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Good morning,
As we head into the final stretch of 2020 – in the midst of a pandemic and on the verge of a historic U.S. election – honest conversations about democracy, disinformation, politics and the role of media have never been more important – and we want you to join the discussion.
Canada’s National Observer is pleased to present the fall lineup of our exclusive Conversation series featuring a host of special guests, including former CSIS director Richard Fadden, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! and National Observer’s very own Sandy Garossino.
Starting this Thursday, we are inviting subscribers to listen in on crucial conversations about pressing issues affecting Canada and the United States. For just $49.99/6 months, a subscription to National Observer gives you access to the seven online events in our fall series, plus six months of award-winning daily climate journalism.
To kick off the upcoming Conversation series, new subscribers will also receive Digital Fractures: Disinformation, Democracy and the Media, National Observer’s white paper on election disinformation.
From the beginning, individual subscribers have been vital to the success of Canada’s National Observer. We hope you’ll join us in continuing to ask questions, spark conversations and seek answers in the coming months.
Here’s a look at National Observer’s upcoming fall Conversations:
Disinformation and national security
Thursday, October 8
4 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT
Editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood speaks with Richard Fadden, former CSIS director and former national security adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
FFS America!
Friday, October 9
4 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT
Open to the public
As part of National Observer’s ongoing FFS America! series, national affairs columnist Sandy Garossino and editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood discuss the week's events in the U.S. election. See the first instalment of the series here.
Drawing the Trump era
Thursday, October 15
4 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT
Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder, whose political drawings have an international audience and often reflect what people are thinking and feeling in this turbulent time, discusses his art, the importance of cartoons and satirical political drawings and the challenge of cartoons in the current political climate.
Living the new abnormal
Tuesday, October 20
4 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET
Author and pundit Molly Jong-Fast, currently an editor-at-large for the Daily Beast and co-host of the podcast The New Abnormal, discusses covering and writing about the Trump administration in this divided time.
Trump’s foreign policy: The madman theory
Thursday, October 28
4 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET
From praising dictators to alienating allies, Trump has made chaos his calling card. Has his strategy caused more problems than it solved? Jim Sciutto, CNN anchor and author of The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World, discusses the “madman theory” and what lessons Canadians can learn from the U.S. regarding threats to democracy.
The next four years
Thursday, November 5
4 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET
As a trailblazer of independent news, Amy Goodman, journalist and host of Democracy Now!, offers a unique perspective on the media landscape and how journalists cover the most urgent problems of our times.
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