Yesterday was easily our earliest morning yet, as the team arose for a TV interview scheduled for 5 o’clock in the morning. The interview itself was in regards to the Voices of the Future program and what the […]

We often learn about the power of branding trough any given situation. Whether it’s a company or a personal conversation in which one must clearly identify the strengths and abilities used to differentiate ourselves from anyone else. However, it’s not often we have an opportunity to brand Canada as a leading country on the world [...]

Nexen Energy was a strong supporter of our mission to China and Malaysia this past year by being a primary sponsor to both Keely Greenfield and I during our Junior Team Canada Mission. Our contact, Denis Painchaud is the Director of International Government Relations and he explained that Nexen was eager to see great things from [...]

What an amazing meeting I had this morning with members of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce at a networking breakfast that hosted businesses in my city. I always knew that an effective tool such as networking often can open doors to great opportunities as well as build up your rolodex of amazing connections from nearly all [...]

It was easy to see why they called China the epicenter of where everything happens. And for Junior Team Canada, the mission to China had three important reasons to recognize why we went there in the first place. The first was that this was Canada and China’s recognition of  forty years 0f diplomatic relations and [...]

What a day it was! We had this amazing opportunity today to start the first leg of mission on a very impacting and positive note here in the epicentre of the world’s focus. We visited the Canadian Embassy and had an opportunity to hear from Canada’s Ambassador to the people’s Republic of China; His Excellency Mr. [...]

Lets be honest, we are not the future leaders of tomorrow, nor were we just a bunch kids on a field trip in Muskoka and Toronto. Rather, we were a gathering of the world’s finest youth from all walks of life and from each corner of the globe, we came together to understand the reality [...]