Speaker Archive

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

 

October 2011 | Gwynne Dyer
Freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs

   
  March 2011 | Ezra Levant
Author, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands
   
 



October 2010 | Amanda Lindhout
  
Founder and Executive Director, The Somali Women's Scholarship Program

 

   
  March 2010 | Phil Fontaine 
Former National Chief, Assembly of First Nations
   
  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
Film director, producer, and 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