RIMS Canada – Donald M. Stuart Award

During the RIMS Canada Conference’s opening ceremonies, the Ontario Chapter of RIMS named Tina Gardiner, manager of insurance and risk at the Regional Municipality of York, as the 2010 recipient of the Donald M. Stuart Award. Gardiner’s involvement with RIMS spans nearly 20 years. “I can’t believe I am standing up here,” Gardiner said upon receiving the award. “I am humbled and I am honoured to be given this award and to be in the company of those that have been honoured before me.” Conference delegates were also treated to a keynote address by controversial and famed author Salman Rushdie. He spoke of the importance of realizing there is no such thing as 100% security, only degrees of security. Acceptance of this fact allows individuals to go on to achieve great things. “If you want to open the universe a little bit more, you cannot do that sitting safely in the middle of a room,” he said. “You have to go out to the borders and push out.”

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