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SUMMARY:Discovery Café (Free event)
DESCRIPTION:Fraud Prevention and Awareness – Stephanie Senecal – Free Lecture \nWhen: Thursday\, September 26\, 2024 at 7:00 PM \nWhere: Blackburn Community Hall\, 190 Glen Park Drive \nAdmission is free\, refreshments will be served and people of all ages are invited to attend. \nIn this important session\, we will learn about the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC)\, the tools fraudsters use\, top payment and communication methods\, the top scams\, what to do if you are a victim\, and how to report fraud. \nStephanie Senecal is an OPP civilian member and the Senior Support Coordinator at the CAFC. She manages a team of senior volunteers who do call backs to senior victims of fraud\, who input fraud data and who also do fraud prevention presentations to the public. Stephanie also presents on a regular basis and assists law enforcement with their senior victims of fraud. \nQuestions? Please email barbara@blackburnhamlet.ca.
URL:https://blackburnhamlet.ca/event/discovery-cafe-free-event-9/
LOCATION:Blackburn Community Hall\, 190 Glen Park Drive\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2B 5A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discovery Café
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240523T203000
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SUMMARY:Discovery Café (Free event)
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Paul Villeneuve: Breathing Life into Cities: The Importance of Greenness and Walkable Neighbourhoods \nWhen: Thursday\, May 23\, 2024\, at 7:00 PM \nWhere: Blackburn Hamlet Community Centre\, 190 Glen Park Drive \nThe design of cities plays an important role in the health of its residents.  Walkable neighbourhood and access to green spaces has been shown to have direct and indirect health benefits.  Some of these benefits include improved mental health\, healthier babies\, and reduced risks of several diseases. Nature also plays an important role in exposure to air pollution\, noise\, and the effects of urban heat island. Dr. Villeneuve will discuss these topics while drawing on some research he has led\, including Ottawa-based assessments of associations between greenness and physical activity\, environmental exposures studies in and around the Central Experimental Farm\, and the benefits of access to parks during the COVID-pandemic. \nDr. Paul Villeneuve is an environmental and occupational epidemiologist\, and received his PhD in epidemiology from the University of Toronto. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Carleton University. Before joining Carleton\, he was a Senior Research Scientist in the Healthy Environment and Consumer Safety Bureau at Health Canada. His research activities have focused on estimating the impacts of a number of environmental and occupational exposures on human health such as: air pollution\, diesel\, radon\, electromagnetic fields\, cigarettes\, radiation\, and features of the built environment (greenness\, noise\, and walkability). He has led many record linkage studies where occupational or survey data have been linked to national or provincial administrative health data and is currently investigating health effects among Canadian workers exposed to ionizing radiation. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Public Health\, and Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention\, and is chairing WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on the Occupational Burden of Disease Estimation. \nAdmission is free and no registration is required. Refreshments will be served. \nPeople of all ages are welcome. \nLooking forward to seeing you! \nQuestions? Please email barbara@blackburnhamlet.ca
URL:https://blackburnhamlet.ca/event/discovery-cafe-free-event-8/
LOCATION:Blackburn Community Hall\, 190 Glen Park Drive\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2B 5A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discovery Café
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240425T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T204841
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SUMMARY:Discovery Café (Free event)
DESCRIPTION:Discovery Café: YOW – A Primer on Its Operations \nWhen: Thursday\, April 25\, 2024\, 7:00 to 8:30 PM \nWhere: Blackburn Hamlet Community Centre\, 190 Glen Park Drive \nTake a journey through the Ottawa airport as Dick Brown explains each step in the experience of a passenger flying out of Ottawa. He will also talk about the impact that COVID-19 has had on flights and flying from Ottawa. \nDick Brown was born and raised in Ottawa. He attended Fisher Park High School and then Carleton University. After one year of teaching\, Dick returned to Carleton in 1966 as an employee and remained there until he retired in 1999. During his years at Carleton Dick served as Assistant Dean of Students\, Coach of the Raven Basketball team\, Director of Student Housing and Food Services and Director of Human Resources for 18 years. Following his retirement Dick Brown joined the Ottawa Gatineau Hotel Association (OGHA) as their first Executive Director. In this role Dick helped establish the very successful Destination Marketing Fee program which generates some $7M in support of Ottawa’s tourism industry. \nDick and his wife Heather are enthusiastic canoe trippers\, cross country skiers and cyclists. Holidays are often spent cycling or hiking in European destinations. Dick’s two children\, Patty and Danny reside in Ottawa as does his step-son Jamie. All three are married and in total have provided Dick and Heather with 6 grandsons and one granddaughter. \nDick has been\, and remains\, active in both business and community service activities. These include: \n\nMember\, Ottawa Congress Centre Board of Directors – 2006 to 2019\nMember\, Ottawa Business Journal Editorial Board – 2006 to 2012\nMember\, City of Ottawa Business Advisory Committee – 2005 to 2007\nMember\, Ontario Restaurant Hotel Motel Association Board of Directors – 2004 to 2010\nPresident\, Boys & Girls Club Board of Directors – 2003 to 2005\nChair\, United Way Agencies Benefits Committee – 1993 to 1998\nMember\, United Way of Ottawa/Carleton Board of Directors – 1992 to 1996\nPresident\, Family Services Centre\, Ottawa/Carleton – 1990 to 1992\nPresident\, Ontario Association of University Personnel Administrators – 1989 to 1991\nMember\, Consultative Panel\, Ontario Pay Equity Commission – 1988\nMember\, Board of Directors\, Canada’s Capital Visitors & Convention Bureau – 1974 to 1989\n\nAdmission is free and no registration is required. Refreshments will be served. \nPeople of all ages are welcome. \nLooking forward to seeing you! \nQuestions? Please email barbara@blackburnhamlet.ca
URL:https://blackburnhamlet.ca/event/discovery-cafe-free-event-7/
LOCATION:Blackburn Community Hall\, 190 Glen Park Drive\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2B 5A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discovery Café
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SUMMARY:Discovery Café (Free event)
DESCRIPTION:Tap Dancing\, Rhythm and Flow \nWhen: Thursday\, March 28\, 2024\, at 7:00 PM \nWhere: Blackburn Hamlet Community Centre\, 190 Glen Park Drive \nHave you ever become so totally immersed in an activity that you were “in the zone”\, where your only thought was on the activity at hand and where hours may have passed without you realizing it? Then you have experienced “flow”. \nJoin tap dancer\, choreographer\, author and award-winning dance teacher Carolyn Hébert as she talks about the history of tap dancing and her research on the concept of flow. She will also provide us with a demonstration of her amazing tap-dancing skills. You never know…you might even be inspired to try a few steps yourself! \nCarolyn completed her PhD in Education at the University of Ottawa\, focusing her research on the phenomenon of flow as experienced in improvisational tap dancing. She has been a dance educator for over 15 years\, teaching recreational and competitive dance students in studios and community programs. She is a member of the Ottawa Rhythm Initiative Ensemble and was recently awarded an Ontario Arts Council grant to continue work with the YOW Tap collective. Additionally\, Carolyn works in policy in the federal public service and is a mom of two. \nAdmission is free and no registration is required. Refreshments will be served. \nPeople of all ages are welcome. \nLooking forward to seeing you! \nQuestions? Please email barbara@blackburnhamlet.ca.
URL:https://blackburnhamlet.ca/event/discovery-cafe-free-event-6/
LOCATION:Blackburn Community Hall\, 190 Glen Park Drive\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2B 5A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discovery Café
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240222T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240222T203000
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SUMMARY:Discovery Café (Free event)
DESCRIPTION:Nuclear Family: Growing up in Ottawa at the beginning of the nuclear age \nAuthor Jean Van Loon is a life-long resident of Ottawa. Her poems\, stories and reviews have appeared in literary magazines across the country\, most recently in the Queen’s Quarterly and (forthcoming) The New Quarterly. She is a graduate of Carleton\, Queen’s\, Humber Graduate School of Writing\, and UBC’s MFA program in Creative Writing. \nJean will read from her second poetry collection\, Nuclear Family (McGill-Queen’s 2022)\, winner of the 2023 Ottawa Book Award for fiction. The book’s details of 1940s and 50s Ottawa and the role Canada played in the U.S. nuclear development program may invite discussion of other people’s memories of the time. \nJean presented her first book a few years ago at Discovery Cafe. That book (a finalist in 2019 for the same Ottawa award) was Building on River (Cormorant Books\, 2018). Its evocation of the life and times of J.R. Booth\, greatest of the Ottawa Valley lumber kings\, provoked many audience recollections. \nAdmission is free and refreshments will be served. No registration is required.
URL:https://blackburnhamlet.ca/event/discovery-cafe-free-event-5/
LOCATION:Blackburn Community Hall\, 190 Glen Park Drive\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2B 5A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discovery Café
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240125T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240125T203000
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SUMMARY:Discovery Café (Free event)
DESCRIPTION:Education\, Society\, and Generative AI \nA number of artificial intelligence (AI) programs came out in the early 2020s that generate images (like Midjourney)\, music\, and text (like ChatGPT). These generative AI programs surprised even long-time AI researchers with what they could do. How do they work? How will they affect education\, creative work for humans\, and society in general? \nOur speaker will be Jim Davies (http://www.jimdavies.org/)\, professor at the Department of Cognitive Science at Carleton University in Ottawa\, Ontario. He is the author of Imagination: The Science of Your Mind’s Greatest Power and Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make us Laugh\, Movies Make us Cry\, and Religion Makes us Feel One with the Universe\, and Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Science of a Better You. He co-hosts (with Dr. Kim Hellemans) the award-winning podcast Minding the Brain. Director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory\, he explores processes of visualization in humans and machines and specializes in artificial intelligence\, analogy\, problem-solving\, and the psychology of art\, religion\, and creativity. \nIn his spare time\, he is a published poet\, game designer\, and fiction writer\, an internationally-produced playwright\, and a professional artist and calligrapher. His sister is novelist JD Spero.
URL:https://blackburnhamlet.ca/event/discovery-cafe-free-event-4/
LOCATION:Blackburn Community Hall\, 190 Glen Park Drive\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2B 5A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discovery Café
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231123T203000
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SUMMARY:Discovery Café (Free event)
DESCRIPTION:Detecting Fraud: A behind-the-scenes look \nSpeaker: Robin Grosset\, Chief Technology Officer\, Mindbridge \nTechnology is advancing at a staggering pace. Fraudsters view each new advancement as an opportunity to exploit weaknesses in systems and are using increasingly sophisticated approaches to wreak havoc on organizations and individuals. In this session\, Mr. Grosset will discuss how Ottawa-based Mindbridge\, a well-respected and fast-growing financial fraud detection company\, is helping companies find fraudulent activity and mitigate risk.
URL:https://blackburnhamlet.ca/event/discovery-cafe-free-event-3/
LOCATION:Blackburn Community Hall\, 190 Glen Park Drive\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2B 5A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discovery Café
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231026T190000
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SUMMARY:Discovery Café (Free event)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the next Discovery Café lecture: “Tales from a Research Laboratory”. \nDr. John ApSimon — retired Professor of Chemistry at Carleton University\, Blackburn Hamlet resident and Discovery Café founder – began his research career in the study of the chemistry of natural products at the University of Liverpool in the 1950’s. Coming to Canada on a research fellowship to NRC\, he then joined Carleton in 1962. His impressive career spans over 40 years in several domains\, each of which has a fascinating story. \nIn this session\, Dr. ApSimon will recount the reasons for pursuing his research pathways and describe his findings and experiences. He promises no chemical graphics will be shown! \nAdmission is free and refreshments will be served. \nLooking forward to seeing you on October 26! \nQuestions? Please email seniors@blackburnhamlet.ca
URL:https://blackburnhamlet.ca/event/discovery-cafe-free-event-2/
LOCATION:Blackburn Community Hall\, 190 Glen Park Drive\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2B 5A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discovery Café
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230928T203000
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SUMMARY:Discovery Café (Free Lecture)
DESCRIPTION:Chemicals: The Good\, the Bad and the Ugly \nSpeaker: Dr. Robert (Bob) Burk\, Professor of Chemistry\, Carleton University \nBob Burk is a Chemistry Professor at Carleton University where has taught at all levels for over 30 years. He is particularly interested in getting younger students interested in chemistry\, and in educating non-chemists about the ins and outs of chemistry as it affects people and the environment. \nThis presentation is for everyone\, whether you have a background in science or not. \nAdmission is free and refreshments will be served. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://blackburnhamlet.ca/event/discovery-cafe-free-event/
LOCATION:Blackburn Community Hall\, 190 Glen Park Drive\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K2B 5A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discovery Café
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