Past Speakers Library
Here are the links to many of our past events
| Speaker | Title | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| J.D.M. Stewart | Historian, Teacher, and Author of The Prime Ministers (2025) | Democracy and the Imperative of Engagement |
| Katherine Hensel | Indigenous Practice Group Co-Chair, Fogler Rubinoff | Bringing Our Children Home |
| Vincent Lam | Director of the Coderix Medical Clinic and Author | Drug Addiction: A Front Row Seat |
| Brian Greenspan | Criminal Defence Lawyer | The Press, The Public and The Presumption Of Innocence |
| Nader Hasan | Law Professor,Criminal and constitutional lawyer and a partner at Stockwoods LLP | Speaking Truth to Power: Constitutional Rights & Compassionate Justice |
| Phillip Crawley | Retired CEO and Publisher of the Globe and Mail | Justice Starts With Knowing |
| Benjamin Perrin | Law Professor, University of British Columbia | A Criminal Justice Revolution: |
| The Hon. Rosalie Abella | Retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | Putting Compassion into the Service of Justice |
| Doug Saunders | International-Affairs Columnist - the Globe and Mail | Darkness on the Edge of Town |
| Erin Dann | Criminal Defence Lawyer, Embry Dann LLP | A Blunt Instrument |
| Lisa Kerr | Law Professor, Queen’s University | What Judges Don’t Decide at Sentencing |
| Bill Trudell | Chair, Canadian Council of Criminal Defense Lawyers | Innocence Unplugged |
| The Hon. Beverley McLachlin | Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | Accessing Justice |
| Paula Mallea | Criminal Lawyer and Author | Beyond Incarceration: Safety and True Criminal Justice |
| Anthony Doob | Criminologist | The History (and Effectiveness) Of Imprisonment |
| Kate Johnson & Yasin Dwyer | Chaplain, Queen’s University / Imam advisor, part time at Queen’s University | Criminal Justice Policies and Practices that Impact on Women: Ashley Smith and Beyond |
| The Hon. Irwin Cotler | Member of Parliament for Mount Royal | The Criminal [In]Justice Agenda |
| The Hon. Roy McMurtry | Former Chief Justice and Attorney General of Ontario | Reflections of Our Justice System |
| Doug Saunders | International Affairs Columnist – Globe and Mail | Canada’s Crisis of Underpopulation And It's Geography Of Inequality |
| Dr. Lori Triano-Antidormi | Psychologist and mother of Zachary Antidormi | Victims in the Criminal Justice System – What Do They Need? |
| Kevin Page | Jean-Luc Pepin Research Chair, University of Ottawa; Former Parliamentary Budget Officer of Canada; Introduced by The Hon Bob Rae | The Fiscal Cost of Canada’s Criminal Justice System |
| Graham Stewart | Former Director of the John Howard Society | Canada’s Criminal Justice System: The Need for a Reliable Moral Compass |
| Edward L. Greenspan | Criminal Lawyer For the Defence | Current Developments in Criminal Law in Canada |
| Murray Sinclair | Chair, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada | If you thought the truth was hard |
| Kaylie Tiessen | Economist, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Inequality in Changing Times |
| The Hon. Bob Rae | Interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada 2011-2013, 21st Premier of Ontario | Public Policy and the Evolving Political Process |
| Howard Sapers | Ontario Special Advisor on Corrections Reform | Raising the Bar – Working to Correct Corrections |
| Peter Russell | Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Toronto | Understanding Aboriginal Peoples in a Canada based on incomplete conquests |
| Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux | Indigenous Chair on Truth and Reconciliation – Lakehead University, Thunder Bay & Orillia | And now that we have reconciled, do we have reconciliation? |
| Rebecca Jamieson | President-CEO of Six Nations Polytechnic | The 4 R’s of Reconciliation: Recovery, Revitalization, Restoration and Reciprocity |
| Jennifer Oades | Chair, Parole Board of Canada | Beyond the Headlines |
| Mary Campbell | Retired Director General Corrections and Criminal Justice | Canada’s New Death Penalty |
| Lee Chapelle | President: Canada Prison Consulting | One Man’s Journey |
| Marie Henein | Criminal Lawyer & Senior Partner at the law firm of Henein Hutchison LLP | The Politics of Criminal Justice Reform |
| James Lockyer | Counsel to the Wrongfully Convicted | Guilty and Convicted Until Proven Innocent |
| Harry Nigh | Dismas Fellowship Network | The Road Home is not Easy: an ex-prisoner rebuilding a life in society |