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| May 21st, 2026 Speaker: Jerry Amernic Author of "Sleepwoking" Jerry Amernic, a journalist and novelist, tackles historical revisionism and all the fallout associated with it in his book SLEEPWOKING which has been called “a sharp-edged takedown of the contemporary fallacies about history that plague Canada.” The book has already received high praise from a number of historians and scholars. Amernic surgically dissects what passes as legitimate history in the country. Leaving no stone unturned, he examines the legacies of suchfigures as John A. Macdonald, Henry Dundas and Egerton Ryerson, as well as Edward Cornwallis, the founder of Halifax, and legendary B.C. judge Matthew Begbie. All these figures have been cancelled and vilified. Amernic looks at the true historical record of each and unearths some hard truths. His book is peppered with personal experiences to counter the ‘woke’ narrative of history that has received so much attention in Canada. |
| June 18th, 2026 Speaker: Steve Chapelle Re-Privatize Seeking Information Privacy Steve Chapelle has been providing information management best practices education to Canadian professional, parent, student and retiree organiza- |
| August 20th, 2026 Speaker: Andrew Kirsch What Canada’s Spy Service does and why you need to know more about it Andrew Kirsch served as an intelligence officer with the Canadian Security ntelligence Service (CSIS) for a decade. He held roles as a policy analyst and a field investigator, ultimately leading teams on clandestine warranted special operations. His memoir, I Was Never Here: My True Canadian Spy Story of Coffee’s, Code Names and Covert Operations in the Age of Terrorism was an instant national bestseller charting on the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail Nonfiction lists. Since leaving CSIS Andrew founded Kirsch Group (KG) a boutique Risk Consultancy serving government, corporate and private clients. He is also a trainer and public speaker on issues of national and cyber security.Drawing on entertaining stories from his career; Andrew gives a rarely seen look behind the curtain at what Canada’s security service does, what it’s really like to be a spy, the threats he faced and the challenges to come. |
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