Author: Andrew Munroe
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Reflecting on Israel and Gaza
As the new U.S. Embassy moved to Jerusalem on May 14th, and Israeli soldiers opened fire on many of the thousands of Palestinians and Hamas operatives attempting to cross the militarized Gaza border fence, Joel Bernstein contributed this reflection on his time in Israel and his thoughts on the future of the country.
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Ali Velshi: The weaponization of culture
An event with Ali Velshi examines the current phenomenon and spread of culture wars, and culture’s role in both curbing and spreading populist ideals.
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Russian Collusion: Then and Now
Sylvia Nasar, author of “A Beautiful Mind,” will be in Vancouver speaking on Russian collusion.
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What It’s Like to Be Putin’s Number One Enemy
Bill Browder will be in Vancouver on June 15th for a banquet fundraiser for the GRC, reflecting on the state of Russia and the world and sharing his stories of what it’s like to be Putin’s number one enemy.
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Democracy Undone: Who owns the USA?
Americans ask, Can we ever put things right? The answer just might be “No.”
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Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg turns his attention back on the weapons that continue to threaten the future of humanity through in his new book, “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of the Nuclear War Planner.”
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Africans Respond to Trump’s “Shithole” Comments
People took to Twitter after President Donald Trump evoked the world’s fury by referring to African countries and Haiti as “shithole countries.”
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Economic Inequality in America: Facts, Fiction and How to Tell the Difference
DAL GRAUER MEMORIAL LECTURE Speaker: Professor Sylvia Nasar, Knight Professor Emerita, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University Dr. Sylvia Nasar is the recipient of many honours, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (1998) as the author of A Beautiful Mind (1998), a biography of mathematician John Forbes Nash, published in 30 languages…
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Risk to Democracy: When the fourth estate comes under attack
Peter Klein is an Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist. He run the Global Reporting Centre, and is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Globe & Mail and CBS News 60 Minutes.
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Stand Up Straight! Our posture and how history shapes our anatomy
UBC ARTS ONE 50TH ANNIVERSARY LECTURE Speaker: Professor Sander Gilman, Institute for the Liberal Arts, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia Dr. Sander Gilman is a prominent cultural and literary historian and author or editor of over ninety books. He wrote the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing…