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Vancouver Institute

MOBILIZING CANADA FOR THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY: LESSONS FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR

When: Where: P.A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC’s Point Grey Campus, 2194 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver.

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Mr. Seth Klein
Author, and Team Lead and Director of Strategy, Climate Emergency Unit, The David Suzuki Foundation

Seth Klein is a public policy researcher and writer based in Vancouver. He was the founding director of the BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), former co-chair of the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, and founder of the Metro Vancouver Living Wage for Families. He is the author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency (2020). Mr. Klein is a regular columnist with Canada’s National Observer and an adjunct professor in Simon Fraser University’s Urban Studies program, and he remains a research associate with the CCPA’s BC Office.

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VALLEY OF THE BIRDTAIL: AN INDIAN RESERVE, A WHITE TOWN, AND THE ROAD TO RECONCILIATION

A conversation between Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Professor Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii), moderated by Dr. Tricia Logan. Mr. Sniderman is a writer, lawyer and Rhodes Scholar. Prof. Sanderson is Beaver Clan, from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation, and is deeply engaged in Aboriginal issues from a policy perspective. Mr. Sniderman and Prof. Sanderson wrote the award winning book Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation (2022).

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