Reshaping the Post-Pandemic World as if People Mattered, with Linda McQuaig

Join us for the 1st talk of our virtual speaker series, Building Back Better: An Agenda for Progressive Public Policy, ft. Linda McQuaig.

About the presenter:

Journalist and best-selling author Linda McQuaig has long been a rare voice of dissent within the mainstream media. The National Post has dubbed her “Canada’s Michael Moore” and The Globe and Mail has described her as “one of Canada’s indispensable public intellectuals.” Introducing her for an interview on CBC Radio in 2020, Michael Enright said: “Linda McQuaig has spent her career as a best-selling author being a major irritant to Canada’s 1 percent.”

In 2016, her book Shooting the Hippo: Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths was named by the Literary Review of Canada as one of the 25 most influential Canadian books of the past 25 years. As an investigative reporter for the Globe and Mail, McQuaig won a National Newspaper Award in 1989 for a series of articles which sparked a public inquiry and led to the imprisonment of Ontario political lobbyist Patti Starr. As a Senior Writer for Maclean’s magazine, she probed the early business dealings of Conrad Black in two provocative cover stories. An angry Black suggested on CBC Radio that McQuaig should be “horsewhipped.”

Since 2002, she has used her op-ed column in the Toronto Star to challenge the prevailing economic dogma and champion a more equal distribution of wealth and power. She is the author of eight controversial national best-sellers. Her latest book, published in 2019, is The Sport and Prey of Capitalist: How the Rich are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth.

Attending the Event: This event will be hosted online using Zoom. A Zoom link and password to access the event will be sent via email to all folks registered. You can download Zoom on your device for free using the following link: https://zoom.us/ (external link)