A “Celebration of Chemistry” is a most appropriate theme for the 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2017) taking place in Toronto May 28-June 1, 2017. This landmark event coincides with Canada’s 150th anniversary and the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) is forecasting a national and international audience of more than 3,000 attendees and...
Read More >>On June 1 at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Vancouver, the provincial chemistry associations of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia created a new national body called the Federation of Canada’s Professional Chemists (FCPC). Paul West, President of the Association of the Chemical Profession of British Columbia (ACPBC) was elected...
Read More >>Just before turning 30, after working for two chemical manufacturing companies, I was headhunted and offered a tremendous job opportunity with a large salary increase and company car. I did not accept the position, as it would have meant leaving the chemical sector. The rest of my career, I decided, would be built around the...
Read More >>This past August, the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa welcomed its 20 millionth visitor. Quite a milestone and one made all the more remarkable considering that the museum is located in its original building — a former bakery warehouse in a retail and light industrial section of Ottawa about 12 kilometres from the...
Read More >>We might never be able to get the general public to fully understand and appreciate the chemical sectors and professions — and in my personal opinion we should not waste the energy, time and resources to try. Chemical trade associations like the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada tried to change public opinion through Responsible Care...
Read More >>After the March 2013 federal budget, our chemical sciences and engineering community seemed to be staying mum on what the academic research community had received. Perhaps the changes made by the Conservative government and carried out by the granting councils over the past several years were sinking in for the research community — and are...
Read More >>The cover of the January 21 issue of Maclean’s, which promised to explain “why so many smart, educated, ambitious young people have no future” was enough to make any university student consider throwing in the towel on both their education and their career plans. The story goes that for the past several decades, society has...
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