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