CSC Annual Summer Party 2007

The Cryonics Society of Canada's Toronto Summer Party will one again be held at Allan's home near Woodbine and Danforth on:

Saturday August 18^th, 2007

3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

For a PDF with directions, send an email with the header SUMMER PARTY to:

cryonicssocietyofcanada@yahoo.ca

This is a potluck event - please bring some food and beverages to share.

Standby Equipment

In spite of the fact that most cryonicists know the importance of standby support, many members have no training in this regard. Those interested in learning more about these life-saving techniques should arrive at the potluck at 3:00 sharp. Ben Best will provide an overview of the standby equipment maintained by the Toronto group and discuss how a standby team would prepare a patient for transport. 

Discussion 

At 5:00 p.m. our Director-at-Large, Ben Best, will speak to the group on:

The Science Behind Cryonics

Ben will also discuss the 2007 Cryobiology Conference he attended in Banff.

Other News:

August 3rd & 4th, 2007  - Calgary Alberta

Are you curious what happens when a cryonics emergency response team is called into action?

You are invited to observe or participate in this standby training session.

The purpose of this training session is to teach people interested in learning about emergency techniques and procedures used by a cryonics emergency first response team.There will be presentations of the emergency techniques and procedures employed by first responders and mannequins will be provided for hands-on practice.

Instruction provided by:

• Tanya Jones, Alcor Foundation, Chief Operating Officer
• Ben Best, Cryonics Institute, President

If you are interested in participating in the training session or would just like to observe and meet other Alcor and CI members, please RSVP:  

westerncanadacryo@yahoo.ca

Cryonics Chat

Interested in learning more about cryonics? Not sure where to begin? Why not join the CSC Yahoo group:

Cryonics Society Of Canada Yahoo Group

AGM 2007

The CSC AGM was held on line in May 2007. Due to relocation, Christine Gaspar stepped down as President and a new election was called. The board was also expanded to include 6 members.  

2007 Board of Directors:

President: Ms. Levin
Vice-President: Ms. Gaspar
Secretary: Mr. Randall
Treasurer: Ms. Olijnyk
Director-at- Large: Mr.Tripp
Director-at- Large: Mr. Best

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CSC Toronto Summer Party 2006!

The Cryonics Society of Canada's Toronto Summer Party will be at Allan Randall's house near Woodbine and Danforth on Saturday, 12 August 2006, from 3:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. (and beyond).

This is a pot-luck event, so please bring some food to share.

In addition to the great food and conversation, Ben Best (our Director-at-Large, who is also President of the Cryonics Institute) will talk to us about:

Radical Life Extension and Conventional Scientists

A discussion of why and how many conventional scientists oppose life extension science, including the SENS project and cryonics. Current developments in cryobiology as presented at the July 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Cryobiology (Cryo 2006) will be discussed.

If you are interested in coming, please contact Allan Randall, and he will send you directions for getting there, including a map:

Allan Randall
randall@elea.org

Hope to see you all there!

CSC Toronto Holiday Party 2005!

The Cryonics Society of Canada's annual Toronto Holiday Party will be at Allan Randall's house near Woodbine and Danforth on Friday, 30 December 2005, starting at 7:00 P.M. There will be lots of good cheer, great conversation and food! As usual, this is a pot-luck event, so bring some food to contribute.

RSVP for directions:

Allan Randall
416-690-6717
randall@elea.org

CSC Toronto Summer Party 2005!

The Cryonics Society of Canada's Toronto Summer Party will be at Allan Randall's house near Woodbine and Danforth on Saturday, 25 June 2005, from 3:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. (and beyond). There will be a business phase and a social phase, broken down roughly as follows:

3:30 - 4;15: equipment dry run with the new regulator
4:15 - 5:00: Toronto Local Group meeting
5:00 - 6:00: Presentation by Ben Best
6:00 - 8:00: Potluck

The Ben Best talk is entitled:

Molecular  Biology of Selected Life Extension Supplements

The talk is optional... there will be plenty of space for those you are interested in it, as well as those who would prefer to just socialize. Ben has also said he may bring a Frank Cole video to show to those who are interested.

If you are interested in coming, please send an email to Allan Randall, and he will send you directions for getting there, including a map:

CSC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2005

The Cryonics Society of Canada's Annual General Meeting was held on the Cryonics Society Of Canada Yahoo Group, May 13 - May 21, 2005. The decisions made in that meeting include the election of a new Board of Directors, which was expanded from three members to five:

President: Christine Gaspar
Vice-President: Gary Tripp
Secretary: Allan Randall
Treasurer: Martha Olijnik
Director-at-Large: Ben Best

KEITH HENSON NEEDS HELP

Keith Henson has a long history of activism in cryonics. He was central to the legal fight defending Alcor following the raiding of the Riverside facility. He has participated personally in about 18 Alcor cryopreservations. He claims (probably with good cause) that he has been personally responsible for the signing-up of the majority of Alcor members in the Silicon Valley area. He has been a close friend of Eric Drexler.

More recently Keith has devoted his life to a fight against Scientology. I would not recommend that anyone do this. The consequences for Keith have been grim -- he has been charged with religious persecution in California and has reason to believe that if he is sent to prison he will be killed (thanks to a strong anti-narcotics program Scientologists have established in the prison system -- giving them many inside contacts). He fled to Canada seeking refugee status, but this has been denied.

Those living in Canada who wish to help Keith can write/e-mail to their MP requesting that Keith not be deported.

Those not living in Canada who wish to help, can e-mail Keith's MP:
 
Keith Henson's MP is Lloyd St Amand
E-Mail:

For more details (and information on locating the e-mail address of your MP) see the   CryoNet Message from Keith Henson

The Annual General Meeting was held beginning on May 1st, 2003 by e-mail on the Cryonics Society Of Canada Yahoo Group. This year there were elections for Directors and Officers. (All Officers are Directors.) The Officers are:

Christine Gaspar -- President
Gary Tripp -- Vice-President
Ben Best -- Secretary/Treasurer

TORONTO WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION ROOM PARTIES

The World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) was held in Toronto, Canada August 28 to September 1, 2003. (See http://www.torcon3.on.ca/)

We obtained a room at the Royal York Hotel where we held cryonics room parties Thursday, August 28 and Friday, August 29). Hundreds of people dropped in -- with much more activity on Thursday evening than on Friday. In my experience parties on Saturday and Sunday tend to be more sparsely attended -- and would not have been cost-justified.

Almost everyone attending these parties seem to be in one of two categories (1) already convinced that cryonics is a good idea -- signed-up or wanting to sign-up OR (2) having absolutely no serious interest in cryonics, but wanting to check out the parties and the food. Only a few rare people knew little or nothing and were curious to learn more or make contact with others who shared their interest -- my main target audience.

Most of those who were in category (2) did not stay long. So the partying mostly consisted of people in category (1) talking to each other. I hope the information exchange was valuable and increased the incentive of those who are already interested in cryonics to sign-up -- and increased the ability of those who are signed-up to find ways to grow cryonics or to make it better.

My main objective had been to meet Canadians with an interest in cryonics so as to involve them in the CSC list and/or local networking and/or contributing to local response preparedness. The attendees were overwhelmingly American -- there were few Canadians other than those already in our local group. We met far more Canadians at the Winnipeg WorldCon. But in Winnipeg we had a Dealer's table and had parties for four nights rather than just two and we had a panel.

As for those showing interest in joining the CSC list (the Cryonics Society of Canada e-mail list) I got 7 names about half of which were Canadians (although one of the Canadians wrote an illegible e-mail address).

Overall, the experience is not radically different from my past outreach activities -- a lot of effort for a small response. I have been doing this for years, however, and the cumulative incremental results have become increasingly substantive.