Join two of Canada's leading authors for a discussion about the choices that will determine the future of Canada's Arctic, and what we can learn from the tar sands.

WWF-Canada is proud to host the cross-Canada speaking tour of award-winning authors Andrew Nikiforuk (Tar Sands) and Ed Struzik (The Big Thaw). Join them this fall as they discuss how the melting of Arctic sea ice and the exploitation of the Alberta tar sands are connected, and how they are shaping Canada's future. WWF aims to stimulate debate among Canadians about the choices and consequences – political, cultural, economic and environmental – involved in how we develop the tar sands and respond to a changing Arctic.

Join us in a city near you between November 4-20, 2009. See below for more information about dates and locations.

RSVP to events@wwfcanada.org or call us at 1-800-26-PANDA. There is no charge to attend this event.

Oil & Ice Tour Schedule
* Further location specific information can be found below

Edmonton	November 4, 2009	7:00 PM	University of Alberta More Info
Vancouver	November 5, 2009	7:00 PM	University of British Columbia More Info
Calgary	November 6, 2009	7:00 PM	University of Calgary More Info
Yellowknife	November 9, 2009	7:00 PM	Northern United Place Auditorium More Info
St. John's, NL	November 12, 2009	7:00 PM	Memorial University More Info
Halifax	November 13, 2009	7:00 PM	Dalhousie University More Info
Ottawa	November 16, 2009	7:00 PM	Carlton University More Info
Toronto	November 18, 2009	7:00 PM	University of Toronto More Info
Kingston	November 19, 2009	7:00 PM	Kingston Frontenac Public Library More Info
Montreal	November 20, 2009	7:00 PM	McGill University More Info

For the last two decades, Andrew Nikiforuk has written about energy, economics and the West for a variety of Canadian publications including The Walrus, Maclean's, Canadian Business, The Globe and Mail's Report on Business, Chatelaine, Georgia Straight, Equinox and Harrowsmith.

In the late 1990s, he investigated the social and ecological impacts of intensive livestock industries and the legacy of northern uranium mining for the Calgary Herald. His public policy position papers on water diversion in the Great Lakes (2004) and water, energy and North American integration (2007) for the Program on Water Issues at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre sparked both discussion and reform.

Nikiforuk's journalism has won seven National Magazine Awards since 1989 and top honours for investigative writing from the Association of Canadian Journalists. His dramatic Alberta-based book, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil, won the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction in 2002. Pandemonium, which examines the impact of global trade on disease exchanges, received widespread national acclaim. His latest book, The Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent, examines the world's largest energy project, and is a national best seller. It recently won the 2009 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, City of Calgary W.O.Mitchell Book Award and was listed as a finalist for the Grantham Prize for Excellence In Reporting on the Environment.

Nikiforuk and his wife and three sons, Aidan, Keegan and Torin, live in Calgary, Alberta. Whether speaking or writing about melting glaciers, educational shams, peak oil, or the destruction of the boreal forest, Nikiforuk has earned a reputation as an honest and provocative voice in Canadian journalism.

Ed Struzik is an award-winning writer/photographer whose work has appeared in various journals, magazines and newspapers such as Canadian Geographic, Equinox, Yale 360 Environment, Foreign Policy Review, Geo, Report on Business, and newspapers like the Toronto Star, Edmonton Journal and Globe and Mail. He is author of the book Northwest Passage, published by Key Porter Books and the Canadian Geographic Society and Ten Rivers, published by CanWest Books and "The Big Thaw" was published in April 2009 by John Wiley and Sons.

Ed is the recipient of more than 30 national and international awards and fellowships. In addition to the $100,000 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy, Ed was the recipient of the Knight Science Fellowship at Harvard and MIT, the Southam Fellowship at the University of Toronto and most recently, the $35,000 Michener Deacon Fellowship. An eight time winner of the Canadian Science Writers Association Science in Society journalism award and a finalist for the $75,000 Grantham Prize, Ed is also the recipient of the Sir Sandford Fleming Medal, which goes to one Canadian each year who has made an outstanding contribution to the understand of science in Canada.

In May 2009, Queen's University made Ed a fellow at the School of Public Policy Studies, Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy.

Edmonton
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
University of Alberta
Tory Lecture Hall 12
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Vancouver
Thursday, November 05, 2009
University of British Columbia
Geography Building, Room 100
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Parking: Fraser River Parkade. The Fraser Parkade is located at 6440 Memorial Road. The entrance to the parkade is located on the south side of memorial road across from the asian centre.
Transit: Walk from the North Bus loop

Calgary
Friday, November 6, 2009
University of Calgary
2750, University Way N.W.
Education Classroom Block (EDC) 179
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Yellowknife
Monday, November 9, 2009
Northern United Place Auditorium
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St. John's, Newfoundland
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Memorial University
Arts and Administration Building, Room A-1043
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Halifax
Friday, November 13, 2009
Dalhousie
Scotiabank Auditorium
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Ottawa
Monday, November 16, 2009
Carleton University, Porter Hall, Level 2 - University Center
Porter Hall
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Toronto
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West, OISE Auditorium - Room G162
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Kingston
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Kingston Frontenac Public Library
Wilson Room
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Montreal
Friday, November 20, 2009
McGill University
Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium
3450 Rue University
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