The 2015 Guelph Lecture—On Being Canadian
The immense breadth and capacity of the human imagination is greatly manifest in our cities. The density of urban life fosters innovative thinking and creative exploration that is possible through the sharing and remixing of ideas in close proximity. Urbanity, which now encompasses 90% of the Canadian population, accounts for much of the technological proliferation and economic insatiability that paradoxically drives our “progress” and undermines it. The 2015 Guelph Lecture—On Being Canadian started a conversation: How do we live in our urban environments, and how will these transform over the next decades?
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Essays
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The Alchemy of Canada
Originally published January 2015
by Haroon Siddiqui
There are good reasons beyond simple patriotism to assert that Canada is the best nation in the world. As the…