CONTACT
Sylvia Apostolidis
Director, Member Services
Catalyst Canada Inc.
8 King Street East, Suite 505
Toronto, Ontario M5C-1B5
phone: (416) 815-7600 ext. 632
fax: (416) 815-7601
email: sapostolidis@catalyst.org
office email: caninfo@catalyst.org
MEDIA CONTACT
Susan Nierenberg
Vice President, Global Communications
(646) 388-7744
snierenberg@catalyst.org
Canada
What’s New
On September 18, more than 75 women gathered in Vancouver to hear Sue Paish, CEO of PharmaSave Drugs (National) Ltd., and Catalyst's Deborah Gillis, Vice President, North America, engage on the topic of balancing career and personal responsibilities.
The event was the third in the Catalyst Connects series, in which senior women executives in North America share their experiences with women identified by their companies as having the potential to advance. Ms. Paish underscored the factor of time. "You can't have it all, always," she said, adding that struggling to accomplish too much at once necessitates deciding "what you don't need to do right now." Aspiring women also need a mentor, Ms. Paish said, not only "to make you feel good," but also "to give you the advice that sometimes no one else will." The by-inivitation-only series is sponsored by BMO Financial Group. On March 12, 2009, a Catalyst Connects event in Toronto will feature Linda Hasenfratz, CEO of Linamar Corporation. Another in the series is being scheduled in New York in January 2009.
Canadian Club
Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium, Web guru Don Tapscott, Deputy Prime Minister Peter McKay—and now Deborah Gillis, Vice President, North America, Catalyst. On September 22, Ms. Gillis joined the ranks of notables in politics, business, and the media invited to present at The Canadian Club of Toronto. Her luncheon address, “Looking Beyond the C-Suite: The Business Case for Recruiting More Women on Corporate Boards,” to more than 200 attendees opened the2008-2009 season at the exclusive forum. In it, she drew from the 2007 Catalyst Census of Women Board Directors of the FP500: Voices From the Boardroom released in June to make the case for increasing the number of women on Canadian boards.