Book Launch — ‘True North Rising’ by Whit Fraser

Please join Massey College's Public Policy program for a talk and reception celebrating the launch of Whit Fraser's True North Rising: My fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada's North. Fraser is a former chairman of the Canadian Polar Commission, executive director of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, and CBC journalist.

Fraser's work took him to every community in Canada's three northern Territories and much of the circumpolar world. He covered some of the most important stories to today's Arctic region, including the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, Constitutional negotiations that enshrined aboriginal rights in the Canadian Constitution of Canada; Aboriginal Land Claims from initial concept and demands through to the final Agreements.

True North Rising recounts Fraser's involvement with and coverage of these remarkable events and more. His book highlights the extraordinary people who spoke up across Canada's Northern Territories to challenge the colonial attitudes and policies of the past, bringing lasting change and the prospect of greater justice and equality to come. 

True North Rising is published by Burnstown Publishing House.

Agenda

Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Location: Junior Common Room, Massey College4 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 2E1 Canada

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Emily Tsui at emily.tsui@mail.utoronto.ca

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