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The $20,000 Technology Venture Challenge At the annual technology venture entrepreneurship challenge, students from Royal Military College of Canada, Algonquin, La Cité Collégiale, Carleton University, University of Ottawa, L’Université du Québec à Hull, Queen’s University and St. Lawrence College are invited to submit proposals for starting technology-based companies. The team whose proposal represents the most…
Catching Up With the News
Eugene Melnyk, left, Pat Quinn, and Bob Nicholson pose for a photo before jumping out of the practice tower during a team building camp at the CFB Petawawa on Tuesday. Before he made his simulated parachute jump Tuesday, Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk, the chair of the steering committee for the world junior hockey championships,…
Ex-Cadets in the News
5576 Mr Leonard G Lee (RRMC RMC 1962) founded Lee Valley Tools, a small mail-order business selling gardening and woodworking tools across Canada in 1978 . He developed the family-fun enterprise into a multimillion-dollar enterprise that now has more than 900 employees and 11 retail outlets from Halifax to Vancouver. In 1985, he founded Veritas…
Where are they now?
11784 LCol (ret`d) Wayne AF Haggart (RMC 1978) received the 2008 Deputy Minister/Chief Defence Staff Innovation Award from former CDS S148 Rick Hillier and Deputy Minister Robert Fonberg. LCol (Ret’d) Wayne Haggart, with the Directorate of Ammunition and Explosives Regulation (DAER), was a member of the planning team for the creation of a departmental ammunition…
What’s Happening At Royal Military College of Canada
Photo credit: Martin St-Amant. RMC Ex cadet Professor – Shares Prestigious Best Paper Award 15028 Dr. Paul Roman, Department of Business Administration The Annual Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) promotes cooperation among the Armed Services, Industry, Academia and various Government agencies in pursuit of improved training and education programs, identification of common training…
Who Am I?
By: E3161 Victoria Edwards I was born August 21st, 1860. While at high school in Napanee in 1876, I read an item in the “Globe” of Toronto asking for candidates for the newly established Military College at Kingston. On June 1st, 1876, I entered the first class at the Military College as one of the…
I REMEMBER: 2399 BILL LANDYMORE
I REMEMBER: 2399 BILL LANDYMORE As captain of HMCS Iroquois, he knew every sailor by name RCNC016 CHRISTOPHER PRATT Christopher Pratt, captain (RCN) retired, writes about Admiral Bill Landymore, whose obituary appeared Dec. 15 in The Globe and Mail. Not one person who knew him would be able to write a full memoir of Bill…
Retirements
17557 LCol Troy M Crosby, DAEPM ft 5, will be retiring from the regular force on 4 Jan 09 after 22 years of loyal and dedicated service to the CF and the AERE branch. Lcol Crosby joined the CF on 28 June 1986 and graduated from CMR St-Jean in 1991. He subsequently completed the AERE…
We get emails
I wrote this article in order to explain, in laymen’s terms, what an Engineer is and what we are responsible for in my industry. I often hear wails of discontent coming from trades people who have been made to comply with project specifications, etc. to which they may have taken a dislike. For the most…
In This Issue 45
To those of you who will be celebrating the birth of the baby Jesus on the 25 December – Merry Christmas. To everyone – Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!! Pour ceux qui célébrerons la naissance de Jésus le 25 décembre – Joyeux Noël. Et à tous joyeuses fêtes et bonne et heureuse Année!!…
Kipling’s Ultraman
Rudyard Kipling said it all: ” If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two Impostors just the same; Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.” KAILUA-KONA- Hawaii – Lieutenant Colonel Tony O’Keefe is in charge of 1,054 cadets at Canada’s version of West Point. It is his job to…
Insider’s View: Major Geneviève Lehoux
20633 Major Geneviève Lehoux (CMR RMC ’97) enrolled in the CF in June 1992 in Trois-Rivières (QC). She completed three years at CMR St-Jean and graduated from RMC in May 1997 with a bachelor degree in Civil Engineering. While at CMR and RMC, she was a member of the varsity women soccer team. She completed…