Addendum Marianopolis

Review for your Organic Chemistry Midterm with professor Abraham through a series of Q&A!   

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Review your Waves exam with the guidance of professor Jérèmie Vinet!   

Addendum wishes everyone the best of luck with your guys’  exams!!!  

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Today's guest is Dimitri Lascaris. He is a journalist, activist and ranked as one of the 25 most influential lawers in Canada in 2012 by the Canadian Lawyer magazine and the most influential persons in Canadian business by the Canadian Business magazine in 2013. 

He graduated from University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1991, and worked as a corporate lawyer. His career led him to change his perspective. He was a candidate for the Green Party Leadership in 2020.

Today's guest is Dimitri Lascaris. He is a journalist, activist and ranked as one of the 25 most influential lawers in Canada in 2012 by the Canadian Lawyer magazine and the most influential persons in Canadian business by the Canadian Business magazine in 2013.

He graduated from University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1991, and worked as a corporate lawyer. His career led him to change his perspective. He was a candidate for the Green Party Leadership in 2020.

Socialist Action is a radical faction of the NDP caucus. This conversation revolves around socialism, revolutionism, critics of the capitalist system, the oppression of the Global South and all other usual narratives from the radical Left.   

Barry Weisleder is the leader of the NDP Socialist Caucus and Socialist Action. He is a long time political activist and a teacher in Ontario. He has been a delegate to virtually all Federal and Ontraio NDP convention. For 20 years, he was the President of Toronto Substitute Teachers. 

Daniel Tarade is a PHD student at the University of Toronto in Biochemistry. In addition, he is a member of the NDP Socialist Caucus and Socialist Action.

In this installment of our University series, Addendum presents to you Katalina Toth. Katalina is currently enrolled at Harvard University. She was the past president of MariMun and was on the executive board in many other clubs as well. If you are CV-hungry, or is just curious at her journey, this episode is for you.

In this installment of our University series, Addendum presents to you Katalina Toth. Katalina is currently enrolled at Harvard University. She was the past president of MariMun and was on the executive board in many other clubs as well. If you are CV-hungry, or is just curious at her journey, this episode is for you.

In this latest installment of our University series, we present to you Emma Westenberg. Emma is currently enrolled at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In this episode, Emma gives advice to students on how to find their passions, and how being admitted to her dream university is a natural outflow of that process.  

Emma Westenberg was a Honours Commerce Student at Marianopolis. Before her graduation this summer, she held multiple executive positions in various clubs such as at Silver Key, Operation Smile Marianopolis and The Hot Potato Initiative Marianopolis. She will be starting her first her at the Rotterdam School of Management this fall.  

Additionally, Calais Food Collective, the organization where Emma had been working as a volunteer during this summer is always looking for volunteers. If you are interested in learning more about doing volunteering abroad, please watch the attached YouTube video and read the sign-up form.

 Calais Food Collective YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa304D8_0AQCVViAc0h7MBA 

Calais Food Collective Sign Up Form: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfYlVGBLvWEa4OPgzgO76EJ3L6qXCjztqjTSEWBhVZ9vKN0g/viewform?usp=sf_link

This week Addendum is happy to feature James Ehrlich, an entrepreneur and lecturer based in Stanford University. Currently, he is working on a futuristic real estate project known as REGEN Ecovillages. The name hints at how he is using technology to build a space where human living leads to bio-regeneration.    

James Ehrlich is an entrepreneur in technology, media and clean-tech. He has had a background coding video games and is currently a researcher and lecturer at Stanford University School of Medicine. He was part of the White House and State Department Joint Task Force on the Nexus of Food, Water, Energy & Waste under the Obama Administration. He has been featured on various publications such as the NY Times. He also had a national TV Show, Hippy Gourmet.

Voices from Africa! What are Ecovillages? How do they contribute to sustainable living? Why are they gathering so much popularity all over the world from Europe, Asia to Africa?   

Addendum today features Dr. Ousmane Pame, the President of Global Ecovillage Network-Africa. Dr. Pame is the first mayor of his town, as well as a professor of translation, British Civilisation and Literature. Today, Dr. Pame is spearheading the REDES Ecovillage network in Senegal and Mauritania.

Additionally, the REDES Ecovillage Network is always looking for remote volunteers! If you want to change some lives, no better place to start than here!  

Links for volunteering: 

https://redes-ecovillages.org/eng/ 

https://redes-ecovillages.org/eng/volunteer-remotely/ 

https://redes-ecovillages.org/eng/academic-programs-internships/ 

https://www.instagram.com/redesecovillages/