Category: Panel Discussion
Hosted by Jessica Johnson, former Editor-in-Chief of The Walrus.
Authors: Mark Bourrie, Andrew Coyne, David A. Robertson, Ariel Sim, Karin Wells
Details: Sunday, September 7th, 1:30pm-3:00pm at The Meadow
In a nation long mythologized as orderly and fair, what happens when our democratic assumptions and institutions begin to wobble? The cracks have always been there — widening now into fault lines that shape our politics, our laws, and our daily lives. In this conversation, journalists, a legal historian, an Indigenous organizer, and a civic thinker gather to ask how a democracy survives when its story no longer matches its reality. From federal failures to grassroots resistance, from the rights of rivers to the rights of women, they invite us to wrestle with the hardest questions: Whose democracy is it? And who gets to decide?