{"id":3485,"date":"2016-11-11T22:01:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T22:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caspr.ca\/staging\/?page_id=3485"},"modified":"2016-11-11T22:01:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T22:01:50","slug":"conference-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/caspr.ca\/staging\/caspr-policies-guidelines\/conference-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"CONFERENCE POLICY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>LOCATION OF CASPR ANNUAL CONFERENCE POLICY<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Purpose:<\/h4>\n<p>The purpose of this policy is to establish formal guidelines around the determination of location of CASPR annual conferences.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Policy:<\/h4>\n<p>Whereas to enable all provinces and territories the opportunity to host the Annual Conference and to also provide a cost effective site location which will enable CASPR members the feasibility of attending. It is encouraged that\u00a0annual CASPR conferences will be held on a rotational basis as\u00a0per the\u00a0following\u00a0schedule:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Year 1 : Western Canada \u2013 inclusive of Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba,\u00a0Northwest Territories, Nunavut, &amp;\u00a0the Yukon<\/li>\n<li>Year 2: Central Canada \u2013 inclusive of Ontario<\/li>\n<li>Year 3: Eastern Canada \u2013 inclusive of Quebec Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, &amp; Nova Scotia<\/li>\n<li>Year 4: Central Canada \u2013 inclusive of Ontario<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CASPR shall make every effort to follow the above rotational schedule but in the event that when the rotation falls to an identified area of Canada and there are no volunteers to host a conference, then the rotation would move to the next area designated on the rotation schedule. Efforts will be made by CASPR to have a schedule developed for a 4 year rotational basis at all times with designated community\/city sites for the conference. To maintain this 4 year rotation, a call will be made by the Chair for submissions of \u201cexpressions of interest\u201d to host the annual conference at the yearly annual conference at the Association\u2019s Annual General Meeting.<\/p>\n<p>If more than one \u2018expression of interest\u2019 is received for a rotation year, an election will be held by ballot at the Annual General Conference as per the CASPR by-laws.<\/p>\n<p>Attached to this policy is the four year rotation (below).<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>CASPR Conference Location Rotation Schedule:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>2015 Niagara Falls, ON \u2013 Central Canada<\/li>\n<li>2016 Vancouver, B.C.- Western Canada<\/li>\n<li>2017 Central Canada \u2013 Ontario<\/li>\n<li>2018 Eastern Canada \u2013 New Brunswick<\/li>\n<li>2019 Central Canada \u2013 Ontario<\/li>\n<li>2020 Western Canada \u2013 Manitoba<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOCATION OF CASPR ANNUAL CONFERENCE POLICY &nbsp; Purpose: The purpose of this policy is to establish formal guidelines around the determination of location of CASPR annual conferences. &nbsp; Policy: Whereas to enable all provinces and territories the opportunity to host the Annual Conference and to also provide a cost effective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":582,"featured_media":0,"parent":3182,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-simple_2.php","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3485","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caspr.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caspr.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caspr.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caspr.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caspr.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caspr.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3485\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caspr.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caspr.ca\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}