Toronto Blue Jays president & CEO Paul Beeston, BA'67, LLB'94, on winning, losing and loving the game.
Scott Hill, MBA'02, is the founder of Canada's official street hockey tournament.
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I blame Ms. Smythe, a teacher at my elementary school, for my obsession.
Silken Laumann, BA'89, reflects on her bronze medal win 20 years ago at the 1992 Olympics, known as one of the greatest comebacks in Canadian sports history.
Toronto Blue Jays president & CEO Paul Beeston, BA'67, LLD'94, visits Jays spring training in March 2012 in Dunedin, Fla.
Caring for an ill elderly parent can be an overwhelming life event, taking an emotional, physical, and financial toll. With an aging population, this is a reality millions of Canadians are or will soon be facing.
Shirley, Ed, Doris and David Roberts, at Doris and Ed’s 50th wedding anniversary celebration, 1997.
IBM Canada has donated a landmark $65 million gift-in-kind of computers and software to Western, which will enhance the collaborative efforts already underway between the two partners, as part of a recently announced $210-million research and development innovation network.
Computer science professor Mark Daley, MSc’12, believes the software from IBM Canada will help him wade through the mountains of data he deals with at Western’s Brain and Mind Institute at a much quicker pace.
He brought Coca-Cola to the Soviet Union one year before its collapse. And now Craig Cohon, BA’85, has brought Russians Cirque du Soleil.
The medal Craig Cohon, BA’85, is wearing was a gift from Vladimir Aloyshin, owner of the Luzhniki Olympic Complex in Moscow, honouring Cohon’s work in Russia over the last two decades.
Research at Western took Richard Léveillé to Hawaii, but this was no trip to the beach.
Richard Léveillé, PhD’01, making a helicopter stop to collect data at McGill University’s weather station along the White Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, July 2009.
As her native Zambia’s ambassador to the United States, Sheila Siwela, BA'79, represents the interests not only of her country, but of the African continent.
President Barack Obama greets Ambassador Sheila Siwela, BA’79, of Zambia during a credentialing ceremony with new ambassadors to the United States, in the Oval Office, June 28, 2010. Official White House photo by Lawrence Jackson.
Spring 2012
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