Canada's Hundred Days, 1918: The Greatest Victory. Most Canadians have heard of Vimy Ridge. Very few know of the Hundred Days, the series of great battles led by the Canadian Corps from August 8 to the Armistice on November 11, 1918. Then Canada's 100,000 men defeated one-quarter of the German Army on the Western Front in the most significant battlefield victories in Canadian history. The cost was terrible, but the Canadians played a hugely disproportionate share in winning the Great War. It is long past time for Canadians to know and remember what their great-grandfathers did a century ago.
BIOGRAPHY
Jack Granatstein writes on 20th Century Canadian national history - the military, defence and foreign policy, Canadian-American relations, the public service, and politics. He has been described as "the most prolific Canadian historian of his generation" with more than 75 titles to his credit.
Granatstein was born in Toronto in 1939. He attended the Royal Military College, the University of Toronto, and Duke University, served in the Canadian Army (1956-66), then joined the History Department at York University, Toronto (1966-95) where he is Distinguished Research Professor of History Emeritus.
In 2008, the Conference of Defence Associations awarded Granatstein its 75th Anniversary Book Prize as "the author deemed to have made the most significant positive contribution to the general public's understanding of Canadian foreign policy, national security and defence during the past quarter century." He was instrumental in creating the new home for the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, where he was Director and CEO from 1998 to 2000. He is co-curator of the Museum's Hundred Days 1918 exhibit.
Granatstein's better known books include: The Oxford Companion to Canadian Military History; The Generals; The Greatest Victory; Canada's Army; and Who Killed Canadian History?

In this lecture former Ontario Premier Bob Rae will talk about why human rights are important, and how and why they are so deeply challenged in the world. Drawing on his experiences in Canada and internationally, he will link how the Canadian debate on rights has evolved, and how it parallels what is happening around the world.

BIOGRAPHY
Bob Rae, who served as Premier of Ontario from 1990-95 and later as Interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, is currently practicing law in Toronto, focusing on indigenous issues and mediation. He also teaches law and public policy at the University of Toronto and currently serves as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Myanmar. He is the author of five books and three major reports for the federal and provincial governments. Bob lives in Toronto with his wife Arlene Perly Rae and thanks to their three daughters they are proud grandparents.

We are seeing a concerning trend in the world today - the total number of large-scale disasters and crises is rising, while the total amount of funding available is falling. Humanitarian organizations are struggling to respond and save lives.
To keep up with this shift, we need to innovate. We need to find new and powerful solutions to some of the world's toughest problems. From distributing low-cost water purification units that produce safe drinking water for an entire year, to operating mobile water purification systems to the most remote locations, to installing bomb blast window film to protect vulnerable civilians trapped in war zones, to constructing permanent homes with strong, durable and environmentally friendly bricks made from compacted soil, to operating drones to provide better information to rescuers and responders, GlobalMedic is using innovative solutions to protect the health and dignity of families affected by disaster and crisis.
Biography
Rahul Singh founded the David McAntony Gibson Foundation (GlobalMedic) in 1999 to honour the memory of his best friend who tragically lost his life in 1998. Combining a passion for humanitarian assistance with a frontline emergency perspective - having been a paramedic since 1988 - Singh developed GlobalMedic's unique operational mandate of providing efficient and cost effective disaster relief in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophe using professional emergency workers.
GlobalMedic teams have deployed on 193 missions in 63 countries following natural disasters and complex emergencies. Delivering of water purification equipment, installing of field hospitals, and running innovative programs like RescUAV, Singh continually strives to develop Canadian innovation in order to save lives.
Singh has received a number of accolades for his humanitarian work over the years, including the Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2006, the Order of Ontario in 2012, and the Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. Singh as also been named on Time Magazine's List of the 100 Most Influential People.