February 11-13, 2011
Queen's University Debating Tournament
Kingston, Ontario
Contact: Husein Panju
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February 25-26, 2011
York University Debating Tournament
Toronto, Ontario
Contact: Email

February 25-26, 2011
University of Ottawa Debating Tournament
Ottawa, Ontario

March 6-7, 2011
Asper Cup Debating Tournament
Gray Academy, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Contact: Andrew Kaplan

March 10-13, 2011
CSDF National Seminar
Hay River, Northwest Territories
Info: Click for website
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March 12, 2011
Hart House Debating Tournament
University of Toronto, Toronto
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March 19-20, 2011
Durham University BP Tournament
Durham, United Kingdom
Contact: durhamschools@gmail.com
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March 26, 2011
Dawson Debating Tournament
Dawson College
Montréal, Québec
Contact: Amanda Siino

Willis McLeese

From the Toronto Star.

“Willis McLeese, who grew up in Oshawa where his father was the editor of the Oshawa Reformer and later mayor of the city, left school at 17 but carried on studying and developed an expertise in refrigeration and thermodynamics. This became a career in the commercial freezer industry at a time when blocks of ice were still delivered to homes on horse-drawn carts.



His self-taught engineering expertise led to him being made a sub lieutenant engineer in the Canadian navy in 1943, where he saw action in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. After World War II, McLeese went to the John Inglis company where he worked on projects as diverse as building refrigeration plants for the Campbell Soup Company and stabilizing the entrance of a potash mine in Saskatchewan by freezing it.

In the mid-1950s, McLeese landed a job at Trans Canada Freezers, eventually becoming president. In 1982, he began a new career as an independent power plant developer building four plants in the United States that burn waste coal under the name American Consumer Industries Inc. Although small by power plant standards, each plant cost between $100 million and $150 million to develop and produce more than 180 megawatts of power. The plants burn waste coal and have won numerous environmental awards.

McLeese, who is chairman of American Consumer Industries, controls 100 per cent of Colmac Holdings, which owns, directly and indirectly, approximately 75 per cent of American Consumer Industries. He is on the board of the U.S. public company Rand Capital Corp., but his home and heart remain in Ontario. With Adelaide, his wife of 59 years, he has lived in the same house in Forest Hill for half a century, and in 1967 bought a farm in Heathcote, about a 20-minute drive from Blue Mountain.

Although McLeese has a reputation for working hard, he has also played hard, becoming an avid skier and horseman. It was his passion for horses that led him to put his support behind the Georgian Association for Challenged Equestrians, giving the group a home at his Wicklen Stables near Owen Sound.”