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His second book, “Beyond Age Rage” (April, 2012, Bastian Books), describes the apparent “war of the generations,” and shows how Boomers and seniors are already solving it. Both books can be purchased online at Amazon.com or Chapters Indigo. David Cravit’s blog can be accessed at www.davidcravit.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516074919395-2N6LIXNO4YIPIC1SXXFH/david+cravit.jpg ... 2017 Spring Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1484188173821-4GF999IT0XUMJ8F1L6FW/Sara+Farhan.png ... 2017 Spring Program Sara Farhan was born and grew up in Ba'thist Iraq. She is an award-winning researcher and editor, and has been nominated for several teaching awards. She has been published in numerous international journals and has contributed to podcasts, radio programs, and documentaries as a consultant historian. She has also been involved with Third Age Learning and Lifelong Learning communities for the past several years. Sara is pursuing a doctorate in History at York University, completing a dissertation on Monarchic Iraq. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1484106312426-4P7GS62QJ7UUE76TPR7T/image-asset.jpeg ... 2017 Spring Program Dr. Guy Proulx is a clinical neuropsychologist who obtained his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Ottawa in 1981. He was Director of Neuropsychology at St-Vincent Hospital and Elizabeth Bruyère Health Centre in Ottawa from 1981 to 1986 and then, at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care in Toronto until July 2009. He developed neuropsychological assessment and treatment services in the areas of cognitive aging, stroke and dementia. In 2009, Dr. Proulx accepted a position as Professor at Glendon College, York University. His recent focus has been on the wide variability within the normal aging population. In 2014, Dr. Proulx was appointed to the advisory committee to the Minister of Health of Ontario for the development of its new strategy of dementia care in Ontario. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516074956464-PX14CJ8W5WUMEHB2FYO1/image.jpg ... 2017 Spring Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516074988334-J1EUTZ1UQHO5EMBM5TGM/sarah+farhan.jpg ... 2017 Spring Program http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/tickets daily 0.75 2020-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1547064275265-ONZOJBH4P4CMEGH4HZJ0/online+purchase+photo.jpg BUY TICKETS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1547064275265-ONZOJBH4P4CMEGH4HZJ0/online+purchase+photo.jpg BUY TICKETS http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/location daily 0.75 2022-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1547060295244-35648WDFR5TIPZDQKICU/20180503_200157_resized+%281%29.jpg Location and Parking Shirley Auslander Hall, Schwartz/Reisman Centre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1547060295244-35648WDFR5TIPZDQKICU/20180503_200157_resized+%281%29.jpg Location and Parking Shirley Auslander Hall, Schwartz/Reisman Centre http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/know-a-great-speaker daily 0.75 2021-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1487822672262-L0NFJA565EPR29V6H9MR/12316454474_58efab3c88.jpg Know a great speaker? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1487822672262-L0NFJA565EPR29V6H9MR/12316454474_58efab3c88.jpg Know a great speaker? http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/detailsfall2017 daily 0.75 2018-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516334814547-N9WKFG4D0HL7JYSN0PFA/ann+cavoukian2.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516074847329-D1YD025P8AFUZ316ZUTP/dave+phillips.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1498082379871-PDAKYPG3DWZJ783VSFZP/Dunsky3.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program Dan Dunsky has been in the business of opinion formation for 25 years, with deep experience in broadcast and digital journalism, strategy, marketing, and communications. He is Vice President, Client and Business Strategy at Public Inc., a full-service social impact consultancy and agency helping companies transform social impact into consumer loyalty. Prior to that, he founded Dunsky Insight, a strategic communications consultancy, and created and was Executive Producer of “The Agenda with Steve Paikin”, Canada’s premier platform for long-form analysis and insight journalism. As an analyst, Dan is heard on NewsTalk 1010, has appeared on CNN and CTV, and has written for numerous Canadian and American publications, including The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The National Interest, and The National Review. Dan speaks regularly on the promise and peril of change in the digital era. He lives in Toronto, Canada. dan@publicinc.com www.publicinc.com linkedin.com/in/dandunsky   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1498011632844-ANNBWBTXCS8CBM89WASL/image-asset.jpeg ... 2017 Fall Program Dr. Larry Black was born in Middle Sackville, NB; He has degrees from Mount Allison, Boston University and McGill (Ph.D., 1968). A professor of history at Laurentian (9 yrs) and Carleton Universities (30 yrs), he was also Director of the Institute for Soviet & East European Studies at Carleton, where he is now Professor Emeritus and a Distinguished Research Professor. Black has served as a researcher for NATO and a recruit trainer for CSIS; is the author, co-author or editor of 53 books on Russia, the USSR and Russian-Canadian relations. The two most recent are The Return of the Cold War. Ukraine, Russia and the West (2016), with Michael Johns; and The Russian Presidency of Dmitry Medvedev, 2008-12 (2015). He is now under contract with a British publishing house for a book on Vladimir Putin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1498008046882-U44Q0O8RLE2071Q3PXV0/DC+pic+%282%29.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world’s leading privacy experts. She is presently the Executive Director of the Privacy and Big Data Institute at Ryerson University and served an unprecedented three terms as the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. There, she created Privacy by Design (PdB), a framework that seeks to proactively embed privacy into design, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible. In 2010, International Privacy Regulators unanimously passed a Resolution recognizing Privacy by Design as an international standard. Since then, PbD has been translated into 39 languages. Dr. Cavoukian has received numerous awards recognizing her leadership in privacy, including being named as one of the Top 25 Women of Influence in Canada, the Top 10 women in Data Security and Privacy, one of the Top 100 Leaders in Identity, and most recently, Dr. Cavoukian was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for her outstanding work on creating Privacy by Design and taking it global (May, 2017). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516078389777-GUR2G9F8R9GLUD75QGVS/20171102_140156.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1498269743410-N6Q1Y6CBZ8FI3AHSQ5OH/daley3.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program Dr. Mike Daley holds a Ph.D in music from York University and has taught undergraduate courses at Guelph, McMaster, Waterloo and York Universities as well as acclaimed later-life courses at York, University of Toronto, Ryerson, George Brown, Learning Unlimited in Etobicoke and Later Life Learning in Mississauga. Mike has published scholarly articles on American popular music in international journals and has been invited to speak at academic conferences from Normandy to Nashville. Mike has also toured the U.S. and Canada as a musician with Jeff Healey, the Travellers and others, and has appeared on dozens of recordings as a guitarist and singer. Presently Mike and his wife Jill are leading music-themed tours to New York, Nashville, St. John's and New Orleans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1498009126835-7DYZHC0L47H1UJ0A1X0X/image-asset.jpeg ... 2017 Fall Program David Phillips, employed with Environment Canada's weather service for more than 45 years, studies the climate of Canada to promote awareness and understanding of meteorology. He has published several books, papers and reports, including a book on The Climates of Canada, and two bestsellers: The Day Niagara Falls Ran Dry and Blame It On The Weather. He is the originator and author of the Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar, the most popular calendar sold in Canada, now in its 30th year. David frequently appears on national radio and television as a commentator on weather and climate matters. He has been awarded the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, the Queen Elizabeth Golden and Diamond Jubilee Medals and has twice received the Public Service Merit Award. David is the recipient of three honorary doctorates from the universities of Waterloo and Windsor and Nipissing University. In 2001, David was named to the Order of Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516074677387-NJW3WGQ7VVBH6K4XOU4O/daley2.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516334867875-5FSTXXWS19EDOY79CFJX/larry+black.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516074847329-D1YD025P8AFUZ316ZUTP/dave+phillips.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1498269743410-N6Q1Y6CBZ8FI3AHSQ5OH/daley3.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program Dr. Mike Daley holds a Ph.D in music from York University and has taught undergraduate courses at Guelph, McMaster, Waterloo and York Universities as well as acclaimed later-life courses at York, University of Toronto, Ryerson, George Brown, Learning Unlimited in Etobicoke and Later Life Learning in Mississauga. Mike has published scholarly articles on American popular music in international journals and has been invited to speak at academic conferences from Normandy to Nashville. Mike has also toured the U.S. and Canada as a musician with Jeff Healey, the Travellers and others, and has appeared on dozens of recordings as a guitarist and singer. Presently Mike and his wife Jill are leading music-themed tours to New York, Nashville, St. John's and New Orleans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1498082379871-PDAKYPG3DWZJ783VSFZP/Dunsky3.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program Dan Dunsky has been in the business of opinion formation for 25 years, with deep experience in broadcast and digital journalism, strategy, marketing, and communications. He is Vice President, Client and Business Strategy at Public Inc., a full-service social impact consultancy and agency helping companies transform social impact into consumer loyalty. Prior to that, he founded Dunsky Insight, a strategic communications consultancy, and created and was Executive Producer of “The Agenda with Steve Paikin”, Canada’s premier platform for long-form analysis and insight journalism. As an analyst, Dan is heard on NewsTalk 1010, has appeared on CNN and CTV, and has written for numerous Canadian and American publications, including The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The National Interest, and The National Review. Dan speaks regularly on the promise and peril of change in the digital era. He lives in Toronto, Canada. dan@publicinc.com www.publicinc.com linkedin.com/in/dandunsky   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516334867875-5FSTXXWS19EDOY79CFJX/larry+black.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1498011632844-ANNBWBTXCS8CBM89WASL/image-asset.jpeg ... 2017 Fall Program Dr. Larry Black was born in Middle Sackville, NB; He has degrees from Mount Allison, Boston University and McGill (Ph.D., 1968). A professor of history at Laurentian (9 yrs) and Carleton Universities (30 yrs), he was also Director of the Institute for Soviet & East European Studies at Carleton, where he is now Professor Emeritus and a Distinguished Research Professor. Black has served as a researcher for NATO and a recruit trainer for CSIS; is the author, co-author or editor of 53 books on Russia, the USSR and Russian-Canadian relations. The two most recent are The Return of the Cold War. Ukraine, Russia and the West (2016), with Michael Johns; and The Russian Presidency of Dmitry Medvedev, 2008-12 (2015). He is now under contract with a British publishing house for a book on Vladimir Putin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516078389777-GUR2G9F8R9GLUD75QGVS/20171102_140156.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1498008046882-U44Q0O8RLE2071Q3PXV0/DC+pic+%282%29.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world’s leading privacy experts. She is presently the Executive Director of the Privacy and Big Data Institute at Ryerson University and served an unprecedented three terms as the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. There, she created Privacy by Design (PdB), a framework that seeks to proactively embed privacy into design, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible. In 2010, International Privacy Regulators unanimously passed a Resolution recognizing Privacy by Design as an international standard. Since then, PbD has been translated into 39 languages. Dr. Cavoukian has received numerous awards recognizing her leadership in privacy, including being named as one of the Top 25 Women of Influence in Canada, the Top 10 women in Data Security and Privacy, one of the Top 100 Leaders in Identity, and most recently, Dr. Cavoukian was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for her outstanding work on creating Privacy by Design and taking it global (May, 2017). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516074677387-NJW3WGQ7VVBH6K4XOU4O/daley2.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516334814547-N9WKFG4D0HL7JYSN0PFA/ann+cavoukian2.jpg ... 2017 Fall Program https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1498009126835-7DYZHC0L47H1UJ0A1X0X/image-asset.jpeg ... 2017 Fall Program David Phillips, employed with Environment Canada's weather service for more than 45 years, studies the climate of Canada to promote awareness and understanding of meteorology. He has published several books, papers and reports, including a book on The Climates of Canada, and two bestsellers: The Day Niagara Falls Ran Dry and Blame It On The Weather. He is the originator and author of the Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar, the most popular calendar sold in Canada, now in its 30th year. David frequently appears on national radio and television as a commentator on weather and climate matters. He has been awarded the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, the Queen Elizabeth Golden and Diamond Jubilee Medals and has twice received the Public Service Merit Award. David is the recipient of three honorary doctorates from the universities of Waterloo and Windsor and Nipissing University. In 2001, David was named to the Order of Canada. http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/fall-2017-lectures daily 0.75 2018-01-19 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/board daily 0.75 2023-09-26 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/tan-info daily 0.75 2019-04-01 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/cook-along-recipes daily 0.75 2020-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1504118522470-D2GW9LBOBHP7MFORRDMZ/TLL+pic+getty.jpg Bonnie Stern Cook Along: Recipes and Instructions http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/survey-results daily 0.75 2019-11-18 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/committees daily 0.75 2023-12-01 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/governance daily 0.75 2021-08-25 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/spring2018details daily 0.75 2018-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516044525644-A6N0ITQ83UZWRU5P702J/Sally+bean+photo.JPG ... 2018 Spring Program Sally Bean is the Director of the Health Ethics Alliance & Policy Advisor at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a member of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, an Adjunct Lecturer in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, an Associate Member of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto, and an Adjunct Lecturer at Osgoode Hall School of Law at York University. Sally earned a B.A. in Philosophy & English, an M.A. in Bioethics and Public Policy and a Juris Doctorate. After law school, Sally completed a two year fellowship in Clinical & Organizational Ethics through the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. Her research areas of academic interest pertain largely to health institution and health system ethics with an emphasis on health law and policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516045676947-W20UTI96XPWEF0N2WD0P/percy.jpg ... 2018 Spring Program Dr. John Percy (PhD Astronomy 1968 University of Toronto) is a very active Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, in Astronomy & Astrophysics, and in Science Education. His research deals with the nature and evolution of the stars, and he has published over 250 research papers and three books in these fields. He has also been active in science and astronomy education throughout the world. He has served as president of six national or international scientific and educational organizations and as Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Ontario Science Centre. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to public understanding of astronomy. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1519402789878-2XJDBWBTYVYY7MG176D4/daniel+headshot+%28004%29.JPG ... 2018 Spring Program Daniel Dale, Thornhill native, reports on President Donald Trump and American politics as the Washington Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star. Before his move to Washington in 2015, he was bureau chief and reporter at Toronto City Hall, covering Mayor Rob Ford and city council, from 2010 to 2014. The U.S. website Politico named Dale one of its "breakout media stars" of the 2016 presidential election for his popular fact-checks of the candidates’ claims, and Toronto Life named him one of the 50 most influential Torontonians of 2017. He has won a National Newspaper Award for short features and two Goff Penny Awards for Canada's best young journalist. He is a graduate of York University's Schulich School of Business. Daniel is a frequent commentator on MSNBC, CNN and CBC radio and television. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1515435156979-QB38CK48QY52HMK358UK/Arne+Kislenko2.jpg ... 2018 Spring Program Dr. Arne Kislenko is an Associate Professor with the Department of History at Ryerson University, an instructor at Trinity College, University of Toronto and a visiting professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. He teaches modern international relations, including courses on the world wars, the Cold War, the history of espionage, the history of terrorism, comparative foreign policy, and modern Southeast Asia. Dr. Kislenko has won numerous teaching awards and was named Ontario’s “Best Lecturer” following TV Ontario’s first “Academic Idol” series. Kislenko has written three books and is currently working on a new one about the "real James Bond". He also serves as an editor for the prestigious journal Intelligence and National Security. He appears regularly in the media and served as a consultant on national security matters for the federal government and as an historical advisor for TV and media programs. He is currently working on two international television projects about the history of espionage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516045564739-LCUK3FLNUNJPAS39EQIW/chris+patterson+-+Copy.jpg ... 2018 Spring Program Dr. Chris Patterson is a specialist in Geriatric Medicine at Hamilton Health Sciences, the second largest teaching hospital in Canada. Now an Emeritus Professor of Medicine, he joined the faculty of McMaster University in 1982. He served on the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (1987-2005) and helped develop Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia, most recently in 2012-13. He has authored or contributed to over 150 scientific publications, lectured across Canada and abroad, and received awards for teaching and clinical achievements. He tries to follow his own advice, and admits that it is not always easy... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1515435806433-XVPXYJMC45FC6DQUES5J/MICHAEL+CRABB+%28002%29.JPG ... 2018 Spring Program Michael Crabb has been writing, broadcasting and lecturing about the performing arts for more than four decades. He has written for a range of newspapers and magazines across North America and overseas and is currently dance critic of The Toronto Star, a regular columnist for Canadian quarterly Dance International and for British monthly The Dancing Times. He has edited/contributed to a number of dance books and reference works and is author of An Instinct for Success: Arnold Spohr and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Michael enjoyed a long association with the CBC, 1976-2010. He was a producer for a number of network radio arts programmes, notably The Arts Report where he was senior producer and host, 1993-2000. He has lectured widely on the history and appreciation of dance, in Canada and the United States. Michael holds degrees in history from King's College, University of London, and McMaster University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1515449452949-GT9E43WWB2NSMN39201Z/Adam-Chapnick-Final_T7A7145-Edit-web.jpg ... 2018 Spring Program Dr. Adam Chapnick is a professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC). He is located in Toronto, where he also serves as the deputy director of education at the Canadian Forces College. He holds a BA (Honours) from Trent University, an MA in International Affairs from Carleton University, and a PhD in History from the University of Toronto. He joined RMC in 2006 and currently teaches courses in Canadian government and strategic decision-making, critical thinking and writing, and Canadian international policy. He is the author or editor of seven books, including The Harper Era in Canadian Foreign Policy (2016), Canada’s Voice: The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes (2009), and The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations (2005). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516044525644-A6N0ITQ83UZWRU5P702J/Sally+bean+photo.JPG ... 2018 Spring Program Sally Bean is the Director of the Health Ethics Alliance & Policy Advisor at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a member of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, an Adjunct Lecturer in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, an Associate Member of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto, and an Adjunct Lecturer at Osgoode Hall School of Law at York University. Sally earned a B.A. in Philosophy & English, an M.A. in Bioethics and Public Policy and a Juris Doctorate. After law school, Sally completed a two year fellowship in Clinical & Organizational Ethics through the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. Her research areas of academic interest pertain largely to health institution and health system ethics with an emphasis on health law and policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1515449452949-GT9E43WWB2NSMN39201Z/Adam-Chapnick-Final_T7A7145-Edit-web.jpg ... 2018 Spring Program Dr. Adam Chapnick is a professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC). He is located in Toronto, where he also serves as the deputy director of education at the Canadian Forces College. He holds a BA (Honours) from Trent University, an MA in International Affairs from Carleton University, and a PhD in History from the University of Toronto. He joined RMC in 2006 and currently teaches courses in Canadian government and strategic decision-making, critical thinking and writing, and Canadian international policy. He is the author or editor of seven books, including The Harper Era in Canadian Foreign Policy (2016), Canada’s Voice: The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes (2009), and The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations (2005). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516045676947-W20UTI96XPWEF0N2WD0P/percy.jpg ... 2018 Spring Program Dr. John Percy (PhD Astronomy 1968 University of Toronto) is a very active Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, in Astronomy & Astrophysics, and in Science Education. His research deals with the nature and evolution of the stars, and he has published over 250 research papers and three books in these fields. He has also been active in science and astronomy education throughout the world. He has served as president of six national or international scientific and educational organizations and as Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Ontario Science Centre. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to public understanding of astronomy. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1515435806433-XVPXYJMC45FC6DQUES5J/MICHAEL+CRABB+%28002%29.JPG ... 2018 Spring Program Michael Crabb has been writing, broadcasting and lecturing about the performing arts for more than four decades. He has written for a range of newspapers and magazines across North America and overseas and is currently dance critic of The Toronto Star, a regular columnist for Canadian quarterly Dance International and for British monthly The Dancing Times. He has edited/contributed to a number of dance books and reference works and is author of An Instinct for Success: Arnold Spohr and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Michael enjoyed a long association with the CBC, 1976-2010. He was a producer for a number of network radio arts programmes, notably The Arts Report where he was senior producer and host, 1993-2000. He has lectured widely on the history and appreciation of dance, in Canada and the United States. Michael holds degrees in history from King's College, University of London, and McMaster University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1515435156979-QB38CK48QY52HMK358UK/Arne+Kislenko2.jpg ... 2018 Spring Program Dr. Arne Kislenko is an Associate Professor with the Department of History at Ryerson University, an instructor at Trinity College, University of Toronto and a visiting professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. He teaches modern international relations, including courses on the world wars, the Cold War, the history of espionage, the history of terrorism, comparative foreign policy, and modern Southeast Asia. Dr. Kislenko has won numerous teaching awards and was named Ontario’s “Best Lecturer” following TV Ontario’s first “Academic Idol” series. Kislenko has written three books and is currently working on a new one about the "real James Bond". He also serves as an editor for the prestigious journal Intelligence and National Security. He appears regularly in the media and served as a consultant on national security matters for the federal government and as an historical advisor for TV and media programs. He is currently working on two international television projects about the history of espionage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1516045564739-LCUK3FLNUNJPAS39EQIW/chris+patterson+-+Copy.jpg ... 2018 Spring Program Dr. Chris Patterson is a specialist in Geriatric Medicine at Hamilton Health Sciences, the second largest teaching hospital in Canada. Now an Emeritus Professor of Medicine, he joined the faculty of McMaster University in 1982. He served on the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (1987-2005) and helped develop Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia, most recently in 2012-13. He has authored or contributed to over 150 scientific publications, lectured across Canada and abroad, and received awards for teaching and clinical achievements. He tries to follow his own advice, and admits that it is not always easy... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1519402789878-2XJDBWBTYVYY7MG176D4/daniel+headshot+%28004%29.JPG ... 2018 Spring Program Daniel Dale, Thornhill native, reports on President Donald Trump and American politics as the Washington Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star. Before his move to Washington in 2015, he was bureau chief and reporter at Toronto City Hall, covering Mayor Rob Ford and city council, from 2010 to 2014. The U.S. website Politico named Dale one of its "breakout media stars" of the 2016 presidential election for his popular fact-checks of the candidates’ claims, and Toronto Life named him one of the 50 most influential Torontonians of 2017. He has won a National Newspaper Award for short features and two Goff Penny Awards for Canada's best young journalist. He is a graduate of York University's Schulich School of Business. Daniel is a frequent commentator on MSNBC, CNN and CBC radio and television. http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/fall-2018-lectures daily 0.75 2019-06-10 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/fall-2018-details daily 0.75 2018-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1529166804881-6X8GAGOPWLK5QZ8TW81L/michael+Dan.jpg ... 2018 Fall Program Dr. Michael Dan, a committed philanthropist, is considered a model of social responsibility and generosity. A former neurosurgeon, he created the Paloma Foundation to fund organizations that assist marginalized people in Toronto. Dedicated to Canada’s Aboriginal community, he has created opportunities for future generations by supporting businesses on reserves. Recently, he also endowed the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health at the University of Toronto, the first privately-endowed research institute in the world geared to the unique health needs of Aboriginal people. His commitment to peace in the Middle East is exemplified by his support for The University of Haifa, the Michael and Amira Dan Professorship in Global Health at The University of Toronto, and the St. John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1529165346968-3WUELIG047KOSLT7XPBX/daley3.jpg ... 2018 Fall Program Dr. Mike Daley holds a Ph.D. in music from York University and has taught undergraduate courses at Guelph, McMaster, Waterloo and York Universities as well as acclaimed later-life courses at York, University of Toronto, Ryerson, George Brown, Learning Unlimited in Etobicoke and Later Life Learning in Mississauga. Mike has published scholarly articles on American popular music in international journals and has been invited to speak at academic conferences from Normandy to Nashville. Mike has also toured the U.S. and Canada as a musician with Jeff Healey, the Travellers and others, and has appeared on dozens of recordings as a guitarist and singer. Presently Mike and his wife Jill are leading music-themed tours to New York, Nashville, St. John's and New Orleans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1529165444217-BL9OUD8SPB33L025IS4I/susanne+stewart.jpg ... 2018 Fall Program - Dr. Suzanne L. Stewart, Phd, C.Psych Dr. Stewart is a member of the Yellowknife Dene First Nation. She is a registered psychologist and Director of the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health at the Della Lana School of Public Health at U of T, where she is an Associate Professor in the Division of Social and Behaviour Health Sciences. Research and teaching interests include Indigenous health and healing with specializations in psychology (homelessness, youth mental health, identity, and work-life development), Indigenous determinants of health, Indigenous pedagogies in higher education and health sciences, and Indigenous research ethics and methodologies. She is also Chair of the Aboriginal Section of the Canadian Psychology Association and is committed to advancing Indigenous healing issues in health practice and policy. Suzanne.stewart@utoronto.ca Dr. Suzanne L. Stewart, Ph.D., C.Psych, is a member of the Yellowknife Dene First Nation. She is a registered psychologist and Director of the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at U of T, where she is an Associate Professor in the Division of Social and Behaviour Health Sciences. Research and teaching interests include Indigenous health and healing with specializations in psychology (homelessness, youth mental health, identity, and work-life development), Indigenous determinants of health, Indigenous pedagogies in higher education and health sciences, and Indigenous research ethics and methodologies. She is also Chair of the Aboriginal Section of the Canadian Psychology Association and is committed to advancing Indigenous healing issues in health practice and policy. Suzanne.stewart@utoronto.ca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1529164714772-94FV30UNQQZCWUSR1RR8/Bernie.jpg ... 2018 Fall Program Bernie Farber's career, spanning more than a quarter century, focuses on human rights, pluralism and inter-ethnic/faith/race relations. As an expert in human and civil rights, he is regularly called on by the courts, media and law enforcement to provide analysis on hate crime, white supremacy and anti-racism. His efforts have been documented in numerous Canadian Human Rights publications, books, newspapers, film documentaries, magazines and academic publications. He writes for various newspapers in Canada and the USA. Mr. Farber has successfully run large NGO’s and Foundations such as Canadian Jewish Congress, the Paloma Foundation and the Mosaic Institute, all focused on social justice and human rights. He also worked closely with Canadian Indigenous communities on historical redress. Today Mr. Farber is “rewired” (as opposed to retired). He sits as a board member of Human Rights Watch, Chairs the Rights and Ethics Committee for Community Living Toronto and is a co-Chair of the Ontario Anti Racism Directorate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1538937149213-QLE6QKNN3R2K774EH9XX/Peter+Harris.jpg ... 2018 Fall Program Dr. Peter Harris is a former Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at U of T. He has taught courses for U of T in Berlin, Sussex, England, Birmingham, AL., and Seoul, Korea. In 2003, he was invited to be a Special Lecturer in the new Vic One Program in Victoria College, U of T. He won the SAC/APUS (student organizations) Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2006-2007. In 2013, he became Program Coordinator for Later Life Learning (LLL), based in Innis College, U of T. During the past two years he has lectured: in the Curious Minds program of the Rogers Hot Docs Cinema on By Design: Design Movements in the 19th and 20th Centuries and Starchitects: The Men Who Built America; for the George Brown College Seniors Program on New York, Paris, Berlin in The Roaring Twenties; and for Glendon College LifeLong Learning in Retirement on America in the Postwar Era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1529378219667-JV1BMX06AUYHMZHLAV2J/Ellen+RosemanF.jpg ... 2018 Fall Program Ellen Roseman has been a popular newspaper columnist since 1977 first at the Globe and Mail and then at the Toronto Star. She's become a brand name for activism and a champion at helping consumers fight back against injustices. People praise her direct, down to earth and common-sense writing style. Ellen's consumer columns appear in the Toronto Star's business section each Tuesday. She was the Star's business editor from 1997 - 1999. She is the author of seven books, including Money 101, Money 201 and Fight Back: 81 Ways to Help You Save Money and Protect Yourself from Corporate Trickery. Ellen has taught courses in investing and personal finance at the University of Toronto's continuing studies department since 2004. She also does a Financial Basics workshop each year at Ryerson University. Ellen is on the board of FAIR Canada (Foundation for Advancement of Investor Rights). She also co-hosts a monthly podcast, called The Moneysaver Podcast, with Canadian Moneysaver magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1529163916441-GTE9FA1HUT7D4PH59SB3/dr_emma_allenvercoe_and_robogutfood2.jpeg ... 2018 Fall Program Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe has a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and a PhD in Molecular Microbiology. She started her independent career in Calgary in 2005, studying the normal microbes of the human gut, an emerging area of interest, where she developed a model gut system (dubbed ‘Robogut’) to emulate the conditions of the human gut and allow communities of microbes to grow together, as they do naturally. Emma moved her lab to the University of Guelph in late 2007 and has recently been awarded funding through the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to develop her specialist anaerobic fermentation laboratory further. Her current lab projects are broad in nature, but united under the banner of human microbiome research, including studies of Clostridioides difficile infection, diabetes, colorectal cancer, and neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis. As well as her academic lab, in 2013, Emma co-founded NuBiyota, a research spin-off company that aims to create therapeutic ecosystems as biologic drugs, on a commercial scale. She has lectured in TedX Waterloo and has appeared in The Star, Globe and Mail and other media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1538937176742-FA6Y4GIKMOHA505M7FM2/braun2.jpg ... 2018 Fall Program Dr. Aurel Braun is currently a Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Toronto and an Associate of the Davis Center at Harvard University. He is a senior member of the Centre for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Between July 2012 and June 2015 he was a Visiting Professor teaching in the Department of Government, Harvard University. Professor Braun has twice been appointed a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In March 2009, the Federal Cabinet via a Governor-in-Council appointment made Professor Braun the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Rights & Democracy) for a three-year term. In December 2012, Professor Braun was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for services to Canada and for academic distinction by the Governor-General of Canada. Professor Braun has published extensively on communist affairs and strategic studies with a special focus on the problems of the transformation of the socialist systems in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe. He is also a specialist in international law. He is the author and/or editor of several books including The Middle East in Global Strategy. His forthcoming book is on Russia, the West and Arctic Security. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1529165444217-BL9OUD8SPB33L025IS4I/susanne+stewart.jpg ... 2018 Fall Program - Dr. Suzanne L. Stewart, Phd, C.Psych Dr. Stewart is a member of the Yellowknife Dene First Nation. She is a registered psychologist and Director of the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health at the Della Lana School of Public Health at U of T, where she is an Associate Professor in the Division of Social and Behaviour Health Sciences. Research and teaching interests include Indigenous health and healing with specializations in psychology (homelessness, youth mental health, identity, and work-life development), Indigenous determinants of health, Indigenous pedagogies in higher education and health sciences, and Indigenous research ethics and methodologies. She is also Chair of the Aboriginal Section of the Canadian Psychology Association and is committed to advancing Indigenous healing issues in health practice and policy. Suzanne.stewart@utoronto.ca Dr. Suzanne L. Stewart, Ph.D., C.Psych, is a member of the Yellowknife Dene First Nation. She is a registered psychologist and Director of the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at U of T, where she is an Associate Professor in the Division of Social and Behaviour Health Sciences. Research and teaching interests include Indigenous health and healing with specializations in psychology (homelessness, youth mental health, identity, and work-life development), Indigenous determinants of health, Indigenous pedagogies in higher education and health sciences, and Indigenous research ethics and methodologies. She is also Chair of the Aboriginal Section of the Canadian Psychology Association and is committed to advancing Indigenous healing issues in health practice and policy. Suzanne.stewart@utoronto.ca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1538937149213-QLE6QKNN3R2K774EH9XX/Peter+Harris.jpg ... 2018 Fall Program Dr. Peter Harris is a former Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at U of T. He has taught courses for U of T in Berlin, Sussex, England, Birmingham, AL., and Seoul, Korea. In 2003, he was invited to be a Special Lecturer in the new Vic One Program in Victoria College, U of T. He won the SAC/APUS (student organizations) Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2006-2007. In 2013, he became Program Coordinator for Later Life Learning (LLL), based in Innis College, U of T. During the past two years he has lectured: in the Curious Minds program of the Rogers Hot Docs Cinema on By Design: Design Movements in the 19th and 20th Centuries and Starchitects: The Men Who Built America; for the George Brown College Seniors Program on New York, Paris, Berlin in The Roaring Twenties; and for Glendon College LifeLong Learning in Retirement on America in the Postwar Era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1529165346968-3WUELIG047KOSLT7XPBX/daley3.jpg ... 2018 Fall Program Dr. Mike Daley holds a Ph.D. in music from York University and has taught undergraduate courses at Guelph, McMaster, Waterloo and York Universities as well as acclaimed later-life courses at York, University of Toronto, Ryerson, George Brown, Learning Unlimited in Etobicoke and Later Life Learning in Mississauga. Mike has published scholarly articles on American popular music in international journals and has been invited to speak at academic conferences from Normandy to Nashville. Mike has also toured the U.S. and Canada as a musician with Jeff Healey, the Travellers and others, and has appeared on dozens of recordings as a guitarist and singer. Presently Mike and his wife Jill are leading music-themed tours to New York, Nashville, St. John's and New Orleans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1529163916441-GTE9FA1HUT7D4PH59SB3/dr_emma_allenvercoe_and_robogutfood2.jpeg ... 2018 Fall Program Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe has a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and a PhD in Molecular Microbiology. She started her independent career in Calgary in 2005, studying the normal microbes of the human gut, an emerging area of interest, where she developed a model gut system (dubbed ‘Robogut’) to emulate the conditions of the human gut and allow communities of microbes to grow together, as they do naturally. Emma moved her lab to the University of Guelph in late 2007 and has recently been awarded funding through the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to develop her specialist anaerobic fermentation laboratory further. Her current lab projects are broad in nature, but united under the banner of human microbiome research, including studies of Clostridioides difficile infection, diabetes, colorectal cancer, and neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis. As well as her academic lab, in 2013, Emma co-founded NuBiyota, a research spin-off company that aims to create therapeutic ecosystems as biologic drugs, on a commercial scale. She has lectured in TedX Waterloo and has appeared in The Star, Globe and Mail and other media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1529378219667-JV1BMX06AUYHMZHLAV2J/Ellen+RosemanF.jpg ... 2018 Fall Program Ellen Roseman has been a popular newspaper columnist since 1977 first at the Globe and Mail and then at the Toronto Star. She's become a brand name for activism and a champion at helping consumers fight back against injustices. People praise her direct, down to earth and common-sense writing style. Ellen's consumer columns appear in the Toronto Star's business section each Tuesday. She was the Star's business editor from 1997 - 1999. She is the author of seven books, including Money 101, Money 201 and Fight Back: 81 Ways to Help You Save Money and Protect Yourself from Corporate Trickery. Ellen has taught courses in investing and personal finance at the University of Toronto's continuing studies department since 2004. She also does a Financial Basics workshop each year at Ryerson University. Ellen is on the board of FAIR Canada (Foundation for Advancement of Investor Rights). She also co-hosts a monthly podcast, called The Moneysaver Podcast, with Canadian Moneysaver magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1529164714772-94FV30UNQQZCWUSR1RR8/Bernie.jpg ... 2018 Fall Program Bernie Farber's career, spanning more than a quarter century, focuses on human rights, pluralism and inter-ethnic/faith/race relations. As an expert in human and civil rights, he is regularly called on by the courts, media and law enforcement to provide analysis on hate crime, white supremacy and anti-racism. His efforts have been documented in numerous Canadian Human Rights publications, books, newspapers, film documentaries, magazines and academic publications. He writes for various newspapers in Canada and the USA. Mr. Farber has successfully run large NGO’s and Foundations such as Canadian Jewish Congress, the Paloma Foundation and the Mosaic Institute, all focused on social justice and human rights. He also worked closely with Canadian Indigenous communities on historical redress. Today Mr. Farber is “rewired” (as opposed to retired). He sits as a board member of Human Rights Watch, Chairs the Rights and Ethics Committee for Community Living Toronto and is a co-Chair of the Ontario Anti Racism Directorate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1538937176742-FA6Y4GIKMOHA505M7FM2/braun2.jpg ... 2018 Fall Program Dr. Aurel Braun is currently a Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Toronto and an Associate of the Davis Center at Harvard University. He is a senior member of the Centre for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Between July 2012 and June 2015 he was a Visiting Professor teaching in the Department of Government, Harvard University. Professor Braun has twice been appointed a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In March 2009, the Federal Cabinet via a Governor-in-Council appointment made Professor Braun the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Rights & Democracy) for a three-year term. In December 2012, Professor Braun was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for services to Canada and for academic distinction by the Governor-General of Canada. Professor Braun has published extensively on communist affairs and strategic studies with a special focus on the problems of the transformation of the socialist systems in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe. He is also a specialist in international law. He is the author and/or editor of several books including The Middle East in Global Strategy. His forthcoming book is on Russia, the West and Arctic Security. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1529166804881-6X8GAGOPWLK5QZ8TW81L/michael+Dan.jpg ... 2018 Fall Program Dr. Michael Dan, a committed philanthropist, is considered a model of social responsibility and generosity. A former neurosurgeon, he created the Paloma Foundation to fund organizations that assist marginalized people in Toronto. Dedicated to Canada’s Aboriginal community, he has created opportunities for future generations by supporting businesses on reserves. Recently, he also endowed the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health at the University of Toronto, the first privately-endowed research institute in the world geared to the unique health needs of Aboriginal people. His commitment to peace in the Middle East is exemplified by his support for The University of Haifa, the Michael and Amira Dan Professorship in Global Health at The University of Toronto, and the St. John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/spring-2018-lectures daily 0.75 2018-06-16 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/read-me daily 0.75 2016-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52a74d9ae4b0253945d2aee9/1390928870858-4D9B6T9WGP8017NSS9W3/topography.jpg Read Me http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/spring-2020-lectures daily 0.75 2020-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1578497255860-EHSNYM9K1UF4JHIX7L8J/Vronsky.jpg Spring 2020 Lectures Peter Vronsky, PhD, is a former television news and documentary producer, investigative historian and author. In the 1980s he infiltrated for CBC's The Fifth Estate the Ku Klux Klan and witnessed their attempt to overthrow a government in the Caribbean ("The Bayou of Pigs 1981".) During the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, he worked undercover for a series of investigative documentaries on the "new" KGB in Russia and nuclear weapon materials smuggling in Chechnya. He holds a Ph.D (2010) in the history of espionage in international relations from University of Toronto. His most recent bestselling book on the history of serial homicide, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present was a New York Times ‘Editors’ Pick.’ Vronsky lectures at Ryerson University in the History of Espionage, History of Terrorism, International Relations History, and other history courses taught in Ryerson's History Department. Peter Vronsky is currently advising as a forensic historian the N.Y.P.D. Cold Case Homicide Squad and the North Jersey Cold Case Homicide Task Force (Bergen, Passaic and Essex Counties) on a series of cold case murders in their jurisdictions 1963-1980 and is debriefing the serial killer Richard F. Cottingham who has been incarcerated in the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton since his arrest in 1980. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1588787264464-I8C8H4B5AUXG9BVYRZST/josipa+petrunic.png Spring 2020 Lectures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1578158103148-TFMA63UR5WZJDLX5C3PJ/josipa+petrunic.png Spring 2020 Lectures Dr. Josipa Petrunic is the Executive Director & CEO of Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC). She is leading the formulation of several national transportation technology trials related to zero-emissions transportation and “smart vehicles” innovation, including the Pan-Canadian Electric Bus Demonstration & Integration Trial, the Pan-Canadian Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstration & Integration Trial, and the National Smart Vehicle Demonstration Project. Dr. Petrunic has built up CUTRIC’s consortium to include more than 100 private and public sector companies and organizations across Canada. Previously, she served as the lead researcher in electric vehicle policy studies at McMaster University, and as a senior research fellow in the history and philosophy of mathematics at University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom in Science and Technology Studies. Dr. Petrunic continues to lecture in Globalization Studies at McMaster University. She currently sits on the Board of the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Foundation and Women's Transportation Seminar - Toronto (WTS Toronto). In 2018, she was named as one of Canada’s a Top 40 Under 40 by Bloomberg News and Canada's Top Clean 50. In 2019, she was named Aspioneer Top 10 Influential Women Leaders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1578158790127-M6Y8WWOMLFV392FJL2W0/Elizabeth_Legge%2B%25281%2529.jpg Spring 2020 Lectures Elizabeth Legge studied at Cambridge University, the University of London and the University of Toronto, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History. She has written books on the Surrealist artist Max Ernst and the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis; and on Michael Snow’s radical New York film of the 1960s, Wavelength. She has been a visiting professor at the Humanities Centre at Johns Hopkins University. Most recently, she has written on boredom and cuteness, and is working on contemporary artists’ representations of children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1578158070143-AMF30TWPCX7D01SP9S9C/Tanya+Demello.jpg Spring 2020 Lectures Tanya (Toni) De Mello, LL.B., has a background in finance, management consulting and law. She has spent much of her career focusing on and researching, unconscious bias. She is a human rights lawyer and a certified coach and mediator. In her current role, she teaches at Ryerson University and is the Director of Human Rights there. In addition to founding two NGOs, Tanya has served in the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the World Food Programme in Geneva (Switzerland), Senegal (West Africa) and Colombia (South America). Tanya holds a dual Bachelor of Economics and Political Science from the University of Waterloo; a double Master in Public Policy and Urban and Regional Planning from Princeton University; and a dual law degree from McGill University. She is currently completing a PhD at the University of Toronto on access to the legal sector. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1578159621582-II8Q9EOJC8KWBD3MC0RQ/Ric+Bienstock.jpeg Spring 2020 Lectures Ric Esther Bienstock is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker best known for her groundbreaking investigative documentaries. Her films, including “The Accountant of Auschwitz”, “Tales From the Organ Trade”, “Sex Slaves” (aka “The Real Sex Traffic“), “Ebola: Inside an Outbreak” (aka “Plague Fighters”), “Boxing: In and Out of the Ring”, “Penn & Teller’s Magic and Mystery Tour” and “Ms. Conceptions”, have screened at over 80 international festivals and aired in over 60 countries In July 2019 she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honour. In 2015, she was awarded the Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism from the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television for her body of work. Bienstock was also honoured by the Toronto International Film Festival with the Birks Diamond Tribute to the Year’s Women in Film as one of Canada’s leading women filmmakers. Bienstock currently serves on the Board of Directors of Toronto’s Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival and has been on the Executive of the Board of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) since 2014. With a passion for social issues, her films, often years in the making, stand out as the definitive films on whatever topic she tackles. As a result, she has been asked to speak before governments, international organizations and law enforcement the world over. Bienstock gave a TEDx talk about her body of work (entitled “How Ebola, Porn and the Human Organ Trade Led Me to the Ordinary”). She was also a featured speaker at Toronto’s IdeaCity and she has given talks at numerous Universities both at home and internationally including Princeton, UCLA, Columbia, the New York Academy of Medicine, Concordia, Simon Fraser University, Carleton and others. Her work has garnered dozens of prestigious awards, including an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, a Dupont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, a British Broadcast Award, a Distinguished Achievement award from the IDA in Los Angeles, 4 Canadian Screen Awards, 2 Donald Brittain Awards for Best Documentary, 2 Geminis, a Genie, a Royal Television Society Award and 2 Amnesty International Awards among many others. She speaks 3 languages, none of which her children listen to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1585583012405-R2M0KPY67X0RTWT7W3WP/Olivier.png Spring 2020 Lectures Dr. Courteaux received his M.A. in war and conflict studies and Ph.D. in contemporary international relations from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He has lectured at various Canadian universities, including Ryerson and the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The War on Terror: the Canadian Dilemma (2009), Canada Between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945 (2013) and Quatre Journées qui ébranlèrent le Québec on Charles de Gaulle’s famous 1967 “Vive le Québec Libre” (2017). His latest book, The Empress Eugenie at Suez, 1869: France and Egypt during the Second Empire is scheduled for release in the Fall of 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1578759254947-9HKM8QHXG6RDAMJHGSKQ/Horner_Richard.jpg Spring 2020 Lectures Richard L. Horner, PhD, FCAHS is Canada Research Chair in sleep science, Professor of Medicine and of Physiology at the University of Toronto, and elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Professor Horner’s research identifies brain mechanisms of sleep, sedation and anesthesia, and their impact on vital functions such as breathing. He has authored over a hundred research papers on sleep science and the book The Universal Pastime: Sleep and Rest Explained. He regularly engages with the media (radio, television and print) on sleep health. Richard leads undergraduate and graduate teaching on sleep science in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He received his undergraduate and PhD in the UK (University of Sheffield, and University of London respectively) followed by research fellowships at the University of Toronto and University of Pennsylvania, prior to taking up his faculty position at the University of Toronto in 1997. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1588787386707-8LFGS3DTWKMPQ1M7SA1G/Vronsky+F.jpg Spring 2020 Lectures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1588787130050-NX6RHUJRF55NPOKUNY68/Steven_Hoffman.jpg Spring 2020 Lectures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1578159621582-II8Q9EOJC8KWBD3MC0RQ/Ric+Bienstock.jpeg Spring 2020 Lectures Ric Esther Bienstock is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker best known for her groundbreaking investigative documentaries. Her films, including “The Accountant of Auschwitz”, “Tales From the Organ Trade”, “Sex Slaves” (aka “The Real Sex Traffic“), “Ebola: Inside an Outbreak” (aka “Plague Fighters”), “Boxing: In and Out of the Ring”, “Penn & Teller’s Magic and Mystery Tour” and “Ms. Conceptions”, have screened at over 80 international festivals and aired in over 60 countries In July 2019 she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honour. In 2015, she was awarded the Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism from the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television for her body of work. Bienstock was also honoured by the Toronto International Film Festival with the Birks Diamond Tribute to the Year’s Women in Film as one of Canada’s leading women filmmakers. Bienstock currently serves on the Board of Directors of Toronto’s Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival and has been on the Executive of the Board of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) since 2014. With a passion for social issues, her films, often years in the making, stand out as the definitive films on whatever topic she tackles. As a result, she has been asked to speak before governments, international organizations and law enforcement the world over. Bienstock gave a TEDx talk about her body of work (entitled “How Ebola, Porn and the Human Organ Trade Led Me to the Ordinary”). She was also a featured speaker at Toronto’s IdeaCity and she has given talks at numerous Universities both at home and internationally including Princeton, UCLA, Columbia, the New York Academy of Medicine, Concordia, Simon Fraser University, Carleton and others. Her work has garnered dozens of prestigious awards, including an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, a Dupont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, a British Broadcast Award, a Distinguished Achievement award from the IDA in Los Angeles, 4 Canadian Screen Awards, 2 Donald Brittain Awards for Best Documentary, 2 Geminis, a Genie, a Royal Television Society Award and 2 Amnesty International Awards among many others. She speaks 3 languages, none of which her children listen to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1588787264464-I8C8H4B5AUXG9BVYRZST/josipa+petrunic.png Spring 2020 Lectures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1588787386707-8LFGS3DTWKMPQ1M7SA1G/Vronsky+F.jpg Spring 2020 Lectures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1578158070143-AMF30TWPCX7D01SP9S9C/Tanya+Demello.jpg Spring 2020 Lectures Tanya (Toni) De Mello, LL.B., has a background in finance, management consulting and law. She has spent much of her career focusing on and researching, unconscious bias. She is a human rights lawyer and a certified coach and mediator. In her current role, she teaches at Ryerson University and is the Director of Human Rights there. In addition to founding two NGOs, Tanya has served in the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the World Food Programme in Geneva (Switzerland), Senegal (West Africa) and Colombia (South America). Tanya holds a dual Bachelor of Economics and Political Science from the University of Waterloo; a double Master in Public Policy and Urban and Regional Planning from Princeton University; and a dual law degree from McGill University. She is currently completing a PhD at the University of Toronto on access to the legal sector. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1588787130050-NX6RHUJRF55NPOKUNY68/Steven_Hoffman.jpg Spring 2020 Lectures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1578158790127-M6Y8WWOMLFV392FJL2W0/Elizabeth_Legge%2B%25281%2529.jpg Spring 2020 Lectures Elizabeth Legge studied at Cambridge University, the University of London and the University of Toronto, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History. She has written books on the Surrealist artist Max Ernst and the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis; and on Michael Snow’s radical New York film of the 1960s, Wavelength. She has been a visiting professor at the Humanities Centre at Johns Hopkins University. Most recently, she has written on boredom and cuteness, and is working on contemporary artists’ representations of children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1578759254947-9HKM8QHXG6RDAMJHGSKQ/Horner_Richard.jpg Spring 2020 Lectures Richard L. Horner, PhD, FCAHS is Canada Research Chair in sleep science, Professor of Medicine and of Physiology at the University of Toronto, and elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Professor Horner’s research identifies brain mechanisms of sleep, sedation and anesthesia, and their impact on vital functions such as breathing. He has authored over a hundred research papers on sleep science and the book The Universal Pastime: Sleep and Rest Explained. He regularly engages with the media (radio, television and print) on sleep health. Richard leads undergraduate and graduate teaching on sleep science in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He received his undergraduate and PhD in the UK (University of Sheffield, and University of London respectively) followed by research fellowships at the University of Toronto and University of Pennsylvania, prior to taking up his faculty position at the University of Toronto in 1997. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1578158103148-TFMA63UR5WZJDLX5C3PJ/josipa+petrunic.png Spring 2020 Lectures Dr. Josipa Petrunic is the Executive Director & CEO of Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC). She is leading the formulation of several national transportation technology trials related to zero-emissions transportation and “smart vehicles” innovation, including the Pan-Canadian Electric Bus Demonstration & Integration Trial, the Pan-Canadian Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstration & Integration Trial, and the National Smart Vehicle Demonstration Project. Dr. Petrunic has built up CUTRIC’s consortium to include more than 100 private and public sector companies and organizations across Canada. Previously, she served as the lead researcher in electric vehicle policy studies at McMaster University, and as a senior research fellow in the history and philosophy of mathematics at University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom in Science and Technology Studies. Dr. Petrunic continues to lecture in Globalization Studies at McMaster University. She currently sits on the Board of the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Foundation and Women's Transportation Seminar - Toronto (WTS Toronto). In 2018, she was named as one of Canada’s a Top 40 Under 40 by Bloomberg News and Canada's Top Clean 50. In 2019, she was named Aspioneer Top 10 Influential Women Leaders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1585583012405-R2M0KPY67X0RTWT7W3WP/Olivier.png Spring 2020 Lectures Dr. Courteaux received his M.A. in war and conflict studies and Ph.D. in contemporary international relations from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He has lectured at various Canadian universities, including Ryerson and the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The War on Terror: the Canadian Dilemma (2009), Canada Between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945 (2013) and Quatre Journées qui ébranlèrent le Québec on Charles de Gaulle’s famous 1967 “Vive le Québec Libre” (2017). His latest book, The Empress Eugenie at Suez, 1869: France and Egypt during the Second Empire is scheduled for release in the Fall of 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1578497255860-EHSNYM9K1UF4JHIX7L8J/Vronsky.jpg Spring 2020 Lectures Peter Vronsky, PhD, is a former television news and documentary producer, investigative historian and author. In the 1980s he infiltrated for CBC's The Fifth Estate the Ku Klux Klan and witnessed their attempt to overthrow a government in the Caribbean ("The Bayou of Pigs 1981".) During the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, he worked undercover for a series of investigative documentaries on the "new" KGB in Russia and nuclear weapon materials smuggling in Chechnya. He holds a Ph.D (2010) in the history of espionage in international relations from University of Toronto. His most recent bestselling book on the history of serial homicide, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present was a New York Times ‘Editors’ Pick.’ Vronsky lectures at Ryerson University in the History of Espionage, History of Terrorism, International Relations History, and other history courses taught in Ryerson's History Department. Peter Vronsky is currently advising as a forensic historian the N.Y.P.D. Cold Case Homicide Squad and the North Jersey Cold Case Homicide Task Force (Bergen, Passaic and Essex Counties) on a series of cold case murders in their jurisdictions 1963-1980 and is debriefing the serial killer Richard F. Cottingham who has been incarcerated in the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton since his arrest in 1980. http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/hong-kong-food-culture-and-cook-along daily 0.75 2022-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/f0746800-8d65-43ba-af1e-ff1dc7a6033a/Virginia+Chan+%281%29+%281%29.jpg March 3 2022 Free Event - Hong Kong Confidential - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/f0746800-8d65-43ba-af1e-ff1dc7a6033a/Virginia+Chan+%281%29+%281%29.jpg March 3 2022 Free Event - Hong Kong Confidential - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/wait-list-spring-2020 daily 0.75 2020-01-16 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/spring-2020-list daily 0.75 2020-01-16 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/fall-2019-lecture-list daily 0.75 2019-08-26 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/2019-fall-lecture-details daily 0.75 2019-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560276337415-XRAECKHJ24UV5C88DC5P/ager-2.jpg 2019 Fall Lecture Details Dr. Sheila Ager is a Full Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo and a Research Associate with the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies. She is the author and an editor of three books (Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World (co-edited with Riemer Faber), and A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity), as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. Her research focuses on the areas of interstate relations and peaceful conflict resolution in the Greco-Roman world, as well as the construction of Hellenistic monarchy, especially the role of royal women. She has been at the University of Waterloo since 1987 and in 2019 became Dean of the Faculty of Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560308737184-CXX3ONMQR1Y8MM0ZHE0L/JudithWahl.jpg 2019 Fall Lecture Details Judith Wahl is a lawyer, practicing as a legal consultant and speaker at Wahl Elder Law. She was previously the Executive Director and senior lawyer at the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly 1984-2016 and in private practice with Birenbaum, Koffman, Steinberg 1979-1984. She has an Honours B.A. in English from the University of Toronto (1974) and an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (1977). Throughout her legal career, Judith has been very active in advocating for the rights of older adults and in the development of elder law as an area of practice. She was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013) for her contribution to the development of Elder Law in Canada. She is also the recipient of the Ontario Bar Association Award for Distinguished Service, 2008, and the Osgoode Hall Law School Gold Key Award for Public Service, 2006, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560308928011-N9NACKEQZHDNS1CGWG54/Olivier.png 2019 Fall Lecture Details Dr. Olivier Courteaux received his B.A. in history, M.A. in war and conflict studies and Ph.D. in contemporary international relations from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He has lectured at various Canadian universities, including Ryerson and the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The War on Terror: the Canadian Dilemma (2009), Canada Between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945 (2013) and Quatre Journées qui ébranlèrent le Québec on Charles de Gaulle’s famous 1967 “Vive le Québec Libre” (2017). His latest book, The Empress Eugenie at Suez, 1869: France and Egypt during the Second Empire is scheduled for release in the Fall of 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560277062389-KJIQ2XAZSEYZJKWKZQ1Z/pevere1.jpg 2019 Fall Lecture Details Geoff Pevere has been lecturing, teaching and writing about movies and pop culture for more than 40 years. He is a former CBC radio host and Toronto Star movie critic and he has also contributed regularly to The Globe and Mail and other newspapers and publications. He has appeared as a regular critic and commentator on Canada AM, TVOntario, Rogers Television. He is the author, co-author and contributor to several books, and is currently at work on a 21st Century version of the nationally best-selling Mondo Canuck; A Canadian Pop Cultural Odyssey. Currently, he is the Film Program Director of the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1566829025657-PGLULSC1ZG0KW4I3XSVQ/Bernie.jpg 2019 Fall Lecture Details Bernie Farber's career, spanning more than a quarter century, focuses on human rights, pluralism and inter-ethnic/faith/race relations. As an expert in human and civil rights, he is regularly called on by the courts, media and law enforcement to provide analysis on hate crime, white supremacy and anti-racism. His efforts have been documented in numerous Canadian Human Rights publications, books, newspapers, film documentaries, magazines and academic publications. He writes for various newspapers in Canada and the USA. Mr. Farber has successfully run large NGO’s and Foundations such as Canadian Jewish Congress, the Paloma Foundation and the Mosaic Institute, all focused on social justice and human rights. He also worked closely with Canadian Indigenous communities on historical redress. Today Mr. Farber is “rewired” (as opposed to retired). He sits as a board member of Human Rights Watch, Chairs the Rights and Ethics Committee for Community Living Toronto and is a co-Chair of the Ontario Anti Racism Directorate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560309409705-0DLQC9P3IU0VD9T31KS9/kelman.jpg 2019 Fall Lecture Details Suanne Kelman is professor emeritus of the School of Journalism at Ryerson University. Before joining Ryerson in 1993, Ms. Kelman worked as an academic and then a journalist. She taught literature for a year at Fourah Bay College, the University of Sierra Leone, before landing her first CBC job at the radio show Sunday Morning. She moved from there to the CBC television show The Journal. That was followed by a stint working part-time at the Globe and Mail and freelancing for broadcasters (especially CBC’s Ideas) and magazines, including Chatelaine, Canadian Living, Toronto Life, Shape and ROB Magazine. Ms. Kelman is the author of All in the Family: A Cultural History of Family Life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560277062389-KJIQ2XAZSEYZJKWKZQ1Z/pevere1.jpg 2019 Fall Lecture Details Geoff Pevere has been lecturing, teaching and writing about movies and pop culture for more than 40 years. He is a former CBC radio host and Toronto Star movie critic and he has also contributed regularly to The Globe and Mail and other newspapers and publications. He has appeared as a regular critic and commentator on Canada AM, TVOntario, Rogers Television. He is the author, co-author and contributor to several books, and is currently at work on a 21st Century version of the nationally best-selling Mondo Canuck; A Canadian Pop Cultural Odyssey. Currently, he is the Film Program Director of the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560276337415-XRAECKHJ24UV5C88DC5P/ager-2.jpg 2019 Fall Lecture Details Dr. Sheila Ager is a Full Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo and a Research Associate with the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies. She is the author and an editor of three books (Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World (co-edited with Riemer Faber), and A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity), as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. Her research focuses on the areas of interstate relations and peaceful conflict resolution in the Greco-Roman world, as well as the construction of Hellenistic monarchy, especially the role of royal women. She has been at the University of Waterloo since 1987 and in 2019 became Dean of the Faculty of Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560308928011-N9NACKEQZHDNS1CGWG54/Olivier.png 2019 Fall Lecture Details Dr. Olivier Courteaux received his B.A. in history, M.A. in war and conflict studies and Ph.D. in contemporary international relations from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He has lectured at various Canadian universities, including Ryerson and the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The War on Terror: the Canadian Dilemma (2009), Canada Between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945 (2013) and Quatre Journées qui ébranlèrent le Québec on Charles de Gaulle’s famous 1967 “Vive le Québec Libre” (2017). His latest book, The Empress Eugenie at Suez, 1869: France and Egypt during the Second Empire is scheduled for release in the Fall of 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560309409705-0DLQC9P3IU0VD9T31KS9/kelman.jpg 2019 Fall Lecture Details Suanne Kelman is professor emeritus of the School of Journalism at Ryerson University. Before joining Ryerson in 1993, Ms. Kelman worked as an academic and then a journalist. She taught literature for a year at Fourah Bay College, the University of Sierra Leone, before landing her first CBC job at the radio show Sunday Morning. She moved from there to the CBC television show The Journal. That was followed by a stint working part-time at the Globe and Mail and freelancing for broadcasters (especially CBC’s Ideas) and magazines, including Chatelaine, Canadian Living, Toronto Life, Shape and ROB Magazine. Ms. Kelman is the author of All in the Family: A Cultural History of Family Life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1566829025657-PGLULSC1ZG0KW4I3XSVQ/Bernie.jpg 2019 Fall Lecture Details Bernie Farber's career, spanning more than a quarter century, focuses on human rights, pluralism and inter-ethnic/faith/race relations. As an expert in human and civil rights, he is regularly called on by the courts, media and law enforcement to provide analysis on hate crime, white supremacy and anti-racism. His efforts have been documented in numerous Canadian Human Rights publications, books, newspapers, film documentaries, magazines and academic publications. He writes for various newspapers in Canada and the USA. Mr. Farber has successfully run large NGO’s and Foundations such as Canadian Jewish Congress, the Paloma Foundation and the Mosaic Institute, all focused on social justice and human rights. He also worked closely with Canadian Indigenous communities on historical redress. Today Mr. Farber is “rewired” (as opposed to retired). He sits as a board member of Human Rights Watch, Chairs the Rights and Ethics Committee for Community Living Toronto and is a co-Chair of the Ontario Anti Racism Directorate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560308737184-CXX3ONMQR1Y8MM0ZHE0L/JudithWahl.jpg 2019 Fall Lecture Details Judith Wahl is a lawyer, practicing as a legal consultant and speaker at Wahl Elder Law. She was previously the Executive Director and senior lawyer at the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly 1984-2016 and in private practice with Birenbaum, Koffman, Steinberg 1979-1984. She has an Honours B.A. in English from the University of Toronto (1974) and an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (1977). Throughout her legal career, Judith has been very active in advocating for the rights of older adults and in the development of elder law as an area of practice. She was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013) for her contribution to the development of Elder Law in Canada. She is also the recipient of the Ontario Bar Association Award for Distinguished Service, 2008, and the Osgoode Hall Law School Gold Key Award for Public Service, 2006, http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/2019-fall-lecture-details-1 daily 0.75 2020-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560309409705-0DLQC9P3IU0VD9T31KS9/kelman.jpg Copy of 2019 Fall Lecture Details Suanne Kelman is professor emeritus of the School of Journalism at Ryerson University. Before joining Ryerson in 1993, Ms. Kelman worked as an academic and then a journalist. She taught literature for a year at Fourah Bay College, the University of Sierra Leone, before landing her first CBC job at the radio show Sunday Morning. She moved from there to the CBC television show The Journal. That was followed by a stint working part-time at the Globe and Mail and freelancing for broadcasters (especially CBC’s Ideas) and magazines, including Chatelaine, Canadian Living, Toronto Life, Shape and ROB Magazine. Ms. Kelman is the author of All in the Family: A Cultural History of Family Life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560276337415-XRAECKHJ24UV5C88DC5P/ager-2.jpg Copy of 2019 Fall Lecture Details Dr. Sheila Ager is a Full Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo and a Research Associate with the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies. She is the author and an editor of three books (Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World (co-edited with Riemer Faber), and A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity), as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. Her research focuses on the areas of interstate relations and peaceful conflict resolution in the Greco-Roman world, as well as the construction of Hellenistic monarchy, especially the role of royal women. She has been at the University of Waterloo since 1987 and in 2019 became Dean of the Faculty of Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560277062389-KJIQ2XAZSEYZJKWKZQ1Z/pevere1.jpg Copy of 2019 Fall Lecture Details Geoff Pevere has been lecturing, teaching and writing about movies and pop culture for more than 40 years. He is a former CBC radio host and Toronto Star movie critic and he has also contributed regularly to The Globe and Mail and other newspapers and publications. He has appeared as a regular critic and commentator on Canada AM, TVOntario, Rogers Television. He is the author, co-author and contributor to several books, and is currently at work on a 21st Century version of the nationally best-selling Mondo Canuck; A Canadian Pop Cultural Odyssey. Currently, he is the Film Program Director of the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1566829025657-PGLULSC1ZG0KW4I3XSVQ/Bernie.jpg Copy of 2019 Fall Lecture Details Bernie Farber's career, spanning more than a quarter century, focuses on human rights, pluralism and inter-ethnic/faith/race relations. As an expert in human and civil rights, he is regularly called on by the courts, media and law enforcement to provide analysis on hate crime, white supremacy and anti-racism. His efforts have been documented in numerous Canadian Human Rights publications, books, newspapers, film documentaries, magazines and academic publications. He writes for various newspapers in Canada and the USA. Mr. Farber has successfully run large NGO’s and Foundations such as Canadian Jewish Congress, the Paloma Foundation and the Mosaic Institute, all focused on social justice and human rights. He also worked closely with Canadian Indigenous communities on historical redress. Today Mr. Farber is “rewired” (as opposed to retired). He sits as a board member of Human Rights Watch, Chairs the Rights and Ethics Committee for Community Living Toronto and is a co-Chair of the Ontario Anti Racism Directorate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560308737184-CXX3ONMQR1Y8MM0ZHE0L/JudithWahl.jpg Copy of 2019 Fall Lecture Details Judith Wahl is a lawyer, practicing as a legal consultant and speaker at Wahl Elder Law. She was previously the Executive Director and senior lawyer at the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly 1984-2016 and in private practice with Birenbaum, Koffman, Steinberg 1979-1984. She has an Honours B.A. in English from the University of Toronto (1974) and an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (1977). Throughout her legal career, Judith has been very active in advocating for the rights of older adults and in the development of elder law as an area of practice. She was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013) for her contribution to the development of Elder Law in Canada. She is also the recipient of the Ontario Bar Association Award for Distinguished Service, 2008, and the Osgoode Hall Law School Gold Key Award for Public Service, 2006, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1560308928011-N9NACKEQZHDNS1CGWG54/Olivier.png Copy of 2019 Fall Lecture Details Dr. Olivier Courteaux received his B.A. in history, M.A. in war and conflict studies and Ph.D. in contemporary international relations from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He has lectured at various Canadian universities, including Ryerson and the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The War on Terror: the Canadian Dilemma (2009), Canada Between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945 (2013) and Quatre Journées qui ébranlèrent le Québec on Charles de Gaulle’s famous 1967 “Vive le Québec Libre” (2017). His latest book, The Empress Eugenie at Suez, 1869: France and Egypt during the Second Empire is scheduled for release in the Fall of 2019. http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/spring-2020-lecture-list daily 0.75 2020-01-04 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2020-03-31 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/online-resources daily 0.75 2022-02-09 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/2020-fall-webinar-details daily 0.75 2020-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1594735824252-PJ402QLDII9DE7ZBJMTZ/Hird+3-2.jpg 2020 Fall Webinar Series Dr. Myra J. Hird is Professor, Queen's National Scholar, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University, Canada (www.myrahird.com). Professor Hird is Director of Waste Flow, an interdisciplinary research project focused on waste as a global scientific-technical and socio-ethical issue (www.wasteflow.ca). Dr. Hird has published nine books and over seventy articles and book chapters on a diversity of topics relating to science studies. Hird’s forthcoming book is entitled Canada’s Waste Flows and will be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1594313183827-45DUTCDAXCSBC33V230T/nayman2.png 2020 Fall Webinar Series Adam Nayman is a critic, lecturer and author based in Toronto. He writes on film for the Ringer and teaches at the University of Toronto. He has written three books on cinema; his fourth, Masterworks: The Films of Paul Thomas Anderson, will be published this October by Abrams. Check out Adam’s book The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1594265545960-80JJUNGBL2TF15NZYJO6/VH_DANRISKIN_OCT18_0098-2.jpg 2020 Fall Webinar Series Dr. Dan Riskin is a biologist, TV presenter and author. He is best known in Canada as the co-host of Daily Planet on The Discovery Channel, as the best-selling author of Mother Nature is Trying to Kill You, and as CTV’s Science and Technology Specialist appearing regularly on CTV national and local news broadcasts. Dan’s first scientific love is bats and he has spent decades travelling the world studying the biomechanics of how they move. Dan holds an adjunct professorship at the University of Toronto Mississauga and leads yearly wildlife tours around the world (to see bats and more) with Quest Nature Tours. He was featured on CNN’s recent special on bats with Anderson Cooper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1594264562113-CQREK66292X6F5EJ9KAO/laura+carlson.jpg 2020 Fall Webinar Series Dr. Laura Carlson holds a Doc. Phil. in History from Oxford University and an M.A. from the University of Toronto. She has taught history, classics, and food studies at Queen’s University and Centennial College. She is currently the executive producer and host of The Feast, an award-winning podcast dedicated to the great meals that made history. She works internationally as a historian, writer, researcher, and audio producer with such partners as Heritage Toronto, America's Test Kitchen, the Southern Foodways Alliance, NPR, and Bloomberg Media. Recently, she has been featured as a lecturer for Hot Doc’s Curious Minds lecture series and has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1594736164876-BVFOGH38LXZNMUN8L51M/etgtinger.final-3.jpg 2020 Fall Webinar Series Dr. Aaron Ettinger is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, specializing in US foreign policy and International Relations. His research focuses on continuity and change in US foreign policy since 2001 and its implications for global politics. He is especially interested in the ideas that underpin American foreign policy. His published research addresses US and Canadian foreign policy, the private military industry, and the teaching of International Relations. As a lifelong sports fan, he also dabbles in the politics of sports. In the classroom, Dr. Ettinger has taught politics courses on world order, US and Canadian foreign policy, the politics of war, transatlantic defence, globalization, and human rights. Before joining the Department of Political Science at Carleton, he taught at the University of Waterloo, Dalhousie University, and Queen’s University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1596123641651-A113T5I37SSWU5MUR7K3/Emile+Dirks.png 2020 Fall Webinar Series Emile Dirks is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. A Mandarin Chinese speaker, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, VICE, and the Globe and Mail. His co-authored report (written with Prof. James Leibold of La Trobe University) for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, “Genomic Surveillance: Inside China's DNA dragnet”, examined a little known program of national police-led DNA data collection targeting men and boys and was the basis for a New York Times investigative report. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1594735824252-PJ402QLDII9DE7ZBJMTZ/Hird+3-2.jpg 2020 Fall Webinar Series Dr. Myra J. Hird is Professor, Queen's National Scholar, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University, Canada (www.myrahird.com). Professor Hird is Director of Waste Flow, an interdisciplinary research project focused on waste as a global scientific-technical and socio-ethical issue (www.wasteflow.ca). Dr. Hird has published nine books and over seventy articles and book chapters on a diversity of topics relating to science studies. Hird’s forthcoming book is entitled Canada’s Waste Flows and will be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1594265545960-80JJUNGBL2TF15NZYJO6/VH_DANRISKIN_OCT18_0098-2.jpg 2020 Fall Webinar Series Dr. Dan Riskin is a biologist, TV presenter and author. He is best known in Canada as the co-host of Daily Planet on The Discovery Channel, as the best-selling author of Mother Nature is Trying to Kill You, and as CTV’s Science and Technology Specialist appearing regularly on CTV national and local news broadcasts. Dan’s first scientific love is bats and he has spent decades travelling the world studying the biomechanics of how they move. Dan holds an adjunct professorship at the University of Toronto Mississauga and leads yearly wildlife tours around the world (to see bats and more) with Quest Nature Tours. He was featured on CNN’s recent special on bats with Anderson Cooper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1594736164876-BVFOGH38LXZNMUN8L51M/etgtinger.final-3.jpg 2020 Fall Webinar Series Dr. Aaron Ettinger is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, specializing in US foreign policy and International Relations. His research focuses on continuity and change in US foreign policy since 2001 and its implications for global politics. He is especially interested in the ideas that underpin American foreign policy. His published research addresses US and Canadian foreign policy, the private military industry, and the teaching of International Relations. As a lifelong sports fan, he also dabbles in the politics of sports. In the classroom, Dr. Ettinger has taught politics courses on world order, US and Canadian foreign policy, the politics of war, transatlantic defence, globalization, and human rights. Before joining the Department of Political Science at Carleton, he taught at the University of Waterloo, Dalhousie University, and Queen’s University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1594264562113-CQREK66292X6F5EJ9KAO/laura+carlson.jpg 2020 Fall Webinar Series Dr. Laura Carlson holds a Doc. Phil. in History from Oxford University and an M.A. from the University of Toronto. She has taught history, classics, and food studies at Queen’s University and Centennial College. She is currently the executive producer and host of The Feast, an award-winning podcast dedicated to the great meals that made history. She works internationally as a historian, writer, researcher, and audio producer with such partners as Heritage Toronto, America's Test Kitchen, the Southern Foodways Alliance, NPR, and Bloomberg Media. Recently, she has been featured as a lecturer for Hot Doc’s Curious Minds lecture series and has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1594313183827-45DUTCDAXCSBC33V230T/nayman2.png 2020 Fall Webinar Series Adam Nayman is a critic, lecturer and author based in Toronto. He writes on film for the Ringer and teaches at the University of Toronto. He has written three books on cinema; his fourth, Masterworks: The Films of Paul Thomas Anderson, will be published this October by Abrams. Check out Adam’s book The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1596123641651-A113T5I37SSWU5MUR7K3/Emile+Dirks.png 2020 Fall Webinar Series Emile Dirks is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. A Mandarin Chinese speaker, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, VICE, and the Globe and Mail. His co-authored report (written with Prof. James Leibold of La Trobe University) for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, “Genomic Surveillance: Inside China's DNA dragnet”, examined a little known program of national police-led DNA data collection targeting men and boys and was the basis for a New York Times investigative report. http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/register-now daily 0.75 2025-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1547064275265-ONZOJBH4P4CMEGH4HZJ0/online+purchase+photo.jpg REGISTER NOW http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/2020-special-event daily 0.75 2020-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1595260479267-OPMLAL6DOPZTA97CZ9K2/bonnie.jpg Special Event https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1595260782976-QITTQUAP7YAENL76W7MU/IMG_6396.jpg Special Event https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1595260479267-OPMLAL6DOPZTA97CZ9K2/bonnie.jpg Special Event https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1595260782976-QITTQUAP7YAENL76W7MU/IMG_6396.jpg Special Event http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2020-08-17 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/2021-winter-webinar-series daily 0.75 2021-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1606337821692-PAQYQHRI1M7SU7YH68SM/francesca-pagliaro.png 2021 Winter Webinar Series Francesca Pagliaro is a licensed tour guide in her city of Rome. She has an Art History degree and specializes in Italian Renaissance Art. She has been offering a variety of tours of the ‘eternal city’ since 2008. During the pandemic, she has turned her enthusiasm and passion to creating memorable, virtual tours that make you feel as if you are there in Rome with her, rather than in a classroom or a lecture hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1606330708925-KJNK5ON223GVTB7YZE0U/Courteaux.png 2021 Winter Webinar Series Olivier Courteaux received his B.A. in history, M.A. in war and conflict studies and Ph.D. in contemporary international relations from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He has lectured at various Canadian universities, including Ryerson and the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The War on Terror: the Canadian Dilemma (2009), Canada Between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945 (2013) and Quatre Journées qui ébranlèrent le Québec on Charles de Gaulle’s famous 1967 “Vive le Québec Libre” (2017). His latest book (2019), The Empress Eugenie at Suez, 1869: France and Egypt during the Second Empire, will be released in the near future. Dr. Courteaux is currently hosting a virtual historical journey through Spain at Hot Docs' Curious Minds speaker series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1606330958471-FD8AFTCWHWP247DOOT9G/Piperato.jpg 2021 Winter Webinar Series Dr. Anna Piperato is passionate about Italian art history and her beloved adopted hometown of Siena. Born in Texas and brought up in Massachusetts, Anna went to college in upstate New York as an art major. She turned to art history and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Manchester. Anna returned to the States and was a college art history professor...yet Italy kept calling. In 2014 she left it all behind to move to Siena, where she still lives, and now works for Rick Steves Europe and guides locally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1609435312666-0XYUBLEY7CB9WHBR56IQ/jessiman+updated.jpg 2021 Winter Webinar Series Carol Ann Jessiman is a Certified Sommelier and Wine Educator. After spending over 25 years in the insurance and financial services industry, she took her interest in wine and spirits to the next level and went back to school. She enrolled in the Wine & Spirit Education Trust program at the IWEG Drinks Academy in Toronto. She quickly discovered that when it comes to wine and spirits, there is always more to learn. Next up was a one-year program at George Brown College where she obtained her Certified Sommelier designation. Upon graduating, she joined one of Canada’s busiest wine websites, WineAlign, where she regularly got to mix, mingle and taste wine with critics, winemakers and agents. She continues to pursue her own wine education, while passionately sharing her knowledge with others as a wine educator at IWEG and Humber College. Carol Ann and her husband have lived in Thornhill for 34 years and are regular attendees to our TLL sessions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1606337421076-IQHTE7AWVJD5KEQ9PVKA/Pietro+2-2.jpg 2021 Winter Webinar Series Pietro Visconti is a Pasta Maestro from Italy and the founder of PastaPietro (pastapietro.com). Pietro was born and raised in Milan. He has travelled from the Alps to the sea of Sicily, from Rome to Florence and from Verona to Venice. By travelling and cooking with grandmothers all across Italy, he learned cooking skills and techniques that have been passed down for generations by his Italian ancestors: how to make authentic homemade pasta. His mission now is to share the secrets, traditions, stories, and techniques of making the most authentic pasta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1606331177776-HJOUY9OPBMVLDLN82CAB/Pietro.jpg 2021 Winter Webinar Series Pietro Visconti is a Pasta Maestro from Italy and the founder of PastaPietro (pastapietro.com). Pietro was born and raised in Milan as an only child in a family that had people over for dinner every day. His passion for cooking comes from both of his parents. Pietro spent a University semester in England where he worked as a part time chef in an Italian restaurant. There, he was the only Italian and learned everything he didn’t want to do in a kitchen. He has had a varied career: in Human Resources, developing training projects to helping produce and direct an Italian satirical TV show. He has travelled extensively which showed him again how little the world knew about Italian food. These experiences have taught him the fundamentals of entertainment and education. In Italy, Pietro has travelled from the Alps to the sea of Sicily, from Rome to Florence and from Verona to Venice. By travelling and cooking with grandmothers all across Italy, he learned cooking skills and techniques that have been passed down for generations by his Italian ancestors: how to make authentic homemade pasta. Given these experiences, his mission now is to share the secrets, traditions, stories, and techniques of making the most authentic pasta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1606331177776-HJOUY9OPBMVLDLN82CAB/Pietro.jpg 2021 Winter Webinar Series Pietro Visconti is a Pasta Maestro from Italy and the founder of PastaPietro (pastapietro.com). Pietro was born and raised in Milan as an only child in a family that had people over for dinner every day. His passion for cooking comes from both of his parents. Pietro spent a University semester in England where he worked as a part time chef in an Italian restaurant. There, he was the only Italian and learned everything he didn’t want to do in a kitchen. He has had a varied career: in Human Resources, developing training projects to helping produce and direct an Italian satirical TV show. He has travelled extensively which showed him again how little the world knew about Italian food. These experiences have taught him the fundamentals of entertainment and education. In Italy, Pietro has travelled from the Alps to the sea of Sicily, from Rome to Florence and from Verona to Venice. By travelling and cooking with grandmothers all across Italy, he learned cooking skills and techniques that have been passed down for generations by his Italian ancestors: how to make authentic homemade pasta. Given these experiences, his mission now is to share the secrets, traditions, stories, and techniques of making the most authentic pasta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1609435312666-0XYUBLEY7CB9WHBR56IQ/jessiman+updated.jpg 2021 Winter Webinar Series Carol Ann Jessiman is a Certified Sommelier and Wine Educator. After spending over 25 years in the insurance and financial services industry, she took her interest in wine and spirits to the next level and went back to school. She enrolled in the Wine & Spirit Education Trust program at the IWEG Drinks Academy in Toronto. She quickly discovered that when it comes to wine and spirits, there is always more to learn. Next up was a one-year program at George Brown College where she obtained her Certified Sommelier designation. Upon graduating, she joined one of Canada’s busiest wine websites, WineAlign, where she regularly got to mix, mingle and taste wine with critics, winemakers and agents. She continues to pursue her own wine education, while passionately sharing her knowledge with others as a wine educator at IWEG and Humber College. Carol Ann and her husband have lived in Thornhill for 34 years and are regular attendees to our TLL sessions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1606337421076-IQHTE7AWVJD5KEQ9PVKA/Pietro+2-2.jpg 2021 Winter Webinar Series Pietro Visconti is a Pasta Maestro from Italy and the founder of PastaPietro (pastapietro.com). Pietro was born and raised in Milan. He has travelled from the Alps to the sea of Sicily, from Rome to Florence and from Verona to Venice. By travelling and cooking with grandmothers all across Italy, he learned cooking skills and techniques that have been passed down for generations by his Italian ancestors: how to make authentic homemade pasta. His mission now is to share the secrets, traditions, stories, and techniques of making the most authentic pasta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1606337821692-PAQYQHRI1M7SU7YH68SM/francesca-pagliaro.png 2021 Winter Webinar Series Francesca Pagliaro is a licensed tour guide in her city of Rome. She has an Art History degree and specializes in Italian Renaissance Art. She has been offering a variety of tours of the ‘eternal city’ since 2008. During the pandemic, she has turned her enthusiasm and passion to creating memorable, virtual tours that make you feel as if you are there in Rome with her, rather than in a classroom or a lecture hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1606330708925-KJNK5ON223GVTB7YZE0U/Courteaux.png 2021 Winter Webinar Series Olivier Courteaux received his B.A. in history, M.A. in war and conflict studies and Ph.D. in contemporary international relations from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He has lectured at various Canadian universities, including Ryerson and the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The War on Terror: the Canadian Dilemma (2009), Canada Between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945 (2013) and Quatre Journées qui ébranlèrent le Québec on Charles de Gaulle’s famous 1967 “Vive le Québec Libre” (2017). His latest book (2019), The Empress Eugenie at Suez, 1869: France and Egypt during the Second Empire, will be released in the near future. Dr. Courteaux is currently hosting a virtual historical journey through Spain at Hot Docs' Curious Minds speaker series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1606330958471-FD8AFTCWHWP247DOOT9G/Piperato.jpg 2021 Winter Webinar Series Dr. Anna Piperato is passionate about Italian art history and her beloved adopted hometown of Siena. Born in Texas and brought up in Massachusetts, Anna went to college in upstate New York as an art major. She turned to art history and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Manchester. Anna returned to the States and was a college art history professor...yet Italy kept calling. In 2014 she left it all behind to move to Siena, where she still lives, and now works for Rick Steves Europe and guides locally. http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/viewer-enhancements-for-zoom daily 0.75 2021-01-13 http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/spring-2021-webinars daily 0.75 2021-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1612305125220-8ZV036U0R0J8XPDP924L/Horner_Richard.jpg Spring 2021 Webinar Series Richard L. Horner, PhD, FCAHS is the Canada Research Chair in sleep science, Professor of Medicine and of Physiology at the University of Toronto, and elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Professor Horner’s research identifies brain mechanisms of sleep, sedation and anesthesia, and their impact on vital functions such as breathing. He has authored over a hundred research papers on sleep science and the book The Universal Pastime: Sleep and Rest Explained. He regularly engages with the media (radio, television and print) on sleep health. Richard leads undergraduate and graduate teaching on sleep science in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He received his undergraduate and PhD in the UK (University of Sheffield, and University of London respectively) followed by research fellowships at the University of Toronto and University of Pennsylvania, prior to taking up his faculty position at the University of Toronto in 1997. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1612300639522-64MJANQC6JBO2441M0V6/Tanya+Demello.jpg Spring 2021 Webinar Series Dr. Tanya (Toni) De Mello, LL.B., has a background in finance, management consulting and law. She has spent much of her career focusing on and researching, unconscious bias. She is a human rights lawyer and a certified coach and mediator. In her current role, she teaches at Ryerson University and was the Director of Human Rights there for four years. She is currently opening Canada's newest law school at Ryerson as Assistant Dean of Students. In addition to founding two NGOs, Tanya has served in the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the World Food Programme in Geneva (Switzerland), Senegal (West Africa) and Colombia (South America). Tanya holds a dual Bachelor of Economics and Political Science from the University of Waterloo; a double Master in Public Policy and Urban and Regional Planning from Princeton University; and a dual law degree from McGill University. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Toronto on bias in interviews. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1612459545212-705QXYNCVXLQC4N4VV9E/Head+shot+-+Dr.+Christopher+DiCarlo.jpg Spring 2021 Webinar Series Dr. Christopher DiCarlo is a philosopher, educator, and author. He is the Principal and Founder of Critical Thinking Solutions, a consulting business for individuals, corporations, and not-for-profits. He is also the Ethics Chair for the Canadian Mental Health Association. Dr. DiCarlo is also a lifetime member of Humanist Canada and an Expert Advisor for the Centre for Inquiry Canada. He teaches at Ryerson University in The Life Institute and is a past Visiting Research Scholar at Harvard University. Dr. DiCarlo has won several awards including TV Ontario’s Big Ideas Best Lecturer in Ontario Award and Canada’s Humanist of the Year. He has authored several books, the latest of which is entitled: So You Think You Can Think: Tools for Having Intelligent Discussions and Getting Along (Rowman and Littlefield). He is currently completing his latest work titled: How to Talk to a Conspiracy Theorist: A Field Guide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1612460231205-L6B1C4MIY4425C3EMPIO/FuDiana_WhiteBG_215.jpg Spring 2021 Webinar Series Dr. Diana Fu is an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto and director of the East Asia Seminar Series at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. She holds a D.Phil. in Politics and an M.Phil. in Development Studies with distinction from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She is currently serving as National Co-secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship for China. Her research examines popular contention, state control, civil society, and authoritarian citizenship, with a focus on contemporary China. She is the author of the award-winning book “Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China” written in 2018. Dr. Fu’s research and commentary on Chinese politics have appeared in numerous media outlets, including BBC World Service, The New York Times, Globe and Mail and The Economist. She was a television host and scriptwriter for the TVO documentary series, “China Here and Now.” She enjoys Latin dance and creative writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1612304692907-XL1DQV7QK71WUVUTXC4U/Christopher+Hume.JPG Spring 2021 Webinar Series Christopher Hume was the long-time architecture critic and urban issues columnist of the Toronto Star. During his years at the paper, he was nominated six times for a National Newspaper Award, Canada’s highest award in print journalism, and won an NNA in 2009. That same year, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada gave Hume its President’s Award for Architectural Journalism. His book, William James’ Toronto Views, won a Toronto Heritage Award in 2000 and in 2004 he received a Landscape Ontario award. Hume was named Toronto’s best newspaper columnist by NOW magazine in 2005 and Eye magazine in 2006. In 2009, Hume hosted and wrote a one-hour special about Canadian cities for CBC TV’s flagship series, The Nature of Things. Ryerson University presented Hume with an honorary doctorate in 2014. Born in the UK in 1951, he came to Canada seven years later. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Glendon College. Known as a champion of cities and the arts, he lives in downtown Toronto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1613146713289-VXKEAYXXO4FW55VYJZD5/Carolyn+Harris.jpg Spring 2021 Webinar Series Carolyn Harris, Ph.D, is an instructor in history at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. She received her Ph.D in European history from Queen’s University in 2012. Her writing concerning the history of monarchy in the UK., Europe, and Canada has appeared in numerous publications including the Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, Smithsonian Magazine and the BBC History Magazine, and she is the author of 3 books: Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada, Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe: Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette and Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting. She lives in Toronto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1613146713289-VXKEAYXXO4FW55VYJZD5/Carolyn+Harris.jpg Spring 2021 Webinar Series Carolyn Harris, Ph.D, is an instructor in history at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. She received her Ph.D in European history from Queen’s University in 2012. Her writing concerning the history of monarchy in the UK., Europe, and Canada has appeared in numerous publications including the Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, Smithsonian Magazine and the BBC History Magazine, and she is the author of 3 books: Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada, Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe: Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette and Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting. She lives in Toronto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1612305125220-8ZV036U0R0J8XPDP924L/Horner_Richard.jpg Spring 2021 Webinar Series Richard L. Horner, PhD, FCAHS is the Canada Research Chair in sleep science, Professor of Medicine and of Physiology at the University of Toronto, and elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Professor Horner’s research identifies brain mechanisms of sleep, sedation and anesthesia, and their impact on vital functions such as breathing. He has authored over a hundred research papers on sleep science and the book The Universal Pastime: Sleep and Rest Explained. He regularly engages with the media (radio, television and print) on sleep health. Richard leads undergraduate and graduate teaching on sleep science in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He received his undergraduate and PhD in the UK (University of Sheffield, and University of London respectively) followed by research fellowships at the University of Toronto and University of Pennsylvania, prior to taking up his faculty position at the University of Toronto in 1997. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1612304692907-XL1DQV7QK71WUVUTXC4U/Christopher+Hume.JPG Spring 2021 Webinar Series Christopher Hume was the long-time architecture critic and urban issues columnist of the Toronto Star. During his years at the paper, he was nominated six times for a National Newspaper Award, Canada’s highest award in print journalism, and won an NNA in 2009. That same year, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada gave Hume its President’s Award for Architectural Journalism. His book, William James’ Toronto Views, won a Toronto Heritage Award in 2000 and in 2004 he received a Landscape Ontario award. Hume was named Toronto’s best newspaper columnist by NOW magazine in 2005 and Eye magazine in 2006. In 2009, Hume hosted and wrote a one-hour special about Canadian cities for CBC TV’s flagship series, The Nature of Things. Ryerson University presented Hume with an honorary doctorate in 2014. Born in the UK in 1951, he came to Canada seven years later. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Glendon College. Known as a champion of cities and the arts, he lives in downtown Toronto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1612459545212-705QXYNCVXLQC4N4VV9E/Head+shot+-+Dr.+Christopher+DiCarlo.jpg Spring 2021 Webinar Series Dr. Christopher DiCarlo is a philosopher, educator, and author. He is the Principal and Founder of Critical Thinking Solutions, a consulting business for individuals, corporations, and not-for-profits. He is also the Ethics Chair for the Canadian Mental Health Association. Dr. DiCarlo is also a lifetime member of Humanist Canada and an Expert Advisor for the Centre for Inquiry Canada. He teaches at Ryerson University in The Life Institute and is a past Visiting Research Scholar at Harvard University. Dr. DiCarlo has won several awards including TV Ontario’s Big Ideas Best Lecturer in Ontario Award and Canada’s Humanist of the Year. He has authored several books, the latest of which is entitled: So You Think You Can Think: Tools for Having Intelligent Discussions and Getting Along (Rowman and Littlefield). He is currently completing his latest work titled: How to Talk to a Conspiracy Theorist: A Field Guide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1612300639522-64MJANQC6JBO2441M0V6/Tanya+Demello.jpg Spring 2021 Webinar Series Dr. Tanya (Toni) De Mello, LL.B., has a background in finance, management consulting and law. She has spent much of her career focusing on and researching, unconscious bias. She is a human rights lawyer and a certified coach and mediator. In her current role, she teaches at Ryerson University and was the Director of Human Rights there for four years. She is currently opening Canada's newest law school at Ryerson as Assistant Dean of Students. In addition to founding two NGOs, Tanya has served in the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the World Food Programme in Geneva (Switzerland), Senegal (West Africa) and Colombia (South America). Tanya holds a dual Bachelor of Economics and Political Science from the University of Waterloo; a double Master in Public Policy and Urban and Regional Planning from Princeton University; and a dual law degree from McGill University. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Toronto on bias in interviews. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1612460231205-L6B1C4MIY4425C3EMPIO/FuDiana_WhiteBG_215.jpg Spring 2021 Webinar Series Dr. Diana Fu is an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto and director of the East Asia Seminar Series at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. She holds a D.Phil. in Politics and an M.Phil. in Development Studies with distinction from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She is currently serving as National Co-secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship for China. Her research examines popular contention, state control, civil society, and authoritarian citizenship, with a focus on contemporary China. She is the author of the award-winning book “Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China” written in 2018. Dr. Fu’s research and commentary on Chinese politics have appeared in numerous media outlets, including BBC World Service, The New York Times, Globe and Mail and The Economist. She was a television host and scriptwriter for the TVO documentary series, “China Here and Now.” She enjoys Latin dance and creative writing. http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/registerhere daily 0.75 2025-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1547064275265-ONZOJBH4P4CMEGH4HZJ0/online+purchase+photo.jpg Register Here http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/free-spring-gardening-webinars daily 0.75 2021-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1617634520497-2CHXJ6W78WZSUR6B2CE6/paul+zammit.jpg Free Spring Gardening Webinars Paul Zammit, Horticulturist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1617634520497-2CHXJ6W78WZSUR6B2CE6/paul+zammit.jpg Free Spring Gardening Webinars Paul Zammit, Horticulturist http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/fall-2021-webinars daily 0.75 2021-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1626717403234-LEFE63GUFQZPATC2124L/Larry+Garber+CSIS+Photo.jpg Fall 2021 Webinar Series Larry Garber is an independent consultant, with more than 35 years of experience on democracy and election related work. During his wide-ranging career, he has served on the faculty of the National Defense University, as a senior policy-maker at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), as the Mission Director for USAID’s West Bank/Gaza program, and as the Chief Executive Officer of the New Israel Fund. In 1984, he authored Guidelines for International Election Observing, which transformed election observation from a casual process with limited structure into a rigorous discipline. As Senior Associate for Electoral Process at the National Democratic Institute, Mr. Garber led multiple observation missions and advised senior leaders in several countries undertaking comprehensive electoral reforms following political transitions. Most recently, he served as country director for a 2018 Carter Center expert mission to Sierra Leone and as the NDI co-director of the 2018 Zimbabwe International Election Observer Mission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1626810643061-GEKKLE5HY14CHWDH46OU/Moehring+amanda_headshot1.jpg Fall 2021 Webinar Series Dr. Amanda Moehring works on the genetic and neural basis of complex traits. Most of her research has explored the basis of female mate receptivity and female aggression, and her research group works on a wide range of topics, including male sterility. She completed her PhD at North Carolina State University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University studying the molecular basis of male sterility. Dr. Moehring joined Western University as a Canada Research Chair in Functional Genomics in 2008. She is a strong proponent of improving equity and diversity, and has participated in and spearheaded multiple initiatives to this effect. Recently, she has worked to encourage dialogue between those working in science and policy by engaging with policymakers at Science Meets Parliament, and acting as the lead organizer for London's March for Science. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1627061447225-O8VKQ7EU91GGJ1AUS7UC/Jesse-Hirsh-HiRes.jpg Fall 2021 Webinar Series Jesse Hirsh is a futurist speaker and internet strategist. An experienced innovator and collaborator, his passion is educating people on the potential benefits and perils of technology. Mr. Hirsh attended the McLuhan Program at the University of Toronto and recently completed a Masters Degree at Ryerson University focusing on algorithms and predictive analytics. He owns and operates Metaviews Media Management Ltd., focusing on research and consulting around new media business models, big data, and the strategic use of social media. He is also a co-founder of the Academy of the Impossible, a peer-to-peer lifelong learning facility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1626705876778-4VREJH3QN90MGCKELOJ1/2021+Mauro+Guillen+photo.jpg Fall 2021 Webinar Series Dr. Mauro F. Guillén, until recently, has been on the faculty of the Wharton School, recognized as an expert on global market trends. Beginning in September 2021, he takes on the role as the Dean of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University. He combines his training as a sociologist at Yale University and as a business economist in his native Spain to identify promising opportunities at the intersection of demographic, economic, and technological developments. His research, op-eds, and commentaries have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist and the Financial Times. He has appeared on radio and TV shows including NPR’s Marketplace and Radio Times, CNBC’s Mad Money and Squawk Box, and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS. His book 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything was an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller and a Financial Times Book of the Year and has been translated into over 14 languages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1627065274587-RYT7CA1G4B1RRVE383RK/sambliss2.jpg Fall 2021 Webinar Series Sam Bliss is a Ph.D. candidate studying ecological economics at the University of Vermont, focusing on food self-provisioning and food sharing. He is president of DegrowUS and the U.S. correspondent for the scholar-activist network Research & Degrowth. Sam gardens, fishes, forages, and co-organizes the mutual aid collective Food Not Bombs Burlington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1626716747735-HLTKNHQV7QQC41216827/RKR+Headshot.jpg Fall 2021 Webinar Series Dr. Ryan Katz-Rosene is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa, and President of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada. His research centers on a range of sustainability policy debates examining underlying political economic, ecological, and semantic dimensions and consequences of sustainable development in various sectors including energy, transportation and agriculture. He co-edited a book titled Green Meat?: Sustaining Eaters, Animals and the Planet and has served as the principal investigator on a project examining the Future of Sustainable Protein. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1626810643061-GEKKLE5HY14CHWDH46OU/Moehring+amanda_headshot1.jpg Fall 2021 Webinar Series Dr. Amanda Moehring works on the genetic and neural basis of complex traits. Most of her research has explored the basis of female mate receptivity and female aggression, and her research group works on a wide range of topics, including male sterility. She completed her PhD at North Carolina State University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University studying the molecular basis of male sterility. Dr. Moehring joined Western University as a Canada Research Chair in Functional Genomics in 2008. She is a strong proponent of improving equity and diversity, and has participated in and spearheaded multiple initiatives to this effect. Recently, she has worked to encourage dialogue between those working in science and policy by engaging with policymakers at Science Meets Parliament, and acting as the lead organizer for London's March for Science. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1626705876778-4VREJH3QN90MGCKELOJ1/2021+Mauro+Guillen+photo.jpg Fall 2021 Webinar Series Dr. Mauro F. Guillén, until recently, has been on the faculty of the Wharton School, recognized as an expert on global market trends. Beginning in September 2021, he takes on the role as the Dean of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University. He combines his training as a sociologist at Yale University and as a business economist in his native Spain to identify promising opportunities at the intersection of demographic, economic, and technological developments. His research, op-eds, and commentaries have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist and the Financial Times. He has appeared on radio and TV shows including NPR’s Marketplace and Radio Times, CNBC’s Mad Money and Squawk Box, and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS. His book 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything was an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller and a Financial Times Book of the Year and has been translated into over 14 languages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1627065274587-RYT7CA1G4B1RRVE383RK/sambliss2.jpg Fall 2021 Webinar Series Sam Bliss is a Ph.D. candidate studying ecological economics at the University of Vermont, focusing on food self-provisioning and food sharing. He is president of DegrowUS and the U.S. correspondent for the scholar-activist network Research & Degrowth. Sam gardens, fishes, forages, and co-organizes the mutual aid collective Food Not Bombs Burlington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1626717403234-LEFE63GUFQZPATC2124L/Larry+Garber+CSIS+Photo.jpg Fall 2021 Webinar Series Larry Garber is an independent consultant, with more than 35 years of experience on democracy and election related work. During his wide-ranging career, he has served on the faculty of the National Defense University, as a senior policy-maker at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), as the Mission Director for USAID’s West Bank/Gaza program, and as the Chief Executive Officer of the New Israel Fund. In 1984, he authored Guidelines for International Election Observing, which transformed election observation from a casual process with limited structure into a rigorous discipline. As Senior Associate for Electoral Process at the National Democratic Institute, Mr. Garber led multiple observation missions and advised senior leaders in several countries undertaking comprehensive electoral reforms following political transitions. Most recently, he served as country director for a 2018 Carter Center expert mission to Sierra Leone and as the NDI co-director of the 2018 Zimbabwe International Election Observer Mission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1627061447225-O8VKQ7EU91GGJ1AUS7UC/Jesse-Hirsh-HiRes.jpg Fall 2021 Webinar Series Jesse Hirsh is a futurist speaker and internet strategist. An experienced innovator and collaborator, his passion is educating people on the potential benefits and perils of technology. Mr. Hirsh attended the McLuhan Program at the University of Toronto and recently completed a Masters Degree at Ryerson University focusing on algorithms and predictive analytics. He owns and operates Metaviews Media Management Ltd., focusing on research and consulting around new media business models, big data, and the strategic use of social media. He is also a co-founder of the Academy of the Impossible, a peer-to-peer lifelong learning facility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1626716747735-HLTKNHQV7QQC41216827/RKR+Headshot.jpg Fall 2021 Webinar Series Dr. Ryan Katz-Rosene is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa, and President of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada. His research centers on a range of sustainability policy debates examining underlying political economic, ecological, and semantic dimensions and consequences of sustainable development in various sectors including energy, transportation and agriculture. He co-edited a book titled Green Meat?: Sustaining Eaters, Animals and the Planet and has served as the principal investigator on a project examining the Future of Sustainable Protein. http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/spring-2022-webinars daily 0.75 2022-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1642973426556-RDFBFD8CNYTHMPNOM92T/Olivier.png Spring 2022 China Webinar Series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1642973605060-AUIG2VRM6Z9Z3DI19BY5/Diane%2BFu-2.jpg Spring 2022 China Webinar Series http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/spring-2023-oh-canada-snapshots-in-time daily 0.75 2023-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/bf9070a1-43bc-4217-bb4c-0a759d8575eb/Bernie.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time Our Moderator: Bernie Farber Mr. Farber’s career spans more than three decades focusing on human rights, diversity, countering antisemitism and extremism. He has been recognized and called upon by the courts, media and law enforcement as an expert in human and civil rights. His efforts have been documented in numerous Canadian human rights publications, books, films, newspapers and magazines. Our moderator is widely respected as a CEO in the not-for-profit world, a published author and as a columnist. He is a sought-after speaker, a recipient of numerous medals and awards for his human rights work and chairs the Canadian Anti-Hate Network and Community Living Toronto’s Rights and Ethics Committee. Our Speakers: Healthcare, Advocacy, and the Toll of Covid-19, is Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD, CCFP, FCFP, PhD Dr. Kaplan-Myrth is a family physician in Ottawa. She studied anthropology (McGill, UCL, Yale), was awarded Fulbright and Commonwealth scholarships, and is a mother of three who has spent her life advocating for equitable access to health care, for Indigenous self-determination in health, for disability rights, 2SLGBTQ health, and mental health care. Her fourth book, Breaking Canadians: being published this year by University of Toronto. Rachel Gilmore Born and raised in Ottawa, Rachel Gilmore is an award-winning journalist covering Parliament Hill since 2016. She started her journalistic career at APTN’s Ottawa office before diving into political coverage at CPAC, and then at iPolitics where she reported on Indigenous, energy and environmental issues before working for CTV. In 2020, our speaker. joined Global News, covering federal politics, misinformation and extremism. Ms. Gilmore graduated with high distinction from Carleton University in 2016, after completing her joint degree in journalism and human rights. She speaks English, French and some Spanish. Nigel Barriffe Nigel Barriffe is an elementary teacher with the Toronto District School and Vice-President with Elementary Teachers of Toronto. His volunteer work includes Board Chair of the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Board member of the Toronto Community Benefits Network, Board member of Canadian Anti-Hate Network and Board member of A Different Booklist Cultural Center. Mr. Barriffe’s activist work focuses on quality public education, good green jobs and a more just society. His efforts have been recognized with the 2011 Urban Heroes Award, the 2012 J.S. Woodsworth Award, the 2014 Jack White Service Award from the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and the 2018 Bromley Armstrong Labour Justice Award. He holds a Masters’ degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/2a9e902d-2c1c-4218-ba9b-5090625a70a4/milroy+headshot.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time - Make it stand out Sarah Milroy joined the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in September 2018 as Chief Curator. Previously she was Chief Art Critic for the Globe and Mail from 2001 to 2011 and, from 1991 to 1996, editor and publisher of Canadian Art. In recent years, she has worked with Ian Dejardin on ground-breaking exhibitions of Emily Carr (From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia, 2014), David Milne (David Milne: Modern Painting, 2018) and L.L. FitzGerald (Into the Light: Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, 2019). Her most recent work at the McMichael Collection included a survey exhibition, Early Days: Indigenous Art at the McMichael and the acclaimed exhibition and publication, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment. Ms. Milroy is a member of the Canada Committee of Human Rights Watch and a board member of the Art Canada Institute. In 2020 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada for “promoting Canadian art and artists through her roles as editor, publisher, critic and curator.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/cf8a04f7-cac4-4f40-a302-28fc919c637e/2023+Andrea+Charron+Photo+%281%29.jpeg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/b2e61da4-3cfe-4a32-9e4d-4f1470ba3a0e/Dawn+Desjardins+headshot.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time Dawn Desjardins is the former Deputy Chief Economist at RBC. During her 16-year tenure, Ms. Desjardins’ macro team was responsible for forecasting economic conditions and trends in Canada and the US and was part of a team responsible for interest rate forecasts for both countries. Our speaker delivered economic analysis to RBC’s clients through a variety of publications and presentations. She was often interviewed by media across North America to discuss developments in the economy and financial markets. Prior to joining RBC, Ms. Desjardins worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Financial News in Toronto covering the Canadian bond and currency markets and was the Canadian bond market strategist for JP Morgan Canada. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/2fb9c2a9-9fc3-40ff-8b8f-66bb211ba3bc/Adam-Chapnick-Final_T7A7145-Edit-web+%28002%29.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time Dr. Adam Chapnick is a professor and head of the Department of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. He also serves as the deputy director of academics at the Toronto-based Canadian Forces College. Our speaker holds a BA (Honours) from Trent University, an MA in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and a PhD in History from the University of Toronto. Dr. Chapnick is the award-winning author or editor of eight books and over 50 academic essays and book chapters on historical and contemporary issues in Canadian foreign relations, Canadian-American relations, and teaching and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/5fb951e1-864c-4bcf-8a50-ff6c1facf9fb/Sara+Allin+headshot.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time Dr. Sara Allin is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She is also Director of the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (NAO), a collaborative partnership and research centre looking at sub-national and international health systems research to support evidence-informed policy making. Dr. Allin completed her PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and worked for 10 years at the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Her research and teaching spotlight comparative health systems and policies, health system performance and health equity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/b2e61da4-3cfe-4a32-9e4d-4f1470ba3a0e/Dawn+Desjardins+headshot.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time Dawn Desjardins is the former Deputy Chief Economist at RBC. During her 16-year tenure, Ms. Desjardins’ macro team was responsible for forecasting economic conditions and trends in Canada and the US and was part of a team responsible for interest rate forecasts for both countries. Our speaker delivered economic analysis to RBC’s clients through a variety of publications and presentations. She was often interviewed by media across North America to discuss developments in the economy and financial markets. Prior to joining RBC, Ms. Desjardins worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Financial News in Toronto covering the Canadian bond and currency markets and was the Canadian bond market strategist for JP Morgan Canada. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/5fb951e1-864c-4bcf-8a50-ff6c1facf9fb/Sara+Allin+headshot.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time Dr. Sara Allin is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She is also Director of the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (NAO), a collaborative partnership and research centre looking at sub-national and international health systems research to support evidence-informed policy making. Dr. Allin completed her PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and worked for 10 years at the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Her research and teaching spotlight comparative health systems and policies, health system performance and health equity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/bf9070a1-43bc-4217-bb4c-0a759d8575eb/Bernie.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time Our Moderator: Bernie Farber Mr. Farber’s career spans more than three decades focusing on human rights, diversity, countering antisemitism and extremism. He has been recognized and called upon by the courts, media and law enforcement as an expert in human and civil rights. His efforts have been documented in numerous Canadian human rights publications, books, films, newspapers and magazines. Our moderator is widely respected as a CEO in the not-for-profit world, a published author and as a columnist. He is a sought-after speaker, a recipient of numerous medals and awards for his human rights work and chairs the Canadian Anti-Hate Network and Community Living Toronto’s Rights and Ethics Committee. Our Speakers: Healthcare, Advocacy, and the Toll of Covid-19, is Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD, CCFP, FCFP, PhD Dr. Kaplan-Myrth is a family physician in Ottawa. She studied anthropology (McGill, UCL, Yale), was awarded Fulbright and Commonwealth scholarships, and is a mother of three who has spent her life advocating for equitable access to health care, for Indigenous self-determination in health, for disability rights, 2SLGBTQ health, and mental health care. Her fourth book, Breaking Canadians: being published this year by University of Toronto. Rachel Gilmore Born and raised in Ottawa, Rachel Gilmore is an award-winning journalist covering Parliament Hill since 2016. She started her journalistic career at APTN’s Ottawa office before diving into political coverage at CPAC, and then at iPolitics where she reported on Indigenous, energy and environmental issues before working for CTV. In 2020, our speaker. joined Global News, covering federal politics, misinformation and extremism. Ms. Gilmore graduated with high distinction from Carleton University in 2016, after completing her joint degree in journalism and human rights. She speaks English, French and some Spanish. Nigel Barriffe Nigel Barriffe is an elementary teacher with the Toronto District School and Vice-President with Elementary Teachers of Toronto. His volunteer work includes Board Chair of the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Board member of the Toronto Community Benefits Network, Board member of Canadian Anti-Hate Network and Board member of A Different Booklist Cultural Center. Mr. Barriffe’s activist work focuses on quality public education, good green jobs and a more just society. His efforts have been recognized with the 2011 Urban Heroes Award, the 2012 J.S. Woodsworth Award, the 2014 Jack White Service Award from the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and the 2018 Bromley Armstrong Labour Justice Award. He holds a Masters’ degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/cf8a04f7-cac4-4f40-a302-28fc919c637e/2023+Andrea+Charron+Photo+%281%29.jpeg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/2fb9c2a9-9fc3-40ff-8b8f-66bb211ba3bc/Adam-Chapnick-Final_T7A7145-Edit-web+%28002%29.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time Dr. Adam Chapnick is a professor and head of the Department of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. He also serves as the deputy director of academics at the Toronto-based Canadian Forces College. Our speaker holds a BA (Honours) from Trent University, an MA in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and a PhD in History from the University of Toronto. Dr. Chapnick is the award-winning author or editor of eight books and over 50 academic essays and book chapters on historical and contemporary issues in Canadian foreign relations, Canadian-American relations, and teaching and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/2a9e902d-2c1c-4218-ba9b-5090625a70a4/milroy+headshot.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time - Make it stand out Sarah Milroy joined the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in September 2018 as Chief Curator. Previously she was Chief Art Critic for the Globe and Mail from 2001 to 2011 and, from 1991 to 1996, editor and publisher of Canadian Art. In recent years, she has worked with Ian Dejardin on ground-breaking exhibitions of Emily Carr (From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia, 2014), David Milne (David Milne: Modern Painting, 2018) and L.L. FitzGerald (Into the Light: Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, 2019). Her most recent work at the McMichael Collection included a survey exhibition, Early Days: Indigenous Art at the McMichael and the acclaimed exhibition and publication, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment. Ms. Milroy is a member of the Canada Committee of Human Rights Watch and a board member of the Art Canada Institute. In 2020 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada for “promoting Canadian art and artists through her roles as editor, publisher, critic and curator.” http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/war-in-ukraine daily 0.75 2022-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/5409b0dc-0ffd-4111-a72b-a00fe59ade49/Thompson+in+Civilians.jpg Update on War in Ukraine: special lecture Fall 2022 - Make it stand out Major-General (Retired) Denis Thompson served 39 years in the Canadian Army at home and abroad in Cyprus, Germany, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Egypt including as commander of NATO’s Task Force Kandahar (2008/09), Canada’s Special Operations Forces (2011-2014) and the Multinational Force & Observers in the Sinai (2014-2017). Since retirement, our guest has lectured at various Canadian universities as well as acting as a Senior Mentor and Instructor at the Canadian Forces College, Toronto. He is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies. He is actively engaged in veterans’ issues and in 2021 was appointed in an honorary capacity as the Colonel of the Regiment for The Royal Canadian Regiment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/5409b0dc-0ffd-4111-a72b-a00fe59ade49/Thompson+in+Civilians.jpg Update on War in Ukraine: special lecture Fall 2022 - Make it stand out Major-General (Retired) Denis Thompson served 39 years in the Canadian Army at home and abroad in Cyprus, Germany, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Egypt including as commander of NATO’s Task Force Kandahar (2008/09), Canada’s Special Operations Forces (2011-2014) and the Multinational Force & Observers in the Sinai (2014-2017). Since retirement, our guest has lectured at various Canadian universities as well as acting as a Senior Mentor and Instructor at the Canadian Forces College, Toronto. He is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies. He is actively engaged in veterans’ issues and in 2021 was appointed in an honorary capacity as the Colonel of the Regiment for The Royal Canadian Regiment. http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/spring-2023-grappling-with-changing-realities-1 daily 0.75 2023-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/a504d4c6-e1fa-4063-9e64-c9f457ca0d71/Daniel+Yudkin.jpeg Fall 2023 Grappling with Changing Realities...and a Bonus Presentation Dr. Daniel Yudkin is a Visiting Scholar at the Wharton School and the Psychology Department at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Advisor at More in Common, an international organization seeking to understand and bridge political divides. He received his PhD in social psychology from New York University and has held research positions at Harvard University and Yale University. His award-winning examinations seek to understand how people decide between right and wrong, and the implications these decisions have for people, organizations, and society. His work has been featured in over 1,000 news articles, including on the front page of the New York Times, the BBC, the Atlantic, Washington Post, Financial Times, NPR and CNN. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/e0367aed-f4c3-4899-92eb-58ccec9a689b/Clarence+Epstein.png Fall 2023 Grappling with Changing Realities...and a Bonus Presentation - Make it stand out Dr. Clarence Epstein became the Executive Director of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation in 2018, overseeing all contributions and programs for a Montreal family in its third generation of transformational philanthropy. In the twenty years prior, Dr. Epstein was at Concordia University, responsible for key dossiers in advancement, estate management, strategic planning as well as urban and cultural affairs. He oversaw the foundation of the Dr. Max Stern Art Restitution Project. Dr. Epstein has published books, articles and has lectured internationally on Montreal history, Nazi-era restitution and public art. In recognition of his expertise, he served at the request of the Governor General on the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board. Our speaker holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Edinburgh; a Masters in Architectural History from the Courtauld Institute of Art (in London); and undergraduate degrees in Art History (Honours. Eq) and in North American Studies from McGill University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/4d28c07b-bc15-4f98-a097-23465377db2f/Richard_Harris+5-23c.jpg Fall 2023 Grappling with Changing Realities...and a Bonus Presentation - Make it stand out Richard (Dick) Harris retired from the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois where he was the Associate Vice President for Administrative Systems. Prior to retirement, he managed the centralized IT group responsible for the multi-campus finance, human resources and student systems. Previously, he worked for Deloitte Haskins & Sells in both financial and computer auditing as well as the private sector in internal audit and IT systems management. While with Deloitte in the early 1980s, he worked in the Paris office for 3 years. Mr. Harris has degrees in both computer engineering and accounting from the University of Illinois. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/566be3f6-0955-4975-9479-7a3e290fc3f0/TLL+Seva+Gunitsky+%281%29.jpg Fall 2023 Grappling with Changing Realities...and a Bonus Presentation Dr. Seva Gunitsky is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century, selected by Foreign Affairs magazine as one of the best books of 2017. His research has appeared in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, International Theory, and Perspectives on Politics, as well as popular outlets like Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/c84fb9ae-40d9-454a-95a9-628d1a58ffaa/Barry+and+Steve.jpg Fall 2023 Grappling with Changing Realities...and a Bonus Presentation Barry Avrich, veteran producer and award-winning director, is the creative force behind Melbar Entertainment Group, one of the largest producers of non-scripted content in North America. Our guest has produced and directed over 65 documentaries and filmed productions including the internationally acclaimed Made You Look, The Last Mogul, Prosecuting Evil, David Foster: Off the Record, Oscar Peterson Black + White and the recently released Without Precedent: The Supreme Life of Rosalie Abella. He has produced over 20 award-winning stage to screen adaptations of Broadway and Shakespeare productions including The Tempest with Christopher Plummer and King Lear with Colm Feore. Melbar is currently in production on Born Hungry and Palm Beach Diaries. His best-selling memoir, Mogul, Monsters and Madmen was released in 2017. In 2007 Barry built the world's first movie theatre in a hospital at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. Steve Paikin is a celebrated journalist with experience in documentaries, radio, print and TV. His career includes being an anchor and Queen’s Park correspondent for CBC and a reporter for his hometown’s Hamilton Spectator and Toronto radio station CHFI. He is also an accomplished moderator of election debates, a producer of feature-length documentaries including Return to the Warsaw Ghetto and a writer including John Turner: an Intimate Biography of Canada’s 17th Prime Minister. Paikin began work at TVO in 1992 on a number of news and interview shows. He is now the host of TVO’s flagship current affairs show, The Agenda with Steve Paikin. In 2013, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and invested into the Order of Ontario recognizing his contribution to public broadcasting for “smart, eloquent, fair and contextual” work. Steve Paikin is a proud supporter of the Boston Red Sox and Hamilton Tiger Cats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/d50e2fae-3d04-47c4-b4a8-499cb760f0ef/TLL+Colin+Wright+Oct+5_23+%281%29.jpg Fall 2023 Grappling with Changing Realities...and a Bonus Presentation Colin Wright spent the majority of his career designing and delivering operational improvements to the organizations he worked with, including a major bank, insurance companies and Canada’s largest electrical distribution utility. He first became interested in environmental and energy issues as an undergraduate student, subsequently cultivating that interest as a lay person throughout his adult life. Our speaker has made presentations to other discussion forums on net zero emissions policies, climate change mitigation and adaptation and nuclear energy. He currently moderates a current affairs discussion group for Later Life Learning at the University of Toronto’s Innis College. Mr. Wright holds a BA from the University of Toronto in English and Political Science and an MBA from York University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/e0367aed-f4c3-4899-92eb-58ccec9a689b/Clarence+Epstein.png Fall 2023 Grappling with Changing Realities...and a Bonus Presentation - Make it stand out Dr. Clarence Epstein became the Executive Director of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation in 2018, overseeing all contributions and programs for a Montreal family in its third generation of transformational philanthropy. In the twenty years prior, Dr. Epstein was at Concordia University, responsible for key dossiers in advancement, estate management, strategic planning as well as urban and cultural affairs. He oversaw the foundation of the Dr. Max Stern Art Restitution Project. Dr. Epstein has published books, articles and has lectured internationally on Montreal history, Nazi-era restitution and public art. In recognition of his expertise, he served at the request of the Governor General on the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board. Our speaker holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Edinburgh; a Masters in Architectural History from the Courtauld Institute of Art (in London); and undergraduate degrees in Art History (Honours. Eq) and in North American Studies from McGill University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/566be3f6-0955-4975-9479-7a3e290fc3f0/TLL+Seva+Gunitsky+%281%29.jpg Fall 2023 Grappling with Changing Realities...and a Bonus Presentation Dr. Seva Gunitsky is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century, selected by Foreign Affairs magazine as one of the best books of 2017. His research has appeared in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, International Theory, and Perspectives on Politics, as well as popular outlets like Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/a504d4c6-e1fa-4063-9e64-c9f457ca0d71/Daniel+Yudkin.jpeg Fall 2023 Grappling with Changing Realities...and a Bonus Presentation Dr. Daniel Yudkin is a Visiting Scholar at the Wharton School and the Psychology Department at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Advisor at More in Common, an international organization seeking to understand and bridge political divides. He received his PhD in social psychology from New York University and has held research positions at Harvard University and Yale University. His award-winning examinations seek to understand how people decide between right and wrong, and the implications these decisions have for people, organizations, and society. His work has been featured in over 1,000 news articles, including on the front page of the New York Times, the BBC, the Atlantic, Washington Post, Financial Times, NPR and CNN. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/d50e2fae-3d04-47c4-b4a8-499cb760f0ef/TLL+Colin+Wright+Oct+5_23+%281%29.jpg Fall 2023 Grappling with Changing Realities...and a Bonus Presentation Colin Wright spent the majority of his career designing and delivering operational improvements to the organizations he worked with, including a major bank, insurance companies and Canada’s largest electrical distribution utility. He first became interested in environmental and energy issues as an undergraduate student, subsequently cultivating that interest as a lay person throughout his adult life. Our speaker has made presentations to other discussion forums on net zero emissions policies, climate change mitigation and adaptation and nuclear energy. He currently moderates a current affairs discussion group for Later Life Learning at the University of Toronto’s Innis College. Mr. Wright holds a BA from the University of Toronto in English and Political Science and an MBA from York University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/c84fb9ae-40d9-454a-95a9-628d1a58ffaa/Barry+and+Steve.jpg Fall 2023 Grappling with Changing Realities...and a Bonus Presentation Barry Avrich, veteran producer and award-winning director, is the creative force behind Melbar Entertainment Group, one of the largest producers of non-scripted content in North America. Our guest has produced and directed over 65 documentaries and filmed productions including the internationally acclaimed Made You Look, The Last Mogul, Prosecuting Evil, David Foster: Off the Record, Oscar Peterson Black + White and the recently released Without Precedent: The Supreme Life of Rosalie Abella. He has produced over 20 award-winning stage to screen adaptations of Broadway and Shakespeare productions including The Tempest with Christopher Plummer and King Lear with Colm Feore. Melbar is currently in production on Born Hungry and Palm Beach Diaries. His best-selling memoir, Mogul, Monsters and Madmen was released in 2017. In 2007 Barry built the world's first movie theatre in a hospital at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. Steve Paikin is a celebrated journalist with experience in documentaries, radio, print and TV. His career includes being an anchor and Queen’s Park correspondent for CBC and a reporter for his hometown’s Hamilton Spectator and Toronto radio station CHFI. He is also an accomplished moderator of election debates, a producer of feature-length documentaries including Return to the Warsaw Ghetto and a writer including John Turner: an Intimate Biography of Canada’s 17th Prime Minister. Paikin began work at TVO in 1992 on a number of news and interview shows. He is now the host of TVO’s flagship current affairs show, The Agenda with Steve Paikin. In 2013, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and invested into the Order of Ontario recognizing his contribution to public broadcasting for “smart, eloquent, fair and contextual” work. Steve Paikin is a proud supporter of the Boston Red Sox and Hamilton Tiger Cats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/4d28c07b-bc15-4f98-a097-23465377db2f/Richard_Harris+5-23c.jpg Fall 2023 Grappling with Changing Realities...and a Bonus Presentation - Make it stand out Richard (Dick) Harris retired from the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois where he was the Associate Vice President for Administrative Systems. Prior to retirement, he managed the centralized IT group responsible for the multi-campus finance, human resources and student systems. Previously, he worked for Deloitte Haskins & Sells in both financial and computer auditing as well as the private sector in internal audit and IT systems management. While with Deloitte in the early 1980s, he worked in the Paris office for 3 years. Mr. Harris has degrees in both computer engineering and accounting from the University of Illinois. http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/spring-2023-oh-canada-snapshots-in-time-copy daily 0.75 2023-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/b2e61da4-3cfe-4a32-9e4d-4f1470ba3a0e/Dawn+Desjardins+headshot.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time (Copy) Dawn Desjardins is the former Deputy Chief Economist at RBC. During her 16-year tenure, Ms. Desjardins’ macro team was responsible for forecasting economic conditions and trends in Canada and the US and was part of a team responsible for interest rate forecasts for both countries. Our speaker delivered economic analysis to RBC’s clients through a variety of publications and presentations. She was often interviewed by media across North America to discuss developments in the economy and financial markets. Prior to joining RBC, Ms. Desjardins worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Financial News in Toronto covering the Canadian bond and currency markets and was the Canadian bond market strategist for JP Morgan Canada. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/cf8a04f7-cac4-4f40-a302-28fc919c637e/2023+Andrea+Charron+Photo+%281%29.jpeg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time (Copy) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/5fb951e1-864c-4bcf-8a50-ff6c1facf9fb/Sara+Allin+headshot.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time (Copy) Dr. Sara Allin is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She is also Director of the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (NAO), a collaborative partnership and research centre looking at sub-national and international health systems research to support evidence-informed policy making. Dr. Allin completed her PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and worked for 10 years at the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Her research and teaching spotlight comparative health systems and policies, health system performance and health equity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/2fb9c2a9-9fc3-40ff-8b8f-66bb211ba3bc/Adam-Chapnick-Final_T7A7145-Edit-web+%28002%29.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time (Copy) Dr. Adam Chapnick is a professor and head of the Department of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. He also serves as the deputy director of academics at the Toronto-based Canadian Forces College. Our speaker holds a BA (Honours) from Trent University, an MA in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and a PhD in History from the University of Toronto. Dr. Chapnick is the award-winning author or editor of eight books and over 50 academic essays and book chapters on historical and contemporary issues in Canadian foreign relations, Canadian-American relations, and teaching and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/bf9070a1-43bc-4217-bb4c-0a759d8575eb/Bernie.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time (Copy) Our Moderator: Bernie Farber Mr. Farber’s career spans more than three decades focusing on human rights, diversity, countering antisemitism and extremism. He has been recognized and called upon by the courts, media and law enforcement as an expert in human and civil rights. His efforts have been documented in numerous Canadian human rights publications, books, films, newspapers and magazines. Our moderator is widely respected as a CEO in the not-for-profit world, a published author and as a columnist. He is a sought-after speaker, a recipient of numerous medals and awards for his human rights work and chairs the Canadian Anti-Hate Network and Community Living Toronto’s Rights and Ethics Committee. Our Speakers: Healthcare, Advocacy, and the Toll of Covid-19, is Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD, CCFP, FCFP, PhD Dr. Kaplan-Myrth is a family physician in Ottawa. She studied anthropology (McGill, UCL, Yale), was awarded Fulbright and Commonwealth scholarships, and is a mother of three who has spent her life advocating for equitable access to health care, for Indigenous self-determination in health, for disability rights, 2SLGBTQ health, and mental health care. Her fourth book, Breaking Canadians: being published this year by University of Toronto. Rachel Gilmore Born and raised in Ottawa, Rachel Gilmore is an award-winning journalist covering Parliament Hill since 2016. She started her journalistic career at APTN’s Ottawa office before diving into political coverage at CPAC, and then at iPolitics where she reported on Indigenous, energy and environmental issues before working for CTV. In 2020, our speaker. joined Global News, covering federal politics, misinformation and extremism. Ms. Gilmore graduated with high distinction from Carleton University in 2016, after completing her joint degree in journalism and human rights. She speaks English, French and some Spanish. Nigel Barriffe Nigel Barriffe is an elementary teacher with the Toronto District School and Vice-President with Elementary Teachers of Toronto. His volunteer work includes Board Chair of the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Board member of the Toronto Community Benefits Network, Board member of Canadian Anti-Hate Network and Board member of A Different Booklist Cultural Center. Mr. Barriffe’s activist work focuses on quality public education, good green jobs and a more just society. His efforts have been recognized with the 2011 Urban Heroes Award, the 2012 J.S. Woodsworth Award, the 2014 Jack White Service Award from the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and the 2018 Bromley Armstrong Labour Justice Award. He holds a Masters’ degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/2a9e902d-2c1c-4218-ba9b-5090625a70a4/milroy+headshot.jpg Spring 2023- Oh Canada: Snapshots in Time (Copy) - Make it stand out Sarah Milroy joined the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in September 2018 as Chief Curator. Previously she was Chief Art Critic for the Globe and Mail from 2001 to 2011 and, from 1991 to 1996, editor and publisher of Canadian Art. In recent years, she has worked with Ian Dejardin on ground-breaking exhibitions of Emily Carr (From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia, 2014), David Milne (David Milne: Modern Painting, 2018) and L.L. FitzGerald (Into the Light: Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, 2019). Her most recent work at the McMichael Collection included a survey exhibition, Early Days: Indigenous Art at the McMichael and the acclaimed exhibition and publication, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment. Ms. Milroy is a member of the Canada Committee of Human Rights Watch and a board member of the Art Canada Institute. In 2020 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada for “promoting Canadian art and artists through her roles as editor, publisher, critic and curator.” http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/spring-2024-choose-your-learning-adventure-with-thornhill-lifelong-learning daily 0.75 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/607b47ca-1d2a-4535-ad3d-4350772bb9ff/Bruce+Pardy.jpg Spring 2024 Bruce Pardy is Professor of Law at Queen’s University, senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, and executive director of Rights Probe (rightsprobe.org). A critic of legal progressivism and the discretionary managerial state, he has written on a range of legal subjects including environmental governance, climate change, energy policy, human rights and freedoms, professional and university governance, property and tort theory, free markets and the rule of law. He has taught at law schools in Canada, the United States and New Zealand, practiced civil litigation at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto, served as adjudicator and mediator on the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal and has published and commented widely in traditional and online media. He is one of the co-creators of the Free North Declaration, a public petition and movement concerned about civil liberties in Canada in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/c1a276b6-5e30-4c2b-9789-38790de3b570/Emma+Hapke.jpg Spring 2024 - Make it stand out Emma Hapke, MD, FRCPC, is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychedelic researcher at the University Health Network in Toronto. She is the co-founder and associate director of the UHN Psychedelic Psychotherapy Research Group. She has expertise in women’s mental health, the treatment of trauma, psychosocial oncology and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Dr. Hapke worked with MAPS as the principal investigator for the Montreal site of the phase 3 trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the Michener Foundations of Psychedelic Psychotherapy Program. She currently leads research projects on psilocybin therapy for end-of-life distress and caregiver distress, experiential training of psychedelic therapists and surveys of psychedelic use in the community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/67f8f4f9-3e4b-4b31-9ac5-46e1dfb7816b/Marlis+Butcher.jpg Spring 2024 - Make it stand out Marlis Butcher is an environmental conservationist, author, and photographer. She is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and of The Explorers Club, an international organization promoting field exploration. She is the first visitor to have “bagged” (visited) all 48 of the Canadian national parks, a third of which do not have road access. Her photographs and articles have been published in Canadian Geographic Magazine, Explore magazine, The Explorers Club’s Far Afield magazine, CBC News online, CTV News online, Canadian Encyclopedia and travel brochures of various wilderness outfitters and travel bloggers. Her book Park Bagger - Adventures in the Canadian National Parks made Amazon’s bestseller list August 2022. Ms. Butcher serves as a director on the Board of the Royal Botanical Gardens, and has served on the board of the Bruce Trail Conservancy, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. www.canadianparkbagger.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/6d83e06a-3ada-4ed8-bf2d-13408e3d8366/Sarah+Henderson+headshot.jpg Spring 2024 - Make it stand out Dr. Sarah Henderson is the Scientific Director of Environmental Health Services at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and the Scientific Director of the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH). She is also an associate professor at the UBC School of Population and Public Health. Dr. Henderson oversees a broad program of applied research, surveillance, and knowledge translation to support evidence-based environmental health policy and practice in BC and across Canada. She has been studying the population health effects of wildfire smoke for more than 20 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/07e01e1b-8e8d-4378-b2da-038d7aa6301e/Alison+McQueen.jpg Spring 2024 Alison McQueen is Professor of Art History in the Department of History at McMaster University. She is an award–winning teacher and scholar, author of four books including: Empress Eugénie and the Arts and The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt. Professor McQueen is co-author of a further two books and has published, internationally, over a dozen book chapters, essays and articles. She has been an invited speaker at museums in France, England, Germany, and the Netherlands. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Professor McQueen has held four multi–year research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and has received scholarships from several international agencies in the United Kingdom and the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/30df8daf-0ce4-42ea-bc9d-6f549f469509/Dr+James+Dunn.jpg Spring 2024 James R. Dunn, Ph.D. (Jim) is a Professor in the Department of Health, Aging & Society and Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University. He holds the Senator William McMaster Chair in Urban Health Equity and is the Director of the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative, a knowledge mobilization and research capacity building hub funded by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Trained in urban health geography and social epidemiology, he has published widely in the fields of geography, public health, urban planning and epidemiology and his research addresses the effects of income security, housing, urban development on health, aging and healthy child development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/ba5465ce-f50b-4d49-819e-6d9889d99060/Mike+Flannigan.jpg Spring 2024 Mike Flannigan is the BC Innovation Research Chair for Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science at Thompson Rivers University and the Scientific Director of the Canadian Partnership for Wildland Fire Science. He received his BSc (Physics) from the University of Manitoba, his MS (Atmospheric Science) from Colorado State University and his PhD (Plant Sciences) from Cambridge University. Our speaker has been studying fire and weather/climate interactions including the potential impact of climatic change and lightning-ignited forest fires for over 40 years. Dr. Flannigan has published over 300 journal papers, book chapter and reports. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/607b47ca-1d2a-4535-ad3d-4350772bb9ff/Bruce+Pardy.jpg Spring 2024 Bruce Pardy is Professor of Law at Queen’s University, senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, and executive director of Rights Probe (rightsprobe.org). A critic of legal progressivism and the discretionary managerial state, he has written on a range of legal subjects including environmental governance, climate change, energy policy, human rights and freedoms, professional and university governance, property and tort theory, free markets and the rule of law. He has taught at law schools in Canada, the United States and New Zealand, practiced civil litigation at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto, served as adjudicator and mediator on the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal and has published and commented widely in traditional and online media. He is one of the co-creators of the Free North Declaration, a public petition and movement concerned about civil liberties in Canada in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/07e01e1b-8e8d-4378-b2da-038d7aa6301e/Alison+McQueen.jpg Spring 2024 Alison McQueen is Professor of Art History in the Department of History at McMaster University. She is an award–winning teacher and scholar, author of four books including: Empress Eugénie and the Arts and The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt. Professor McQueen is co-author of a further two books and has published, internationally, over a dozen book chapters, essays and articles. She has been an invited speaker at museums in France, England, Germany, and the Netherlands. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Professor McQueen has held four multi–year research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and has received scholarships from several international agencies in the United Kingdom and the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/6d83e06a-3ada-4ed8-bf2d-13408e3d8366/Sarah+Henderson+headshot.jpg Spring 2024 - Make it stand out Dr. Sarah Henderson is the Scientific Director of Environmental Health Services at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and the Scientific Director of the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH). She is also an associate professor at the UBC School of Population and Public Health. Dr. Henderson oversees a broad program of applied research, surveillance, and knowledge translation to support evidence-based environmental health policy and practice in BC and across Canada. She has been studying the population health effects of wildfire smoke for more than 20 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/67f8f4f9-3e4b-4b31-9ac5-46e1dfb7816b/Marlis+Butcher.jpg Spring 2024 - Make it stand out Marlis Butcher is an environmental conservationist, author, and photographer. She is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and of The Explorers Club, an international organization promoting field exploration. She is the first visitor to have “bagged” (visited) all 48 of the Canadian national parks, a third of which do not have road access. Her photographs and articles have been published in Canadian Geographic Magazine, Explore magazine, The Explorers Club’s Far Afield magazine, CBC News online, CTV News online, Canadian Encyclopedia and travel brochures of various wilderness outfitters and travel bloggers. Her book Park Bagger - Adventures in the Canadian National Parks made Amazon’s bestseller list August 2022. Ms. Butcher serves as a director on the Board of the Royal Botanical Gardens, and has served on the board of the Bruce Trail Conservancy, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. www.canadianparkbagger.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/ba5465ce-f50b-4d49-819e-6d9889d99060/Mike+Flannigan.jpg Spring 2024 Mike Flannigan is the BC Innovation Research Chair for Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science at Thompson Rivers University and the Scientific Director of the Canadian Partnership for Wildland Fire Science. He received his BSc (Physics) from the University of Manitoba, his MS (Atmospheric Science) from Colorado State University and his PhD (Plant Sciences) from Cambridge University. Our speaker has been studying fire and weather/climate interactions including the potential impact of climatic change and lightning-ignited forest fires for over 40 years. Dr. Flannigan has published over 300 journal papers, book chapter and reports. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/c1a276b6-5e30-4c2b-9789-38790de3b570/Emma+Hapke.jpg Spring 2024 - Make it stand out Emma Hapke, MD, FRCPC, is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychedelic researcher at the University Health Network in Toronto. She is the co-founder and associate director of the UHN Psychedelic Psychotherapy Research Group. She has expertise in women’s mental health, the treatment of trauma, psychosocial oncology and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Dr. Hapke worked with MAPS as the principal investigator for the Montreal site of the phase 3 trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the Michener Foundations of Psychedelic Psychotherapy Program. She currently leads research projects on psilocybin therapy for end-of-life distress and caregiver distress, experiential training of psychedelic therapists and surveys of psychedelic use in the community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/30df8daf-0ce4-42ea-bc9d-6f549f469509/Dr+James+Dunn.jpg Spring 2024 James R. Dunn, Ph.D. (Jim) is a Professor in the Department of Health, Aging & Society and Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University. He holds the Senator William McMaster Chair in Urban Health Equity and is the Director of the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative, a knowledge mobilization and research capacity building hub funded by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Trained in urban health geography and social epidemiology, he has published widely in the fields of geography, public health, urban planning and epidemiology and his research addresses the effects of income security, housing, urban development on health, aging and healthy child development. http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/register-now-copy daily 0.75 2024-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1547064275265-ONZOJBH4P4CMEGH4HZJ0/online+purchase+photo.jpg REGISTER NOW (Copy) http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/register-now-2 daily 0.75 2024-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1547064275265-ONZOJBH4P4CMEGH4HZJ0/online+purchase+photo.jpg REGISTER NOW http://thornhilllifelonglearning.com/a-fond-farewell-to-thornhill-lifelong-learning-celebrating-the-journey-embracing-the-future daily 0.75 2025-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/739cda27-b4ad-451a-a6e2-c0e9b2378009/Dan+Dunsky.jpg Spring 2025 Webinar Series Dan Dunsky is a veteran journalist with 30 years experience in broadcast, print and digital media. 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He is a member of the Canadian Drug Expert Committee, and his volunteer activities include work with the Toronto Western Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/1606330708925-KJNK5ON223GVTB7YZE0U/Courteaux.png Spring 2025 Webinar Series Olivier Courteaux is a familiar face to many at TLL and is one of our most popular lecturers. He is an historian, researcher and avid traveller who also organizes historical enrichment tour groups. He sees history as a great tool, not to forecast the future, but to help us understand where we are at today. Our speaker holds a B.A. in History, a M.A. in war and conflict studies and a Ph.D. in contemporary international relations, all from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He has lectured extensively at Canadian universities, including Glendon College, Metropolitan Toronto University and the Royal Military College of Canada. Dr. Courteaux is the author of several books, including The War on Terror: The Canadian Dilemma, and Canada between Vichy and free France, 1940-1945. He is currently working on Suez 1869: the Empress Eugenie’s Last Triumph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/f02d20df-693d-428f-8818-9399bb21bd35/David+Cravit.jpg Spring 2025 Webinar Series - Make it stand out David Cravit has an established profile and track record in writing on aging and related issues. He is the author of two previous books — The New Old, showing how the Baby Boomers “reinvented” aging, and Beyond Age Rage, examining the so-called war of the generations. He has appeared frequently on radio and TV, and in print as a respected commentator on the new trends and developments driving the SuperAging phenomenon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/f879e837-bf48-403f-bf9d-6d914aa4ce59/Raheel+Raza.jpg Spring 2025 Webinar Series Raheel Raza is a fearless activist for human rights, a prolific author, courageous supporter of women’s issues, international public speaker, and bridge builder between communities. She believes in the values of free speech, democracy, gender equality and pluralism. Our speaker was born in Pakistan and immigrated to Canada in 1988. Her journey has led to publications in major newspapers in Canada and appearances on international media outlets and programs including CNN, Fox News, CBC, Real Time with Bill Maher and BBC Hardtalk. Her work has been recognized nationally and internationally including by the Senate of Canada and the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Our speaker is the author of two books ABCs of Islamism 2020 and Their Jihad – Not My Jihad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/41540bdb-ac7e-4a8f-8029-0b7a7bff665e/Pasta+Pietro.jpg Spring 2025 Webinar Series Born and raised in Milan, Pasta Pietro grew up as an only child in a family that welcomed guests for dinner every day. His passion for home cooking stems from both his parents—his love for people comes from his father, while his mother inspired him to dream big. While studying at university, Pietro spent a semester in England, working part-time as a chef in an Italian restaurant. Returning to Italy, our presenter created training projects for a small company until he decided to spend a full year travelling through Australia, Asia, and Central America where Pietro discovered just how little the world knew about authentic Italian cuisine. Driven by his passion for tradition, Pietro travelled across Italy, from the peaks of the Alps to the shores of Sicily, from Rome to Florence, and from Verona to Venice. Along the way, he sought out grandmothers and local cooks, learning techniques and recipes passed down through generations. For Pietro, food is more than just sustenance—it’s a way to share stories, preserve traditions, and connect with others. His mission is simple: to pass on these treasured techniques, feelings, and stories to the world. This series is more than a goodbye- it’s a toast to the incredible journey we’ve shared. Here’s to you. Here’s to us. Here’s to Thornhill Lifelong Learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/41540bdb-ac7e-4a8f-8029-0b7a7bff665e/Pasta+Pietro.jpg Spring 2025 Webinar Series Born and raised in Milan, Pasta Pietro grew up as an only child in a family that welcomed guests for dinner every day. His passion for home cooking stems from both his parents—his love for people comes from his father, while his mother inspired him to dream big. While studying at university, Pietro spent a semester in England, working part-time as a chef in an Italian restaurant. Returning to Italy, our presenter created training projects for a small company until he decided to spend a full year travelling through Australia, Asia, and Central America where Pietro discovered just how little the world knew about authentic Italian cuisine. Driven by his passion for tradition, Pietro travelled across Italy, from the peaks of the Alps to the shores of Sicily, from Rome to Florence, and from Verona to Venice. Along the way, he sought out grandmothers and local cooks, learning techniques and recipes passed down through generations. For Pietro, food is more than just sustenance—it’s a way to share stories, preserve traditions, and connect with others. His mission is simple: to pass on these treasured techniques, feelings, and stories to the world. This series is more than a goodbye- it’s a toast to the incredible journey we’ve shared. Here’s to you. Here’s to us. Here’s to Thornhill Lifelong Learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/739cda27-b4ad-451a-a6e2-c0e9b2378009/Dan+Dunsky.jpg Spring 2025 Webinar Series Dan Dunsky is a veteran journalist with 30 years experience in broadcast, print and digital media. He created and was Executive Producer of The Agenda with Steve Paikin, Canada’s premier prime-time broadcast of long-form analysis and insight journalism. Prior to that, he produced the international affairs program Diplomatic Immunity and worked at CBC’s The National. From 2016 to 2019, he was Vice President at Public Inc., where he helped businesses and not-for-profits integrate social impact strategies into their organizations’ operations. He is the founder of Dunsky Insight, a strategy and strategic communications consultancy. As an analyst, Dan has appeared on CNN, CTV and NewsTalk1010 and has written for numerous Canadian and American publications, including The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and The National Interest, and is a regular contributor to The Literary Review of Canada. He is a member of the Canadian Drug Expert Committee, and his volunteer activities include work with the Toronto Western Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/578d222603596e5e3bb84fd0/f879e837-bf48-403f-bf9d-6d914aa4ce59/Raheel+Raza.jpg Spring 2025 Webinar Series Raheel Raza is a fearless activist for human rights, a prolific author, courageous supporter of women’s issues, international public speaker, and bridge builder between communities. She believes in the values of free speech, democracy, gender equality and pluralism. Our speaker was born in Pakistan and immigrated to Canada in 1988. 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