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Archives:
April 16, 2008
Queen's IRC Road Show Heads West
January 29, 2008
Change management for feds: Program jointly developed with CSPS
December 17, 2007
Queen's IRC Senior Fellow Dr. David Weiss Garners International Accolades
November 15, 2007
Creative collaboration: Queen’s IRC and The Banff Centre join forces
October 16, 2007
The Conductive Organization: Leveraging Knowledge to Build Capability
August 29, 2007
Vic Pakalnis of Ontario’s Ministry of Labour is Amethyst Fellow at Queen’s SPS
May 25, 2007
Queen's IRC Launches Ottawa Alumni Chapter
May 12, 2007
IRC Alumni Event in Halifax May 23, 2007
April 9, 2007
Queen’s IRC Granted $1 Million by Ontario Government for Contributions to IR Practitioner Education
March 15, 2007
HR Meeting of the Minds: Queen's Conference in Kingston
November 23, 2006
CBC’s HR/IR Leader Shares the Secrets of Strategic Negotiations
October 31, 2006
After the (Program) Rush: IRC Survey Shows How Organizational Learners Are Supported
October 30, 2006
Queen's IRC Launches First Alumni Chapter
October 24, 2006
CBC’S George Smith Presents Don Wood Lecture Nov. 9
August 3, 2006
Richard McKinnell of OPS Joins School of Policy Studies as a Fellow
July 19, 2006
New Director: Paul Juniper
June 9, 2006
Managing Across the Generations
June 1, 2006
Roy Heenan's Contributions Recognized with Award
May 29, 2006
Diversity Is the Spice of Organizational Life
May 19, 2006
Steve Lehrer Appointed NBER Research Fellow
March 21, 2006
Queen's IRC Symposium Papers Now Online
Feb 22, 2006
Queen’s MIR Program Welcomes New Professor
Feb 11, 2006
Buzz Hargrove on the State of the Unions
Oct 05, 2005
High Performance Professional Teams: A Symposium
Aug 25, 2005
IRC Director: The search for Dr. Beatty's successor begins
Aug 2, 2005
Popular SPS Fellow Is Going to the Senate
July 21, 2005
Former Queen's Business professor passes away
April 28, 2005
IRC has “Vision”: Centre wins major HR award
February 22, 2005
Change Management - Clinics
July 14, 2004
“Teams” Research Grants Announced
May 1, 2004
Industrial Relations Centre has a New Queen's Partner
April 15, 2004
Call for Research Papers: High Performance Professional Teams
January 6, 2004
Queen's IRC Makes Its Mark in School Board Reform
22 October 2003
OD Certificates: Presenting the IRC’s #1 Alumnus
June 22, 2003
IN MEMORIAM: Dr. William Donald Wood
May 15, 2003
Queen’s IRC Introduces Organization Development Training for HR Managers
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June 1, 2006
For immediate release
Roy Heenan's Contributions Recognized with Award
Long-time Queen’s Industrial Relations Centre faculty member Roy
Heenan is the co-recipient of the 2006 University of Toronto
Bora Laskin Award for Outstanding Contributions to Labour Law in
Canada.
Founding Partner of the management-side national law firm Heenan Blaikie,
Roy shares the award with Mel Myers, Founding Partner of the union-side
law firm Myers Weinberg in Winnipeg.
Roy has long been associated with the Industrial Relations program
offered by Queen’s IRC. A scholarship in his name was established
a number of years ago to support students pursuing the joint M.I.R./L.L.B.
degree program offered by Queen’s School of Policy Studies and the
Faculty of Law. Besides his association with Queen’s, Roy has taught
as Adjunct Professor at McGill University and as a lecturer at
Laval University and the University of Ottawa.
Roy is a legendary figure in the history of labour law in Canada. When
Quebec's Labour Code had existed barely a decade, and labour
and employment law was considered a mere branch of litigation, he co-founded
Heenan Blaikie, based on a philosophy that labour and employment law deserve
to be a specialty as well as a field of study in its own right. The firm
has since established offices in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City,
Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières,
Calgary, Vancouver, and Kelowna.
Roy has also been one of the first Canadian labour law practitioners
to recognize the growing importance of international labour law development.
In this regard, he serves as a tribunal member of the Inter-American Development
Bank, and a roster member for dispute settlement procedures under the North
American Free Trade Agreement. In 1999, he was appointed an Officer of
the Order of Canada.
A Fellow of the College of Labour and Employment Lawyers and of the American
College of Trial Lawyers, Roy is listed in the International Who's Who
of Business Lawyers as among the top 15 labour and employment lawyers worldwide,
and the only one from Canada so recognized.
Still today the driving inspiration for a 400-lawyer firm, Roy finds
time to pursue a passion for Canadian contemporary painting.
He has served as Chairperson of the International Historic Heritage Foundation
and President of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.
He has also acted as Chairman and founding director of the Pierre Elliott
Trudeau Foundation, and as a director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced
Legal Studies and Alliance for Higher Education and Enterprise in North
America.
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