CIAC News
2021 Year in Review now available
CIAC is pleased to share our 2021 Year in Review. This interactive report features CIAC’s achievements and highlights from our different departments and regions from the past year.

This includes federal and provincial advocacy, webinars, events, committee appearances, publications plus a message from our President and CEO, Bob Masterson.

Events
Watch Canadian Club of Ottawa’s discussion on Harnessing Canada’s Green Resource Potential
In case you missed it, you can now watch a recording of the Canadian Club of Ottawa’s event from February 10, Harnessing Canada’s Green Resource Potential. The discussion was moderated by Bob Masterson, President and CEO of CIAC and featured Don Lindsay, President and CEO of Teck Resources Limited. 

BASF Canada launches documentary, The Afterlife of Waste
 
Learn about the innovations that are extracting energy and value from our waste and the challenges each face in pursuing that goal in the new documentary The Afterlife of Waste co-produced by BASF Canada and Bullfrog Power.  The documentary features stakeholders from all stages of the supply chain, including BASF Canada, Bob Masterson, President and CEO of CIAC, Club Coffee, Deloitte, EcoSafe, Loblaws, London Drugs, Circular Innovation Council, TerraCycle, and ZooShare.

Ontario
CIAC presents to Ontario Legislature Interns 
CIAC is proud to support the Ontario Legislature Internship Programme (OLIP), a nonpartisan program providing recent university graduates with practical experience on the daily workings of the Ontario Legislature. In early February, Don Fusco, CIAC Director, Government and Stakeholder Relations – Ontario, met with this year’s OLIP interns. Don provided an overview of CIAC, Responsible Care® and Ontario’s chemistry sector.

Webinar
The Conference Board of Canada presents Managing Changes in Culture and the Way we Learn
Join Emad Rizkalla, CEO and Founder, Bluedrop ISM and Bill Holmes, Associate Professor, Royal Roads University and Minerva Board member on March 2 from 1-2pm ET for a discussion on how the pandemic has accelerated changes in the workplace and the way we learn.

This webinar will explore how can these changes positively and negatively affect workplace cultures? How can employers/professors and employees/students embrace these changes for good?

News
Cleanfarms adds to its Quebec team to expand support for ...

ST. BRUNO, Quebec, Feb. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - In order to further expand its Quebec-based recovery and recycling programming for agricultural plastic packaging and containers, including silage films, Cleanfarms recently recruited Francis...

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financialpost.com
Opinion: Truck blockades present a compelling argument...

Amid the honking, blaring music and deranged "Memorandum of Understanding" of the so-called freedom convoy, a group of disaffected truckers have raised a vital question about infrastructure in Canada.

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www.theglobeandmail.com
Canada, U.S., and 100 other countries call for a global...

Plastic pollution is found everywhere researchers look: from the remotest parts of the Antarctic, to the summit of Mount Everest, to the deepest oceans. Researchers have reported an average of 365 microplastics particles falling from the sky each ...

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