Join us for our very last Virtual Pink Tea of the season and hear from inspiring VIP Guest Shari Graydon. Shari is the Catalyst and CEO of Informed Opinions, a national feminist charity which amplifies the voices of women and gender diverse people so as to help shape a more equitable, inclusive and democratic Canada.

She will be joined by VIP Host Sharon Hapton, Founder and CEO of Soup Sisters, an organization with a mission to nourish those in need.

Join us as we engage in a discussion about equality, the balance of power and why the status quo is a NO!

Join the Famous 5 Foundation on Nov.3.2023 for an uplifting conversation on mentoring and leading and hear powerful stories from three incredible women: Elsie Elford, LLB, MBA, ICD.D, Former Dean of MacEwan University; Olive Yonge, R.N., PhD, Award-winning Professor & Author and, Janet Paterson-Weir, former Provost and Vice President, MacEwan University!

We invite you to celebrate the courage of the F5 and all of their achievements with us at a special event at the Fairmont Palliser Hotel’s Crystal Ballroom.

Emily Murphy and Louise McKinney, just two members of the Famous 5, will welcome and inspire us to pursue our goals, our dreams!

While Pink Teas were used to gather women together to strategize how best to gain the vote and right to run for elected office, our Pink Teas will feature a variety of female leaders so we learn about various issues and opportunities. Hopefully, we will be inspired and work together to realize our dreams – or perhaps your dream.

Tickets on sale now for the 2023 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

While Pink Teas were used to gather women together to strategize how best to gain the vote and right to run for elected office, our Pink Teas will feature a variety of female leaders so we learn about various issues and opportunities. Hopefully, we will be inspired and work together to realize our dreams – or perhaps your dream.

Tickets on sale now for the 2023 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

While Pink Teas were used to gather women together to strategize how best to gain the vote and right to run for elected office, our Pink Teas will feature a variety of female leaders so we learn about various issues and opportunities. Hopefully, we will be inspired and work together to realize our dreams – or perhaps your dream.

Tickets on sale now for the 2023 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

While Pink Teas were used to gather women together to strategize how best to gain the vote and right to run for elected office, our Pink Teas will feature a variety of female leaders so we learn about various issues and opportunities. Hopefully, we will be inspired and work together to realize our dreams – or perhaps your dream.

Tickets on sale now for the 2023 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

While Pink Teas were used to gather women together to strategize how best to gain the vote and right to run for elected office, our Pink Teas will feature a variety of female leaders so we learn about various issues and opportunities. Hopefully, we will be inspired and work together to realize our dreams – or perhaps your dream.

Tickets on sale now for the 2023 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

While Pink Teas were used to gather women together to strategize how best to gain the vote and right to run for elected office, our Pink Teas will feature a variety of female leaders so we learn about various issues and opportunities. Hopefully, we will be inspired and work together to realize our dreams – or perhaps your dream.

Tickets on sale now for the 2022 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

We invite you to celebrate the courage of the F5 and all of their achievements with us at a special event at the Fairmont Palliser Hotel’s Crystal Ballroom.

Emily Murphy and Louise McKinney, just two members of the Famous 5, will welcome and inspire us to pursue our goals, our dreams!

Lynda has enjoyed meeting Queen Elizabeth and her family on 4-5 occasions and has admired her dedication to duty, her intelligence and her diligence. This will also be an opportunity to learn more about the responsibilities of being a Lt. Governor which includes signing legislation into law on behalf of the Queen - and granting free pardons!

While Pink Teas were used to gather women together to strategize how best to gain the vote and right to run for elected office, our Pink Teas will feature a variety of female leaders so we learn about various issues and opportunities. Hopefully, we will be inspired and work together to realize our dreams – or perhaps your dream.

Tickets on sale now for the 2022 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

Dr. Rupinder Toor is the Founder & Medical Director of The IUD & NE Female Health Clinic. She has been a champion and innovator of female health and culturally appropriate health care. Dr Rupinder Toor has been a pioneer in establishing female health as an area of focus within the scope of Family Medicine, and shares her passion for these areas with students, health care professionals and her community.

Our VIP Host is Juliet Guichon, whose work focuses on issues that arise at the intersection of law, health care, ethics, religion and journalism.

While Pink Teas were used to gather women together to strategize how best to gain the vote and right to run for elected office, our Pink Teas will feature a variety of female leaders so we learn about various issues and opportunities. Hopefully, we will be inspired and work together to realize our dreams – or perhaps your dream.

Tickets on sale now for the 2022 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

A Tribute to Jeannette Corbiere Lavell with three generations of Indigenous Leaders: with Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, Dawn Lavell-Harvard and Autumn Cooper!

Tickets on sale now for the 2022 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

The Honourable Dr. Mayann Francis served as Lieutenant Governor for the province of Nova Scotia, from 2006-2012. She was the first African Nova Scotian and second woman to be appointed as the vice-regal representative. As Lieutenant Governor, she attended more than 3000 activities with a focus on community. She served a four-year commission as Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of 3 Intelligence Company in the Canadian Forces. Her accomplishments while Lieutenant Governor include welcoming Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to Nova Scotia and Government House in 2010, supporting the arts, celebrating young people, opening Government House for guest lectures and conferring a posthumous Free Pardon on Nova Scotia entrepreneur and civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond. She was the first vice-regal representative to grant the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, Free Pardon in the history of Canada.

While Pink Teas were used to gather women together to strategize how best to gain the vote and right to run for elected office, our Pink Teas will feature a variety of female leaders so we learn about various issues and opportunities. Hopefully, we will be inspired and work together to realize our dreams – or perhaps your dream.

Tickets on sale now for the 2022 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

Tina Ackermans is currently the Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development at Suncor Energy. In this role, she works closely with the executive leadership team and is accountable for corporate and downstream strategies, manages corporate development and commercial work including merger, acquisition, and divestment activities, and oversees enterprise capital portfolio and economics. Tina also leads Suncor’s Renewable Energy (wind and solar) business, accountable for asset operations and portfolio development of this business.

Michelle George, Vice President, New Energy Technologies at Enbridge works with all business units to advance low-carbon energy infrastructure opportunities across Enbridge and build on the company’s early investments in RNG, hydrogen and carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration, as well as other low carbon technologies. She was named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 by the Women’s Executive Network in 2019.

Tickets on sale now for the 2022 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

Hon. Kathleen Wynne was first elected to the Ontario legislature in 2003 as the MPP for Don Valley West. She was Ontario’s 25th Premier and leader of the Ontario Liberal Party January 2013 to June 2018.

Kathleen has dedicated her professional life to building a better province for the people of Ontario. She is guided by the values and principles that knit this province together: fairness, diversity, collaboration and creativity.

In 2016, Bobbie Racette founded Virtual Gurus, a talent solution platform that matches its users with the perfect North American Remote Assistant/Freelancer by using matchmaking algorithms. Virtual Gurus has been praised by Forbes as being one of 19 Innovative Tech Startups to Watch. Her company has clients who are Fortune 500 executives, startup entrepreneurs, and small business owners.

For over 20 years, Jen McMillen has been dedicated to student development, engagement and success. She is passionate about diversity leadership, trust, team building, communication, and civic responsibility. She speaks and consults on these issues frequently, and feels energized by sharing insights and motivated by inspiring others to do their best work.

Tickets on sale now for the 2022 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees, their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest - a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery.

Suzanne Simard is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia and the author of the book, Finding the Mother Tree.

Tickets on sale now for the 2022 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

Rt. Hon. Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada in a conversation with Cultural & Community Strategist, our VIP Host, Michèle Stanners

Tickets on sale now for the 2022 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

Ersilia Serafini, Julia Langer & Miranda Baksh - Three women CEOs leading on Climate action are three different generations, all working to improve the environment.

Ersilia Serafini leads this fascinating discussion!

Tickets on sale now for the 2022 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

Come and meet our VIP Guests, former BC Premier, the Honourable Christy Clark and Caroline Cochrane, Premier of the Northwest Territories! Leading the discussion will be UWO Assistant Professor, Dr. Kate Graham, also the author of Govern Like a Girl.

Tickets on sale now for the 2022 Virtual Pink Tea Conversations! Register for one, or all and join us as we hear inspirational stories, timely topics, and network among your peers. Engage in the chat and Q&A in our online Famous 5 Fridays Pink Tea Conversation setting.

Dr. Lauryn Oates is a women’s human rights advocate for education in conflict zones. At age 14, Lauryn read about the Taliban, and their treatment of women and girls. She developed a petition demanding that the world respond to their misogynist policies, and has continued this work ever since, working in close partnership with a variety of Afghan women’s organizations and international charities.

Before joining CW4WAfghan, Murwarid Ziayee worked with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan as a National Gender Affairs Officer and later as a National Human Rights Officer. She has worked closely with the Afghan Ministry of Women’s Affairs and served the Afghan Office of the President as Program Officer with a focus on women’s rights issues. She is a leader and advocate for women’s rights and the recipient of the CW4WAfghan Champion for Education Award.

Brigadier-General Krista Brodie has over 30 years of leadership experience in diverse and challenging appointments in Canada and Internationally. She has deployed to floods, ice storms, and forest fires. She is currently serving as the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Vice President of Logistics and Operations leading the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccination distribution program.

Barbara Paterson is the Canadian sculptor who created the first permanent monument which commemorates Canadian women as nation builders! Ms. Paterson developed the bronze statues known as the Woman are Persons! Famous 5 Monument. The memorial was commissioned by the Famous 5 Foundation to honour the ‘Persons’ Case and the Alberta women who persuaded the Government of Canada to ask the Supreme Court of Canada to legal challenge to the word "persons" which defined who could serve as a Senator. The Canadian Court replied in the negative but luckily a year later, on Oct. 18, 1929, the Privy Council of Great Britain said, “Yes, women are persons!”

Ann McCaig is one of Canada's most prominent leaders in the charitable, not-for-profit sector, a well-known advocate in education, health and youth development and a passionate supporter of arts and culture. Born and raised in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Ann has maintained a life-long commitment to caring about others demonstrated by her tireless volunteer involvement with organizations in Calgary and across the country.

Senator Chantal Petitclerc overcame adversity and many obstacles to become a proven leader in the sports world. Her gold medals in the Paralympic Games, Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games, the various awards and accolades she has received, and her appointment as Team Canada’s Chef de Mission for the Rio Paralympic Games are all markers of her success. She was appointed to our Senate by Prime Minister Trudeau in 2016.

The Honourable Dr. Vivienne Poy, PhD University of Toronto, is an author, entrepreneur, historian, fashion designer, community volunteer and ‘Women Are Persons’ Monument Donor! In 1998, she was the first Canadian of Asian descent to be appointed to the Senate of Canada where she focused on gender issues, multiculturalism, immigration, and human rights, and was instrumental in having May recognized as Asian Heritage Month across Canada. After her retirement from the Senate of Canada in September 2012, she continues to be actively involved with communities across Canada.

By connecting the nation-wide movement of women accredited investors, women entrepreneurs and the larger community of voices eager to support them, The51 are powering new wealth creation, and bringing about essential social change.

Born into the prominent Jackman family, Nancy Ruth forged her own unique journey as a philanthropist, feminist politician, and activist.

Ms. McLachlin works as an arbitrator and mediator in Canada and internationally. She brings to those forms of dispute resolution her broad and deep experience from over 35 years in deciding a wide range of business law and public law disputes, in both common law and civil law; her ability to work in both English and French; and her experience and skill in leading and consensus-building for many years as the head of a diverse nine-member court.

In April 2020 Pamela founded the non-profit organization, The Prosperity Project, to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on women who are being disproportionately affected. Joining her is a diverse group of 61 female leaders from across Canada. Pamela is best known as the founder of Women’s Executive Network (WXN) in 1997, Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards in 2003 and the Canadian Board Diversity Council in 2009.