2007 Symposium

8:00

Registration
Continental Breakfast  

Foyer

8:30

Official Launch Ceremony

Opening Remarks

• Catherine Kane, A/Senior General Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section and Director of the Policy Centre for Victim Issues, Department of Justice Canada
• The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety
• The Honourable Rob Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

Keynote Speaker

• Priscilla de Villiers

Moment of Reflection

Foyer

9:45

 Coffee/Tea Break  

Foyer

10:00

Listening to the Experiences of Victims of Crime

Moderator: Kimothy Walker, Anchor/Producer, CTV News Ottawa

• Carol Mieras
• Sharon Rosenfeldt
• Annie Pellerin

Whitton Hall

11:30

 Coffee/Tea Break  

Whitton Lounge

11:45
to
13:00

 Concurrent Workshops Session 1

Victim Impact Statements

Moderator: Laura Glover, Coordinator, Victim Services and Community Safety Programs, Justice Institute of British Columbia and Victim Advocate, British Columbia

• Dr. Julian Roberts, Professor of Criminal Justice and Assistant Director at the Centre of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
• Brian Chase, Regional Director of the National Parole Board Atlantic Region

Whitton Hall

Technology and Victim Services

Moderator: Susan McDonald, Senior Research Officer, Department of Justice Canada

• Dawn McInnes, Victim Coordinator, Community Justice Division, Department of Justice, Government of the Northwest Territories
• Jane Coombe, Program Manager, Victim Services and Community Justice Program Division, Public Safety and Solicitor General, Government of British Columbia
• Rick Craig, Executive Director, B.C. Law Courts Education Society

Bytown Room

Services for Victims of Mass Victimization

Moderator/Presenter: Carolyn Sinclair, Executive Director, Police Victim-Services of British Columbia and President, Board of Directors, Canadian Association of Victim Assistance, British Columbia

• Norma Parr, Crown Counsel Victim/Witness Services (CVWS), Victim Services Division, British Columbia
• Donna Varrica, Information Officer, Public Relations, Dawson College

Bytown Lounge

Services for Male Survivors of Sexual Assault

Moderator: Scott Harris, Director of Restorative Justice, Correctional Service Canada

• Rick Goodwin, Executive Director, The Men’s Project
• Don Wright, Executive Director, British Columbia Society for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse.

Frieman/Guiges Room

13:00

 Lunch

Whitton Lounge

14:00
to
15:15

 Concurrent Workshops Session 2

Improving the Experience of Vulnerable Victims and Witnesses in the Criminal Justice System

Moderator: Cindy MacKinnon-North, Regional Supervisor, Provincial Victim Services Program, Nova Scotia Department of Justice

• Pam Hurley, Director, Child Witness Project at the Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System
• Nora Gambioli, Law Courts Education Society of British Columbia

Frieman-Guiges Room

Responses to Aboriginal Victimization

Moderator: Dawn McInnes, Victim Coordinator, Community Justice Division, Department of Justice, Government of the Northwest Territories

• Judie Bopp, Researcher and Facilitator, Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning
• Theresa Ducharme, Coordinator, Native Women’s Association of Canada
• Marie Speakman, Native Women’s Association of the NWT
• Jane Coombe, Program Manager, Victim Services and Community Justice Program Division, Public Safety and Solicitor General, Government of British Columbia

Bytown Room

Hate Crime – Training for Victim Services Workers

Moderator: Susan McDonald, Senior Research Officer, Department of Justice Canada

• Dan Dunlop, Hate Crime Solutions
• Patrick McCaffery, Hate Crime Solutions

Bytown Lounge

15:15

 Coffee/Tea Break

Whitton Lounge

15:30

Plenary: Internet Crime – Meeting the Needs of Child Victims and Their Families

Moderator: Carole Morency, A/General Counsel, Department of Justice Canada

• Detective Constable Warren Bulmer, Toronto Police Service, Sex Crime Unit, Child Exploitation Section
• Roberta Lynn Sinclair, Manager of Research and Development, National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre, RCMP

Whitton Hall

16:45

Closing Remarks

Whitton Hall

17:00

Reception

Foyer