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Mon Apr 12 • 7:30pm
The New Climate War
with Michael E. Mann

Upcoming Events

Live Online Event • Thu Apr 15 • 12:00pm
One Page: The Soul of a Woman
with Isabel Allende
Live Online Event • Mon Apr 19 • 7:30pm
A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency
with Seth Klein
Live Online Event • Thu Apr 22 • 9:00pm
One Page: Under the Wave at Waimea
with Paul Theroux
Live Online Event • Mon Apr 26 • 7:30pm
Take Back the Fight
with Nora Loreto
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Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Mon Apr 12 • 7:30pm
The New Climate War
with Michael E. Mann
Video coming soon
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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New episode each Friday
Podcast • Fri Apr 16
Hana Khan Carries On

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Podcast
Fiction
Episode 22 • Fri Apr 9
Tainna: The Unseen Ones
with Norma Dunning
Podcast • Episode 10 • Fri Mar 26
Four Lost Cities
with Annalee Newitz
Podcast • Episode 9 • Fri Mar 26
The Relatives
with Camilla Gibb
Podcast • Episode 8 • Fri Mar 19
The Deficit Myth
with Stephanie Kelton
Podcast • Episode 7 • Fri Mar 19
Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted
with Gary Barwin
Podcast • Episode 6 • Fri Mar 12
Gutter Child
with Jael Richardson
Podcast • Episode 5 • Fri Mar 12
A Town Called Solace
with Mary Lawson
Podcast • Episode 4 • Fri Mar 5
Speak, Silence
with Kim Echlin
Podcast • Episode 3 • Fri Mar 5
Blaze Island
with Catherine Bush
Podcast • Episode 2 • Fri Feb 26
The Centaur’s Wife
with Amanda Leduc
Podcast • Episode 1 • Fri Feb 26
The Push
with Ashley Audrain
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