JW Marriott Parq Running Map

the DOUGLAS Running Map

This annual lecture features a discussion of some of the greatest challenges facing the environment, and research that is contributing to addressing these challenges. This year's lecture is being presented by the RSC's 2023 Romanowski Award Winner,Abdelhamid Sayari.Professor Sayari is one of Canada’s most cited chemists for his pioneering work on porous materials and their environmental applications. He is internationally recognized for the discovery and development of recyclable materials for carbon capture with unparalleled efficiency. Thanks to the high selectivity and low regeneration energy of Sayari’s proprietary materials, his invention is poised to become the leading technology for CO2 capture with direct implications on greenhouse gas effect and global warming.

In 2025, Canada will adopt a new open access policy, to be implemented by its three federal funding agencies. This development will mark a major turning point for academic publishing, both nationally and internationally.

What immediate and long term impacts will these upheavals have on Canadian researchers? And how can stakeholders take action to encourage more equitable and sustainable open access?

Experts from the field will share their insights and discuss with participants at this bilingual meeting, offering a thorough reflection on the risks and opportunities of this (r)evolution.

Across the globe, climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme wildfires and release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere: “the warming is feeding the warming”. In 2023, Canada experienced the worst wildfire season in recorded history, 15 million hectares burned, millions were affected by wildfire smoke, thousands were displaced, many people lost their homes, and ecosystems already under threat were disrupted.

British Columbia is on the frontlines of this fire story, it is a living lab where the challenges and solutions are being confronted, and researchers, practitioners, and communities are coming together to ask: how do we co-exist with wildfire? Transdisciplinary research, collaboration across Western and Indigenous knowledges, and commitment to decolonial landscape management practices are key.

The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) – a research network comprising Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia, University of Northern British Columbia, and University of Victoria – has been funding and coordinating wildfire research regionally and internationally for many years. This session will bring leading researchers and practitioners together in conversation to share their insights and reflections. This interactive dialogue will focus on the importance of ‘good fire’ on the landscape and the shifts in perspective, policy, and planning that is required to create a new narrative that allows us to collectively navigate risk, recovery, and the future of climate and wildfire.

For a backgrounder on wildfire and climate issues, please watch the PICS Wildfire Carbon video here

Join us to celebrate the Class of 2024!

This ceremony welcomes new RSC Fellows into the RSC. During this event, new Fellows sign their names into RSC’s original and historic Charter Book and are presented with a Diploma and RSC lapel pin.

Celebrate the Class of 2024 and raise a glass in honour of the new RSC Members, Fellows and Award Winners.

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Cirque du Soleil – Echo *info in pdf * 7PM start time for show, Offsite, Ticket price varies

Lumière YVR 2024 *info in pdf * 5-9:30pm : Free event, Offsite

Live duo band – Lotus Lounge (9PM-Midnight), Free, event, Casino Floor

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JW Marriott Parq Running Map

the DOUGLAS Running Map

At the Annual General Meeting (AGM), the membership elects RSC Board of Directors, reviews the RSC’s financial statements, and considers proposed amendments to the bylaws.

The objects and purposes of the RSC are: To serve Canada and Canadians by recognizing Canada’s leading intellectuals, scholars, researchers and artists and, by mobilizing them in open discussion and debate, to advance knowledge, encourage integrated interdisciplinary understandings and address issues that are critical to Canada and Canadians. Early in 2020, the RSC launched a major initiative to mobilize independent expertise to support Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, over 700 Canadians, 200 publications, 30 peer-reviewed Policy Briefings, 250,000 report downloads, and the world’s only partnership between a national academy and a national newspaper have contributed knowledge and advice domestically and internationally. The impact of the RSC during the COVID-19 pandemic has vividly demonstrated the RSC’s role as a rallying point for independent expertise and its capacity to flourish in partnership. In keeping with RSC’s commitment to mobilize expertise by bringing leading thinkers together to help make a better future, this event will offer five themed discussion groups intended to provide an opportunity for participants to reflect on some key issues impacting Canadian society. Participants will discuss how to frame these issues in a broad, interdisciplinary way; how they might mobilize their expertise and contacts to engage with focused initiatives related to these themes and to identify other themes where members can support the development of knowledge syntheses and outreach relevant to Canadian society. Participants may be able to select two out of five themes. 1. Infrastructure and Disaster Prevention and Response 2. Sustainable Migration 3. Civility 4. Climate Action 5. Security and Safety on the Web

The objects and purposes of the RSC are: To serve Canada and Canadians by recognizing Canada’s leading intellectuals, scholars, researchers and artists and, by mobilizing them in open discussion and debate, to advance knowledge, encourage integrated interdisciplinary understandings and address issues that are critical to Canada and Canadians.

Early in 2020, the RSC launched a major initiative to mobilize independent expertise to support Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, over 700 Canadians, 200 publications, 30 peer-reviewed Policy Briefings, 250,000 report downloads, and the world’s only partnership between a national academy and a national newspaper have contributed knowledge and advice domestically and internationally. The impact of the RSC during the COVID-19 pandemic has vividly demonstrated the RSC’s role as a rallying point for independent expertise and its capacity to flourish in partnership.

In keeping with RSC’s commitment to mobilize expertise by bringing leading thinkers together to help make a better future, this event will offer five themed discussion groups intended to provide an opportunityfor participants to reflect on some key issues impacting Canadian society. Participants will discuss how to frame these issues in a broad, interdisciplinary way; how they might mobilize their expertise and contacts to engage with focused initiatives related to these themes and to identify other themes where members can support the development of knowledge syntheses and outreach relevant to Canadian society. Participants may be able to select two out of five themes.

1.Infrastructure and Disaster Prevention and Response

2. Sustainable Migration

3.Civility

4.Climate Action

5. Security and Safety on the Web

Seeking guidance regarding the nomination process for Fellowship, the College and Medal & Awards? University administrators as well as members are welcome!

In view of Canada’s presidency of the G7 in 2025, and in order to gain advice and insights from the Membership, this session will provide an overview of ongoing planning as the RSC prepare to assume the leadership of the Science 7.

The session will also provide an opportunity to learn the findings of The Expert Panel Report on Canada’s Role in Global Health, which has been co-organized by the RSC and The Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Lightning talks offer a rapid dive into deep insights, each lasting just ten minutes! New and current Members from diverse disciplines and generations present their work.

Each year the RSC presents a series of prestigious awards and medals to honour individuals selected for their exceptional contributions.

Cocktails (6:00pm-6:30pm), Gala Dinner (6:30pm –9:00pm)

Gala Dance (9:00pm – 12:00am)

Dress Code: Formal

The Bonnie Northgraves Quartet:

Bonnie Northgraves is a trumpet player, vocalist, pianist, and composer based in Vancouver, CA. Her singing is smokey and rich, and her trumpet playing a call to the early jazz styles of New Orleans. This powerful combination has given wings to a music career that’s seen her tour North America, Europe, China, and India; delighting audience at home and abroad.