Janet Yale

Janet Yale in 2013

Janet Yale is a Canadian telecommunications lawyer and association executive. She became president and chief executive officer of the Arthritis Society in June 2012.[1] She is also on the board of directors of CARE Canada.[2]

From September 2010 to November 2011, she was CEO of Scouts Canada. She left Scouts Canada in November 2011, citing "philosophical differences" with its board of directors, rather than media reports of how Scouts Canada had handled allegations of sexual abuse by scout leaders.[3][4]

Janet Yale was born in Montreal, Quebec, and went to Town of Mount Royal High School. She later studied and obtained her Bachelor from McGill University and the University of Toronto.

During her career, she would also work for Telus as Executive Vice President, a Canadian telecommunication company,[5] the Canadian Cable Television Association,[6][7] Director General of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and General Counsel at the Consumers' Association of Canada.[8][9]

In 2007 Yale gave a $75,000 donation to build the Lorraine Fritzy Yale Gallery at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa in honour of her mother, Lorraine Fritzy Yale.[10]

She received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and was board member of Ottawa Art Gallery.[11]

In June 2018, she was appointed by the federal Ministers of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and Canadian Heritage to serve as Chair of The Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel.

She was also named as one of Canada's 100 most powerful women by the Women's Executive Network, and inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2007.[12]

  1. ^ "Meet The President & CEO". The Arhritis Society. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  2. ^ "Board of Directors". CARE Canada. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  3. ^ "Scouts Canada CEO leaves organization". CBC News. November 21, 2011. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  4. ^ Talaga, Tanya (November 21, 2011). "Head of Scouts Canada resigns". The Toronto Star. November 21, 2011. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  5. ^ "TELUS responds to announcement of rules for Advanced Wireless Spectrum auction". WebWire. November 29, 2007. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  6. ^ "CCTA Asks for HBO, ESPN, Fox News for Canada". Channel Canada. June 19, 2003. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  7. ^ "Canadian cable association chief Janet Yale steps down". CED. September 24, 2003. Archived from the original on June 1, 2012. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  8. ^ "Bell expected to seek $1 a month phone rate hike". The Toronto Star. February 3, 1987. p. A1. Retrieved November 22, 2011.[dead link‍]
  9. ^ Gordon, Andrea (July 14, 1987). "Consumers' group eyes appeal if regulator abandons Bell fight". Toronto Star. pp. B.1. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  10. ^ "$75,000 gift launches theatre gallery". Ottawa Citizen. April 17, 2007. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  11. ^ Economic Club of Canada, Janet Yale, President & CEO, The Arthritis Society of Canada.
  12. ^ C.D. Howe Institute, Canada's Communications Future : Time to Act