What would happen if we stopped consuming so much? Governor General’s Literary Award finalist J.B. MacKinnon addresses this question in his imaginative new work, The Day the World Stops Shopping. Join him in conversation with Michelle Cyca for an eye-opening exploration of the economy and consumer habits, and how our planet, our society and even our selves hang in their balance.

Interviewer: Michelle Cyca

This event is organized in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA) to celebrate the 2021 non-fiction finalists of the Governor General’s Literary Awards, which recognize Canada’s best English-language and French-language books. The winners will be announced by the CCA on November 17.