Enbridge Famous 5 Speaker Series Edmonton - March 2017

By Famous 5 Foundation - Edmonton Committee

Date and time

Wed, Mar 8, 2017 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM MST

Location

Fairmont Hotel Macdonald

10065 100 Street Northwest Edmonton, AB T5J 0N6 Canada

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Description

Fairmont Hotel Macdonald
10065 – 100 Street, Edmonton AB

Featuring: Dr. Marie Wilson
Event Host: Seanna Collins

11:30 Reception & Networking
11:45 Program Commences

Dr. Marie Wilson (C.M., O.NWT.)

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Marie Wilson became one of three Commissioners of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada following decades of experience as an award-winning journalist, trainer, and senior executive manager. Fluently bilingual in French and English, she has been a university professor, a high school teacher in Africa, a senior executive manager in both federal and territorial Crown Corporations, and an independent consultant in journalism, program evaluation, and project management.

As a journalist, Dr. Wilson worked in print, radio and television as a regional and national reporter, program host, and regional director. As head of CBC North for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, she launched the first daily television news service for northern Canada, and developed the Arctic Winter Games and True North Concert series for national broadcast.

Beyond the CBC, she delivered training through the South African Broadcasting Corporation during that country’s transition to democracy. She also served as an associate board member for what became the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, APTN.

Dr. Wilson was appointed the 2016 Professor of Practice in Global Governance at the Institute for Study of International Development, McGill University, and a 2016-2017 Mentor for the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. She is the recipient of a CBC North Award for Lifetime Achievement, a Northerner of the Year Award, honourary doctorates from St. Thomas University, University of Manitoba and the Atlantic School of Theology, among other recognitions. In 2016 she was awarded both the Order of Canada and the Order of the Northwest Territories.

Dr. Wilson and her husband, Stephen Kakfwi, are blessed with three children and four grandchildren.

Organized by

Famous 5 Foundation - Edmonton Committee

It's the story of five ordinary women, born in the mid-nineteenth century, who joined the trek west with their families to frontier Canada. Each had a history of advocacy on behalf of women and children. All were prominent suffragists. When they arrived in Alberta, each had already had significant victories in her own particular areas of activism.

They arrived on fertile soil where grassroots reform movements flourished. The women of the frontier who had arrived before them had contributed their own labour to building homesteads alongside their husbands. The Famous Five extended this pioneer spirit, taking female influence further, into a larger sphere of community and politics.

In the face of prejudice and opposition, they built alliances with other women’s organizations and brilliantly communicated their vision for a society where women could participate in public service equally with men. They refused to take no for an answer—even when turned down by the Supreme Court of Canada.

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