2023
Colin Millar Life as a Harbour Pilot
Mike Day Freemasonry: Origins, Myths, Legends, Reality and History
Cheryl MacDonald Womens Hockey - Where is it Going?
& Eve LeBlanc
Sherry Scully The Workforce of the Future
Jim King Whither the Canadian Armed Forces
2022
Sylvain Charlebois The Future of Food
Felix Cacchione Significant Incident Response Tean (SIRT). What is it? What does it do?
Carol Patterson Russian Historical Trends
Only 3 Meetings held after resumption after Covid
2021
No Meetings were held due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
2020
Elizabeth Brown A Matter of Life and Death
No further Meetings were held due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
2019
Robert Huish Life in North Korea Today
Anna Metaxas Marine Protected Areas
Bosco Loncarevic The Quest for a Northwest Passage: From Hearne (1771) to Harper (2016)
Michael Haines Hiking the Great Trail
Jim Hanlon COVE and the Ocean Tech Supercluster
Simon Gadbois It’s a Dogs Life! Sniffer Dogs in Wildlife Conservation and Biomedicine
Diana Whalen A National Pharmacare Plan?
Don Bureaux The Nova Scotia Community College – a unique institution
Jeff Dahn The Future of Batteries
2018
John Stone A Teachers Life
Rick Williams Human Resource Issues in the Canadian Fishing Industry
Rob Thacker The Beginnings and Extremes of the Universe
Graham Steele Citizen Engagement and Advocacy
Mark Butler Grassroots and Growth: A Brief History of the Ecology Action Centre
Graham Edgar Architecture - Making a Material Difference
Robert Cervelli Re-Localizing Prosperity in Rural Atlantic Canada
Laura Ferguson Winter Wonders: How Insects Survive the Cold
2017
Steve Blasco Arctic Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Can it be Done Without Damaging the Sensitive Arctic Marine
Environment?
Susan Morris Neurosurgery – the ultimate team sport
Ken Shorley Exploring the Drum: Sounds, instruments, rythms and traditions from around the globe.
Pauline Dakin Re-wired: The cognitive and emotional costs of being "connected"
Chris Field What is Happening to our Birds? – What we have learned from the Maritime Breeding Bird Atlas
Jack Mitchell History Before Writing
Dan Conlin Canada Day 1
David Patriquin Fire, wind and forests
Laurie Swim Hope and Survival: The Halifax Explosion Halifax Explosion
2016
Chris Cutler The Debate over Bee Declines
Morgan Davis A History of the Blues
Emily King Flash Flood; Life in the Middle East before, during and after the Arab Spring
Jim Meek Offshore Dream: A History of Nova Scotia’s Oil ands Gas Industry
Alan Wilson An Aspotogan Perspective
Stephen Kimber Journalism is Dead: Long Live Journalism
Allan King The Bay Refugee Project: One Year On
2015
Mary Lou Whitehorne This Amazing Place.
Ron Crocker Forever Bluenose: Between and Beyond the Covers
Rob Smith Forbidden Fruit: Apples and the Family Farm
Roy Bishop Captain James Cook: Navigator and Explorer Extraordinaire
Robert Dykes Chronic Pain: What if it never goes away?
Will Martin Community Forests: Transforming Forestry in Nova Scotia
Robert Conrad The Tuna Fishery of St. Margaret’s Bay
2014
Allyn Clarke Sink or Swim: The truth about inconvenient truths.
Fred Vaughan The Canadian Constitution with particular reference to current Senate activities.
Debra Komar Getting Away with Murder: Rewriting Canada’s Bloody History, One Crime at a Time
Stephen Greene Maritime Union: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Alan Wilson How I Won the War: Growing Up in Wartime Halifax, 1939-45
John Dunsworth My Life in the Acting Profession: Backstage Secrets
Tom Haney Trouble in Ukraine: Reflections of a Canadian Elections Observer
Linda Campbell Mercury Rising: What is going on in Nova Scotia’s Lakes?
Christine Penney Ecolabelling Nova Scotia Seafood: Competing on the Global Market
2013
Nikki Jabour The Year Round Vegetable Gardener
Jennifer Murdoch Medibus: An Innovation in Health Care
Michael Voigt Canadian Coast Guard: Celebrating 50 years
Francoise Baylis Ethics and Deep Brain Stimulation
Timothy Webster Coastal risk assessment: flooding and erosion in Nova Scotia
Hanspeter Stutz Nova Scotia and the World of Wine
Bill Black Growing the future of our Province with particular reference to rural Nova Scotia
Don Gordon The Bedford Institute of Oceanography, a unique and successful experiment in federal science
(1962 - 2012)
John Paleta Nutrition: Myths, Misconceptions, Lies and Truths. How food affects modern society.
2012
Steve Blasco Titanic after 100: Discoveries and the Legacy of the Ship of Dreams
Graham Steele Dollars and Sense: A tour of the Nova Scotia economy and the process of balancing the revenues and
expenses which make up the budget.
Peter Vaughan Drastic Surgery or Band-Aid Solutions? How our Health Care system has evolved, current problems,
and what it might look like in the future.
Gail Eskes Brain Fitness and Successful Aging. How are the brain and cognitive ability affected by aging.
Graham Daborn & Addressing the Challenges of Tidal Power in the Bay of Fundy. What has been done to date, and the future Anna Redden environmental and technical challenges.
Chris Field Birds of the Aspotogan. At the feeders, on the water and in the woods.
Doug Wallace The Changing Global Ocean: Technology needs and some solutions.
Fred Vaughan American Presidential Politics. A crazy way to elect a president – or is it?
Brian Rogers Aquaculture: A global overview.
2011
Richard Zurawski How Media Affects our Knowledge of Global Warming
Jeffrey Reed Heritage Value in the Unexpected: Stewardship of the richer character of cultural memory
Garth Prime Tsunamis, Giant Bugs and the End of the Mastodons: A 520 million year journey into Nova Scotia’s past
Bob Fournier Climate Change: As seen through the eyes of an oceanographer
Bob Breithaupt Canada in Space: A 50-year retrospective of pioneering and achievement.
Philip Welch What is “New Genetics”? Will it influence human health? Or health care?
Colin Starnes The Foundation Year Programme Looking Backward and Forward: An exciting initiative in
post-secondary education.
Jamie Whidden Arab Spring turns to Winter: Change or Continuity in the Contemporary Middle East?
Kim Kierans Public Broadcasting: What is the future for the CBC? The role of public broadcasting and local media in
building strong communities.
2010
Daphna Levit Markets and Ethics: examining the values behind the recent financial collapse
Zoe Lucas Sable Island - Birds, Bats, Seals, and Horses - a Review of Natural History and Selected Research
Programs
Ken Rozee Ancient and Modern Plagues that Changed History
Laura Bennett Sea Turtles in Nova Scotia
Lynne Millman Cirque du Soleil
Philip Slayton Mighty Judgement: How the Supreme Court Governs Canada
Peter Gregson New Technology: Solving problems or creating them?
Ian Fraser The Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo: Behind the scenes of the largest annual indoor show in the
world
Denis Stairs Being Rejected in the United Nations: the causes and implications of Canada’s failure to win a seat on
the UN Security council
2009
Andy Fillmore Urban Design: Improving the Livability of our Communities
John Leefe Protecting Priceless Areas of Nova Scotia
Andrew Hebda Sightings of Sea Serpents and Sea Monsters
Kathleen Bloom Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Local Communities and Universities Working Together for the
Common Good
Ed Dunsworth Pathway to Change: How I went from Halifax lawyer to working with the poor in Nicaragua, the 2nd
poorest country in the western hemisphere.
Peter-Anthony Togni From the Sacred to the Profane: a musical journey, exploring the origins of improvisation from sacred
music to jazz
Jim King and Larry Murray We Shall Remember Them: honouring our war dead, 1918 to the present
Pauline Dakin Health or hype: how the media reacts to and reports on national and global health issues, and the
potential impact that has on personal health choices
2008
Sue Westby The Little Bees That Could and What Would Happen If They Couldn’t
Paul Bachand Diamond Mining in Northern Canada
Pat Croskerry Thinking or Blinking: How Physicians make your Diagnosis
Danny Hennigar The World's Longest Running and Most Famous Treasure Hunt
Peter Lloyd The Navy went North... and I went with it! A first-hand account of the 1954 epic voyage of
HMCS Labrador through the Northwest Passage
Laura McCue Sex, Politics, and Religion: the story of Henry VIII and his Schism with the Church of Rome
Mary Lou Whitehorne A visual tour of the lives of stars, from their dusty beginnings to their interesting, and occasionally
spectacular, ends
Fred Vaughan Anthony Trollope: An appreciation
Brian Flemming Arctic Sovereignty: Time for a New US-Canada Relationship
2007
Fred Vaughan Viscount Haldane and the Art of Biography
James King A New World Order: Canada’s Contribution to 21st Century Global Security.
Deborah Gass From St. Margaret’s Bay to the House of Lords: International Judicial Cooperation and Judging in the
21st Century
John Dunsworth An Actor’s Life
Peter Vaughan The Future of Health, Healthcare, and Medicine
Budge Wilson Children’s Literature
Mike Day Birding the Aspotogan and other disconnected avian jottings
Myra Freeman The Changing Role of Lieutenant Governor
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