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The Free Speech Union of Canada is pleased to present Dr. Lawrence Krauss in conversation with prominent scholars and commentators on the threats to science and open inquiry, as discussed in his collaborative book, The War on Science.
Guest panelists include contributors to the book, Dr. Geoff Horsman, Dr. Frances Widdowson, and Professor Bruce Pardy, along with physician Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill and journalist Jonathan Kay.
Join us on Thursday, November 27 in downtown Toronto. Purchase your ticket here!
Doors open at 5:00 p.m. with cash bar
Panel Discussion: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Book signing and drinks reception 7:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Book are available for pre-order when you purchase your ticket.
Co-sponsored by the Origins Project, a non-profit foundation dedicated to connecting science and culture and defending reason and free inquiry, by encouraging discussion
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Lawrence M. Krauss is an internationally renowned theoretical physicist, bestselling author, and acclaimed lecturer. Krauss did his PhD at MIT, and was then a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows before moving to become a professor in the Physics and Astronomy Departments at Yale University. Since then he has held endowed chairs at Case Western Reserve University, Australian National University, New College of the Humanities, and Arizona State University. In 1995, he proposed that most of the universe’s energy resides in empty space, a prediction which was later observationally confirmed and which was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2011. He is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation, CEO of Gus What Productions, and host of The Origins Podcast. He was the inaugural Chair of the Board of the Free Speech Union of Canada. His popular books include The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing.
Geoff Horsman is an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University, where his research focuses on how microorganisms make small molecules like antibiotics. He is also active in the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship, is co-chair of the Laurier Heterodox Academy Campus Community, and contributes to local school reform efforts through the grassroots organization Educating Minds, Parents of Waterloo Region (EMPOWR).
Frances Widdowson is a political scientist who was fired from Mount Royal University for satirizing “woke” ideas. Frances received an Honours B.A. and M.A. in political science at the University of Victoria, and a Ph.D. in political science from York University. She has taught at a number of universities and worked for five years as a policy analyst for the Government of the Northwest Territories. Frances uses a political economy perspective in her research on aboriginal and environmental policy, as well as the politics of religion. Her publication (co-written with Albert Howard), Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation, was short-listed for the Donner Prize. Her writings and advocacy may be found on the website www.wokeacademy.info.
Bruce Pardy is a professor of law at Queen’s University, senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, and executive director of Rights Probe (rightsprobe.org). He is a classically liberal legal academic who advocates for the principles of equal application of the law, negative rights, private property, limited government, and separation of powers. Pardy has a diverse academic and professional background. He has taught at law schools in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand, and practiced civil litigation at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto. He has also served as an adjudicator and mediator on the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal.
Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill is a specialist physician in Ontario. She conducted scientific research at Canada’s only level-four biosafety lab, the National Microbiology Laboratory. She has been active in her self-regulating profession, as an elected chair-woman of the Ontario Medical Association and as co-founder of Concerned Ontario Doctors, a non-profit advocacy organization of frontline physicians, which has, amongst other issues, advocated regarding transparency issues at the OMA and the escalating cuts to frontline health care. Dr. Gill has represented the interests of Canadian patients and physicians with testimony on behalf of COD before legislative committees on healthcare policy at the Ontario Legislature, the House of Commons and the Senate of Canada. She was outspoken against harmful covid lockdowns, providing her evidence-based opinions on X along with scientific support, and has fought a long battle in the courts with her professional regulator over its attempts to “caution” her for being compelled by her conscience to express opinions that were not aligned with governments’ harmful covid edicts.
Jonathan Kay is an editor and investigative reporter at Quillette, co-host of the Quillette podcast, TedX speaker, substacker, advisor to the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, and an op-ed contributor to the National Post, where he previously served as managing editor. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and Le Point. His book credits include Among The Truthers (2011), Legacy: How French Canadians Shaped North America (2016), Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us About Life (2019), Panics and Persecutions (2020), Magic In The Dark: One Family’s Century Of Adventures In The Movie Business (2022), and Grave Error (2023). His awards include Engineers Canada’s award for Journalism Excellence in Engineering, Canada’s National Magazine Award, and Canada’s National Newspaper Award for Critical Writing.
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