Tag: tier two
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Speakers Series 2026 – Darrell Markewitz
In “The Anti Expedition”, the rugged, Himalayan landscape ‘comes alive’ as one’s understanding of the valley deepens. As the travelers make meaningful human connections – learning from the Rinpoche, as well as their Nepalese guide – they discover the role that tourism can play in connecting and preserving cultures into an uncertain future. And, how…
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Speakers Series 2026 – Bob Henderson & Margot Peck
In “The Anti Expedition”, the rugged, Himalayan landscape ‘comes alive’ as one’s understanding of the valley deepens. As the travelers make meaningful human connections – learning from the Rinpoche, as well as their Nepalese guide – they discover the role that tourism can play in connecting and preserving cultures into an uncertain future. And, how…
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A New Plan for the Old Hospital Site
AHIGH is developing plans for mixed-income housing overtop much-needed new retail spaces right on Main Street. It’s an ambitious project, but ambition is what’s needed to tackle a crisis that has been decades in the making. It can’t succeed without backing from our community.
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Speaker Series – Max Finklestein
Max & Connie’s Most Excellent Road and Rowed Trip Max Finkelstein, a much admired canoeist named one of Canada’s Top 100 Living Explorers, and his wife Connie Downes, both of them biologists, are now retired but busier than ever. Follow them as, with Yuri their “brand-new”1978 trailer, they embark on a journey of Canadian discovery…
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Speaker Series – Hap Wilson
In 2009, Hap Wilson was asked to map the water portion of the Trans Canada Trail from Lake Superior to Manitoba — this would comprise 25% of the entire Ontario portion of the National trail, or 1,250 kilometres by canoe. Named Path of the Paddle, after Bill Mason‘s books and films, there were several challenges…
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National Canadian Film Day
This year, CanFilmDay will take place on Wed. April 19, 2023, featuring for us in Grey Highlands, the powerful 2006 drama Away From Her, directed by Sarah Polley. Based on Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” this moving film tells the story of Fiona (Christie) and Grant (Pinsent), a couple who have…
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Speakers Series – Anne Dublin
Prolific Toronto author, Anne Dublin, enjoys a well-earned reputation for award-winning books enjoyed by young adults and older readers alike. Much of her success has been in the area of little-known stories of the past, an example of which can be found in her book Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything – the…
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Speakers Series – Anne Dublin Streaming
Prolific Toronto author, Anne Dublin, enjoys a well-earned reputation for award-winning books enjoyed by young adults and older readers alike. Much of her success has been in the area of little-known stories of the past, an example of which can be found in her book Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything – the…
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Speaker Series – Max Finklestein Streaming
Max & Connie’s Most Excellent Road and Rowed Trip Max Finkelstein, a much admired canoeist named one of Canada’s Top 100 Living Explorers, and his wife Connie Downes, both of them biologists, are now retired but busier than ever. Follow them as, with Yuri their “brand-new”1978 trailer, they embark on a journey of Canadian discovery…
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Speaker Series – Nathan Tidridge
King Charles III First 100 Days Reflecting on the first year of the Garden King: How King Charles III has hit the ground running Nathan Tidridge teaches Canadian history, government, and Indigenous studies at Waterdown District High School, Ontario. He is the host of Crown in Canada podcast and the author of Canada’s Constitutional Monarchy…