Monthly Archives: August 2021

🎙 A conversation on risk-taking with tech titan Sukinder Singh Cassidy | Confluence Podcast covers Canadian tech in the valley

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


🗓 A CONVERSATION ON RISK-TAKING WITH TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE & C100 CHARTER MEMBER SUKHINDER SINGH CASSIDY

Join us for an intimate fireside chat with Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, one of Silicon Valley’s most admired leaders, a valued C100 Charter Member and author of her most recent book, CHOOSE POSSIBILITY: Take Risks and Thrive (Even When You Fail). Check out a preview of her book here in Tech Crunch.

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is a leading digital CEO and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of leadership experience founding, scaling and advising companies including Google, Amazon, StubHub, Yodlee and more. She is currently Founder and Chairman of theBoardlist, a premium talent marketplace for diverse leaders to be recommended and discovered for board and executive opportunities. Most recently, Sukhinder served as the leader of StubHub, the premiere global consumer ticketing marketplace for live entertainment, which her and her team sold for $4 billion in February 2020.

🎙 LISTEN: CANADA’S ROLE IN DEFINING THE FUTURE OF TECH

“Across Canada, the U.S. and around the world, in the last year some of the biggest success stories technology companies that were founded by Canadians. […] We’re looking forward to more IPOs this year of Canadian founded companies that are having a huge impact globally.”

Tune into Episode 5 of the Confluence podcast where C100’s CEO Laura Buhler & Co-Founder Chris Albinson dive into Canada’s role in defining the future of technology, in the Bay Area and beyond, with host Rana Sarkar, Consul General of Canada to Northern California and Silicon Valley.

Also featured in this episode is Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder, President & COO at Cloudlfare (& C100 Charter Member).

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COMMUNITY UPDATES & MEMBERS IN THE NEWS

🦄 People.ai, led by Founder & CEO Oleg Rogynskyy (Charter Member), has hit unicorn status at a $1.1-billion valuation following a $100-million in Series D financing, co-led by Mike Dinsdale, Managing Director at Akkadian Ventures (and Charter Member), and Abdulla AlBanna of Mubadala Capital. Hear directly from Oleg in this blog post. Congratulations to Oleg & the People.ai team!

📣 Mississauga-based PointClickCare announced that Co-Founder & CEO Mike Wessinger (Charter Member) will become its Executive Chair. His Co-Founder & brother Dave Wessinger will become CEO.

🦄 #anotherone Toronto-based cloud accounting software company FreshBooks has passed the $1-billion valuation mark following an announcement that it has secured $80.75-million in Series E financing and $50-million in debt financing (total $130.75-million). Congratulations to Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board Mike McDerment & the FreshBooks team!

📈 Montreal-based Hopper secured $175-million in Series G financing, bringing its total raise to date to nearly $600-million and its valuation to $3.5-billion. Fun fact: it had a $2-billion valuation just five months ago. Plus, a bonus article from the Logic about the news (subscription required).

🗓 Elevate launches Think 2030, a three-day event taking place in Toronto and online to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and explore how design, innovation and technology can solve society’s greatest challenges.

📣 The DMZ (C100 Corporate Partner) has launched a new Social Impact Stream within their Black Innovation Program to support Black founders with a social mission and purpose. Learn more here and applications are due August, 31st!

📈 Montreal-based Lightspeed Commerce Inc. has raised an additional $107.4-million in its share offering after underwriters exercised their over-allotment option in full, bringing the total raised amount to $823.5-million (before underwriting commission and offering costs). Founder & CEO Dax Dasilva (Charter Member) shares more about the latest on Lightspeed on CNBC’s Closing Bell.

🛰 The Canadian federal government is providing $1.44-billion to Ottawa-based satellite company Telesat in an effort to extend broadband internet service to Canada’s rural and remote areas. Telesat’s global network, named “Lightspeed”, will be composed of 298 low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites operating 35 times closer to earth than traditional telecommunications satellites.

Zoom Webinar: Geoff Hayes on The Canadians in Normandy

Dominion Command of the Royal Canadian Legion has partnered with the folks at the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, who have been providing webinars and these articles throughout the pandemic.  A great benefit for members and non-members alike.


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GEOFF HAYES

The Canadians in Normandy:
Another Go-Around

August 25th, 7:30 PM ET

The webinar is FREE on Zoom.

Registration is required, but you do not need a Zoom account to watch.

CLICK HERE to Register

Despite years of debate, the view persists that “something appeared to be wrong” with First Canadian Army through the summer of 1944. This talk traces the Canadian path through Normandy to re-consider an ‘old’ narrative. It argues that, in the face of heavy casualties and enduring British criticism of the Canadians, the soldiers of First Canadian Army understood that they had earned a remarkable victory in Normandy. Finally, after over four years of war, the Canadians believed that they had won a Canadian victory, one that matched, even surpassed their fathers’ achievements a generation before.

Educated at Wilfrid Laurier University and Western University, GEOFF HAYES is a professor of history at the University of Waterloo. He was a student of Terry Copp when he wrote The Lincs: A History of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment at War (1986). Most recently his book, Crerar’s Lieutenants: Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939–1945 (UBC, 2017) won the 2018 C.P. Stacey Award. Geoff has learned a great deal from the many student tours he has joined on the battlefields of Northwest Europe, organized through the Canadian Battlefields Foundation.

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Displaced by war: Life on the edge

An item from the Legion Magazine.


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Front Lines
Displaced by war: Life on the edge

Displaced by war: Life on the edge

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

While the world fights the coronavirus pandemic, families displaced by war in Yemen are combatting malnutrition and rampant disease, most of which has long been eradicated in the West.

Recent reports from inside the embattled country say increasing numbers of children living in displaced-persons’ camps are coming down with malaria, cholera, polio and diphtheria—and often dying.

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Prisoners of Dieppe

Prisoners of Dieppe

Story by Sharon Adams

In June 1942, Canadian troops arrived for six weeks of combined operations training on the Isle of Wight in England in preparation for the raid on Dieppe, France.

Among them were a dozen men from the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, who were to deliver ammunition, help with the wounded, and transport German prisoners to ships waiting offshore.

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[REMINDER] Request for Participation – “I Joined” Membership Campaign

In 2020, as a way to get membership engaged all across the country, Dominion Command of the Royal Canadian Legion engaged in an “I Joined” campaign.  In preparation for a membership drive that we are going to undertake in the Fall, US Branch 25 – representing the San Francisco Bay Area – is replicating this campaign.

Our members are the lifeblood of the Royal Canadian Legion.  Without your support, we could not do all we do to honour, support, and remember Canada’s veteran and their families.  We invite you to share why you joined the Legion.  For some it may be to give back to those who served, to honour family members, or to support our branch and communities.  So tell us your Legion story!  Why did you join the Legion?  What do you like about being a member?  What is your favourite Legion memory?  Please visit https://tinyurl.com/branch25-ijoined/ to contribute your own story, and be sure to upload a photo of yourself or our branch to accompany your story – or even a video.

If you visit https://www.legion.ca/news/articles/2019/11/28/in-their-own-words-why-our-members-joined-the-royal-canadian-legion you can see the stories of nine of our comrades from the Dominion Command campaign.  Some of the videos that were produced included:

Here are some examples that have already been submitted from our own Branch:

If you have any questions, please let us know.

Veterans’ Affairs Minister Message on Afghanistan – Letter to Stakeholders / Lettre aux intervenants

An item from our colleagues at the RCAF Association.


To: VAC Stakeholder Community,

These past few weeks have been incredibly difficult for our Veteran community. With the Taliban’s rapid advance across Afghanistan, it appears that the entire country could soon be under their control.

Given all it represents to so many of our Afghan Veterans, the fall of Kandahar will surely be particularly challenging. Having never worn the uniform, I know I will never be able to understand what so many of those who served there are grappling with.

As Minister, though, I want to provide some resources that I hope might be of use for those of you – and to those you serve – who might understandably be struggling with the situation in Afghanistan.

  • At Veterans Affairs, please know that the VAC Assistance Service is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Veterans, former RCMP members, families, and caregivers can call to speak with a mental health professional, free of charge, at 1-800-268-7708 (TDD/TTY: 1-800-567-5803.)
  • For those still serving in the Canadian Armed Forces, support is available to members and their families at each Canadian Forces Health Services centre across the country.
  • The Member Assistance Program also offers 24/7 confidential short-term counselling to members and their families, and can be reached at 1-800-268-7708 (TDD 1-800-567-5803.)
  • Some additional information on mental health resources can also be found through the Canadian Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Canada.

Because of what Canadians achieved in Afghanistan, lives have been changed, unquestionably, for the better. There are children who received medicine that allowed them to reach their teens when they otherwise wouldn’t have. There are now young women studying law, physics, and journalism at some of the world’s finest universities who would never have gotten that opportunity.

Time will tell us what those stories mean, but I choose to believe that the world will be better for them.

However this chapter in Afghanistan’s history ends, Canada will not forget the actions of the more than 40,000 of our remarkable men and women who served there – the stories of their sacrifice will outlast them.

Our kids and grandkids are going to learn about the Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the streets and poppy fields of Kandahar, just like they will about the ones who fought and gave their lives at Vimy Ridge and Juno Beach.

Their wars might be different, but their stories are fundamentally the same. They went off to serve their country, and they did all that was asked of them and more.

How our Afghanistan Veterans and their families will come to understand their sacrifices is surely not for me to say, but I can promise that Canada will remain forever grateful for their service.

Please take care, and thank you for the work you all continue to do in support of our Veterans and their families.

Respectfully,

Lawrence MacAulay
Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence

 

Destinataires: Communauté des intervenants d’ACC,

Les dernières semaines ont été extrêmement difficiles pour notre communauté de vétérans. Avec l’avancée rapide des talibans en Afghanistan, il semble que tout le pays pourrait bientôt être sous leur contrôle.

Compte tenu de tout ce qu’elle représente pour tant de nos vétérans de l’Afghanistan, la chute de Kandahar sera sûrement particulièrement difficile. N’ayant jamais porté l’uniforme, je sais que je ne pourrai jamais comprendre ce à quoi sont confrontées les personnes qui ont servi.

En tant que ministre, cependant, je veux fournir des ressources qui, je l’espère, pourraient être utiles à ceux d’entre vous – et à ceux que vous avez servi – qui pourraient naturellement être bouleversés par la situation en Afghanistan.

  • À Anciens Combattants, sachez que le Service d’aide d’ACC est disponible 24 heures par jour, 7 jours sur 7. Les vétérans, les anciens membres de la GRC, les membres de leur famille et leurs aidants peuvent appeler pour parler à un professionnel de la santé mentale, sans frais, au 1-800-268-7708 (ATS : 1-800-567-5803).
  • Pour les personnes qui servent toujours au sein des Forces armées canadiennes, du soutien est mis à leur disposition ainsi qu’à celle de leur famille dans chacun des centres de Services de santé des Forces canadiennes au pays.
  • Le Programme d’aide aux membres offre également des services confidentiels de relation d’aide à court terme 24 heures sur 24, 7 jours sur 7 aux membres et à leur famille; il est disponible au 1-800-268-7708 (ATS 1-800-567-5803).
  • Des informations supplémentaires sur les ressources en santé mentale peuvent également être trouvées auprès des Forces armées canadiennes et d’Anciens Combattants Canada.

Grâce à ce que les Canadiens ont accompli en Afghanistan, des vies ont été changées, sans aucun doute pour le mieux. Il y a des enfants qui ont reçu des médicaments qui leur ont permis d’atteindre l’adolescence alors qu’ils n’auraient pas pu autrement. Il y a maintenant des jeunes femmes qui étudient le droit, la physique et le journalisme dans certaines des meilleures universités du monde qui n’auraient jamais eu cette possibilité.

Le temps nous dira ce que ces histoires signifient, mais je choisis de croire que le monde sera meilleur pour eux.

Quelle que soit la fin de ce chapitre de l’histoire de l’Afghanistan, le Canada n’oubliera pas les actions de plus de 40 000 de nos hommes et femmes remarquables qui ont servi là-bas – les histoires de leur sacrifice leur survivront.

Nos enfants et petits-enfants vont en apprendre davantage sur les Canadiens qui se sont battus et ont donné leur vie dans les rues et les champs de pavot de Kandahar, tout comme ils le feront à propos de ceux qui se sont battus et ont donné leur vie à la crête de Vimy et à Juno Beach.

Leurs guerres sont peut-être différentes, mais leurs histoires sont fondamentalement les mêmes. Ils sont allés servir leur pays, et ils ont fait tout ce qu’on leur a demandé et plus encore.

Ce n’est sûrement pas à moi de dire quelle signification les vétérans de l’Afghanistan et leur famille tireront de leurs sacrifices, mais je peux promettre que le Canada restera à jamais reconnaissant pour leur service.

Prenez soin de vous et merci pour le travail que vous continuez tous à faire pour soutenir nos vétérans et leur famille.

Respectueusement,

Lawrence MacAulay
Ministre des Anciens Combattants et ministre associé de la Défense nationale