Testimonial Dinner
Raven Lacerte — 2024 Emerging Leader Award Recipient
Raven Lacerte is the co-founder of the Moose Hide Campaign, a national movement of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians speaking up against gender-based and domestic violence
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Wisdom, sagacity set veteran public servant Richard Dicerni apart
Richard Dicerni knew the country as few others, writes Edward Greenspon, PPF President and CEO
Meet our Emerging Leader Award recipient, Maayan Ziv
Maayan Ziv will be honoured for her advocacy with the Emerging Leader Award at PPF’s 2019 Testimonial Dinner and #PPFawards on April 11 in Toronto. Founder and CEO of AccessNow, an app and digital platform, she is passionate about creating a more accessible and inclusive world.
Past Event
Wonk Prom
Are you a wonk? Do you have a passion for public policy, politics and change-making? The Ryerson Leadership Lab invites you to attend Wonk Prom 2019 and join friends from across the country for a night of networking, music and celebration. Wonk Prom begins when the Public Policy Forum (PPF) Annual Testimonial Dinner ends - extending the biggest party in Canadian public policy and politics. Not attending the Testimonial Dinner? Not a problem! Wonk Prom is open to any and all political and policy wonks and change-makers. Any additional proceeds from this event will support student study trips through the Ryerson Leadership Lab.
PPF to honour Indigenous journalist Karyn Pugliese with 2019 Hyman Solomon Award
Karyn Pugliese of APTN will be honoured with the Hyman Solomon Award for Public Policy Journalism at PPF’s 2019 Testimonial Dinner and Awards on April 11 in Toronto.
Move over Oscars, we’re announcing our 2019 policy stars
We're pleased to announce all five of our honourees for our 2019 Testimonial Dinner honourees, for their dedication to public service and strengthening our democracy and its institutions.
Past Event
Testimonial Dinner and Awards 2019
Lisa LaFlamme hosted our night as we honoured Rona Ambrose, George Cope, Farah Mohamed, Alan Bernstein and Pierre-Marc Johnson in Toronto on April 11. Yoshua Bengio, artificial intelligence pioneer and newly minted Turing Award winner, was our keynote speaker. Watch all the acceptance speeches!