilities and its possibilities of action. They …

 Kaufman, Dr. Henry, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1985), 18 Oct 1984, 79-92     Developments of the financial and economic kind in the United States. Predictions about the immediate economic future. A discussion and analysis of those predictions, with background, statistics, and factors affecting the development and outcome of those predictions. Topics covered include the economic environment; the demand for credit; household borrowing; corporate …

 Goodman, Edwin A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1985), 1 Nov 1984, 103-114     1984 the fortieth anniversary of D-Day. Objectives of the Second World War for Canada: to win the war and to preserve the democratic institutions in the world. The state of the second objective. Capitalism as the economic instrument for achieving the equitable distribution of the world's goods essential to a …

 Weatherstone, Dennis, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1985), 15 Nov 1984, 141-156     After the election, no new policymakers in Washington, yet international financial markets will change dramatically, not because of the election itself, but because of market forces and government policies that have been building. A discussion of these thoughts follows, with a review (past, present and future) of several factors, and …

 Greenberg, Maurice R., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1985), 29 Nov 1984, 170-184     Current problems in the North American economy, growing out of the inflation of the 1960s, carried to excess during the 1970s. Problems include excessive debt, high real interest rates and instability created by falling commodity prices, particularly energy. Dealing with runaway inflation at the beginning of the 1980s, and recession. …

 Suzuki, David, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1985), 6 Dec 1984, 185-203     Questions posed as if from an anthropologist from China or Russian coming to Canada: What is this country called Canada? How do the people in this country see themselves? What do they perceive as their priorities? How to answer such questions? What an anthropologist might think of us from reading …