BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//YP Speakers Series - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for YP Speakers Series REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215102 CREATED:20241127T205154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250208T183430Z UID:1657-1738954800-1738962000@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:The Music of Talk DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n With musical examples and the insight gained in a 40-year career combining the narrative and emotional connections between music and talk\, master storyteller and broadcaster Tom Allen brings you on a stirring and inspirational journey to the deepest roots of human communication where melody and meaning become one. \nTom Allen was born in Montreal and went to school there\, at Marianapolis College and McGill\, before finishing degrees at Boston University and Yale.  He worked as a bass trombonist in New York City when there were still places you just didn’t go\, then in Toronto and on tour with the Great Lakes Brass. He began working for the CBC on his 30th birthday\, a very long time ago\, and at the time of writing is still there.  He has since written three books\, been a Resident Artist with Soulpepper Theatre\, delivered storytelling workshops at various University music programs and at the Banff Centre\, been named an honourary Doctor of Letters by Thompson Rivers University\, hosted countless concerts across the country and written a series of cabaret storytelling shows he calls Chamber Musicals\, including From Weimar to Vaudeville\, The Missing Pages\, A Poe Cabaret\, Being Lost and the latest: JS Bach’s Long Walk in the Snow.  Tom Allen lives in Toronto with his beloved\, the harpist Lori Gemmell\, their son\, and a very enthusiastic dog. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu. URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/the-music-of-talk/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Tom-Allen-2024_2025-YP-Speakers-Series_Web-Banners.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250110T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215103 CREATED:20241023T234358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T165101Z UID:1558-1736535600-1736535600@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Crawford Lake in Milton\, Ontario and the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Although humans have impacted their environment for millennia\, it is the fundamental change recorded by indicators of this Great Acceleration in the geologic record that justifies erecting a new interval of geologic time. Rejection of the proposal to define the beginning of the Anthropocene epoch with a ‘golden spike’ in varved sediments from Crawford Lake means that -by strict convention- we are still living in the Holocene– but is this societally relevant? Understanding how our planet functions allows us to make useful projections\, and examining the geologic record allows us to predict the consequences of warmth equal or exceeding that of the last interglacial. Formally recognizing that ‘Holocene’ no longer accurately describes our planet by adding a new epoch named after the main agent of change (Anthropos\, Greek for human) would highlight the value of Earth Sciences in addressing the existential issues that face humanity in the coming decades. \nFrancine McCarthy is a geoscientist whose paleoecological and geoarchaeological research focuses on pollen and the remains of algae and their consumers in ‘pollen slides’. Her (and her students’) research includes recent studies of the intestinal contents of a mastodon found in Nova Scotia\, an underwater archeological site in Greece\, several sites in the Great Lakes and many small lakes in its drainage basin (including the Experimental Lakes Area of NW Ontario and Lake George\, NY)\, the iconic Walden Pond and the meromictic Sluice Pond in Massachusetts. Her most highly publicised research has been on the varved sediments from Crawford Lake\, proposed as the ‘golden spike’ to define the Anthropocene. She embraced the multi/ transdisciplinary nature of the proposed Anthropocene epoch and is a member of the Anthropocene Commons as well as the Anthropocene Working Group. In addition to NSERC funding to support research on ‘The impact of land use at mid-latitudes in eastern North America on the global carbon budget: implications for the Anthropocene’\, she is co-recipient of a SSHRC grant entitled: ‘Bomb Pulse: Cultural and Philosophical Readings of Time Signatures in the Anthropocene’\, through which she is currently writing a graphic novel. She has presented the results of her research on Crawford Lake in a Ted Talk and at the Vatican\, among other venues. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. 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If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lecture Description : In Wanda’s War\, Marsha Faubert introduces a dimension of the Second World War many Canadians have rarely contemplated. Stories of Canadians on the battlefield\, the struggles of the home front\, even the experience of Britons under bombing\, are well known. But many of today’s Canadians trace their roots to the postwar migration of refugees from Eastern Europe and the Baltic states\, whose war experiences remain buried. \nWanda’s War reconstructs the lives of Faubert’s parents-in-law\, Wanda and Casey\, and the lesser-known events of the war that shaped their lives. With not one\, but two occupations of their homeland in Poland’s eastern borderlands\, both were torn from their homes and deported to forced labour — one to Nazi Germany\, the other to subarctic Russia. An “astonishing yet uplifting addition to the great body of literature of the Second World War” (David Marks Shribman)\, Wanda’s War speaks to the broader refugee experience that has unfolded globally since WWII and\, tragically\, continues today. \nHistorian Christopher Moore will join Faubert in a wide-ranging conversation about the book’s themes — the geopolitics of eastern Europe\, gulags and slave labour camps\, postwar displacement and immigration\, and the politics of memory. \nBiography : Marsha Faubert is a lawyer and writer of narrative nonfiction. She began her legal career as a litigator\, and later worked in various roles in the administrative justice system in Ontario. Her first book\,\nWanda’s War — An Untold Story of Nazi Europe\, Forced Labour\, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal\, raises themes of memory and silence\, justice and forgiveness through the lens of the wartime and immigration experiences of her husband’s parents. She is in the early stages of a new project which will examine the history and legacy of environmental injustice in her hometown of Sarnia\, known to some as Canada’s Chemical Valley.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu. URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/marsha-faubert-in-conversation-with-christopher-moore-about-her-book-wandas-war-an-untold-story-of-nazi-europe-forced-labour-and-a-canadian-immigration-scandal/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Marsha-Faubert-2024_2025-YP-Speakers-Series_Web-Banners.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241120T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215103 CREATED:20241106T184320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250116T141650Z UID:1599-1732129200-1732136400@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Sir John A. Macdonald in History and Fiction: DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sir John A. Macdonald & The Apocalyptic Year 1885 will be published by Sutherland House Books in November 2024.  “In this fascinating and authoritative study of a skilled politician at the peak of his powers\, political historian Patrice Dutil shows how Macdonald navigated persistent threats to public order\, anchored the stability of his government\, and ensured the future of his still fragile nation. What emerges is a compelling portrait of a man who\, notwithstanding his personal failings and the sins of his times\, was the most enlightened and constructive public figure of early Canadian History.” (from the dust jacket.)  Professor Dutil will be joined on stage by novelists Gordon Henderson and Roy MacSkimming\, both of whom have written historical fiction featuring Macdonald\, for a conversation about Macdonald’s central place in Canadian history\, the challenges he faced and overcame in holding Canada together\, and how fiction can help inform our understanding of history. The panel will be led by CIHE board member Lynne Golding\, herself the author of an historical fiction trilogy. \nBIOGRAPHIES \nPatrice Dutil is the author or editor of a dozen books\, a frequent commentator on policy and political issues\, and the host of over 100 podcasts in the Canadian history series\, “Witness to Yesterday.” He is a professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). He founded and for five years edited The Literary Review of Canada and served as president of the Champlain Society for seven years. He is a senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto and a senior fellow at the Macdonald—Laurier Institute. Among his books are Ballots and Brawls: The 1867 Canadian General Election\, Prime Ministerial Power in Canada: it’s Origins under Macdonald\, Laurier and Borden\, and Macdonald at 200: New Perspectives and Legacies (edited with Roger Hall). \nIn a fifty-year career in journalism Gordon Henderson has been a parliamentary correspondent\, a current affairs field producer and an award-winning documentary producer. He’s directed films from Afghanistan to the Arctic\, Beijing to Buenos Aires\, and his company\, 90th Parallel Productions\, has produced more than a hundred documentaries. Henderson was a senior series producer of the CBC/Radio-Canada series Canada: A People’s History and taught in the Journalism Department at Toronto’s Ryerson (now Metropolitan) University. He is semi-retired and writing. His first novel\, Man in the Shadows was built around the assassination of Irish-Canadian politician D’Arcy McGee. His second\, Out of the Shadows\, co-written with Métis writer David Bouchard and published in September 2024\, takes place during the Red River Resistance in Manitoba. Both feature Sir John A. Macdonald. \nRoy MacSkimming is the author of nine books\, including the historical novels Macdonald\, a Globe & Mail best book of the year\, and Laurier in Love. His study of Canadian book publishing\, The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada’s Authors\, was also a Globe & Mail best book and finalist for the National Business Book Award. MacSkimming has spent his working life in and around the book industry as author\, editor\, publisher\, and books editor of the Toronto Star. Set during Sir John A.’s final months\, Macdonald\, published in 2015\, portrays a lion in winter fighting for his life and legacy. Peter C. Newman hailed it as “a singularly well-crafted novel that deserves top place among the books on Canadian history that matter.”  MacSkimming is finishing a new novel\, The Cure for Love\, a prequel to Macdonald. \nLynne Golding is the author of the historical fiction series\, “Beneath the Alders.”  A graduate of the University of Toronto and Queen’s University\, she is a senior partner at the international law firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP where she co-leads their health law practice group. Lynne lives in Brampton\, Ontario\, and has three grown children. Beneath the Alders is inspired by stories told to Golding by her great aunt\, Jessie Roberts Current\, born in Brampton\, Ontario in 1903. Those stories\, supplemented by extensive research led to the creation of three novels about life in small-town Canada: The Innocent (1907 – July 1914); The Beleaguered (1914 – 1918) and The Mending (1918 – 1931). Golding is an advisory board member of the Canadian Institute for Historical Education and gave a lecture in the Yorkminster Park Speakers Series in January\, 2022. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu. URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/sir-john-a-macdonald-in-history-and-fiction/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/John-A-mac-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241108T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215103 CREATED:20241023T195734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T211759Z UID:1530-1731092400-1731092400@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:By The Ghost Light: Wars\, Memory\, and Families DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lecture Description : R. H. Thomson’s book By The Ghost Light: Wars\, Memory and Families is a personal\, emotional and intensely engaging exploration of how the stories we tell affect the wars we fight. On publication in November 2023\, it was on the best seller list for Canadian non-fiction. In this lecture\, R. H. Thomson will talk about the book\, the family stories on which is based and about “The World Remembers” WWI memory project. \nBiography : R.H. has appeared in film and theatre across Canada\, as Matthew Cuthbert in Anne With An E\, and as Marshall McLuhan in The Message by Jason Sherman. An advocate for the arts\, R.H. has also worked on many history/arts projects. He built The World Remembers-Le Monde Se Souvient\, an international World War One commemoration exhibit now installed at war museums in Canada and the United States\, theworldremembers.ca. He is a Member of the Order of Canada and was awarded the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. 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URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/by-the-ghost-light-wars-memory-and-families/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RH-Thomson-2024_2025-YP-Speakers-Series_Web-Banners-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241025T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215103 CREATED:20241010T181703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241130T001115Z UID:1491-1729882800-1729890000@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Family business and the private sector’s role in Canadian prosperity DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Growing up attending  Yorkminster Park provided an excellent grounding in the importance of family\, a theme that would shape Galen Weston’s path towards becoming the fourth generation of family leaders at Canada’s largest private employer\, leading real estate investment trust\, and largest network of independent food and drug retailers. In this candid conversation\, Galen will share his thoughts about the uniqueness of family businesses and the role of private enterprise in the community. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nGalen Weston is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of George Weston Limited where he is the fourth generation of family leaders. Founded in 1882\, George Weston represents a portfolio of businesses including Canada’s leading real estate investment trust\, Choice Properties\, as well as supermarket and pharmacy retailing\, fashion\, and financial services through its holdings in Loblaw Companies Limited where Galen is Chairman. Galen is also Chairman of President’s Choice Bank\, as well as a Director of Wittington Investments Limited and the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Galen holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. 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URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/family-business-patient-capital-and-the-private-sectors-role-in-canadian-prosperity/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Galen-2024_2025-YP-Speakers-Series_Web-Banners.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240927T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240927T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215103 CREATED:20240913T133106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T182245Z UID:1437-1727463600-1727463600@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:The State of our Politics DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In his lecture\, Sean Conway\, a long-time member of the Ontario Legislature and a former senior minister in the Liberal government of Premier David Peterson (1985—1990)\, will focus on some of the central issues which seem to be roiling our democratic politics in Canada\, the United States and the United Kingdom. Among these issues are: increased polarization\, the decline of trust in our political institutions\, the lamentable state of our political parties\, the corrosive effect of money in our public affairs\, the new media environment and its very worrisome effect upon our democracy\, foreign interference in our elections and the passivity of too many citizens at a time when some issues – e.g. climate change and intergenerational stresses in our society – present unusually difficult political choices. Conway will suggest some modest proposals to deal with some of these problems and will argue that for a vibrant democracy to succeed\, the citizen must become more engaged if we are to avert real trouble in our town square. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nBorn in Pembroke Ontario in 1951\, Sean Conway grew up in Renfrew County\, studied Canadian history at Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier) and Queen’s and was elected ‘at a rather young age’ to the Ontario Legislature in 1975 where he served for 28 years including as minister of education during the Liberal government of Premier David Peterson. In 2007 he received the Churchill Society’s Award for Excellence in the Cause of Parliamentary Democracy. Since his retirement from active politics Conway has taught history at Queen’s\, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) and the University of Toronto. While at Queen’s\, he led a major research project into the public life of the Rt. Hon. Paul Martin\, the former prime minister of Canada. He has also been a public policy advisor at the Gowlings law firm and an analyst on TVO’s popular public affair program 4th Reading hosted by Steve Paikin. 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URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/the-state-of-our-politics/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024_2025_Web-Banners_Sean-Conway_September.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240607T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240607T235900 DTSTAMP:20260403T215103 CREATED:20230925T191134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T132747Z UID:831-1717786800-1717804740@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:How Canadians View Their World: Taking the mystery out of Public Opinion Research DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Using examples from current issues\, Greg Lyle will show us “behind the curtains” of public opinion research and explain how Canadians form and change their opinions about key issues and players in our society. Starting with a brief account of the origins\, varieties and methodologies of public opinion research\, Greg will draw on the insights gained from more than thirty years in the field to explain how polls can be both astonishingly accurate and sometimes spectacularly wrong. Drawing on his current polls Greg will highlight the issues that matter most to Canadians and what divides and unites us on those issues.  \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nGreg Lyle is the founder and President of Innovative Research Group with over thirty years of communications and opinion research experience. As a former Principal Secretary\, Greg has built a career at the intersection of public policy\, communications and public opinion. He uses a full range of research tools for a variety of government and corporate clients across industries such as financial services\, healthcare and the energy and infrastructure sector. Greg’s research has been featured in many media outlets across Canada and in 2016\, Greg received the Public Affairs Association of Canada Award of Distinction. Greg has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of British Columbia and\, when away from his desk\, can be found travelling between British Columbia\, Ontario\, and England to spend time with his wife and daughters. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/how-canadians-view-their-world-taking-the-mystery-out-of-public-opinion-research/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Greg-Lyle.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240510T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240510T235900 DTSTAMP:20260403T215103 CREATED:20230925T191029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240512T102502Z UID:827-1715367600-1715385540@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:In conversation with former Ambassador and MP Chris Alexander DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n May 2024 marks the 45th anniversary of Joe Clark’s election as Canada’s youngest Prime Minister on May 22nd 1979. In an interview format with former Ambassador and MP Chris Alexander\, Mr. Clark will share his recollections and insights garnered from his 25 years in the House of Commons\, his time as Prime Minister and as Secretary of State for External Affairs from 1984 to 1991\, and will comment on the current political situation in Canada and around the world in what seem to be increasingly polarised and uncertain times. \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nJoe Clark served as Canada’s 15th Prime Minister from 1979–80 and as Secretary of State for External Affairs from 1984–91. Chris Alexander was Canada’s Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2003–05\, and Minister of Citizenship and Immigration from 2013–15.  \nThis evening will be presented in partnership with the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/in-conversation-with-former-ambassador-and-mp-chris-alexander/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Joe-Clark.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240412T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240412T235900 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230925T190352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240524T124234Z UID:821-1712948400-1712966340@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Park Bagger: Exploring Qausuittuq (Kow-soo-ee-took) National Park In the High Arctic DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Marlis Butcher was the first person to visit all 48 Canadian National Parks\, one third of which have no road access\, and in 2016 one of the first persons to visit Canada’s newest national park at the time\, Qausuittuq\, (pronounced Kow-soo-ee-took) in Nunavut. She is thus uniquely qualified to offer this lecture which will begin with an introduction to Canada’s National Parks system\, then zoom in on the Arctic\, and finally focus on exploring Qausuittuq National Park. Through unique photographs and engaging story-telling\, Marlis will take us on a virtual voyage into the High Arctic\, sharing what it’s like to travel to Canada’s true north\, to explore this extremely remote park\, and to meet its endangered inhabitants.  \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nMarlis Butcher is an environmental conservationist and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and of The Explorers Club. Marlis is the first visitor to bag (visit) all 48 Canadian national parks\, one third of which have no road access. To share the park experience and encourage appreciation of these natural wonders\, she published her first book\, Park Bagger – Adventures in the Canadian National Parks\, a collection of short stories of adventure and discovery. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/park-bagger-exploring-qausuittuq-kow-soo-ee-took-national-park-in-the-high-arctic/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Marlis-Butcher.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240301T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240301T235900 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230925T185647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240301T154846Z UID:815-1709319600-1709337540@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:"Newfoundland: From Country to Province” (On the 75th anniversary of Newfoundland’s Confederation with Canada) DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Newfoundland was a country before it became a province of Canada in 1949. Why did it remain separate for so long and why did it change course in the 1940s? In this lecture\, David MacKenzie will look at the impact of the Great Depression on Newfoundland and the emergence of the country after 1939 as the Gibraltar of the Atlantic. In 1934\, pushed financially\, Newfoundland lost self-government in favour of administration by a British appointed Commission\, but during the Second World War the country prospered\, and the British grip weakened. Both Canada and the United States built bases in Newfoundland and the country turned in a decidedly North American direction. The outcome was an intense postwar political round leading to union with Canada seventy-five years ago. \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nIt is also available as a livestream webcast at www.YPSpeakersSeries.com. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nDr. David MacKenzie is a graduate of McGill University and the University of Toronto and a professor of history at Toronto Metropolitan University. His main areas of academic interest are in Canadian history and international relations and the study of international organizations. He is the author of several books\, including Inside the Atlantic Triangle: Canada and the Entrance of Newfoundland into Confederation\, 1939-1949 (1986) and ICAO: A History of the International Civil Aviation Organization (2010). His most recent book is King and Chaos: The 1935 Canadian General Election (2023). \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the Newfoundland & Labrador Historical Society. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/newfoundland-from-country-to-province-75th-anniversary-of-newfoundlands-confederation-w-canada/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Web-Banner_David-Mackenzie.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240209T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240209T235900 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230925T185054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240125T131823Z UID:811-1707505200-1707523140@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Modest Hopes: Homes and Stories of Toronto’s Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In this lecture based on the book of the same title\, Don Loucks will tell the stories of Toronto’s built heritage of row houses\, semis\, and cottages and the people who lived in them. Too often\, workers’ cottages are characterized today as being small\, poorly built\, and disposable. But in the late 1800s\, to have worked and saved enough money to move into one was an incredible achievement. Moving from the crowded conditions of boarding houses\, or areas such as Toronto’s Ward\, to a self-contained\, six-hundred-square-foot cottage was the result of an unimaginably strong hope for the future and a commitment to what lay ahead. For the workers and their families\, these houses were far from modest. The architectural details suggested status\, value\, and pride of place and reminded the workers of the homeland from which they had come.  \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nDon Loucks is an architect\, urban designer\, and cultural heritage planner\, with forty years of project experience. He is committed to environmental\, economic\, and cultural sustainability\, and to preserving the variety of rich urban forms that contain the stories of our communities’ history. He lives in Toronto.  \nThis Lecture is co-sponsored by the Toronto Society of Architects. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/modest-hopes-homes-and-stories-of-torontos-workers-from-the-1820s-to-the-1920s/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Don-Loucks.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240124T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240124T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230925T183917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240125T130504Z UID:804-1706122800-1706122800@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Israel - Palestine: How Did October 7 Happen\, Where Do We Go from Here\, and Why Building Trust between Palestinians and Israelis Is More Important Now Than Ever DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, we’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The brutal massacre of October 7 in southern Israel by Hamas terrorists cannot be justified under any circumstances. But the attack and Israel’s response took place within a complex and longstanding context of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that began in the early 20th Century. The November 2022 election in Israel\, when the most right wing government in Israel’s history was elected\, resulted in policies\, actions and personalities that helped set the scene for the tragedy that we are witnessing today. The only silver lining to emerge from the conflict is a revival by key players of the idea of a two-state solution as the best means for bringing long term safety and security to both parties. \nSome of us feel distraught and helpless witnessing the horrors of the current situation. We are searching for ways to alleviate some of the pain and suffering in the region. Jon Allen chairs Rozana Canada\, a non profit that builds trust and respect between Israelis and Palestinians through the health care sector. Rozana designs\, implements and funds joint Palestinian-Israeli projects in the training\, treatment and transport of Palestinians with the collaboration of Israeli health professionals. This work is more important now than ever. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nJon Allen was born in Winnipeg and studied at Western University and the London School of Economics before joining the Department of External Affairs in 1981. In addition to postings in Mexico  \nCity\, New Delhi and Washington\, Jon spent his early career working in the areas of human rights\, humanitarian\, and environmental law. From 2006 to 2010\, he served as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel; from 2012 to 2016 as Ambassador to Spain and Andorra; and from December 2012 to July 2014\, as interim Chargé d’affaires to the Holy See. Jon Allen is currently a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and a Distinguished Fellow of the Canada International Council. He is the Chair of Project Rozana Canada\, a not for profit whose objective is to build bridges between Palestinians and Israelis via the health sector. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/israel-palestine-how-did-october-7-happen-where-do-we-go-from-here-and-why-building-trust-between-palestinians-and-israelis-is-more-important-now-than-ever/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023_2024-YP-Speakers-Series_Jon-Revision.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240112T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240112T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230925T183503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240103T135114Z UID:799-1705086000-1705086000@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo – Munitions Production in Scarborough during World War Two DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Early in the Second World War\, the Canadian government built a top-secret munitions factory in the then rural community of Scarborough just seven miles from Toronto’s downtown. The plant\, called GECO—General Engineering Company (Canada) Limited—comprised 346 acres\, 172 buildings\, and over four kilometers of underground passageways. Barbara Dickson’s book\, Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo\, is a comprehensive\, historical record of Canada’s biggest WWII munitions plant\, GECO\, which employed over 21\,000 citizens\, predominantly women\, courageously working with high explosives around the clock during the Second World War. In this lecture\, Barbara will relate the dramatic story of the incredible contribution made by so many women so long ago. What was it really like to work in a munitions factory? Did anyone die? What were working conditions like? How closely did bomb girls resemble “Rosie the Riveter?” Barbara will draw on twenty years of research to answer these questions.  \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nBarbara Dickson is an author\, historian\, public speaker and documentary film producer who has entertained\, educated\, and enlightened audiences for twenty-five years. She strives to educate Canadians about the phenomenal work carried out by women across the nation whose invaluable contribution helped win the Second World War and is committed to ensuring that Canada’s “bomb girls” are honoured and commemorated. Her legacy project is to found a museum on the old GECO site in Scarborough where the public can come to learn\, appreciate\, and remember the critical sacrifice women made for their country so long ago. Her 2015 book\, Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo\, was a finalist for the Ontario Legislature’s Book Award in 2016 and turned into a documentary film in 2017. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/bomb-girls-trading-aprons-for-ammo-munitions-production-in-scarborough-during-world-war-two/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Barbara-Dickson.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230916T181808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T230938Z UID:590-1700852400-1700852400@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:‘It’ll never happen to me’ is happening to over 2.5 million Canadians relying on foodbanks DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Food Bank usage in Toronto has increased from 60\,000 client visits per month before the pandemic to over 270\,000 in the summer of 2023. Who are the people who now need to rely on food charity? What has caused this crisis and\, most importantly\, what can we do to change the situation we find ourselves in?  \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nNeil Hetherington is the CEO of Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank\, one of Canada’s largest food banks and a national leader in research that examines the causes and impacts of food insecurity. Previously he was the CEO of Habitat for Humanity Toronto and New York City for 16 years. He holds degrees or certificates from Huron University\, Seneca College\, Harvard Business School and his MBA from Western University’s Ivey Business School. Neil was named one of Canada’s ‘Top 40 under 40’ in 2005. Neil is the Chair of the Board of Directors of House of Compassion\, a project founded through Yorkminster Park Church to provide permanent supportive housing to persons living with mental illness. He is a Board member of Feed Ontario\, Vice-Commodore at the National Yacht Club\, and a member of The Salvation Army National Advisory Board. He is an active pilot and sailor.  \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the Daily Bread Food Bank. The costs to the Yorkminster Park Speakers Series of putting on this lecture have been fully covered by a generous anonymous donor so that all donations at the door will go to the Daily Bread Food Bank. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/itll-never-happen-to-me-is-happening-to-over-2-5-million-canadians-relying-on-foodbanks/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Neil-Hetherington.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231116T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231116T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230916T181735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T231157Z UID:1161-1700139600-1700139600@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation. DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zoom Webinar RegistrationRegister below and you will receive a reminder from Zoom 15 minutes before the event starts. \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n On Thursday\, November 16th from 1:00 — 2:00 PM by Zoom\, the Yorkminster Park Speakers Series\, in partnership with the YP Book Club\, presents historian Ellen Fitzpatrick\, author of Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation. In recognition that this month marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas\, Texas on November 22nd\, 1963\, Professor Fitzpatrick will join us by Zoom for this special presentation to give a short talk about her book and about the Kennedy era followed by a Q&A session hosted by Dr. Eric McGeer who will facilitate live questions from the audience. Everyone is welcome to participate. \nAbout Letters to Jackie:For Letters to Jackie\, noted historian and News Hour commentator Ellen Fitzpatrick combed through literally thousands of condolence messages sent by ordinary Americans to Jacqueline Kennedy following the assassination of her husband\, President John F. Kennedy\, in 1963. The first book ever to examine this extraordinary collection\, Letters to Jackie presents 250 intimate\, heartfelt\, eye-opening responses to what was arguably the most devastating event in twentieth century America\, providing a fascinating perspective on a singular time in the history of our nation. \nAbout Ellen Fitzpatrick:Ellen Fitzpatrick\, who holds a PhD in History from Brandeis University\, is Presidential Chair and Professor of History\, Emerita at the University of New Hampshire and has taught previously at Harvard University\, M.I.T. and Wellesley College. A specialist in modern American political and intellectual history\, she is the author and editor of eight books\, including The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency (Harvard University Press\, 2016)\, the New York Times bestselling\, Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation (Ecco\, 2010); and History’s Memory: Writing America’s Past\, 1880-1980 (Harvard University Press\, 2002) as well as many articles and reviews. Letters to Jackie became the basis for a 2014 documentary film by Bill Couturié for which Fitzpatrick served as Associate Producer. The Highest Glass Ceiling was selected as a 2016 “Editor’s Choice” by the New York Times\, and a notable nonfiction book of 2016 by the Washington Post. It was also excerpted in The New Yorker. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker → URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/letters-to-jackie-condolences-from-a-grieving-nation/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2023-YP-Series-Letters-to-Jackie.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231108T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230916T181440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T194837Z UID:585-1699470000-1699470000@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Holocaust Distortion as a new form of Holocaust Denial: The Case of Poland DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n While Holocaust denial is easy to identify and straightforward to explain\, Holocaust distortion is a more insidious and complex threat. Unlike the deniers of yesteryear\, people\, states\, and institutions engaged in Holocaust distortion do not deny the factuality of the event. They argue instead that their nation\, their people\, their tribe\, had nothing to do with it. There were some corrupt individuals\, no doubt\, but helping and rescuing of Jews was the default position of our people\, argue the nationalists. And\, with the formidable funding provided by the states engaged in Holocaust distortion\, the Shoah is being re-branded into a positive narrative in which enthusiastic and altruistic Gentiles strive to save their Jewish neighbors from the clutches of the Germans. We thought we knew that the German genocidal plan had many willing helpers across Europe but this knowledge is now being put to question and assaulted by the agents of Holocaust distortion.  \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nJan Grabowski is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa. His research includes the issues surrounding the extermination of the Polish Jews as well as the history of the Jewish-Polish relations during the 1939-1945 period. He is the author of numerous journal articles and several books\, including Hunt for the Jews. Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland (Indiana University Press\, Bloomington & Indianapolis\, 2013) which won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for 2014. A recipient of the 2014 Faculty of Arts Professor of the Year Award\, he teaches survey courses and graduate and undergraduate seminars on the history of the Holocaust. Professor Grabowski is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.  \nThis lecture will be part of the Neuberger Foundation’s Holocaust Education Week  \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker →\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join our email listJoin our email list to get an email advising you of our next event\, as well as a reminder email thirty minutes before each event with a link to watch online\, for those unable to attend in person. \n \n \n \n \n \n Success!\n \n \n \n \n First Name\n \n \n \n \n Last Name\n \n \n \n \n Email\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send Me A Reminder URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/holocaust-distortion-as-a-new-form-of-holocaust-denial-the-case-of-poland/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Jan-Grabowski.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231025T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231025T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230916T181054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T220920Z UID:581-1698260400-1698260400@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Uncovering the Past: Tales from a Passionate Genealogist DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n When she a young child\, Heather’s mother told her that Mark Twain was a great-uncle. It seemed like a really cool thing to tell people\, but other than that\, it held little meaning for her at the time. Fast forward forty years: one night while Heather found herself between jobs and with time on her hands a TV ad for Ancestry reminded her of Mark Twain and she decided to see if there was any truth to the family story. Only later did she realise that this was the moment her passion for genealogy was born. In this talk Heather will share stories from her own work – involving archival research\, personal interviews and the latest in genetic DNA technology – to help us understand why the field of genealogy has grown exponentially in recent years and why it has become not only Heather’s passion but also her second career. Perhaps she will also inspire you to begin your journey tracing your own family history.  \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nAfter a 20-year career as a Marketing Executive for several consumer-packaged goods companies\, Heather retired from the proverbial rat race to dedicate more time to her family and to pursue her own family history. Originally enthralled by the shaking leaves\, she turned her attention to educating herself on proper genealogy methods and received a certificate from the National Institute for Genealogical Studies. She started her own company\, Dig Ancestry Services in 2013 and her second career began. She is passionate about finding the stories in everyone’s family history and seeks to help people on their journey of discovery. She volunteers with the Ontario Genealogical Society and is currently serving as the Past President\, Conference Chair and Editor of the Families Journal.  \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the Ontario Genealogical Society  \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker → URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/uncovering-the-past-tales-from-a-passionate-genealogist/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Heather-Mctavish-Taylor.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231013T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231013T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230916T180527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250116T200033Z UID:574-1697223600-1697223600@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Where the Falcon Flies: A 3\,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Professional explorer and adventurer Adam Shoalts returns to the Yorkminster Park Speakers Series to tell us about his latest adventure and book: a 3\,400 km solo canoe journey from Lake Erie to the Arctic. The expedition took over three months and saw Shoalts depart from Long Point and travel all the way to the Torngat Mountains and Ungava Bay. Adam will share the story of his journey as well as photos from it. This lecture coincides with the publication of Adam’s book about his journey\, Where the Falcon Flies\, on October 3rd 2023. Copies of the newly released book will be available for purchase and signing.  \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nAdam Shoalts is a professional adventurer\, best-selling author\, and Westaway Explorer-in-Residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. His expeditions range from mapping rivers to archaeological projects\, but Shoalts is best known for his long solo wilderness journeys\, including crossing alone nearly 4\,000 km of Canada’s Arctic. Named one of the “greatest living explorers” by CBC and even declared “Canada’s Indiana Jones” by the Toronto Star\, Shoalts is a frequent guest on TV and radio. His latest adventure was a 3\,400 km solo journey from Lake Erie to the Arctic\, the subject of his new book\, Where the Falcon Flies. His other books include Alone Against the North\, A History of Canada in 10 Maps\, and Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada’s Arctic\, and The Whisper on the Night Wind\, all of them national bestsellers. He has a PhD from McMaster University in history\, and in his free time\, enjoys long walks in the woods. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker → URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/where-the-falcon-flies-a-3400-kilometre-odyssey-from-my-doorstep-to-the-arctic/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Adam-Shoalts.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230929T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230929T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230914T230015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T200638Z UID:178-1696014000-1696014000@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Toronto: Home of the Oldest and Newest Carillons in North America DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Over five centuries in Europe a remarkable concert instrument evolved: the carillon\, consisting of tuned bronze bells expressively played from a keyboard. Before the outbreak of the Great War there were more than 140 “singing towers” in the Low Countries\, providing melodic soundscapes to their communities. Wars wreaked destruction on the European carillons\, but the fame of their voices also inspired a carillon renaissance to build new towers across the world serving as musical memorials. In 1922 Toronto’s Metropolitan Methodist Church (now Metropolitan United Church) installed the first modern tuned carillon in North America. In the century since\, ten more carillons were built in Canada and more than 170 installed across the continent. In this illustrated lecture Andrea McCrady will celebrate North America’s newest carillon to serenade Toronto at Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nAndrea McCrady was appointed Dominion Carillonneur of the Peace Tower Carillon in 2008 and is an Adjunct Professor in carillon studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. Introduced to the carillon in 1971 at Trinity College\, Hartford\, CT\, she studied at the carillon schools in the Netherlands\, Belgium\, and France on a post-graduate fellowship. During medical school at McGill University\, Montreal\, she was carillonneur at St. Joseph’s Oratory\, followed by her hospital residency in Toronto\, where she played at the University of Toronto and the Canadian National Exhibition. From 1990-2008\, she coordinated the carillon program at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Spokane\, WA\, where she also practiced family medicine. In 2008\, she retired from medicine upon receiving a Bachelor of Music from the University of Denver. Dr. McCrady has served on the boards of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America and the World Carillon Federation. When not at the carillon keyboard\, she is out exploring the great Canadian outdoors by hiking\, canoeing\, and skiing. \nThis is a special commemorative lecture on the occasion of the inauguration of Yorkminster Park’s new Carillon. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker → URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/toronto-home-of-the-oldest-and-newest-carillons-in-north-america/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Andrea-McCrady.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230922T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230922T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230913T230049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T221257Z UID:142-1695409200-1695409200@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Top 170 Unusual Things to See in Ontario DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ron Brown’s latest book\, Top 170 Unusual Things to See in Ontario\, was newly released and expanded in 2022. Using the book as a starting point\, this illustrated lecture will explore some of Ontario’s most unusual features and landscapes including such phenomena as The Screaming Heads\, Guelph’s “Notre Dame”\, Toronto’s Graffiti Alleys\, and its “Luminous Veil” on the Bloor Street Viaduct as well as the light show in Brockville’s railway tunnel. \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nRon Brown is an award-winning travel writer whose pieces have been published in the Toronto Star\, the Globe and Mail\, Canadian Geographic Magazine\, and VIA Rail Magazine. He has published more than twenty books on the heritage of Ontario and Canada\, and he lectures on\, and leads tours of\, heritage landscapes across Ontario. He has participated on TVO’s Studio Two panels to determine Ontario’s “most historic town\,” Ontario’s “prettiest town\,” and Ontario’s “best main street.” Ron is a member of the Travel Media Association of Canada and is past chair of The Writers’ Union of Canada\, whose “Freedom to Read Award” he received in 2015 for his ongoing promotion of freedom to read and write in Canada. \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by Mary Morton Tours. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker → URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/top-170-unusual-things-to-see-in-ontario/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ron-Brown.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230609T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230609T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230609T113427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T163239Z UID:537-1686337200-1686337200@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Did you eat today? Thank a Bee! DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Honey bees play a vital role in agriculture through the pollination of food crops. One third of the food we eat is pollinated by bees. Honey bees provide 80% of this service – native bees provide the rest. Did you know there are 423 species of native bees living in Ontario? They are also vitally important as they pollinate many native plants. Hummingbirds and some bat species pollinate too! Honey bees face numerous health challenges and the role of the University of Guelph’s Honey Bee Research Centre (HBRC) is to help beekeepers keep their bees healthy. The centre conducts hive health studies and trains beekeepers on a global scale. In this presentation Paul Kelly will outline the challenges bees face\, survey the research and education activities of the HBRC\, and let us know how we can help them help bees. \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nPaul Kelly has managed the Honey Bee Research Centre at the University of Guelph for the past thirty five years. His primary role at the centre is to manage honey bee colonies for research and teaching purposes. He provides research support for hive health science\, training for students and beekeepers\, coordinates and teaches beekeeping courses\, conducts facility tours for the general public and hasn’t stopped talking about bees since taking his first apiculture course in 1980! \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker → URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/did-you-eat-today-thank-a-bee/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Paul-Kelly.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230510T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230510T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230510T134950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T163148Z UID:366-1683745200-1683745200@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:The Jewish Experience in Toronto DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Jewish population of Canada is currently about 400\,000 people of which close to half reside in the GTA.  They first settled in the area in the 1820s and their number continued to increase when Jewish immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe arrived in Canada in large numbers after 1880.  They came seeking a home and country in which they could not only survive and prosper\, but one in which they could leave a positive legacy for their children\, grandchildren\, and the generations that followed.  They did indeed find the refuge they were searching for in Toronto and elsewhere\, yet their acceptance and integration into the larger society was not always wanted or welcome\, and the struggles they faced caused much inner turmoil and hardship.  In this lecture historian and author Allan Levine examines the key lessons\, trends and patterns of two centuries of Jewish life in Toronto. \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nAllan Levine is an award-winning author and historian with a PhD from the University of Toronto.  He has written sixteen books including Details are Unprintable: Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Café Society Murder; Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience\, which was longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize; Toronto Biography of a City; and King: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny\, which won the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction.  For the past twelve years\, he has written the column “Now & Then” for the Winnipeg Free Press\, which looks at the history behind major news issues. His articles and reviews have also appeared in The Globe and Mail\, National Post\, Toronto Star\, and Maclean’s\, among other publications. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker → URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/the-jewish-experience-in-toronto/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Allan-Levine.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230421T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230421T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230421T134738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T163348Z UID:646-1682103600-1682103600@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Domestic Terror Threats’ in your Nervous System: Autoimmune neurological diseases\, disorders… DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Everything about us is an emergent property of our enormous\, intricate\, and orderly nervous system.  And our nervous system\, like any other system\, requires security.  Providing that security is the job of our immune system.  But treason at the biological level is real.  At every level of the nervous system there are internal miscreants\, rabble-rousers\, and spies.  In this lecture\, neurologist Dr. Roy Baskind will take us on a tour of those autoimmune domestic threats – from our nerves\, up our spinal column\, and into our brain – and in the process expose our internal ‘fifth column’: autoimmunity against our own nervous system.  This lecture aims to leave us with a newfound awe of our personal neurological government and how it can all go so wrong. \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nEducated at the University of Texas at Austin\, the University of Texas SouthwesternMedical school at Dallas\, McGill University\, and the Montreal Neurological Institute\, Roy Baskind\, MD FRCPC ABPN\, fights against all kinds of neurological diseases at North York General Hospital.  He also lectures as adjunct faculty in the Division of Neurology\, Department of Medicine\, at the University of Toronto.  And he chronicles all on his podcast: www.thecephalopod.ca. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker → URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/domestic-terror-threats-in-your-nervous-system-autoimmune-neurological-diseases-disorders/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Roy-Baskind.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230310T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230310T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215104 CREATED:20230310T145335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T163820Z UID:651-1678474800-1678474800@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven (and Tom Thomson) DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In 1924 an exhibition in London of Canadian landscapes moved the renowned English critic C. Lewis Hind to celebrate them as “the most vital group of paintings produced since the war – indeed\, this century”.  These landscapes of Canada’s northern lakes and rugged backwoods\, painted in a boldly Post-Impressionist style\, had been produced over the previous decade by the collective of Toronto-based painters known as the ‘Group of Seven’\, whose aim was to forge a national school of landscape painting.  In this lecture Ross King will look at both the myths and the realities of how these painters – including their talismanic colleague Tom Thomson\, who died in 1917 – stormed the conservative bastions of Canadian art to establish themselves on the international stage as practitioners of a distinctive avant-garde. \nThis is a live event in Cameron Hall; Ross King will be joining us online from his home in the UK. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nRoss King is the bestselling author of books on Italian\, French and Canadian art and history. Among his books are Brunelleschi’s Dome (2000)\, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling (2002)\, The Judgment of Paris (Governor General’s Award\, 2006)\, and Leonardo and The Last Supper (Governor General’s Award\, 2012). He has also published two novels and a biography of Niccolò Machiavelli. In 2010\, Ross was curator for the exhibition\, “Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven\,” staged at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection – the exhibition\, as well as this lecture both based on his book of the same title.  Ross is an active fundraiser for the arts and a passionate lecturer and tour guide. When not traveling for work or pleasure\, he lives in the historic town of Woodstock\, near Oxford\, England\, with his wife Melanie. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker → URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/defiant-spirits-the-modernist-revolution-of-the-group-of-seven-and-tom-thomson/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ross-King.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230210T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230210T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215105 CREATED:20230210T145910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T163924Z UID:655-1676055600-1676055600@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:The Lemurs of Madagascar DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lemurs are primates found only in Madagascar\, a beautiful and exotic place\, the fourth largest island in the world. However it is threatened by habitat loss and environmental degradation. Professor Wright will discuss the varieties of lemurs including the Golden Bamboo Lemur she discovered that was new to western science\, her work to create a protected area that became Ranomafana National Park and a World Heritage Site\, and the challenges facing Madagascar and Lemur conservation efforts. She will feature her recent work to preserve the “Lost rainforest of Crystal Mountain” and update us on the translocation of twelve threatened greater bamboo lemurs from a degraded forest fragment into the protection of the Ranomafana National Park.” \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nPatricia Wright is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook\, and founder and International Director of ValBio Research station\, Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar.  In 1986\, while on an exploratory expedition to Madagascar\, Dr. Wright and colleagues discovered a new species of lemur\, the golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus).  When this rain forest\, and the future of this new species\, were threatened by timber exploitation\, Dr. Wright’s attention turned to conservation.  In 1991 the Ranomafana National Park was inaugurated.  Dr. Wright coordinated the building of the park infrastructure and management\, ecotourism development\, biodiversity research and monitoring\, economic development\, health and education within the peripheral zone villages and in 1997\, the Ranomafana National Park management was handed over to the Malagasy Park Service.  Since 1997\, Dr. Wright has continued to be actively involved in biodiversity research and exploration in Madagascar.  Dr. Wright is a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous other awards and honours.  She is the author of five books\, including For the Love of Lemurs: My Life in the Wilds of Madagascar. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker → URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/the-lemurs-of-madagascar/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Patricia-Wright.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230113T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230113T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215105 CREATED:20230113T151502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240710T153542Z UID:659-1673636400-1673636400@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Brampton\, Ontario as a Window on Life in Canada during World War One DESCRIPTION:Video streaming of the YP Speakers Series lectures is available free of charge however\, donations are always welcome.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Our history lessons about the Great War focus on life in trenches\, poison gas\, battles and the bravery of our troops overseas. But what was life like for those at home in Canada?  Based on stories told to her by her great aunt and research conducted in the local archives\, Lynne Golding will speak to us about recruitment efforts; the shortages of food and farm labour; the conversion of factories and business for the production of war materials; the development of flight schools; the treatment in Canada of those of Austrian heritage; the endless fundraising and knitting efforts; the creation of military convalescent hospitals; and the onset of Spanish flu. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nBestselling and award-winning author Lynne Golding is the author of the historical fiction series\, “Beneath the Alders.” A graduate of the University of Toronto and Queen’s University\, she is a senior partner at the international law firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP where she co-leads their health law practice group.  Lynne lives in Brampton\, Ontario\, and has three grown children. Beneath the Alders is inspired by stories told to Golding by her great aunt\, Jessie Roberts Current\, born in Brampton\, Ontario in 1903. Those stories\, supplemented by extensive research led to the creation of three novels about life in small-town Canada: The Innocent(1907 – July 1914); The Beleaguered (1914 – 1918) and The Mending (1918 – 931). \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker → URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/brampton-ontario-as-a-window-on-life-in-canada-during-world-war-one/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Lynne-Golding.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221125T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221125T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215105 CREATED:20221125T113013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T131817Z UID:887-1669402800-1669402800@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Surviving the Media Maze: With all this information\, where is the wisdom? DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n “I have a feeling that the information highway has reached a dead end\,” says Michael Enright.  “We are so flooded with so-called information that we are drowning in it.  The result is a dislocation\, a sensation that when everything is deemed important in some way\, nothing is important.  A lot of this is attributable to the internet and the rise of social media.  Social media have two fronts; one is the trek of inconsequential people doing inconsequential things.  The other is the wide dissemination of hate and the threat of violence\, not to mention actual harm done to women\, young people\, and indeed to the political process itself. To paraphrase T. S. Eliot\, ‘with all this information\, where is the wisdom?’” \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nMichael Enright is a high school dropout with three honourary degrees and the Order of Canada. He has lectured at the University of Cambridge. 2022 marks his 60th year in the practice of journalism. He began in April 1962 at a weekly newspaper in Brampton\, Ontario and has since worked for TIME Magazine\, The Globe and Mail\, the Toronto Star and Maclean’s Magazine. He was assistant managing editor of Maclean’s and editor of Quest Magazine.  He hosted CBC Radio’s As It Happens for ten years and The Sunday Edition for twenty. Michael Enright’s favourite food is Oreo Cookies.  He likes to ride horses and motorcycles and knows how to brand a calf. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker → URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/surviving-the-media-maze-with-all-this-information-where-is-the-wisdom/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Michael-Enright.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221104T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221104T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215105 CREATED:20221104T103757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T132343Z UID:891-1667588400-1667588400@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The death toll of the First World War would have been even greater had it not been for the efforts of the armies’ medical corps to fight for the lives of the wounded. In this lecture\, historian Tim Cook describes how the doctors and nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps responded to the challenge before them to counter the lethal effects of disease\, infection\, and of modern weapons designed to defeat their skills. The methods and innovations they adopted were not restricted to the battlefield. Out of their experience grew new approaches to public health and to the treatment of physical and mental trauma which revolutionized the practice of twentieth-century medicine. But the story has a less seemly side\, revealed in the records Cook has brought to light concerning the use of body parts for medical examination and for less scientific purposes during and after the war. Join us for a discussion of a lesser known legacy of the First World War and its influence on the history of public medicine and health policy in Canada up to the present day. \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nTim Cook is the Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum. His latest book\, published in September 2022\, is Lifesavers and Body Snatchers\, the subject of his November 4th lecture. He is the author or editor of 13 other books that have won the C.P. Stacey Prize for Military History (twice)\, the Ottawa Book Award (three times)\, the RBC Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction\, and the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize (twice). In 2012\, Dr. Cook was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to Canadian history and in 2013 he received the Governor General’s History Award. He is a frequent commentator in the media\, a member of the Royal Society of Canada\, and a Member of the Order of Canada. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker → URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/lifesavers-and-body-snatchers-medical-care-and-the-struggle-for-survival-in-the-great-war/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Tim-Cook.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221014T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221014T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T215105 CREATED:20221014T104340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T135603Z UID:896-1665734400-1665766800@ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com SUMMARY:Discover Toronto’s Ravines DESCRIPTION:Donations at the door or when you watch online are voluntary and only partially cover program costs. If you agree that continuing education is worth the investment\, We’d love to hear from you.\n \n DONATE NOW\n \n \n \n \n \n A new browser tab will open the Yorkminster Park Canada Helps donation page\, please select YP Speakers Series from the dropdown menu.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Toronto’s ravine landscapes are not just a sanctuary for wildlife\, they also protect the city against flooding and allow us to enjoy nature at our doorsteps. In this lecture Ellen Schwartzel will describe how the ravines are changing over time\, how they are responding to numerous pressures and how you can explore and help protect them. \nThis lecture is a live\, in-person event in Cameron Hall. You do not need to pre-register to attend – just show up. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nEllen Schwartzel is President of the Toronto Field Naturalists.  Ellen’s career in environmental policy included 23 years with the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario\, and she was Ontario’s Deputy Environmental Commissioner from 2014 until retiring in 2018.  Ellen received her BSc and MSc in Botany at the University of Toronto. Toronto Field Naturalists connect people with nature in the Toronto area.  TFN helps people understand\, enjoy\, and protect Toronto’s green spaces and the species that inhabit them.  They have been offering guided walks\, lectures\, stewardship and citizen science initiatives since 1923.  They also own and manage several nature reserves.  To learn more visit www.torontofieldnaturalists.org. \n \n \n \n ← Previous Speaker\n \n \n \n \n Next Speaker → URL:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/event/discover-torontos-ravines/ LOCATION:Cameron Hall\, 1585 Yonge Street\, Toronto ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ypspeakersseries.yorkminsterpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ellen-Schwartzel.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR