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Reel Causes is offering a screening of the provocative film The Price We Pay on October 14 at the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. The film looks at how corporations avoid paying taxes by exploiting loopholes and using tax havens.

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SFU Venture Connections and VentureLabs are partnering up deliver a five-part lecture series focusing on providing skills for budding entrepreneurs.

The first lecture, “Assessing the Opportunity,” will look at ideas like market research and market segmentation; the free workshop takes place on October 13th at the Surrey campus.

Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue

The Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy will, on October 13 at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, be awarded to poet and environmental activist Stephen Collis as well as SFU professor and local political candidate Lynne Quarmby. The award, which was created in 1993, honours individuals who contribute to the understanding of controversy.

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