We all know and love Carol Off as an award-winning journalist, author and host of CBC Radio’s As it Happens, for which she conducted 25,000 interviews over 16 years. She is an icon of Canadian journalism and a beacon of humour, compassion and insight.

 Carol Off’s latest book: At A Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage (Random House 2024) has been called “…an elegy and a call to arms”.

 In the book, Carol Off studies six words whose meaning and use, she feels, have been hijacked and twisted to mean something completely different. As a result, we are losing our political vocabulary—and with it, the ability to speak with and hear each other in meaningful ways.

 We are left unable to reckon with the complexities of the crises we face, and become easy prey to conspiracy theories, tech billionaires, and autocrats.

It is true that dictionaries add and remove words each year. Are language and society simply evolving?

 Or is the “dumbing down” of language and society, along with a democracy now dictated by capitalism, leading to less nuanced, balanced and important discussions, and, by extension, to people’s inability to accurately articulate their own thoughts and needs?

 Carol Off wonders if we can reclaim the value of words like: Democracy, Freedom and Truth.

 Please join us for this special discussion with a very special guest.

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With more nations developing space programs and more billionaires rushing to join Elon Musk in the industrialization of Earth’s orbit, we suddenly face the prospect of a ‘tragedy of the commons’ in outer space.

 What role can a science-informed, carefully regulated approach to the development of Earth’s orbit have in protecting and nourishing the planet?

 Moriba Jah describes himself as a celestial steward with a mission to preserve a safe, prosperous and sustainable Earth-space environment.

 As an astrophysicist, TED Fellow and National Geographic Explorer, Jah publicly promotes the safe, peaceful and sustainable use of outer space and the need for a global, accessible and transparent space traffic management system.

 Moriba Jah is a powerful, inspirational, interdisciplinary speaker who reaches a global audience.

 Join us for an evening of enlightenment on the health of the Earth-space environment – of Gaia – and what we can do to save it.

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Stephen Maher’s new book, The Prince (Simon and Schuster) is the first comprehensive biography of Justin Trudeau as Canadian Prime Minister.

Maher has been writing about Canadian politics since 1989. As a columnist and investigative reporter for Postmedia News, iPolitics, and Maclean’s, he has often set the agenda on Parliament Hill, covering political corruption, electoral wrongdoing, misinformation, and human rights abuses. He has also won many awards, including the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, the Michener Award for meritorious public service journalism, and the National Newspaper Award.

 With Justin Trudeau just having announced his resignation, his government is lurching towards the abyss, with cabinet ministers resigning and the Liberal Party shockingly low in opinion polls.

 Will Trudeau’s resignation save the Liberal Party?

 With great timing, Stephen Maher joins us the day before Parliament was due to resume. But now with Parliament prorogued until March, we can discuss the highs and lows of Trudeau’s leadership and examine where and why it all went wrong.

 Can there yet be a twist in the tale?

 Why did Trudeau stay on so long, ignoring freefalling opinion polls and the voices of his own caucus?

 Who might take over from Trudeau? Could anyone save the Liberals from defeat in the next election?

 Don’t miss this one!

Join us for this prescient and revealing discussion.

 Copies of The Prince will be available at a reduced price.

 Tickets available HERE