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Sun Jun 20 • 7:30pm
Gather
with Richard Van Camp
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Fiction
Non-Fiction
History
Poetry
Sun Jun 20 • 7:30pm
Gather
with Richard Van Camp
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Non-Fiction
Science
Fri Jun 18 • 7:30pm
The Menopause Manifesto
With Dr. Jen Gunter
Live Online Event
Fiction
History
Poetry
Thu Jun 17 • 5:30pm
The Life and Times of Robbie Burns
with John Ivison and Pauline Mackay
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon May 31 • 7:00pm
Mayflies
with Andrew O’Hagan
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Thu May 27 • 7:00pm
One Page: The Window Seat
with Aminatta Forna
Live Online Event
Fiction
Wed May 26 • 7:35pm
Sufferance
with Thomas King
Live Online Event
Memoir
Tue May 25 • 7:30pm
All the Rage
with Brad Fraser
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu May 20 • 7:00pm
One Page: Monkey Boy
with Francisco Goldman
Live Online Event
Poetry
Mon May 17 • 8:00pm
The Shadow List
with Jen Sookfong Lee
Live Online Event
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Memoir
Thu May 13 • 7:00pm
One Page: Goodbye, Again
with Jonny Sun
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon May 10 • 7:30pm
Find You First
with Linwood Barclay
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Apr 26 • 7:30pm
Take Back the Fight
with Nora Loreto
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Apr 22 • 9:00pm
One Page: Under the Wave at Waimea
with Paul Theroux
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Mon Apr 19 • 7:30pm
A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency
with Seth Klein
Live Online Event
Memoir
Thu Apr 15 • 12:00pm
One Page: The Soul of a Woman
with Isabel Allende
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Mon Apr 12 • 7:30pm
The New Climate War
with Michael E. Mann
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Apr 8 • 7:00pm
One Page: Klara and the Sun
with Kazuo Ishiguro
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
History
Mon Mar 29 • 7:30pm
Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity
With Darrel J. McLeod
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Mar 25 • 7:00pm
One Page: Foregone
with Russell Banks
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Mar 22 • 7:30pm
Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders
with André Picard
Live Online Event
Fiction
Poetry
Tue Mar 16 • 7:00pm
If I Tell You The Truth
with Jasmin Kaur
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Mar 15 • 7:30pm
Return of the Trickster
with Eden Robinson
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Mon Mar 8 • 7:30pm
White Feminism
with Koa Beck
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Mar 4 • 12:00pm
One Page: This Strange and Violent World
with Elif Shafak
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Tue Mar 2 • 7:30pm
The New Age of Empire
with Kehinde Andrews
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Thu Feb 25 • 7:30pm
Can You Hear Me Now?
with Celina Caesar-Chavannes
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Mon Feb 22 • 7:30pm
On Property
with Rinaldo Walcott
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Podcast • Fri Jun 25
The Traitor's Blade
with Kevin Sands
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Episode 28 • Fri Jun 18
The Bright Side
with Cathrin Bradbury
Podcast • Episode 27 • Fri Jun 18
Likeness
with David Macfarlane
Podcast • Episode 26 • Fri Jun 11
What You Are
with M.G. Vassanji
Podcast • Episode 25 • Fri Jun 11
Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
with Damon Centola
Podcast • Episode 24 • Fri Jun 4
A Girl Called Echo
with Katherena Vermette
Podcast • Episode 23 • Fri Jun 4
Because the Sun
with Sarah Burgoyne
Podcast • Episode 22 • Fri May 21
China
with Edward Rutherfurd
Podcast • Episode 21 • Fri May 21
The Good Father
with Wayne Grady
Podcast • Episode 20 • Fri May 14
Hummingbird Salamander
with Jeff VanderMeer
Podcast • Episode 19 • Fri May 14
Bruised
with Tanya Boteju
Podcast • Episode 18 • Fri May 7
Why Birds Sing
with Nina Berkhout
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