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As usual, the two chosen presentations were definitely up to our expectations. The presenters and their topics were: Linda Woodcock on ‘The Sky’s the Limit – Dark sky events in Canada’ From: Oh the Places You’ll Go! – Travel Ideas workshop. Sharyn Salsberg Ezrin on ‘Leonard Bernstein’ From: Celebration of Song workshop. Linda took an…

We are sad to report that Ann Kurdyak died on November 30th. She was an enthusiastic Academy member in the past when her health allowed and loved the architecture, art and film workshops. She took a lively interest in all manner of the arts, such as architecture, jewelry and fashion design. Ann trained as a…

One of our recent members, Dick Holyer, died on Wednesday, September 21. Dick met his first wife, Nêst, now an Academy member, at the University of Guelph where he earned a PhD in Chemistry. He spent many years teaching at Northern Secondary School where he met his second wife, Marilyn. While at the Academy, Dick…

  The topic of the Fall Forum #4 is “Enriching Communities With Public Art” presented by Alexis Kane Speer and Anjuli Solanki. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed inequalities that exist in cities, particularly in public spaces. STEPS Public Art envisions a world where artists and communities co-create meaningful, welcoming and safe public spaces. STEPS will…

Heather Raff died on July 7th, many of us remember Heather as a truly lovely woman. Heather was a member of the Economist Readers workshop and had participated in several other workshops including the Web of Science.  Her background was in English Literature, she had earned degrees from McGill University.  She was a teacher and…

Due to the lack of availability of our walk leaders and a forecast of extremely hot/humid weather we have decided to postpone our BELTLINE TRAIL AND CEDARVALE RAVINE walk until Tuesday June 14th.

Marie Henien is the final speaker in our series. Recognized as one of the most influential criminal defence lawyers in Canada, in her new book, Nothing But the Truth, Marie Henein shares her belief that much of the public’s understanding of the justice system is based on popular culture, and social media, and decidedly not…

Our 5th talk is titled UNDRIP Implementation in Canada: Completing De-colonization presented by Peter H.  Russell. One of the foremost experts on Canada’s constitutional, aboriginal and judicial politics, Peter Russell has had a distinguished career as a political scientist and prolific author. Russell was chair of the Research Advisory Committee for the Royal Commission on…

The title of our 4th talk is Black Holes: A “Defense” of Pure Reason. Juna Kollmeier, the first female Director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, U. of T., helps us understand the universe through research on the emergence of structure in the universe. She combines cosmological hydrodynamic simulations and analytic theory to figure…