Cap Speaker Series
Presented in Partnership with Pacific Arbour Retirement Communities
Jeff Rubin: The End of Growth
Thursday, May 24, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
Tickets: $24*
Economist Jeff Rubin’s debut Why your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller (2009) succinctly connected the dots between soaring energy prices and the current instability in the global economy. It was a number one national bestseller and the Canadian Business Book of the Year. In his 2012 follow up The End of Growth Rubin speaks the straight truth about the good and bad ramifications in an economy that can no longer rely on an abundance of cheap oil. He argues that current government tactics are misguided and we are heading towards a bigger and longer financial collapse than seen in 2008. He outlines how the predicted slowdown in growth, requiring a reduction in consumption could benefit future generations. The clear message is the new reality will mean fundamental changes to our day-to-day lives.
Jeff Rubin is the former Chief Economist at CIBC World Markets, a position he held for twenty years. He was one of the first economists to accurately predict soaring oil prices and is now one of the world's most sought-after energy experts. Rubin blogs weekly for The Globe and Mail and lives in Toronto.
* Price includes a copy of his new release The End of Growth, available to pick up at the theatre the evening of the talk.Past Speakers
Tzeporah Berman
This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge
September 7, 2011 @ 7:30 pm
Tickets: $15/$12
For the last year 20 years, Tzeporah Berman has been a key activist and leader shaping the modern environmental movement. She was a protester on the front-lines organizing blockages in Clayoquot Sound in 1993. Never one to take the conventional route, Tzeporah has be able to reshape political policies and is currently Greenpeace International's Climate and Energy co-director tasked with working on climate change. In her new book, This Crazy Time, Tzeporah explores her past and the future of the environmental movement—part manifesto, part memoir it is an uplifting look at the current state of the planet. This Crazy Time is co-written by Vancouver filmmaker and journalist Mark Leiren-Young.
More about "This Crazy Time" | Tzeporah's Blog | Greenpeace's Official Site
Dr. Marc Lewis
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
October 6, 2011 @ 7:30 pm
Tickets: $12/$10
Developmental neuroscientist and former drug addict Dr. Marc Lewis talks about his personal history with drugs and how he overcame the addiction that ultimately led him on a professional path to study the brain. In his new book, Memoirs of an Addicted Brain, Lewis delves into the psychology of all forms of addiction; part memoir, part human biology and simply the most in-depth and comprehensible study to date of the neuroscience of addiction. Dr. Marc Lewis is a Professor of Human Development and Applied Psychology at the University of Toronto.
More about "Memoirs of an Addicted Brain"
An Evening with John Irving - SOLD OUT
Friday, May 18, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
Tickets: $30*
Acclaimed American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Irving will talk about his highly anticipated new novel, In One Person. One of the most acclaimed writers of our time, Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times - winning once, in 1980, for his debut novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award nominations in 2000.
About In One Person:
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love — tormented, funny, and affecting — and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a “sexual suspect,” a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of “terminal cases,” The World According to Garp. His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving’s In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy’s friends and lovers — a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself “worthwhile.”
* Price includes a copy of his new novel In One Person, available to pick up at the theatre the evening of the talk.
Official Site | Watch an interview on CBC's The Hour | Watch: Book Trailer