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Public Affairs
2/13/2012
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2/15/2012
Venue: Ottawa Marriott Hotel, Ontario, Canada
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Business consulting
Highlights:*Gain from case study insights into engagement and advocacy strategies from more than a dozen top Canadian organizations*Harness the power of grassroots strategies to influence on your public policy issues and energize your advocacy efforts*Benefit from views on the Hill about politics, policy formation, government relations and influence*Tap into the latest strategies to contend with government regulations & policies adversely impacting stakeholders and the public interest*Discover ...
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Business Analysis Best Practices
2/13/2012
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2/15/2012
Venue: Hotel Novotel Toronto Centre, Toronto, Canada
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Business consulting
Highlights:*Learn how Canadian Tire is developing its business analysis centre of excellence to manage complex initiatives*Discover how Greater Toronto Airports Authority aligns business analysis with corporate strategy*Learn how Manulife Financial determines the level of detail required for business requirements analysis*Discover how RBC Financial develops a systematic approach to determining the root causes of business and technical issues and avoids band-aid solutions *Hear how Tim Hortons ...
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Public Sector Media Relations
2/13/2012
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2/14/2012
Venue: Ottawa Marriott Hotel, Ontario, Canada
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Business consulting
Highlights:*Hear about the essential elements for successful media relations *Discover how to increase the synergy of your media channels *Know how to help your staff take an active posture in preparing for and delivering media interviews *Examine the anatomy of a successful press conference *Discover how to create the right media fi t and get your story out there *Hear about the best practices and strategies for managing a range of conventional and non-conventional media in forwarding and ...
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Preventing Violence & Harassment in the Workplace
Highlights*Developing a workplace violence strategy*Training supervisors and employees on workplace violence and harassment*Auditing your violence and harassment prevention initiatives*Best practices for conducting a risk assessment*Investigating workplace violence & harassment*Developing a critical incident follow-up policyParticipating Organizations*Canada’s Wonderland*Canadian Initiative on Workplace Violence*City of Toronto*Davies LLP*Kuretzky Vassos LLP*Liquor Control Board of ...
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Decision Writing
2/14/2012
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2/15/2012
Venue: Ottawa Marriott Hotel, Ontario, Canada
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Business consulting
Highlights:* Regardless of your level of experience, this course will provide an invaluable opportunity to hone your writing skills and pick up practical tips for decision-making and writing.* Best of all, a 3-hours hands-on exercise will allow you to put into practice what you have learned by critiquing actual published court and tribunal decisions, and rewriting one of them. Rewritten decisions will then be shared and discussed.Participating Organizations:* Canada Industrial Relations Board* ...
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Tax-Effective Succession Planning for the Owner-Manager
2/21/2012
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2/22/2012
Venue: Hotel Novotel Toronto Centre, Toronto, Canada
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Business consulting
Highlights:*Tax considerations in business succession alternatives *The use of estate freezes in succession planning *Alternatives to family succession *Valuation issues for family-owned businesses *Shareholder agreements & tax effective succession planning *Income splitting and the attribution rules for a family businessParticipating Organizations:*BMO Harris Private Banking *Chappell Bushell Stewart LLP *Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP *Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP *Hull & Hull LLP *MNP LLP ...
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Public Events
Highlights*Take part in an interactive workshop looking into the step-by-step planning that goes into a successful event*Explore how to increase public awareness and improve engagement with citizens by incorporating social networking into your public event marketing strategy*Examine the role media relations play in a successful event*Uncover effective low-cost strategies for putting on a public event on a small budget*Explore risk management practices for public events*Study the latest means of ...
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Cross-Border Personal Tax Planning
2/27/2012
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2/28/2012
Venue: Hotel Novotel Toronto Centre, Toronto, Canada
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Business consulting
Highlights:*Cross-border estate planning strategies *Overview of the U.S. estate and gift tax structure *Critical tax planning issues for U.S. citizens in Canada *Latest tax issues affecting non-resident investors in U.S. real property *The U.S.-Canada tax treaty protocol *Tax planning for Canada-U.S. employment transfers *Tax planning for your cross-border family businessParticipating Organizations:*Aird & Berlis LLP *Deloitte & Touche LLP *Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP *KPMG LLP *Manulife ...
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PHP QUEBEC
The PHP Quebec team is always working hard in order to organize events that will respond to the needs of the community. Therefore, we accept the fact that those needs may exceed the scope of PHP itself and that every technology might have something to learn from others. For the 2012 edition, the Conference will be called ConFoo.ca 2012 and will unite the strength and leadership of many partners such as PHP Quebec, Montreal Python, Ruby Montreal Community, W3Qc, OWASP, etc., in order to present ...
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Tax-Effective Planning for Insurance & Investment
2/28/2012
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2/29/2012
Venue: Hotel Novotel Toronto Centre, Toronto, Canada
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Business consulting
Highlights:*Use of tax shelters involving insurance products *How funding with life insurance works *CRA risks and flexibility leveraged insurance structures *Challenges to effective shared ownership arrangements *Charitable tax shelters and anti-avoidance issues *Qualified and prohibited investments *Tax planning techniques to minimize the after tax acquisition and financing cost *Extracting funds out of the corporation tax freeParticipating Organizations:*Altus Group *Blake, Cassels & Graydon ...
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Managing Absenteeism in the Public and Private Sectors
3/5/2012
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3/7/2012
Venue: Hotel Novotel Toronto Centre, Toronto, Canada
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Business consulting
Highlights*Discover best practices and innovative programs for preventing and managing absenteeism from leading Canadian organizations*Learn how to foster accountability in your employees and engender a culture of attendance through a positive rather than punitive approach*Discover strategies and tools that your front-line managers can use to deal with absenteeism*Get up to speed on the legal issues surrounding absenteeism managementParticipating Organizations*Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant ...
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E-Discovery Workshop
Highlights*Key e-discovery decisions*Litigation case management*Current Canadian guidelines*Managing costs of e-discovery procedures*Protecting privacy and confidentiality*Latest technological solutions*Forensic investigations*The future of e-discovery practicesParticipating Organizations*Bennett Jones LLP*Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)*City of Toronto*Froese Forensic Partners Ltd.*Harvester Forensics Limited*Micrapol Associates Ltd.*Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)*Ontario ...
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Workshop on General Counsel’s Role in Maximizing Board Effectiveness
Highlights:*Hear from some of Canada’s sharpest legal minds on what it takes to enhance your organization’s governance practices *Explore leading practitioners’ best practices for ensuring adherence to high legal and ethical standards of behaviour *See how the general counsel’s activity could result in limiting the possibility of director liability *Walk through best practices in fulfilling your duties to the board when handling a corporate crisis *Explore emerging governance issues, the ...
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Workshop on Directors’ and Officers’ Liability
Highlights*Hear from some of the sharpest legal minds in Canada and the U.S. as they discuss liability issues facing directors and officers*Learn about directors’ and officers’ exposure under corporate law and find out what directors and officers must do to protect themselves against lawsuits*Find out where regulators are focusing their attention, the areas of increased exposure and best practices for risk mitigation*Examine the D&O issues arising from M&As and the areas to be addressed to ...
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Managing Tax Audits & Investigations
Highlights*Examining the crucial initial steps of the audit*Establishing an effective case through litigation*Handling foreign-based requests for information*Determining when a tax audit turns into an investigation - and its implicationsParticipating Organizations*Borden Ladner Gervais LLP*Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP*Couzin Taylor LLP*Deloitte & Touche LLP*Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP*Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP*Heddema & Partners LLP*KPMG LLP*PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP...
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