Nordic News 240 Sparks Street, PO Box 55023, Ottawa, on K1P 1A1
February 2020 Nordic News 240 Sparks Street, PO Box 55023, Ottawa, ON K1P 1A1 An introduction to KONE - a Leading Company in People Flow: by Laura Kehusmaa Laura Kehusmaa Laura Kehusmaa works as a Coordinator for the Finnish elevator company KONE Inc. Ottawa. She comes to us highly recommended as a speaker by CNS member Tuula Bigras. Laura will make her presentation on Wednesday, February 19 at 7:30 PM at the Army Officers’ Mess, 149 Somerset Street West, Ottawa. Admission is free for members, $5 for non-members. Date Changes for Distinguished Speaker Evenings To make some of our upcoming distinguished speakers evenings possible, we have changed some of the dates from the usual third Wednesday evening of the month. The revised schedule for the rest of this season is now: • Wednesday, February 19 • Wednesday, March 11 • Wednesday, April 8 • Wednesday, May 13 (Annual General Meeting) ~ 1 ~ Bright Nights Baltic Nordic Film Festival Ottawa's annual film festival of the Baltic and Nordic countries: Lithuania, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Iceland, Estonia, and Norway, takes place this year between February 19 and 26. For more information and the full schedule, please go to https://www.cfi-icf.ca/bnff The Nordic Model - Does it Still Exist? Treasurer Lennart Nylund (left) thanked Ambassador Ahlin on behalf of the CNS “The Nordic Model - does it still exist?” was the topic of the talk given by His Excellency Urban Ahlin, Ambassador of Sweden, on January 22. We don’t call our speaker series ‘The Distinguished Speakers Series’ for nothing,” is what I was thinking as I listened to the Ambassador.
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