Oh Canada!
3,198 views · Published 5 March 2010 · 52:11 · Indexed 8 November 2026
Channel: TVO Today · 2010 · Education
Read our blog post "How will Canadas glory affect Stephen Harpers political fortunes?" on TVO.org: http://bit.ly/bFIlJg What does our Olympic performance, and how we reacted to it, say about our vision of Canada? Guests: Rudyard Griffiths is co-founder of the Dominion Institute, and the author of Who We Are: A Citizen's Manifesto. Margaret Wente is a columnist for The Globe and Mail and author of You Cant Say That in Canada. Pier Giorgio Di Cicco is principal of Municipal Mind Urban Consultancy, and is Toronto's former poet laureate. Jan Wong is a journalist and author in Toronto. Her latest book, Out of the Blue: a Memoir of Loss, Recovery, Renewal and, Yes, Happiness, will be published by Doubleday in fall 2010. Her other non-fiction books include Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now and Beijing Confidential: A Tale of Comrades Lost and Found. In 1972, she became the first Canadian to study in China during the Cultural Revolution. Drew Hayden Taylor is a playwright, journalist, stand-up comic and author. His latest book is Motorcycles & Sweetgrass: A Novel. He is Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations in Ontario. Terry Gitersos is currently completing a PhD in sport history at the School of Kinesiology at the University of Western Ontario. His thesis is on NHL hockey and Quebec nationalism in the 1980s. He has a masters degree in history from DeMontfort University in the United Kimgdom and a B.A. in History and Political Science from McGill University.
