2025 CSC AGM happening soon

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Aug 21, 2025, 9:36:54 PMAug 21

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This is not an election year so there is no need to be concerned

about electing officers or Directors

CSC President Christine Gaspar will open the meeting and

Allan Randall will follow with a financial report.

-- Ben Best

Christine

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Aug 22, 2025, 6:32:42 AMAug 22

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So let’s officially open this year’s AGM

Christine Gaspar

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Christine

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Aug 22, 2025, 6:32:49 AMAug 22

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We can start with the financial report. Allan Randall has taken over it’s preparation. We await his reply.

Christine

Allan Randall

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Sep 12, 2025, 1:57:24 AMSep 12

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Hi everyone,

Sorry I was not aware the meeting had started! Attached below is the financial report for 2024.

-- Allan

CSC-report-2024.docx

Ben Best

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Sep 12, 2025, 6:03:12 AMSep 12

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For those who can't access attachments, I have copied Allan's

WORD document to the text below

Allan, do you have a new phone number? I have texted

you several times about this matter, but you have not responded.

-- Ben Best

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Annual General Meeting -- Financial Report

THE CRYONICS SOCIETY OF CANADA, INC.

BALANCE SHEET as at December 31, 2024

ASSETS

2023 2024

Cash (Bank) $442.28 $763.81

PayPal balance $634.52 $927.73

Total $1076.80 $1691.54

LIABILITIES AND MEMBERS'S EQUITY

2023 2024

Member's Equity $1076.80 $1691.54

Total $1076.80 $1691.54

THE CRYONICS SOCIETY OF CANADA, INC.

INCOME STATEMENT as at December 31, 2024

REVENUES

2023 2024

Regular Memberships $10 $313.13

Lifetime Memberships $0.00 $300

Bank Interest $10.04 $13.53

Total $20.04 $626.66

EXPENSES

2023 2024

Post Office Box 11514 $0.00 $0.00

Corp. Filing Fee $0.00 $0.00

PayPal Fees $0.59 $9.92

Bank Fee $0.00 $21.50

Income Tax $0.00 $0.00

Total $0.59 $31.42

Revenue less expense $19.45 $595.24

THE CRYONICS SOCIETY OF CANADA, INC.

STATEMENT OF CHANGES OF FINANCIAL POSITION

as at December 31, 2024

2023 2024

Closing Equity $1076.80 $1691.54

Opening Equity $1057.35 $1096.30

Net Income (Loss) $19.45 $595.24

Notes

In 2024, we collected $313.13 in regular membership fees, and $300 in lifetime fees.
Our only expenses were Paypal and banking fees, which total $31.42.

CSC currently has nine Lifetime Members: Corinne, Martha, Gary, Nick, Patrice, Ken, Dennis, Michael, Ben and Richard. (Please inform me if you should be on this list and are not.)

If anyone wishes to pay the yearly $10 Membership fee, (or $300 for a lifetime membership) the preferred method is via PayPal. The e-mail address to which the money should be paid is:

cryonicssocietyofcanada(at)yahoo(dot)ca

Please send a follow up email explanation, stating the amount and purpose of your payment to:

allanfrandall(at)gmail.com

(Send all other enquiries about payment or membership status to the same address.)

For payments received without explanation: those less than $300 but greater than $10 will be taken to consist of an annual $10 dues payment, with any remainder to be considered as future dues paid in advance; those for $300 or more will be taken as payment for a lifetime membership.

If you cannot use Paypal, cheques payable to the Cryonics Society of Canada may be mailed to:
    Cryonics Society of Canada
    c/o Allan Randall
    29 Aldergrove Ave.
    Toronto, ON
    M4C 1B3
    CANADA

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James W

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Sep 15, 2025, 6:18:20 PMSep 15

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Link to the famous letter by H. Keith Henson in the Nov 1987

Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact magazine that alerted me to

cryonics.

An item for the history of Cryonics at

https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/library/history-of-cryonics :

Download a PDF:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s3xhi07vplx6nvzq132rz/Henson_cryonics_lett-AnalogSF_Nov_1987.pdf?rlkey=urgad60ejef2yzj6bj64eo91o&dl=0

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Sep 19, 2025, 8:45:06 AMSep 19

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The title of the message is 2025 CSC AGM "happening soon",

but since all the AGM topics are being posted here, it is

in fact, the actual AGM

I am hoping we can have a discussion in this AGM

about SST for Canada. I would appreciate comments

from Carrie concerning how capable Calgary is of SST

Christine indicates that local equipment and support

is poor, but wants professional options.

-- Ben Best

Carrie Radomski

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Sep 19, 2025, 10:31:59 PMSep 19

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Hello Ben, thanks for kicking off the yearly AGM. I am quite busy in the middle of building out my promaster XLT van to conduct full-body field perfusion of cryoprotectant. I have installed a cantilever tommy liftgate and I will be halfway through the build in early October. I have unpacked 2 pallets of equipment from Tomorrow Biostasis (Berlin, Germany). They have supplied me a full perfusion circuit along, surgical equipment, medical equipment, and all equipment needed to conduct a full field case and it set me back about 40k euros. It was a lot of stuff. I don't really like to say much until I am closer to being done or fully done. I have unpacked this and put into clear tupperware containers with labels on the outside so I don't lose track of what I have. Late last year with the guidance of Iris from PDC and Emil, I had purchased a heart/lung machine with 4 roller pumps. I'm slowly building up my equipment. The main thing I am missing is an ice bath because BT said they would send me one but it turns out they need all of them. I was kind of caught flat-footed with that one, I found out it wasn't happening in August. I'll have to find a fabricator to make one.

We are in the middle of renovating a 16,000 square feet building in downtown Calgary to be a conference/performance center along with a place to store the cryonics van and equipment. We are also looking at purchasing the derelict hotel next to our futurist club building to expand our business model. My husband is seeking millions in city funding to help restore a landmark historic St. Regist hotel. This is an aside to my main cryonics project. This building is of interest to us because its right up against our facility and we could do more if we had two buildings, we could join them to have a larger building. Also the hotelier business could be easily profitable.

-Carrie

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That is a very ambitious project you have taken-on, Carrie, with much

equipment, but not many people to use it or benefit from it,

unless you have helpers I do not know of. Lauren? Christine is

skeptical of the volunteer model for implementing cryonics SST,

despite the fact that Toronto has used that model with some

success in the past. If Christine or Houston would provide

the minimum number required to run a professional SST

case, it would be of interest. Are you planning to align

yourself with RBS, Carrie?

The cryonics jargon, for those who don't know: SST:

S -- Standby, team and equipment waiting near a terminal

cryonics patient, waiting for pronouncement of death

S -- Stabilization, ice bath, thumper, blood washout, meds, etc

to reduce the degradation of tissue due to ischemia, etc

T -- Transport, shipment of the cryonics patient to the

cryonics perfusion/storage organization.

-- Ben Best

Carrie Radomski

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Sep 20, 2025, 9:02:10 PMSep 20

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Ben, you are aware I am working very closely with RBS and I have attended almost all of their training events. In February this year I brought two paramedics from Calgary with me to train. I have been slow to hire anyone because there is no point yet. Once I have my vehicle and building done along with a contract with Mckinnon & Bowes then I will be in a better position to hire paramedics on retainer. I know I need about 5-6 people like this as contractors to make this feasible.

I don't intend to use volunteers, I intend to use hired paramedics who attend regular training with me in addition to in Florida. Furthermore, my company (Cryonics Rescue Canada) is included in the contract between RBS and PDC so I do have access to their surgeons and perfusionists if I do go that route. I don't have a problem with using these professionals.

In addition, I am hoping to hear about progress from Christine on the swiss embassy with respect to shipping bodies from Canada to Switzerland. I understand she has been fairly slammed with casework and writing case reports so I haven't bothered her about it lately. Christine is wearing a few hats right now so I understand if it is not her top priority but I thought the funeral director (Mckinnon & Bowes) could perhaps take this on.

I would hope Christine would be able to fly out to Calgary to assist if I were to have any cases. I could potentially get a working VISA for RBS/SA staff too, they would probably be happy to help to get more experience if I had the legal paperwork in place.

-Carrie

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James W

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Sep 22, 2025, 4:55:02 PMSep 22

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It would seem to be a good idea to buy the old St. Regis hotel

and renovate it. I read that Donald Trump bought a building in NYC

for $1M and had it renovated. Then it went up to $400M. I read

that in "Start Late; Finish Rich" by David Bach.

Best regards,

James

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Subject: Re: 2025 CSC AGM happening soon

Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:01:57 -0600

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Sep 23, 2025, 6:42:23 AMSep 23

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I know you have done many trainings with RBS, Carrie, but

my question was do you plan to offer services under the

RBS umbrella, such as NYC does, and offer services to

Tomorrow Biostasis under the contract between

RBS and TB.

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Carrie Radomski

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Sep 23, 2025, 1:47:48 PMSep 23

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That would be sorted out later. I'm not too concerned about it right now, more concerned about technical capabilities and equipment.

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Sep 24, 2025, 1:39:21 PMSep 24

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I just spoke to Houston, who said that you could be a contractor

for RBS as needed. Houston and Christine have ambitions of being

able to provide SST for all of Canada, but the devil is in the details,

which are being address piece-by-piece.

-- Ben

S B

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Sep 24, 2025, 4:58:45 PMSep 24

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I have a few comments.

Will the paperwork and agreement with the Swiss Embassy be back-and-forth transportation, Canada and Switzerland, Switzerland, and Canada, or just one way?!

There’s a contract being made. I think it would be better to have them both way.

Also, what is the hotel for?

Sincerely,

Lady. Shahad Bahar

She/her/hers/herself

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I just spoke to Houston, who said that you could be a contractor

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Ben Best

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Sep 24, 2025, 10:06:09 PMSep 24

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One very important detail is how American SST professionals can

be legally authorized to work in Canada. If RBS works as a

contractor for your organization, Carrie, then possibly your

organization could then hire RBS SST professionals as

contractors. Aaron Drake's International Cryonics Experts (ICE)

seems to have overcome this problem in many countries, including

Canada, where ICE has done some cryonics cases.

-- Ben

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At the Cryonics Institute AGM, CI Director Kevin Doyle,

who lives in Ontario, asked me how he could get SST

service: https://cryonics.org/directors-officers-kevin-doyle/

-- Ben

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The artificial intelligence app Perplexity says both the USA and Canada allow nationals

from the other to freely enter for business purposes of training or product support

"provided that their primary source of income" is from their home country.

-- Ben

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Oct 5, 2025, 4:21:51 PMOct 5

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I spoke to our Secretary/Treasurer Allan Randall who informed

me the Corporations Canada does not accept PO Boxes for

Canadian Corporations. I have been encouraging Allan to

get a PO Box both as an address for CSC as well as a place

for members to mail dues, communicate with CSC formally, etc.

I would not be wanting CSC to use Allan's or anyone else's

street address to be published on the CSC website, but Allan

suggested another alternative, which I did not understand.

Allan, could you provide clarification on this matter?

-- Ben Best

S B

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Oct 6, 2025, 5:04:33 PMOct 6

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I have a question for the group…

I am trying to find the right life insurance to cover my membership and procedures.

Its been tricky to find the right insurance.

Who can cover the payments?

Sincerely,

Lady. Shahad Bahar

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