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• SPRING 2025 SPEAKER SERIES - IN PERSON

  • Start
    March 31, 2025
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    May 12, 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Aurora Cineplex Theatre (IN PERSON)

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  SPRING 2025 Speaker Event Series 
  
  

  All Spring 2025 speaker events will be IN PERSON. 

  
  

  March 31	Adam Chapnick, PhD	Managing Canada-U.S.   Relations in the Second   Trump Era
  April 7	Acting Sergeant Danielle   Froud	Crime Prevention for   Seniors
  April 14	Andrew Kirsch	Conversations with a   Former Canadian Spy
  April 28	Ian Stedman, LLB, PhD	Ethics and AI in Canadian Healthcare
  May 5	Joe Frankel	Steven Spielberg: An   Undercover Maverick   Hiding in Plain Sight
  May 12	George Takach, LLB	Cold War 2.0: What it   Means for Canada

  
  

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• Steven Spielberg: An Undercover Maverick Hiding in Plain Sight

  • When
    May 05, 2025
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Aurora Cineplex - In Person

  
  

  
  

     Joe Frankel

  Joe Frankel is a Toronto-based filmmaker and the founder of Imaginary Courtyard content agency. He has worked as a Hollywood story editor for Universal Studios, The Mark Gordon Company and others. Joe’s screenwriting credits include a TV adaptation of “The Phantom” comics and the upcoming animated comedy, “Steve Guttenberg: Frenchman.”

  When Joe isn’t writing, he produces “behind-the-scenes” documentaries for all the major studios.  He also lectures on film at various schools and community centres across North America.

  
  

  Steven Spielberg: An Undercover Maverick Hiding in Plain Sight

  Joe will discuss this famous filmmaker and his movies.  While Steven Spielberg 

  has widespread popularity, his artistry is often invisible. His working method is surprising and appreciating this filmmaker (from the inside) can open one’s mind to appreciating other movies too.  

  
  

  
  

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• Cold War 2.0: What it Means for Canada

  • When
    May 12, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Aurora Cineplex - In Person

  
  

     
  

  George Takach, LLB

  George has undergrad and law degrees from the University of Toronto, and an MA from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. He is a former partner and national Technology Industry Leader at the McCarthy Tétrault law firm, where for 35+ years he represented Canadian and international technology companies (with financings, M&A and commercial matters) and traditional companies and governments with their sophisticated technology transactions and projects. During his legal career he was also an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School for 22 years, a columnist for Lexpert Magazine, and wrote three books on tech/law topics.

  Currently he writes books on technology and geopolitics for a general audience, including Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle Between China, Russia and America (see information at Simon&Schuster.com). George will bring copies of this book for purchase and signing.

  
  

  Cold War 2.0: What it Means for Canada

  With wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and rising tensions around Taiwan and in the South China Sea, hear author and geopolitical analyst George S. Takach explain what ties all these events together. George believes we are in a new cold war, and that technology and innovation will be key to whether the democracies or the autocracies win this struggle. He will also address what it all means for Canada specifically. In addition, George will have thoughts on the new Administration in Washington. After his presentation, there will be a chance for questions and discussion. 

  
  

  
  

  This event is part of the Spring 2025 Speaker series.  
  

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