Rotary Club of Windsor (1918) Upcoming Meetings
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Our Club is Located in Windsor Ontario
Canada
Welcome to the Upcoming Meetings Page. This page is designed to show a long term view of details about planned regular
Monday Meetings. Some meeting speakers, for longer term dates, may have not yet confirmed their availability. From time to time
changes may take place in the schedule due to unavoidable circumstances. References to outside web sites are provided as a
means for members to come up to speed on topics presented by guest speakers. Links are not always reliable.
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Rotary Club of Windsor (1918)
Upcoming Speakers at Regular Monday Meetings
We are in need of individuals who will serve as meeting reporters for our weekly "Wheel".
Monday, February 6, 2012
"Northern Ireland, a Cautionary Tale"
Speaker: Justice Renee Pomerance
The Honourable Renee M. Pomerance, a lawyer with the Crown Law Office - Criminal Division of the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario in Toronto (1989-2006) , was appointed in 2006 judge of the Superior Court of Justice in and for the Province of Ontario. Madam Justice Pomerance’s practice expertise is in the areas of criminal law, constitutional law, and judicial education.
http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2006/doc_31948.html
Emergency measures which compromise or abrogate rights which are otherwise guaranteed by the state, it seems, tend to outlast the unusual circumstances for which they were created, normalizing human rights violations. One British MP summed up this process in the context of Northern Ireland:
The frequent use of emergency powers to cope with crises, coupled with the successes of these powers, acclimates administrators to their use, and makes recourse to them in the future, all the easier. The danger is, that succeeding generations of administrators will inherit these powers as being efficient and unobjectionable, and in a particular emergency, do not give proper consideration to the possibility of less drastic measures being used. In addition, social attitudes develop so as to accept recourse to emergency measures as the norm and over time there grows an insensitivity to the human rights problems that are inevitably associated with public emergencies.
(O'Boyle 1977, quoted in Robinson 1980, 62-3)
Monday, February 13, 2012
Annual Youth Exchange Auction
Over $1500 was generated by last year's meeting auction for our Rotary Youth Exchange Program from the enthusiastic bidders.
What Is Youth Exchange?
Members are encouraged to bring in "re-gifted" or other surprise packages to the meeting.
This can be seen as an opportunity to clear our homes of items we have grown tired of???
Here is a sample of last year's auction items.
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QUEEN'S PARK, Ontario Canada: - The Government of Ontario created a new statutory holiday in 2008 called Family Day saying
"There is nothing more valuable to families than time together. And yet it seems tougher than ever to find, with so many of us living such busy lives - That's why, on the third Monday of this coming February (2008) - and every February thereafter - Ontarians will celebrate a new statutory holiday - Family Day."
Adding Family Day to the calendar gives Ontario workers and families a total of nine statutory holidays per year, putting the province on par with Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.
Last Revised: January 30, 2012
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