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Keep ethics and spirituality alive
in your workplace...
Join Workplace Centre today!
Workplace Centre for
Spiritual & Ethical Development
Suite 1400
1500 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC
V6G 2Z6
phone: 604.685.6560
email: info@workplacecentre.org
Workplace Centre Values:
spiritual wholeness
cultural diversity
ethical business practices
wisdom of all
communities
of faith
individual dignity
environmental sensitivity
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meeting room
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Ethics for Breakfast Events
When
2nd Tuesday of every month -- 7:15 to 8:30 am.
Where
BC Hydro, 333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, B.C.
(please check monthly announcements for room number)
Cost: Members $7.00 Non-Members $10.00
RSVP to: 604.685-6560 or email: rsvp@workplacecentre.org Ethics for Breakfast Chair, Conrad Guelke
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November 2008 EVENT
**NOTE: Ethics for Breakfast is on WEDNESDAY this month...**
Ethics for Breakfast presents
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 Wednesday, November 12, 2008
7:15 - 8:30 am
Ethics and the Fishbowl of Public Life
with Stephen Owen, QC, Vice President, External, Legal & Community
Relations at UBC, and Former Member of Parliament & Cabinet Minister
With all the public scrutiny,
would you be willing to be a politician?
Most of us have the tendency to perform more ethically and to a higher standard when we are being observed. Yet the harsh scrutiny by the news media of those in public life can cause individuals and organizations to act secretively. This in turn can lead to misfeasance and malfeasance.
What principles and processes can assist public officials to rise above the risks and fray? What is it like to live and work in this "fishbowl"?
Join us for this rare look into the challenges of being an elected official, with someone who's seen it from the inside out.
click here to RSVP -or- phone: 604.685-6560
DATE: Wednesday, Nov. 12th-- 7:15-8:30 am
LOCATION: BC Hydro Building
333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver
Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby
COST: Members - $7.00 Non-Members - $10.00
(muffins, tea and coffee included)
click here to RSVP or phone: 604.685-6560
About Our Speaker:
Stephen Owen has held many prestigious public service positions ranging from Ombudsman of British Columbia to Member of Parliament and Federal Cabinet Minister. His professional activities have included a two-year term as Chair of the Ethics and Education Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and numerous consulting assignments with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Amnesty International and other international organizations.
In April 2007, he was appointed Vice President, External, Legal and Community Relations at the University of British Columbia. [More about this Speaker]
Full details on Mr. Owen's biography can be found at: http://www.external-affairs.ubc.ca/cv/.
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October 2008
Our October Ethics for Breakfast has been cancelled
- due to the long weekend, the Election, and our speaker having to postpone!
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September 2008
Ethics for Breakfast presents
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 Tuesday, Sept 9th, 2008
7:15 - 8:30 am
Ethics and Homelessness
with Judy Graves, Coordinator
Tenant Assistance Program
City of Vancouver
Where do we think the poor should go?
What are the ethics of a City in which the poor sleep in the streets, children are raised in crowded, damp basements, and elderly tenants have to leave the city because they can no longer afford to live here?
We stand at a crossroads. Do we want to plan a city which is home to both rich and poor? And if we do not want the poor in our city, where do we think they should go?
"Homelessness is the dark shadow of prosperity." - Philip Mangano
click here to RSVP -or- phone: 604.685-6560
DATE: Tuesday, Sept 9th-- 7:15-8:30 am
LOCATION: BC Hydro Building
333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver
Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby
COST: Members - $7.00 Non-Members - $10.00
(muffins, tea and coffee included)
click here to RSVP or phone: 604.685-6560
About Our Speaker:
This spring, Judy Graves received the Reg Robson Award from the BC Civil Liberties Association, an honorary doctorate from Corpus Christi College and, in May, was the featured speaker at the Ottawa Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast.
Judy has worked with Vancouver's homeless since 1974, and in the Downtown East Side since 1979. She coordinates City Hall's Tenant Assistance Program where her assigned mandate is to mitigate the impact of development on low-income tenants and the homeless. She says, "I feel honoured to be able to do God's work in a secular setting."
Judy is mother of journalist Pieta Woolley and Grandmomma of Baby David Woolley. |
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for the generous donation of a beautiful meeting space
for our monthly breakfast events.
To sponsor an event phone: 604.685-6560
or email: info@workplacecentre.org
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