For Canadian readers, David Shribman’s columns and articles are essential in making sense of the machinations of US politics. As contributing writer for The Globe and Mail and Executive Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Shribman shaped his career reporting on US politics, winning a Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1995. The 2024 US election […]
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TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns, bringing together authors and industry experts to examine the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. In this talk, A.G.A. Wilmot discusses Withered, a queer, paranormal fiction novel showing the complex real-life terror inherent in grief and mental illness. In The Monster […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns, bringing together authors and industry experts to examine the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. Our daily lives in 2023 were shaped by inflation rises and a cost-of-living crisis. Why was this such a shock and why did our governments struggled […]
Join authors Gloria Blizzard and Jenny Heijun Wills as they discuss their essay collections and community, culture and chosen families. In Black Cake, Turtle Soup and Other Dilemmas, Blizzard examines the complexities of belonging within your family, society and a country. Wills’ first book Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust […]
Canadian author and journalist Bob McDonald has been making science accessible to the public for over 50 years. From his start as a demonstrator at the Ontario Science Centre to hosting the widely popular CBC Radio show Quirks and Quarks, his love of science has burned bright. McDonald joins the TIFA stage to discuss his […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns, bringing together authors and industry experts to examine the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. The challenges of modern life can feel overwhelming, how can we act in our everyday lives to make our collective future better? This deeply personal memoir […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns, bringing together authors and industry experts to examine the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. Where has it gone wrong for Justin Trudeau and the governing Liberal Party? With a meteoric rise, after almost a decade in power, with a prime […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns, bringing together authors and industry experts to examine the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. In this talk, Wade Davis expands on his unique cultural perspective shared in his essays from Beneath the Surface of Things, with topics ranging from the […]
On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy in London. They take 26 hostages, and a week-long siege ensues. Ben Macintyre, historian and journalist, whose books include A Spy Amongst Friends, Operation Mincemeat and SAS Rogue Heroes, applies his unique brand of storytelling to give a full account of the […]
We are honoured to have Marie Wilson join us to talk about her book North of Nowhere. Wilson was one of the founding commissioners for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, established to record the previously hidden history of more than a century of forced residential schooling for Indigenous children. The book acts as […]
The Wall Between, written by Raja G. Khouri and Jeffrey J. Wilkinson, attempts to offer tangible ways for Jews and Palestinians in the Diaspora to speak and, importantly, listen differently to each other. It examines the histories and narratives that have shaped and divided, the battles for identity influenced by fear and trauma, and the […]
Featuring an introduction by Margaret Atwood, the 2024 PEN Canada Graeme Gibson Talk will have bestselling non-fiction writer John Vaillant, author of the multi-award-winning Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast in conversation with Catherine Abreu, one of Canada’s most influential thinkers on global climate policy, discuss the burning questions and challenges facing our fast-warming world. […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns, bringing together authors and industry experts to examine the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. As co-host of CBC Radio’s As It Happens, Carol Off spent a decade and a half talking to people in the news five nights a week […]
TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns, bringing together authors and industry experts to examine the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. Why can’t we talk to each other anymore? We all have a lot to stay but when did we stop listening? In the age of hurried […]
