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| 2020-09-28 00:00:00Z | Sep 27, 2020 | Club Board Members | First Quarter Review | Sep 28, 2020 |
This Rotary year is now three months over. Our September 28th meeting will look at where we are at today as a Rotary Club with updates from our Treasurer and our Committee Directors. This will be followed by a general discussion from all attendees on how our weekly meetings and other club projects / activities are working out for 2020-2021. Please plan on joining us on September 28 by clicking on the ZOOM link below. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82080797986?pwd=UUc3ZER0VnF3cFBvdUhmZXdvVzc5QT09 The ZOOM meeting link will open at 11:45 AM and the Edmonton West Rotary meeting itself will start at 12 Noon. Edmonton West Weekly Meetings typically finish before 1 PM. |
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Dr. Robert (Bob) Ascah | SPECIAL MEETING: Alberta's Halting Economic Recovery - Implications for Alberta's Public Finances | Oct 01, 2020 7:00 PM |
Join us for an online presentation from one of Alberta's leading economists and authorities on public finances. Please click on the ZOOM link below to join this presentation. ZOOM will open at 6:45 PM and the presentation will start at 7:00 PM https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85955862898?pwd=SUkzT0xhZ0w1WlBsV0hraUJVMkZXUT09 Bob Ascah was born in Lachine Quebec. He holds degrees in Commerce and Public Administration (M.A) from Carleton University. In 1979, he decamped to Edmonton and completed his doctorate in political science at the University of Alberta in 1984. He joined the Alberta public service in 1984 (Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs) and moved to Alberta Treasury in 1986. At Treasury he was responsible for financial sector policy, foreign borrowing and liaison with credit rating agencies. In 1996, he joined Alberta Treasury Branches, serving initially as Secretary to the Board and then becaming responsible for government relations, strategic planning, and economic research. In 2009, he retired from ATB and in August of 2009 he was appointed Director of the Institute for Public Economics at The University of Alberta where he served for four years. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Parkland Institute. In 1999, Ascah's Ph.D. dissertation Politics and Public Debt- The Dominion, the Banks and Alberta's Social Credit was published by the University of Alberta Press. He is Principal of Abpolecon.ca a website focusing on new, analysis and opinion on Alberta’s political and economic environment. He is currently editing a book entitled A Sales Tax for Alberta- Why and How to be published by Athabasca University Press in 2021. He lives in Edmonton with his wife Linda and two cats Violet and Phoebe. |
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| 2020-11-16 00:00:00Z | Nov 15, 2020 | TBA | The Rotary Foundation | Nov 16, 2020 | View | |||||
| 2020-11-30 00:00:00Z | Nov 29, 2020 | John Donner | Indigenous Engagement | Nov 30, 2020 | View |