December 4, 2026 1 PM EST webinar with Pat Mooney, Jennifer Clapp, and Chris Huggins The global industrial food system is becoming more, rather than less, vulnerable despite increasingly sophisticated technologies. Although hunger and food insecurity remain severe, food corporations and some governments increasingly present artificial intelligence (AI), synthetic biology, and other digital technologies as solutions to a… Continue Reading Can We Survive the Industrial Food Chain’s Solutions?

On November 3, 2026, the Honourable Bob Rae, formerly Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations and recently appointed Chair of the International Development Research Centre, gave the Edith Holtom Peace Lecture at the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa to an overflowing audience. The title of his energizing talk was: What is the Direction for Canada post-Davos? Among other… Continue Reading Bob Rae’s Holtom Lecture: “We can’t only be for ourselves”

November 10, 2026, at 1:00 p.m. ET For Canada and other middle and smaller powers facing predatory super-powers, nonviolent defence (NVD) is a strategic concept whose time has arrived. The stench of imperial conquest is again in the air. How do middle and smaller powers defend themselves when the potential aggressor is a nearby superpower? That is Canada’s… Continue Reading Citizen’s Guide to Nonviolent Defence with Richard Sandbrook