Both of you seem passionate about your profession. Your college needs you both
Fazal Khan is the new sherrif
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I've never met Fazal Khan but I'll tell you why I like him. Any educated person with several career options who chooses to become an optician today is much more likely to make a difference than someone who appears to use their position to craft her own celebrity brand. (Not mentioning any names.)
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conflict of interest
ANNOUNCEMENT – NEW REGISTRAR
The College of Opticians of Ontario is pleased to announce that Ms. Abena Buahene will be joining the College as Registrar effective Monday, January 16, 2012.
After a lengthy recruitment process, Ms. Buahene was selected from a long list of applicants for her strong track record of success in change management and relationship building, strategic planning and execution, operation and talent management across a broad spectrum of not-for-profit, regulatory and private sector organizations.
We ask that all members join us in welcoming Ms. Buahene. She will lead an already strong team of professionals that is committed to fulfilling our public protection mandate in regulating the practice of Opticianry in Ontario.
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Is this new blood?
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Absolutely yes. I'm sure I would be politely escorted out for asking any questions. Dictator democracy at its best I'm sure once they hear my questions that are guaranteed not to comply with their meeting rules and guidelines.
Been there, done that, got the Tshirt.
does anyone know anything about this new Ontario registrar, Ms. Abena Buahene. I would like if possible to hear something factual and positive. Does she promise anything different? Who does she align herself with?
Visible minority lawyers
When she went to law school in the early 1980s, Abena Buahene was one of six visible minorities in a class of 140 students.
In her first job after graduation, she was the only black lawyer in the middle-class suburb of White Rock, B.C. And, in her next job as director of legal education in Saskatchewan, she felt like she was the only black lawyer in the entire province.
“It was tough,” she said, thinking back to the days when she was 25 years old, naive and scared. “A lot of my career has been: ‘I’m it.’ I walked into a room and everybody looked at me. I felt I had to represent all my people.”
That responsibility eventually caught up with her in her fifth year of practice. She felt lonely and lost without a mentor by her side. She was frustrated with her career, and she had nobody to guide her, to steer her straight. So she quit her job and switched to the field of legal education.
Now associate director of continuing legal education for the Ontario Bar Association (OBA), she never regretted the change of career, but she does sometimes miss being a practising lawyer.
“I would not have left if I had had a mentor, a role model I could talk to,” she said.
see all of it....................................http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.ph...&articleid=992
there a lot of answers on Google, just ask for "Abena Buahene"
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Thanks Chris, I want to believe in people until they show me different. I hope she is made fully aware of the issues before Opticians. It is one thing the inforce the law. It is another to make it work for the good of all. I would certainly like to meet her one day. From what I hear the three final candidates that she was choosen from were not OAC sympathizers. So that is a little good news. I now hope that Ontario thinks for themselves. I see the tendency for many post to be negative in this forum. I could be counted as guilty as the rest. Still I try to strike a balance and see good where I can. I would not want this new registrar to feel we were against her before she even starts. Let us speak up where there is good because if we are always negative then we lose crediablity. Why hear us if we only complain anyways.
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Both... Discipline to hold to the respect of others we worked so hard to get. And the Con-ed so that we can respect ourselves again.
Our profession is now being laugh at as coastal snubs their nose at us. I wasnt feeling proud at our last con-ed, hearing how we need to learn how to internet dispense.
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