Ryerson Democracy Forum: Election 2019 - Behind the battle for your ballot
- Date
- October 01, 2019
- Time
- 4:30 PM EDT - 6:00 PM EDT
- Location
- Sears Atrium, 3rd floor, George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church St.
- Open To
- public
Campaigns matter. How can we as voters influence the outcome of October’s federal election? Are the candidates for PM serious about climate change? What are the major ballot questions - from political ethics to immigration issues - that determine how we vote?
Come hear four veteran political journalists discuss the strategies and policies of the rival parties on the issues that matter most to us: TVO’s Steve Paikin, the Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt, the Globe and Mail’s Laura Stone, and Ryerson Visiting Practitioner and Toronto Star columnist Martin Regg Cohn. Hosted by Sanjay Ruparelia, Jarislowsky Democracy Chair, Ryerson University, Faculty of Arts.
If you require any accessibility accommodations to ensure your inclusion in this event, please contact 416-979-5000, x 4040.
Steve Paikin is the host of TVO’s current affairs program, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, and was previously a CBC News anchor and correspondent. He is the author of seven books, most recently, Bill Davis: Nation Builder, and Not So Bland After All. He has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University and moderated several televised federal and Ontario election debates.
Susan Delacourt is the Ottawa columnist and Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star. She has written four political books, most recently, Shopping for Votes. She is also a regular television commentator, and has taught at Carleton University. She will be a moderator in the upcoming televised federal election debate.
Laura Stone is a political reporter for The Globe and Mail. She was based in the Globe’s Ottawa bureau, covering the major federal parties for three years before focusing on the Ontario political scene a year ago. She appears regularly on CBC and CTV, and previously worked for Global News in Ottawa, and the Calgary Herald.
Martin Regg Cohn is a political columnist for the Toronto Star. A foreign correspondent for 11 years, he ran the Star’s Middle East and Asia bureaus. He was also Foreign Editor, a world affairs columnist, and covered national politics from Ottawa. He is a Visiting Practitioner at Ryerson University, and a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Sanjay Ruparelia is the Jarislowsky Democracy Chair, and Associate Professor of Politics and Public Administration, at Ryerson University. He is the author of Divided We Govern: Coalition Politics in Modern India, and several other publications on the politics of governance and post-election power sharing in federal parliamentary democracies. He previously taught at the New School for Social Research and at Columbia University in New York. He has also been a consultant to the United Nations, and the Asia Foundation.