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The mission of the CIC is to promote an understanding of international affairs and Canada’s role in a changing world by providing Canadians with a non-partisan, nationwide forum for informed discussion, analysis and debate. Accordingly, the cornerstone of the CIC’s work is our events program. The CIC national office and our branches hold more than 150 events per year in cities across the country. In particular, our branch events give members an opportunity to directly engage with global issues that often intersect with local concerns. The CIC also supports events outside of Canada, often in partnership with other global think tanks, that can introduce Canadian perspectives to global audiences. CIC events take on many different forms, from academic lectures and panel discussions to town hall meetings and pub nights. Please consult our events calendar for a listing of CIC-organized and sponsored events.

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CIC Saskatoon: “We’re not in Kansas Anymore”: The border hopping “Yellow Brick Road” of aster leafhopper migration

May 23, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm CST
Free

The Saskatoon branch of the Canadian International Council invites you an event on the following important international issue:

TOPIC: “We’re not in Kansas Anymore”: The border hopping “Yellow Brick Road” of aster leafhopper migration

SPEAKER: Tyler Wist, Entomologist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

DATE: Thursday, May 23, 2024

PLACE: Saskatoon Club, 417 21st Street East, Saskatoon

TIME: 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

~~~ This is the fourteenth event of our 2023-24 program ~~~

[Come for the event, starts at 6:00 p.m.

For a fuller experience, come also to the 8:00 pm dinner. Read further below about joining the speaker for dinner.]

Who would have thought that a tiny insect – the aster leafhopper (Macrosteles quadrilineatus) – in the Gulf Coast states of the US could cross borders and wreak havoc on vegetable and field crops in Canada. Join us and hear a riveting story of weather systems, international cooperation and dogged research that has gone into solving the riddle of the 2012 outbreak.

 

About our speaker:

Dr. Tyler Wist is a Research Scientist in Field Crop Entomology, based at the Saskatoon Research and Development Centre of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Although he specializes in wheat insect pests like wheat midge and cereal aphids, Dr. Wist still continues to work on new pests in new crops (canaryseed and quinoa), the worst insect pests in canola like flea beetles, insect vectored pathogens such as aster yellows and pea aphids in pulse crops. Ask him about beneficial insects too…he loves to discuss how predators and parasitoids devour pest insects.

 

Itinerary:

5:30 p.m. Doors open

6:00 p.m. Public presentation – free and open to the public

7:15 p.m. Event concludes

7:30 p.m. Dinner with the speaker (register online at the Eventbrite site, deadline May 20)

9:00 p.m. Dinner concludes

 

DINNER WITH THE SPEAKER:

Want to find out even more about the issues, and discuss them with the speaker and other internationalists? Consider buying a dinner ticket and joining us at 7:30 p.m., also at the Saskatoon Club, for dinner with the speaker.

Prices for dinner with the speaker, followed by presentation

$20 – Students

$40 – Non-student CIC members

$50 – Nonmembers

 

Register for dinner with the speaker before May 20, 11:30 p.m. Dinner registrants will be expected to pay even if they cannot or do not attend. Persons with dinner reservations who cannot attend are encouraged to find someone else to take their place.

Details

Venue

  • Saskatoon Club
  • 417 21st Street East
    Saskatoon, SK S7K 0C5 Canada     + Google Map

Organizer

  • CIC Saskatoon Branch