WINDSOR – Just a week after the most hotly contested federal election in Canadian history, the Council of Canadians will host ImagiNations: Reframing our Collective Future at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts in Windsor.
“Canadians have been through the wringer these past few months,” says Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians. “If there is one thing we learned during this election campaign, it’s that Canadians want change. But what kind of change? And how can ordinary people help make it happen?”
Some of the issues to be explored by the conference will include strengthening public health care, protecting water and the environment, achieving justice for Indigenous peoples, creating opportunities for young people, restoring democracy and civil society, and building a sustainable economy.
Keynote speakers from across Canada will include Maude Barlow; Dr. Pamela Palmater, Ryerson University; Jerry Dias, President of Unifor; and Gordon Laxer, an economist and author. Panelists include Vanessa Gray, an Aamjiwnaang First Nation water activist, and Maureen Taylor, from the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization in Detroit.
See the complete program.
WHAT: ImagiNations: Reframing our Collective Future
WHERE: St. Clair Centre for the Arts, 201 Riverside Dr W, Windsor
WHEN: October 23-24, 2015
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