Fatherhood and Divorce
Timothy Byrnes will reflect and discuss fatherhood when the presumptive rights of fatherhood are challenged.
Topic: Human Rights
ZOOM: Racism – a personal issue
Reverend Terre Balof, who serves as the Minister of the UU Fellowship of Clemson, South Carolina will speak about her efforts of building an interfaith anti anti-racism coalition in her area and how the efforts are touching both the personal and the community at large.
ZOOM: Care in the times of Corona
As GDP plummets, resource use exploitation and pollution declines, emissions fall and non-human life is able to re-inhabit spaces through diminished human activity, it might appear that environmentalists and degrowthers have cause to celebrate. Yet it is important to distinguish the current crisis from an … read more.
ON ZOOM: Indigenous History & the Politics of Reconciliation
This is Lakeshore’s first experience with holding a Sunday service via Zoom.
Westmount High School history teacher and 2019 Green Party candidate for NDG-Westmount Robert Green will share his perspective about the meaning of reconciliation with regards to both federal politics and the … read more.
Write for Rights
Carol will mark International Women’s Day by speaking about the concept of rights, and consider rights-based conventions, especially for Indigenous people.
Rights is a complicated topic as is made clear by Mi’kmaq scholar Pam Palmater, who writes about “the right to vote,” and Gitxsan children’s rights activist Cindy Blackstock. … read more.
Fahrenheit 451
Federico Sanchez is a Montréal journalist working in French-language media. His Lakeshore talk will touch on books, empathy and the ability to see the world through someone else’s eyes.
The presentation is inspired by the sci-fi novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, and … read more.
Fem U: The Promise & Perils of Equity in the Canadian University
Professor Kimberley Manning, Principal of Concordia’s Simone de Beauvoir Institute, returns to Lakeshore for a second time. She outlines her topic:
The modern North American university was constructed to serve the needs of white, male, married professors. For the past thirty years Canadian … read more.
From Chef to Political Activist
Marlene Hale, also known as Maluh, her childhood nickname in Wet’suwet’en, the northern Athabaskan language of her people, was born in Smithers, British Columbia, at the foot of the Hudson Bay Mountains. She learned to cook at a young age, and as it developed into … read more.