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Get treated fairly: The Role of the Ombudsman in Toronto and Ontario

Tue Jun 20, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Online

Were you treated unfairly by a provincial or municipal government service? Your Ombudsman can help. If you have an unresolved issue with a municipal or provincial public sector organization - like Service Ontario, the On...

Mellissa Fung: Between Good and Evil

Thu Jun 01, 2023 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Online

Veteran CBC journalist and best-selling author Mellissa Fung shares her new book which tells the true and harrowing story of the nearly 300 school-aged girls kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram. In her gripping b...

Climate Justice Through Indigenous Activism

Mon Jun 19, 2023 | 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Toronto Reference Library

The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world - a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genocide is on the horizon. The authors of the newly released book The End of This World:...

Tearing It Down: By-elections and Municipal Reform with Dave Meslin

Tue May 30, 2023 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: North York Central Library

Municipal politics rarely provides opportunities to change course, yet municipal governance can have a greater effect on people's lives than any other level of government. Join municipal governance reformer Dave Meslin t...

Mark Bowden: Life Sentence

Mon May 29, 2023 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Online

Mark Bowden, best selling and award winning author of Black Hawk Down and...

Angela Sterritt: Unbroken

Wed May 31, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference Library

Award-winning journalist, writer, and artist Angela Sterritt, joins us for the Toronto book launch of her highly anticipated memoir, Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls. In c...

The Era of Consequential Nonfiction and the End of Scientific Misinformation

Mon May 29, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference Library

Of all of the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation is the most tenacious - and the one we least understand. While 'infodemics' are a predictable side effect of every major epidemic and pandemic sinc...

Max Wallace: After the Miracle

Tue Jun 27, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Online

Historian and New York Times bestselling author of In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust and...

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