Saturday, January 11, 2025 – Remarks at the Launch of New Perspective (Addis Kignit) JRS spoke at the Toronto launch of New Perspective (Addis Kignit) አዲስቅኝት, a new Ethiopian Canadian TV program on OMNI Channel. As part of our inaugural efforts, we are aiming to create a meaningful introduction to our viewers and celebrate Ethiopian heritage. The event was attended by many leaders of the Ethiopian community from the ...
Sunday, September 15, 2024 – Allo BMT Survivorship Day Toronto, Ontario.
JRS spoke at the second annual Survivor’s day, which is a gathering of people who have had allogeneic transplants, hosted by Princess Margaret Hospital. He also spoke at the inaugural Survivorship Day in 2023.
People know so little about the strange world of transplants. Maybe the time has come for everyone to know more.
May 27, 2024 – JRS speaks at the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival JRS participated in a series of events at the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival organized by the Institute of Art and Ideas in Hay-on-Wye. HowTheLightGetsIn is the world’s largest festival of philosophy and music.
JRS delivered a keynote address on The Tech Crisis (produced in association with Audio Note) about how the technologies we hoped would support freedom are increasingly ...
March 11, 2023 – READ JRS on the 175th anniversary of Canadian democracy On March 11, 1848, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin were asked by Governor General Lord Elgin to form a government because they had the confidence of the House of Commons. This first Canadian democratic government put in place official bilingualism, advanced public education and laid the foundations of our contemporary immigration and citizenship policies.
December 20, 2022 – JRS speaks at Futures Forum 3 The Futures Forum is a special conference organized by the international architectural firm BVN. Held in Tocal, Australia on Wonnarua land, the theme of FF3 was ‘Belonging in the Future.’ In the words of JRS, FF3 was designed to ‘waste’ time thinking about our place in the world and how we influence possible futures. Other ...
October 27, 2022 – READ JRS in “Write” magazine about renaming the Governor General’s Literary Awards JRS is joined by Eugene Benson, Zilla Jones, Rick Revelle and Anna Marie Sewell in contributing their perspectives on whether it is time to rename the Governor General’s Literary Awards for the Fall 2022 issue of Write.
Write is The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) quarterly magazine available exclusively to its members. If you are a ...
October 6, 2022 – WATCH the 19th LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture Her Excellency the Rt. Hon. Mary Simon delivered the 19th LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary on October 6, 2022. You can watch JRS introduce Her Excellency and their conversation following her lecture on the theme of “Reconciliation and Evolution of Canada.”
You can find more information about the LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture Series ...
Press
November 23, 2023 – JRS talks with Haroon Siddiqui about his new book “My Name is Not Harry” At The Ismaili Centre in Toronto, JRS joined Haroon Siddiqui, editorial page editor emeritus of the Toronto Star and former President of PEN Canada, in conversation about Siddiqui’s new book My Name is Not Harry.
“Veteran Toronto Star editor Haroon Siddiqui, brown and Muslim, has spent a life on the media front lines, covering conflicts both ...
October 29, 2023 – JRS discusses John Greyson’s film “International Dawn Chorus Day” about the deaths of two Egyptian activists JRS, The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson, Leena Manimekalai and John Greyson discussed Greyson’s award-winning short film “International Dawn Chorus Day” at The Ageless Film Festival in Toronto. The event was moderated by Kaveh Shahrooz and co-hosted by The Ageless International Film Festival, HotDocs, PEN Canada, Rainbow Railroad and the Centre for Free Expression.
“International Dawn Chorus ...
October 17, 2023 – JRS reflects on his 1995 CBC Massey Lectures ”The Unconscious Civilization” “Knowledge, the Enlightenment believed, could protect us from the follies of ideology. But John Ralston Saul maintains that ‘knowing’ has not made us ‘conscious.’ Instead we have become increasingly passive, our society increasingly conformist. There are no easy solutions to this problem, Saul says, but change is still possible.”
In celebration of Massey College’s 60th anniversary, ...
September 27, 2023 – JRS speaks at the inaugural Bone Marrow Transplant Survivorship Day JRS spoke at the inaugural Allogeneic Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Patient Survivorship Day that took place at Black Creek Pioneer Village. The event was organized by Dr. Jonas Mattsson, Director of the Hans Messner Allogeneic Transplant Program at Princess Margaret Hospital, and his team. JRS spoke about his own transplant experience, remarking: “It is ...
June 9, 2023 – JRS awarded honorary Doctor of Laws by Ontario Tech University “In recognition of his award-winning contributions to Canadian literature, his philosophies on social justice, interdisciplinary study, freedom of expression, and championing of Indigenous rights, the university proudly confers upon Mr. John Ralston Saul the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.”
