Speaker Archive

The Perspectives: Canada in the World Speaker Series has brought some world renowned talent to central Alberta since 2002. Previous Perspectives speakers have included:

 

October 2009 | Gwyn Morgan
Retired Founding CEO of EnCana Corporation

 

March 2009  | Dr. Michael Geist
Canada Research Chair of Internet and e-Commerce Law
University of Ottawa 
 
October 2008 | Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Lewis MacKenzie
United Nations Protection Force – Yugoslavia (1992)  
 
March 2008  | Peter C. Newman
Journalist and Best Selling Author
 
October 2007  | Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Canadian Environmental Advocate
 
March 2007  | Maher Arar
Human Rights Advocate
 
October 2006  | Veronica Tennant
Former Prima Ballerina with National Ballet of Canada
   
March 2006  | Dick Pound
Member, International Olympic Committee
   
November 2005 | Dr. Margaret Somerville
Founding Director for Medicine, Ethics and Law, McGill University
 
April 2005 | Lt. Gen (Ret.) Roméo Dallaire
Force Commander of United Nations Mission to Rwanda, 1994
 
October 2004 | Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin
P.C., Chief Justice of Canada
 
March 2004 | John Ralston Saul
Author, Essayist and Philosopher
 
October 2003 | Stephen Lewis
International Humanitarian and United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
 
February 2003 | Michael Ondaatje
Author
 
October 2002 | Arthur Kent
Journalist, Author and Filmmaker