“It is absolutely amazing,” Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory said, speaking on her cellphone from Ottawa. “It changes our landscape as performing artists in the Arctic.”

“I joined UNICEF over twenty years ago from graduate school and haven’t looked back,” Robert Jenkins said, speaking on a cell phone from Amman, Jordan. “I’ve had the incredible privilege to serve with UNICEF in various countries in Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia now in the Middle East. And I must admit I appreciate every day that I have this chance to work for UNICEF and make this contribution.”

Prof. Michelle Mottola says pregnant women who exercise can reduce their risks for hypertension, obesity and having very large babies.

"It didn't take much to stoke my imagination to imagine what it would be like in a new country without access to bandwidth, the Internet and all the integrative features that, you know, that kind of access would provide and how important that could be to getting a good start," said Dennis Maslo.

“When you talk about corruption, you’re already part of the solution,” said Frederic Lapointe. “The public might think there is more corruption because they hear more about it, when in fact there is less corruption because they hear about it.”

: Prof. Tom Keenan warns of the dangers of biometric authentication.

“Traditionally the private sector has always dipped their toe in the emerging markets, often on a short-term trading basis,” David Creighton said. “And what we need to do and the whole concept of Convergence is to try to use that $1.6 trillion to intelligently and catalytically draw in the $2.4 trillion from the private sector.”

Historian Charlotte Gray says Canadian suffragettes used persistence and education to win the right to vote for the women of Manitoba.

“In many cases these gifts from Canadians will be the very first gifts these children will have ever received in their lives,” said Frank King. “It’s quite an amazing experience to give a shoebox to a child and watch the wonder on them and the excitement when they open up and realize that everything inside is theirs and it came from a country that in some case they may have never even heard off.”

Microbiologist Jason Tetro says Zika has been linked to birth defects and Guillain-Barre syndrome.