U.S. Consulate General Vancouver Podcasts

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U.S. Consular General Vancouver podcasts (audio recordings available for listening and downloads) are listed below in chronological order with the newest at the top.

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2009 Podcasts

18 September - U.S. Consulate Vancouver Podcast - Environmental expert Linda Mesaros.
21 April - Roberta Jacobson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, speaks with Public Affairs Officier Indran Amirthanayagam.

2008 Podcasts

21 October - Interview with Consul General, Phillip Chicola.
02-03 October - Amin Tarzi Speaks About Afghanistan.
26 September - Dr. Stephen Blank on North American Integration.

18 September, 2009 - U.S. Consulate Vancouver Podcast - Environmental expert Linda Mesaros.

Linda Mesaros.

U.S. Consulate Vancouver - The Public Affairs section organized a lecture on energy security at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) within University of Victoria. British Columbia has long been at the forefront of Canada’s ‘green’ movement, enthusiastically welcomed environmental expert Linda Mesaros.

This activity is part of the large joint effort that the US and Canada make in order to provide a safer future to the next generations. The Canadian audience was clearly curious, and invited Ms. Mesaros to share her extensive experience in the environmental and energy areas. The valuable information she provided about government-led implementation of green procurement programs, contract templates, building community awareness, all resonated with the Canadian audience. For Ms. Mesaros’ presentation follow the PICS website http://www.pics.uvic.ca/events.php.

After Victoria, Public Affairs section brought environment and energy speaker Linda Mesaros to the University of British Columbia to address the Student Business Club. The talk highlighted the role of government as an instrument of positive social change in implementing and carrying out environmental policy.

(6 minutes 35 seconds, 6.1Mb MP3)

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21 April - Roberta Jacobson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs

21 April, 2009 - Roberta Jacobson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, speaks with Public Affairs Officier Indran Amirthanayagam.

(21 minutes 40 seconds, 20Mb MP3)

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21 October - Interview with Consul General, Phillip Chicola

Consul General, Phillip Chicola.

21 October, 2008 - Consul General Phillip Chicola discusses US/Canada relations, the economy, elections, Latin America. He is interviewed by Public Affairs Officer Indran Amirthanayagam.

(21 minutes 16 seconds, 19.4Mb MP3)

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02-03 October - Amin Tarzi Speaks About Afghanistan

Dr. Amin Tarzi.

02-03 October, 2008 - Afghan analyst Amin Tarzi directs Middle East Studies at the Marine Corps University. During an October 2-3 visit to Vancouver, he gave a passionate defense for staying the course in Afghanistan in an intense day and a half of meetings with journalists, students, Afghan immigrants and researchers in South Asia. His audiences heard at first hand about Tarzi’s recent trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Tarzi commented that assuaging Pakistan about the disputed border with Afghanistan—by working to eliminate Afghan claims to Pakistani territory-- would be key to future regional stability. He suggested that talk of « winning » the war in Afghanistan is misguided. Rather, we should talk of enabling the Afghan government, army and police to establish order in the country. Tarzi’s visit enabled the Consulate General to make contact with key future opinionmakers, namely the graduate journalism students at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) and the University of British Columbia (UBC). It also allowed us to continue conversations with Canadian immigrants, in this case members of Vancouver’s Afghan community.

(16 minutes 43 seconds, 15.3Mb MP3)

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26 September - Dr. Stephen Blank on North American Integration

Dr. Stephen Blank.

26 September, 2008 - Stephen Blank recently spoke on North American Integration at the U.S. Consulate General in Vancouver.

Stephen Blank is Co-Chair of the North American Transportation Competitiveness Research Council. He recently retired as a professor of international business and management at Pace University's Lubin School of Business. Previously, he served as director of the Lubin Center for International Business Development and founded the Pan American Partnership for Business Education, an alliance of four North American business schools. Dr. Blank is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the North American Forum on Integration. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2002, Stephen Blank was awarded l'Ordre National du Quebec for service to the Province. Earlier, Dr. Blank was Director of the Council for European Studies and headed a division on Multinational Corporate Conduct at The Conference Board in New York. He was the Director of Canadian Affairs at the Council of the Americas in the 1990s. Blank was a founding partner of an international consulting firm, MultiNational Strategies and of Stephen Blank Associates. . [More - Biography]

(15 minutes 12 seconds, 13.9Mb MP3)

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