Speakers

Upcoming and Recent

June 10, 2025

The Legend of Slumach’s Gold

Brian Antonson

Publisher, author, educator

May 13, 2025

1930s Canadian Church Missions to China

Glenn Faris

Psychiatrist

April 10, 2025

Housing Policy Today

Tom Davidoff

Associate Professor, UBC

March 11, 2025

The Crime Stoppers Program

Margarett Lange

Outreach and Events Manager

February 11, 2025

The Rising Power of Oligarchy in the Americas

Max Cameron

Professor, UBC

January 14, 2025

Bomber Command: Churchill’s Greatest Triumph

Roddy MacKenzie

Author

December 10, 2024

The Development of Hydrogen Technology

Colin Armstrong

President & CEO of HTEC

November 12, 2024

Forest Fires: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Dr. Lori Daniels

Professor, UBC

October 8, 2024 – Presidents’ Lunch

Technology on the Brain

Dr. Ryan D’Arcy

Professor, SFU

September 10, 2024

BC Gangs Go Global

Kim Bolan

Journalist, Vancouver Sun

August 13, 2024

Founding and Creating an International Food Corporation

Arran Stephens

CEO, Nature’s Path Organic Foods

July 9, 2024

Surviving Vancouver

Michael Kluckner

Artist and Author

June 11, 2024

Seniors’ Health Issues

Dr. Penny Ballem

Board Chair, Vancouver Coastal Health

May 14, 2024

MAID—Updates and its Future

Dr. Ellen Wiebe

Clinical Professor, UBC

April 9, 2024

Innovative Design Solutions for Today’s Smaller Homes

Jake Fry

Founder, Smallworks

March 12, 2024

Philip Hankin and the Early History of British Columbia

Geoff Mynett

Author and retired lawyer

February 13, 2024

City Insights From The Mayor

Ken Sim

Mayor of Vancouver, Entrepreneur and Business Owner

January 9, 2024

UBC Research on Nerve-Cell Regeneration

John Madden

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

December 12, 2023

Global Cooling by Solar Radiation Management in Space

Guy Immega

Retired Aerospace Engineer and Author

November 14, 2023

The Canadian Armed Forces in Today’s World

Col. W. Scott Raesler

Commander, 39 Canadian Brigade Group

September 12, 2023

The Curative Powers of Psychedelic and Other Illegal Drugs

Mark Haden

Adjunct Professor of Population and Public Health, UBC

August 8, 2023

Reflections of a Judicial Dinosaur

Randall (Bud) Wong

Former Supreme Court Judge

July 11, 2023

Black Holes 5.0 – Detecting Dark Cosmic Objects

Jess McIver

Astrophysicist

June 13, 2023

The Russian Refugees: A Family’s First Century in Canada

Mike Andruff

Author

MAY 9, 2023

Out of Hiding: Holocaust Literature of British Columbia

Alan Twigg

Author

April 11, 2023

How Will YVR Handle the Next Blizzard?

Tamara Vrooman

President and CEO of Vancouver Airport Authority

March 14, 2023

The Port of Vancouver – Canada’s Pacific Gateway

Capt. Shri Madiwal

Marine Operations and Harbour Master

February 14, 2023

The State of the World’s Birds and What Can You Do To Help!

Derek Matthews

Chair of the Vancouver Avian Centre

January 10, 2023

The Core Predicament of Our Time

Arno Kopecky

Award-winning Canadian journalist and travel writer

December 13, 2022

InBC – an update on its investment approach and its future impacts

Jill Earthy

CEO of InBC Investment Corporation

November 8, 2022

The future of transportation in Metro Vancouver

Kevin Quinn

CEO of Translink

October 13, 2022

The New St. Paul’s Hospital

Fiona Dalton

President and Chief Executive Officer of Providence Health Care

September 13, 2022

Stephen Point

Former Lieutenant Governor of BC

July 12, 2022

What is the Nature Trust of BC and what is its role in its conservation efforts?

Dr. Jasper Lament

CEO, The Nature Trust of BC

August 9, 2022

Rashid Sumaila, FRCS

Professor in Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics at UBC

June 14, 2022

Indigenous Justice, Housing and Other Issues

The Hon. David Eby

MLA, Minister Responsible for Housing of British Columbia

May 10, 2022

British Columbia’s Word-Class Undersea Tech Industry

Vikie Jensen

Writer and Photographer

Past Speakers

April 12, 2022: John MacLaughlan Gray, Canadian Author, composer and performer. Topic: John will discuss his latest book, Vile Spirits, a thriller set in 1920s Vancouver

March 8, 2022 – Josef Penninger, Professor, Dept. of Medical Genetics UBC, Topic: A Universal Therapy for SARS-CoV2 Variants – ZOOM

February 8, 2022: Prof. Jason Ellis, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, UBC – Topic: Post Pandemic Education – Zoom

January 11, 2022: Geoff Mynett, Lawyer and author. Topic: Geoff’s new books: Murders on the Skeena and Pinkerton’s Hunt for Simon Gunanoot

December 14, 2021: Dr. Jeejeebhoy, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Nutritional Sciences at the U of T. Topic: Diet-Exercise in Preventive Medicine: Evidence-based – ZOOM

November 9, 2021 – 9:30am Susan Yurkovich, CEO, Council of Forest Industries, Topic: BC’s Forest Industry: Our foundation and our future – ZOOM

October 12, 2021 – 9:30am Alan Mallory, Speaker, Author and Performance Coach, Topic: The Family That Conquered Everest – ZOOM

August 10, 2021 – 9:30am Luke Lewandowski, Professional Speaker, Topic: Protection of your Personal privacy – ZOOM

July 13, 2021 – 9:30am Dave Doroghy, Sponsorship Sales Executive, Topic, “111 Place in Vancouver You Must See” – ZOOM

June 8, 2021 – 9:30am Associate Professor Gerard Bayer, Topic: The Next Federal Election – When can we expect it? ZOOM

May 11, 2021 – 9:30am Professor Paul Evans, Topic: Canada/China relations – ZOOM

April 13, 2021 – 9:30am Professor James Brander, Topic: Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery ZOOM

March 09, 2021- 9:30am Danny Catt, Naturalist, Photographer, Ecologist and World Traveller – ZOOM

February 09, 2021- 930am Douglas White, B.A., J.D., First Nations Lawyer -Topic “Indigenous Law” – ZOOM

January 12, 2021 – 9:30am Geoff Mynett “The Story of Pioneer BC Doctor Horace Wrinch, the author’s grandfather-in-law”- ZOOM

December 8, 2020 – 9:30 am Prof. Bee Wee, “Palliative and end of life care: how can the challenge be met?”- ZOOM

November 10, 2020 – 9:30 am – Prof. Max Cameron, “Pandemics and Populism”- ZOOM

October 13, 2020 – 10am – Dr. Julio Montaner, “Towards the end of HIV/AIDS: Fact or Fiction”- ZOOM

September 8, 2020 – 10am – Alan Franey, “History of the Vancouver International Film Festival”- ZOOM

August 11, 2020 – Henry Litton, “A Long Shadow Cast Over Hong Kong” – ZOOM

July 14, 2020 – Dr. Andrew Trites, “Marine Mammals” – ZOOM

June 9, 2020 – Olga Campbell, “A Whisper Across Time” – ZOOM

May 19, 2020 – Dr. Daniel Kalla, “Pandemics: Then and Now” – VIRTUAL MEETING

March 10, 2020 – Mike Harcourt, “Sustainable Cities”

February 11, 2020 – Dr. David Haughton, “Angry White Men: Why I Paint Them”

January 14, 2020 – Chris Hinkson, “The Administration of BC Justice”

December 10, 2019 – Rick Antonson, “Papua New Guinea”

November 12, 2019 – Scott McIntyre, “On Publishing”

October 8, 2019 – David Petrina, “Timber Frame Construction”

September 10, 2019 – George Garrett, “Intrepid Reporter”

August 13, 2019 – Dr. Omar Kassam, “Ismaili Religion and Culture”

July 9, 2019 – Peeter Wesik and Andrew Ramlo, “Busting Generational Generalisms: A Facts-based Understanding of Canada’s Shifting Demographics”

June 11, 2019 – Vanessa Ascough, “An Attempt to Fly Around the World”

May 14, 2019 – Mark Dwor, “Bitcoin, Blockchain and Smart Contracts”

April 9, 2019 – Prof. Paul Budra, “Shakespeare in the Garden”

March 12, 2019 – John Cherrington, “Walking to Camelot”

February 12, 2019 – Prof. John Clague, “Earthquakes and Tsunamis”

January 8, 2019 – Glen Dennison, “The Fauna of Howe Sound”

December 11, 2018 – Andrew Seal, MD, FRCSC

November 13, 2018 – Ty Speer – President and CEO, Vancouver Tourism

October 9, 2018 – Mahmood Poonja – “Travelling in Iran” at the Arbutus Club

September 11, 2018 – Cameron Cathcart – “100th Anniversary of the end of WWI”

August 14, 2018 – Dr. Marilyn Bowman, SFU – “James Legge & the Chinese Classics”

July 10, 2018 – Dr. John Esdaile, Professor, Division of Rheumatology, UBC

June 12, 2018 – Hon. David Eby, QC

May 8, 2018 – Richard Glickman, LLD “Biotech in BC”

Strategic Plan (2018)

April 10, 2018 – Professor Paul Evans, UBC – “Dealing with Xi’s China and Trump’s America: What’s a Perplexed Canada to Do?”

March 13, 2018 – Kevin Desmond – CEO of Translink

February 13, 2018 – Bob Ross – “North Korea—what I learned and didn’t learn during my visit in September ”

January 9, 2018 – Dr. Ron Burnett, CM, O.B.C., President & Vice Chancellor, Emily Carr University of Art + Design

December 12, 2017 – Penny Lyons, Executive Director, Seva Canada

November 14, 2017 – Cameron Cathcart, Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association

October 10, 2017 – Fin Donnelly, Federal MP & President, Rivershed Society of BC

September 12, 2017 – Rudy Buttignol, President & CEO Knowledge Network

August 8, 2017 Herb Grubel, Professor Emeritus, SFU; Senior Fellow, The Fraser Institute – Regulations and their effect on societies

July 11, 2017 Elizabeth May “Canada at 150”

June 13, 2017 – June Goldsmith Artistic Director of Music in the Morning – “My Wonderful Life in Music”

May 9, 2017 – Christopher Gaze “Bard on the Beach – Then and Now” Note – Meeting is at the Vancouver Academy of Music (not the Planetarium)

April 11, 2017 – Dr. Richard Fedorak, Dean of Medicine, U of A.

February 14, 2017 – Michael Kluckner, Artist and Writer

March 14, 2017 – The Honourable Judith Guichon, OBC, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia

January 10, 2017 – Stan Ridley – President, West 2012 Energy Management Inc. – Their future is in our hands

December 13, 2016 – Dianne Doyle President and CEO, Providence Health Care – The New St. Paul’s

November 8, 2016, Dr. Andre Gerolymatos, Professor of History at SFU

September 13, 2016 – Dr. David Sweet – Forensic Science — An insider’s point of view

October 11, 2016 – Presidents Luncheon – Arbutus Club. Speaker: Ujjal Dosanjh

August 9, 2016 – Brian Latell, PhD – US-Cuba Relations

July 12, 2016 – Dr. Indira Samarasekara – Ripples and Waves: National competitiveness and Universities.

June 14, 2016 – Maria Howard, Alzheimer Society of BC – Understanding and Living with Dementia

May 10, 2016 – Sharon Janzen – Doctors Without Borders

April 12, 2016 – Dr William Unruh, UBC, Gravitational Radiation – listening to black holes collide

March 8th 2016 – Rudy Buttignol – The Growth and Development of the Knowledge Network

February 9, 2016 – Brian Campbell – Bees in BC and Food Security Issues

January 12, 2016 – Kim Baird – a First Nations insider view of current affairs

Kim Baird – a First Nations view of current issues

December 8, 2015 – Duncan Davies, CEO Interfor – The BC Forest Industry

November 10, 2015 – Dr Andre Gerolymatos – SFU

October 13, 2015 – President’s Luncheon – Arbutus Club – Speaker Dr Julio Montaner

September 8, 2015 – Jim Allworth, RBC Dominion Securities – Global Financial Outlook

August 11, 2015 – Miles Prodan, BC Wine Institute – BC Wines

July 14, 2015 – John Nightingale, CEO Vancouver Aquarium

July 14, 2015 – A Conversation With Candidates – Political Forum

June 9, 2015 – Dr. Taylor Owen – author of Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age,

May 12, 2015 – Brian Riddell – Pacific Salmon Foundation

April 14, 2014 – Angus Reid – The Translink plebiscite and the challenges of polling today in Canada

March 10, 2015 – Jim Chu, Vancouver Police Chief Constable

Feb 10, 2015 – Don Lindsay, President & CEO Teck Resources

Jan 13 2015 – David Helfand – Quest University in Squamish

Dec 9, 2014 – Michael Clague – Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

Dec. 1, 2014, Conrad Black. The History of Canada: A Unique Viewpoint

Nov 12, 2014 – Paul Evans – “The South China Sea Dispute and Its Implications”

Protected: Roster – Past Members (password protected)

Jan 13, 2015 – David Helfand – University Education

Sept 9, 2014 – Pierre Lebel – “North West BC Development”

Aug 12, 2014 – Neil Ritchie – “Jazz History”

July 8, 2014 – Martin Collacutt – “Passports of Convenience”

June 10, 2014 – Jake Kerr & Jeff Mooney – “Vancouver Canadians”

May 13, 2014 – Dr. Max Cynader – “Maximizing the Brain”

April 8, 2014 – Peter Armstrong – “Vancouver Politics”

March 11, 2014 – Jock Finlayson – “BC Economy 2014”

February 11, 2014 – Dr. Jaymie Mathews

January 14, 2014 – Dr. Andre Gerolymatos

December 10, 2013 – Mike Corrigan – “BC Ferries – Past, Present and Future”

November 12, 2013 – Scott Shepherd

October 8, 2013 – Andrew Petter

September 10, 2013 – Dr. John Webb – Pioneering Cardiac Surgery

August 13, 2013 – Ronald W. Thiessen – “Mining: Commodities Equities: Where are we, where are we going?”

July 9, 2013 – Andre Gerolymatos, SFU – Turkey, Iran & Israel: The Future of the Middle East

June 11, 2013 – Peter Bernard – Tanker Traffic

May 14, 2013 – Jim Robson – Sports in Vancouver

April 9, 2013 – Dr. Bruce Forster, UBC Dept. of Radiology – “Medical Imaging”

March 12, 2013 – Dr. John Liebert – “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder”

February 26, 2013 at 2pm – The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada – Presentation

Feb 26, 2013: Extra Meeting – The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada

February 12, 2013 – Tamara Vrooman, CEO Vancity Credit Union

January 8, 2013 – Kip Woodward’s Presentation

January 8, 2013 – Kip Woodward – “Building a Sustainable Health Care System”

Dec 19, 2011: Extra Meeting – Mark Carney – Governor of the Bank of Canada

Dec 11, 2012 – David Mitchell

Nov 13, 2012 – Michael Geller – “So where are we going to live next?”

Oct 9, 2012 – Joseph Caron – “China and Japan, through Thick and Thin”

Sept 11, 2012 – Ian Anderson, CEO Kinder Morgan – “The Other Pipeline”

Aug 14, 2012 – Faye Wightman President and CEO Vancouver Foundation – “Philanthropy”

July 10, 2012: Jim Allworth, Royal Bank of Canada, “Banking” – SPEAKERS NOTES

June 12, 2012: John Carruthers, President of Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines

May 8, 2012: Don Malvinic, Phd. Civil Engineering, UBC, Dealing With Biowaste

April 10, 2012: Professor Stephen Toope, President, University of British Columbia

March 13, 2012: Dr. John Sloan

December 13, 2011: James McCormack, UBC Pharmacologist, on Myths in Medicine

November 8, 2011: Susan Yurkovich, EVP BC Hydro, on Site C Dam

Oct 11, 2011: Stephen Brown – President, Chamber of Shipping of BC, on Tanker Traffic Risk Management

Sept 13, 2011: Dennis Skulsky – BC Lions on 2011 Grey Cup

Aug 9, 2011: Tom Ruth – Triumf, UBC, SFU on Isotopes

July 13, 2011: Patrick Moore – Author and Founder of Greenpeace on “Greens off course?”

June 14, 2011: Mark Haden – Controlling Illegal Drugs

May 10, 2011: Geoff Plant – Aboriginal Relations

April 12, 2011: Don Grayston, PhD. – Extremists: Jewish, Christian, Muslim-will they run our lives?

March 8, 2011: Merran Smith and Art Sterrit

Feb 8, 2011: Dr James Hogg

Dec 14, 2010: Dianne Watts – Mayor of Surrey

Nov 9, 2010: Dr John Macdonald – Energy in the 21st Century

Oct 12, 2010: Bob Lendarduzzi

Aug 10, 2010: Dr Brian Riddell

July 13, 2010: Jane Bird – Building the Canada Line

June 8, 2010: David Emerson

Feb 9, 2010: Dr. S. Larry Goldenberg – Are you on the right path? The need for a men’s health initiative

PROBUS Canada Travel Insurance

Dec 8, 2009: Preston Manning

President’s Luncheon 2009

Nov 10, 2009: Darren Entwistle