Seth Klein Online Event
Tuesday Sep 29 2020 7:00 pm - Online Book Event, Virtual
A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency in Manitoba
“This is the roadmap out of climate crisis that Canadians have been waiting for.” — Naomi Klein, activist and New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine
Join us for an evening of music, a reading, author Q&A, and a panel discussion with local climate emergency activists. Register for the Webinar online. Copies of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency by Seth Klein are available from McNally Robinson Booksellers.
Featuring a musical performance by Decades After Paris.
Panelists:
- Madeline Laurendeau, Manitoba Youth for Climate Action
- Eric Reder, Wilderness Committee
- Clayton Thomas-Muller, 350.org
Sponsored by: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Corporate Mapping Project, ECW Press, David Suzuki Foundation, 350.org Canada, Climate Action Network Canada, The Council of Canadians, CUPW, University of Winnipeg Department of Urban and Inner-City Studies, McNally Robinson, Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition, and Climate Action Team Manitoba.
Seth Klein was the founding British Columbia director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives for over two decades and has been immersed in climate change and inequality issues for his working life. He is currently an adjunct professor in urban studies at Simon Fraser University and remains a research associate with the CCPA. He lives in Vancouver, B.C.
Host Stuart Ross is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and publisher. He is the winner of the 2019 Harbourfront Festival Prize for his contributions to Canadian literature. He is the author of 20 books of fiction, poetry, and essays including, most recently, 
Joanne Epp grew up in central Saskatchewan and still goes back as often as she can. Her poetry has appeared in The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Juniper, and other journals. Her first full-length poetry collection, 
Janet Stewart hosts CBC Winnipeg News, bringing audiences news and stories of local neighbourhoods and communities each weeknight. With more than 20 years of journalistic experience, Stewart is a multiple Canadian Screen Award nominee in the Best News Anchor (Local) category. When the Screen Awards were called the Geminis, she was nominated as Best News Anchor in Canada, alongside Peter Mansbridge, Diana Swain and Heather Hiscox. 
Dr. Gordon Goldsborough is an aquatic biologist at the University of Manitoba and author of Abandoned Manitoba and More Abandoned Manitoba (Great Plains Publishing), and president of the Manitoba Historical Society.
Kate O’Gorman lives and writes on the Saskatchewan prairie. Her work has appeared in Qwerty, untethered, and other literary publications.
In 2020, host Leah Hextall made history as the first woman to call play-by-play for an NHL game on Sportsnet. The landmark broadcast received national acclaim for Leah and the network as the game was called by an all-female broadcast team. Leah also made history a year prior as the first woman to call play-by-play for the men’s NCAA Division I Hockey Tournament for ESPN. In a 2018 article in the Globe and Mail, Scott Moore, former president of Sportsnet and NHL properties, declared Leah a “trailblazer.” Mike "Doc" Emrick, Hall of Fame play-by-play broadcaster for NBC Sports told The Athletic, he believes Leah will be the first woman to do play-by-play for an NHL team. Over the past 17 years, Leah has been an on-air presence for the largest networks in North America: ESPN, Sportsnet, Hockey Night in Canada and NESN.
