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48Hrs is Next Month | A 1:1 with Chris Albinson | In the News

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An item from a fellow Canadian organization in the Bay Area.

ICYMI: MEET THE 2021 C100 FELLOWS COHORT

On March 31st, we announced the C100 Fellows 2021 Cohort – a talented group of 21 exceptional Canadian-led early-stage companies and their respective founders. What’s next? The event you know and love, 48Hrs (f/k/a 48Hrs in the Valley).

C100’s annual flagship event will be taking place virtually on May 19-20. This event spotlights and celebrates the exceptional founders making up the Fellows cohort while bringing together global mentors, investors and industry executives.

This is a Member-exclusive event. If you are a global Canadian with current experience in product, engineering, growth, marketing, or supply chain, you could play a role in this mission-driven program spotlighting C100’s exceptional founders and diving deep in conversation with other top-tier, global Canadian talent. Join today!

CHRIS ALBINSON, C100’S CO-FOUNDER, ANNOUNCED AS COMMUNITECH’S CEO

C100’s Co-Founder (and proud uncle!) Chris Albinson sat down with us to share more about this week’s big announcement of moving back home to take the reins as CEO at Waterloo-based Communitech. Click below to hear from Chris about what this opportunity means to him.

COMMUNITY NEWS

🛎 Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase made its public debut on the Nasdaq via a direct listing and is headed for a US$100-billion valuation. Founder & General Partner of Version One Ventures Boris Wertz (C100 Charter Member) shared some thoughts on this IPO in this post. Version One invested in Coinbase in its Series D round in the fall of 2017. Congratulations to Boris, Angela Tran (C100 Charter Member), Max Webster and the entire Version One team on this exciting day for crypto!

✈️   PSA for cross-border travellers: all travellers arriving in Canada by land or air must submit their travel and contact information electronically via ArriveCAN before or when crossing the border or boarding a flight. This requirement also applies to individuals on exempt travel and  NEXUS members.

🎙  Michelle Zatlyn (C100 Charter Member), Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Cloudflare, will be sharing her founder story through Stanfard University’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. Tune in today at 4:30 pm PT.

🎉  DMZ (C100 Corporate Member) has been supporting startups for 11 years and they have officially passed a major milestone – over $1-billion in total funding raised from DMZ startups and alumni. Congratulations to the many startups, including plenty of familiar faces to the C100 Community!

🎉   Patrick Spence (C100 Charter Member), CEO of Sonos, is the 2021 recipient of the Western Ivey Alumni Achievement Award. Western University is also a proud C100 Corporate Member).

📅 Join the Canadian Entrepreneurs in New England (CENE) to hear Globe and Mail Columnist and best-selling author André Picard discuss inequities in the Canadian healthcare system on April 24th at 3 pm ET.

🎉  Congratulations to Mike Silagadze (C100 Member), Co-Founder, Board Member and former CEO of Top Hat, has joined Ripple Ventures as a Venture Partner.

💵  Toronto-based #fintech company KOHO, led by Founder & CEO Daniel Eberhard (C100 Member) has secured $70-million in Series C financing, led by TTV Capital.

🎙 ICYMI: C100’s Executive Director, Laura Buhler, sat down alongside Ami Shah (Co-Founder & CEO, Peekapak) and Erin Hipp (Meraki County Leader, Cisco Canada) in a recent BetaKit Live to discuss notable leadership lessons learned over the past year.

🔬 Two-year-old Montreal-based biotech startup Ventus Therapeutics Inc. has raised US$100-million led by Boston-based RA Capital Management.

🛎   Alto Ventures is the largest investor in Roblox & Coupang, which both IPOed one day apart from each other in March. Coupang’s IPO became the largest IPO of an Asian company in the US ever. Anthony Lee (C100’s Co-Founder) is the Managing Director at Altos Ventures.

📣 Georgian has dropped the word “Partners” from its brand name as a part of its new strategy to build a fintech and software company to support experts under its umbrella. Georgian also recently closed its new US$1.02-billion Alignment Fund.

📦 Toronto-based company Swyft raises $22-million in Series A funding, led by Inovia Capital and San Francisco’s Forerunner Ventures with participation from Shopify and existing investors Golden Ventures (C100 Corporate Member) and Trucks VC. Swyft looks to replicate its speedy same and next-day shipping model in markets across North America.

☀️ CPP Investments is creating the Sustainable Energy Group (SEG), a new investment group that combines the organization’s expertise in renewables, conventional energy and new technology and service solutions. It’s expected to have approximately $18-billion in assets.

HOW CAN YOU GET INVOLVED?

Consider deepening your engagement with C100 as a Member.

C100 Members are entrepreneurs, investors, and operators in the technology field, with a special focus on Canadians living abroad who wish to connect with one another and to give back to Canada’s ecosystem. They enjoy high-value, intimate virtual events, a Members-only C100 Slack space, and exclusive Member communications. All prospective Members must have their application sponsored by at least one active C100 Member.

C100’s mission is to support, inspire, and connect the most promising Canadian entrepreneurial leaders through mentorship, investment, partnership, & talent. Apply to join as a member today!

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Frank Hurley: Adventurer and war photographer

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An item from the Legion Magazine.

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Frank Hurley: Adventurer and war photographer

Frank Hurley: Adventurer and war photographer 

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

You may not know the name Frank Hurley but you almost certainly know at least some of his pictures.

Hurley was an Australian who left school at age 12, escaped the drudgery and hardship of a working-class life at the dawn of the 20th century, and turned his gift of gab and passion for photography into a lifetime of adventure and renown.

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Canadian summer in Apeldoorn

Canadian summer in Apeldoorn

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In five weeks of bloody battles to boot the Germans out of the Scheldt Estuary in October and November of 1944, the Allies suffered about 13,000 casualties, including about 6,300 Canadians. And the fighting was expected to be just as stiff to liberate the rest of the Netherlands.

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New Hildebrand Fellow, Prince Philip, & where business meets Indigenous rights

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An item from one of our fellow Canadian organizations in the Bay Area.
Canadian Studies Announcements
In this issue:
  • New Hildebrand Fellow studies how oil well bankruptcies shape cities
  • Funding opportunities for grad & undergrad research
  • In the News: Canadians remember Prince Philip, evaluate his legacy
  • Upcoming event: “Canada’s Role in a Psychedelic Renaissance”
  • External event: How Canadian businesses are engaging with Indigenous rights
  • External event: Western Washington U celebrates 50 years of Canadian Studies
New Hildebrand Fellow, Caylee Hong, Studies How Oil Well Bankruptcies Shape Cities
Canadian Studies is pleased to introduce Caylee Hong, the latest recipient of an Edward Hildebrand Research Fellowship. Caylee is a Ph.D. student in sociocultural anthropology with an emphasis on legal issues.
Caylee’s research examines the impacts of finance, including debt and bankruptcy, on infrastructure development and decommissioning. Her Hildebrand Fellowship will provide funding for her dissertation project, exploring how corporate bankruptcy law shapes oil and gas-producing cities. In particular, she examines the responses by diverse urban stakeholders to “orphan” oil and gas wells in California and Alberta, Canada – namely, wells that lack a known or solvent owner/operator.
Caylee received a bachelor’s in common law from McGill University and a master’s in law from the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies. She also holds a B.A. in interdisciplinary studies from the University College Utrecht. Prior to Berkeley, Caylee clerked at the Federal Court of Canada and worked as a project finance attorney in New York City.
Research Funding Opportunities with Canadian Studies
Deadline: May 7, 2021
The Canadian Studies Program is currently accepting applications for funding opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate students at UC Berkeley. Applications for AY 2021-22 will close next month, on May 7, 2021. Learn more and apply by clicking the links below.
The Edward E. Hildebrand Graduate Research Fellowship provides travel and research support for Berkeley graduate students whose work focuses primarily, or comparatively, on Canada. Fellowships typically range in the $5,000 – $10,000 range.
The Rita Ross Undergraduate Prize in Canadian Studies provides a cash prize of $250 to the Berkeley undergraduate who has produced the best research project engaging with a Canadian topic for a class or independent study program.
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In the News
Canadians Remember Prince Philip, Evaluate His Legacy
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh died last Friday at the age of 99. The Canadian government has organized an official commemoration page, with a memorial planned for April 17. Prime Minister Trudeau eulogized Philip as a man of “great service,” and “a dedicated leader in the areas of community engagement and philanthropy.”
Citizens across Canada are reacting to the monarch’s passing, and reflecting on what his legacy means for the country. Prince Philip was a frequent visitor to Canada and made over 70 appearances in the country over his lifetime. A lifelong conservationist and founder of the World Wildlife Fund, Philip would frequently use his visits to draw attention to local conservation issues, such as Saskatchewan’s endangered burrowing owls.
Indigenous Canadians, meanwhile, are reflecting on his “memorable, complicated” relationship with their people. For some, his position as a representative of the Crown made him a symbol of the complicated history between Indigenous peoples and non-native government. Philip was notorious for making gaffes over the years, including comments some declaimed as racist. However, other Indigenous people recall his personal good humour, and praise his strong promotion of environmental protection.
Ultimately, Philip’s passing has brought renewed attention to the future of the monarchy in Canada. With an imminent generational turnover in the royal family, how can the Crown adapt to the politics and realities of modern Canadian society, where fewer citizens identify with the country’s British heritage? And what role does the monarchy play in the identity of a nation that is explicitly multicultural and egalitarian?
Upcoming Event
Psychedelics, Eh? Canada’s Role in a Psychedelic Renaissance
April 27 | 12:30 p.m. | RSVP here
In the 1950’s, the Canadian province of Saskatchewan was on the cutting edge of research into hallucinogenic drugs. Under the province’s massive healthcare reforms, researchers received grants to pursue LSD treatments they thought could revolutionize psychiatry. What do these experiments say about Canada’s healthcare system and society at the time? And what can we learn from the program’s successes and failures at a time when psychedelics are attracting renewed scientific and public interest?
Erika Dyck is the Canada Research Chair in the History of Health & Social Justice at the University of Saskatchewan. She specializes in the history of psychiatry, and has written several books on the history of psychedelic research and eugenics in Canada. She is the author of Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus (Johns Hopkins University Press), which covers the complex history of LSD in North America.
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Canada’s Implementation of UNDRIP Commitments:
What Will it Mean for Business and the Economy?
April 13 | 9:00 a.m. ET | RSVP here
Join the Wilson Center’s Canada Institute for a high-level dialogue on the changing nature of business practices as the implementation of The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) commitments is considered in Canada. Introduced to Canada’s Parliament on December 3, 2020, Bill C-15 would align UNDRIP with Canadian laws and would have a wide and far-reaching impact. This forum will examine the potential changes for business and economic relationships between industry and Indigenous peoples in North America.
The speakers will discuss the history of UNDRIP and Bill C-15 in Canada, the shift in corporate and public discourse related to indigenous engagement and reconciliation, and what the implementation of UNDRIP might mean for business and Indigenous-industry relationships. Business and Indigenous leaders will discuss expected timelines, changes still needed, and new areas of opportunity.
Book Talk: Bridging the Longest Border with Dr. Donald Alper
April 29 | 7:00 p.m. PT | RSVP here
As part of its 50th anniversary celebration, Western Washington University’s Center for Canadian-American Studies is sponsoring a talk by Dr. Don Alper on his new book, “Bridging the Longest Border”. The book is a story of how a handful of visionaries built a program at Western Washington University to educate students and community leaders about Canada. While not a history lesson, this book traces the journey of creating a place for developing knowledge about this important country just a stone’s throw away.
Dr. Alper is an emeritus professor of political science at Western Washington University, and the former director of Western’s Center for Canadian–American Studies and the Border Policy Research Institute. Known nationally for his advancement of Canadian Studies in the United States, he has taught courses on Canadian politics and Canada-U.S. relations for more than 40 years. Don Alper will be joined in conversation with Cat Wallace, journalism instructor at Whatcom Community College and editor.
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One week away—The WWI Memorial First Colors Ceremony Live Broadcast

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Please Join Us:

In a week’s time, the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, along with our partners at the National Park Service and the American Battle Monuments Commission, will welcome the newest war Memorial in Washington, DC—the National World War I Memorial.

Join us on April 16 via live broadcast at 10:00am EDT | 7:00am PDT as the Flag is raised for the very first time, making the Memorial a living remembrance site for our Doughboys in perpetuity.

Event Registration

Click above to register and watch the preview video about the Memorial as you hear directly from the team that helped make the WWI Memorial a reality.

WWI Memorial Preview Website

Learn more about this innovative and serene Memorial by visiting our Memorial Preview website today!

Thank you for your interest and your participation!

With gratitude,
The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission

If you have any questions, please contact:

Lauren Hancock
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