Breakfast on Campus speaker series will be located in the Residence Dining Hall, Residence Commons.

MONDAY, MAY 25, 7:45 TO 8:55
Me Funny? The Wanderings of a Blue-eyed Ojibway in the Land of Humour
It has often been said that one of the best ways to know a people is discovering what makes them laugh. Humour can show the pulse and character of a culture. For this Breakfast on Campus presentation, author, playwright and humourist Drew Hayden Taylor will shed light on the Indigenous funny bone and read from his highly successful book on Native humour, Me Funny.

An Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations, Drew Hayden Taylor has worn many hats in his literary career. Over the last two decades, he has been an award-winning playwright with over seventy productions of his work, a journalist with a column in five newspapers across the country, short-story writer, novelist, scriptwriter, and has worked on over seventeen documentaries exploring the Native experience. Through this and many of his books, most notably the four volume set of the Funny, You Don't Look Like One series, he has tried to educate and inform the world about issues that reflect and interfere in the lives of Canada's First Nations.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 7:45 TO 8:55
Workplace Trends in the New Millennium: A Demographic Perspective
Dr. David Foot explores how changing demographics, especially the aging of the massive boomer generation and the entry of their children-the echo generation- into the market and workplace, will redefine society's needs. He contends that demographics explains two-thirds of everything, from recreation to the stock market and education to health. With an understanding of demographics, a business, organization or individual has a strong foundation upon which to build an understanding of the past and a vision for the future.

Dr. Foot, Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto, is the author of best-selling Boom, Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift and the updated paperback, Boom, Bust & Echo: Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the 21st Century.

This event is co-hosted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

FRIDAY, MAY 29, 7:45 TO 8:55
A Civic-minded Digital Generation: Has technology tuned-out youth?
Only 59.1 per cent of Canadians cast a vote in the last federal election, a record low in the history of Confederation. Will the next generation of young voters find their way to the polls? Are young Canadians plugged in to public discourse? Have they harnessed the power of new technology for civic pursuit? Join CBC's Susan Ormiston and social entrepreneur Jennifer Corriero for an open dialogue about the civic-mindedness of Canadian youth.

Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, leads an open dialogue with CBC's Susan Ormiston and social entrepreneur Jennifer Corriero on the civic-mindedness of Canadian youth.

A 25 year veteran of news and current affairs reporting and alumna of Carleton University, Susan Ormiston hosted Ormiston Online on CBC, a guide to what was making the news on the Internet during the 2008 election.

Jennifer Corriero has spent her career helping youth around the world to realize the potential of technology and working with companies to show them what they need to do to connect with young people. She is the founder of TakingITGlobal, one of the world's most successful youth oriented online initiatives that encourages young people to get involved and take action in their local and global communities.