CIC - Toronto branch members and friends,

Welcome to the 2010 - 2011 programming year!

 
It promises to be a busy and incredibly diverse one with plenty of headliner names and hot topics to keep you coming out to events!
 
As announced at July's Midsummer Gathering, inspired by the National Office's GPS report, the branch executive have selected the following streams to be our programming focus for the coming year:
  • Global Power Structures
  • Security & Conflict Resolution
  • Global Scarcity
  • Innovation & Prosperity
  • And a new stream - Global Urban Issues
In addition, we are starting a Research Group stream of events. More details will be provided at the 16 September AGM, and e-mailed to members and friends directly following.
 
Finally, we are looking to bring innovative thinking to the way in which we engage, and communicate with, members and friends throughout the year. Again, we will be providing more details in terms of some of our ideas at the 16 September AGM and will communicate directly with members and friends directly following.
 
Stay tuned for more!
 
For a list of both upcoming and past events please go to our Programming page.

NATIONAL OFFICE RESEARCH PROGRAM

 
CIC’s research program aims to identify major foreign policy issues and challenges and outline the best possible recommendations to help build Canada’s strategic foreign policy position on those issues. Each research area aims to generate high-end, empirically valid research and foreign policy advice grounded in scholarship.

CIC-TORONTO SPONSORS UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO G8 INFORMATION CENTRE HEALTH CONFERENCE

 
The CIC-Toronto branch was a proud sponsor of the recent Accountability, Innovation and Coherence in G8 Health Governance: Seizing Canada's G8 Opportunity conference. Background Papers from the conference are available to read. Please check the G8 Information Centre for international health policy recommendations coming out of the conference.

CIC NATIONAL OFFICE WEBSITE

 
Videos of some past CIC events can be viewed online, including CIC-Toronto Branch events featuring Daryl Copeland (Visiting Fellow, Munk Centre for International Studies) and Tony Burman (Managing Director, Al-Jazeera English). To view these, click on the “Resource Centre” tab on CIC National Office website’s homepage: www.canadianinternationalcouncil.org.
 
 

The Toronto Branch

The CIC is a non-profit organization with a mandate to promote a deeper understanding of international issues amongst all Canadians. The Toronto branch - one of 15 across Canada - organizes keynote speaker, panel and debate-based events on topical public policy issues of interest to our membership and our city. Speakers are always experts in their field and have included diplomats, foreign dignitaries, federal and provincial politicians, leading academics, members of the armed services, business leaders, journalists, leading health experts, representatives from NGOs and others out in the field who can speak to the content and impact of Canadian public policy here and around the world.

Click here for more information about the CIC.

 

CIC Membership
 
As a member of the CIC you will be part of a high-level group of individuals and organizations interested in international affairs. Membership in the Toronto branch of the CIC enables you to access the activities, facilities and networks of the Institute.

Click here for more information about becoming a member.