Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Couchiching Conference held at
YMCA Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario
August 5 to 8, 1993

Compiled and edited by Douglas Glynn

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
— H. G. Wells

Who's Who at CIPA
Corporate, Government and Individual Donors
Conference Program

President's Message

GORDON K. McIVOR, President, CIPA

 
Who's Who at the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs

The Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs,
Officers & Directors, 1992-93

President
Gordon K. Mclvor

Immediate Past President
John Gibson

Vice-President Program
Yves Desjardins-Siciliano

Vice-President, Finance and Treasurer
Mary Baetz

Vice-President, Membership
Madeline-Ann Aksich

Vice-President, Youth
Julia Grossman

Secretary
John Gregory

Chair: Program Committee
Stephen Probyn

l993 Conference Chair
David Lakoff

Chair: Fund-raising
Elizabeth Flavelle

Chair: Communications
Tiz Volpe

Directors

Barbara Eastman
Paul Fisher
Michael Greenspoon
John D. Harbron
John Kirton
Eric Koch
Madeline Koch
Grace Lake
Pierre LeFevre
Brian Livingston
Nancy MacMillan
Peter Nicholson
Alan Pearson
Ulana Plawuszczak
Jeffrey Roach
Lana Robinson
Janet Skelton
Barbara Speck
Joseph Wells

Program Committee

Stephen Probyn
Catherine Boivie
Ian Anderson
Gloria Bishop
Rob Centa
Martha Findlay
Paul Fisher
John Gibson
Michael Greenspoon
Julia Grossman
John Harbron
Sophia Huyer
Eric Koch
Pierre LeFevre
Irina Liner
Joe Martin
Kathleen Metcalfe
Mana Naghibi
Peter Nicholson
Bill O'Hara
Milton Orris
Alan Pearson
Marian Pitters
Jeffrey Roach
Barbara Speck
Toni Tiemens
David Weiner
Joseph Wells

 
1993 Donations to Couchiching

Corporate and Government Donors and Sponsors

Bell Canada

Bell Ontario

Boland Foundation

Canada Trust

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Canadian Institute for the Blind (CNIB)

CN Real Estate

Connaught Laboratories Ltd.

Corby Distilleries Ltd.

Decima Research

DVS Communications

Gordon – Sarlos Limited

Government of Canada (Human Resources & Labour Canada)

Government of Ontario (Ministry of Industry, Trade and Technology)

Hydro-Quebec

Imasco Limited

Imperial Oil Limited

Jackman Foundation

Job Oriented Training Inc.

J.S. Communications

McCarthy Tetrault

Pathfinder Learning Systems Corporation

Probyn and Company Limited

Royal Bank of Canada

Royal Trust

Salomon Brothers Incorporated

Sir Joseph Flavelle Foundation

Spar Aerospace Limited

The Bank of Montreal

The Bank of Nova Scotia

The Marjorie & Gerald Bronfman Foundation

The Toronto-Dominion Bank

Xerox Canada Inc.

Individual Donors

Bluma and Bram Appel

Robert and Marion Baker

Stephen Beard

Stephen Berke

Henry Blumberg

Clair W. and Lois Bobier

Andre Bombardier

Ralph and Jodette Branscombe

Donald Crawford

Geoff Crealock

Pierre J. Dalphond

Yves Desjardins-Siciliano

Barbara C. Eastman

Timothy Egan

Diana M. Esch

Cassandra Extavour

James Fleck

Claude Froget

John Gibson

Mel Gill

Alan B. Gold

Roel Buck and Dorothy Gordon-Buck

Elizabeth Greaves

John Gregory

John and Sheila Harbron

Nona Macdonald Heaslip

Frederic R. L. Jackman

Monique Jolin

John Kirton

Eric Koch

Marvyn Kussner

David Lakoff

Charlene Laprise

Richard LaRue

Pierre F. LeFevre

John Priddle and Jacquie MacDonald

H. lan and Dorothy MacDonald

Janet G. Maclnnis

Jacques Marchessault

Joe Martin

Roderick McFadyen

Gerdine McPhee

Mark McLean

James F. McKay

Line Rivard

B. Jeffrey Roach

Loma Robson

Marjory Seeley Rogers

Dr. R.G. Rosehart

Alison and Joel Silcoff

Blake Hebert Sutherland

Eileen Swinton

Monica Townson

Ysabel Trujillo

Reginald Weiser

Mary Baetz and Robin Wilson

Russel Woods

 
Conference Program

President's Message
Thursday, August 5, 1993, 5:00 p.m.

DR. GORDON K. McIVOR, President, CIPA, 1993

Keynote Address: Lifelong Learning at Work — The New Brunswick Model
Thursday, August 5, 1993, 7:30 p.m.

Premier FRANK McKENNA
Moderator: GORDON McIVOR, President, CIPA

Building a Learning Culture
Friday, August 6, 1993, 9.30 a.m.

DR. FRASER MUSTARD, President, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
ELIZABETH PARR-JOHNSTON, President, Mount Saint Vincent University
DERRICK DE KERCKHOVE, Director, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
QUESTIONS
Moderator: ALAN PEARSON, Alan Pearson Associates Inc.

Special Seminar: Computers and the Transformation of Knowledge
Friday, August 6, 1993, 4.15 p.m.

KIM VELTMAN, Science Historian, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
Moderator: JULIA GROSSMAN, Vice-President, Youth CIPA

Special Seminar: Paradigm Shift
Friday, August 6, 1993, 7.30 p.m.

DON TAPSCOTT, Vice-President, Technology, DMR Group Inc.
Moderator: MILTON ORRIS

The Economic Challenge
Saturday, August 7, 1993, 9.30 a.m.

TOM BRZUSTOWSKI, Dep.Minister, Premier's Councils on Economic Renewal & Health, Well-being and Social Justice.
RICHARD BARTON, President and CEO, Xerox Canada Ltd.
AL FLOOD, Chairman and CEO, CIBC
QUESTIONS
Moderator: HERSHELL EZRIN, Executive Vice-President, Speedy Muffler King Inc.

Special Seminar: The Dictatorship of Reason
Saturday, August 7, 1993, 7.30 p.m.

JOHN RALSTON SAUL, Novelist and Essayist
Moderator: ERIC KOCH

Panel (1): Delivering Educational Excellence
Sunday, August 8, 1993, 9.15 a.m.

JOAN GREEN, Director of Education, Toronto Board of Education
RICHARD DOMINICO, Founder, Limitless Learning
QUESTIONS
Moderator: BARBARA SPECK, Founding Officer, Annex Village Campus

Panel (2): Delivering Educational Excellence
Saturday, August 7, 1993, 1.15 p.m.

DOUGLAS WRIGHT, Former President, University of Waterloo
MICHAEL McKAY, Astronaut, Canadian Space Agency
HARVEY LAZAR, Sr. Assistant Dep. Minister, Human Resources & Labour Canada
QUESTIONS
Moderator: DAVID LAKOFF, 1993 Conference Chair