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Maude Barlow in Owen Sound

September 13, 2007

Maude Barlow, the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians , Canada’s largest public advocacy organization, will be speaking Thursday September 20th 7pm, at the Bayshore Arena on “Our Environment and the Great Lakes”.

A recipient of Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award (the “Alternative Nobel”) and a Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship, Maude Barlow is the author of sixteen books, including “Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World’s Water” and most recently ” Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Fight for the Right to Water”, as well as last year’s bestselling “Too Close for Comfort: Canada’s Future within Fortress North America “. She is also the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works to stop commodification of the world’s water. She is also a director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco based research and education institution opposed to economic globalization; fellow with the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies; a board member of Food and Water Watch, the national US organization fighting for corporate and government accountability as it relates to food, water, and fishing; and a founding member of the European-based World Future Council.

The event is being presented by the Canadian Federation of University Women, Owen Sound & Area Club, and is being sponsored by The Georgian Bay Garden Club, Green Party Candidate Shane Jolley, Lawyer and Mediator Kerry J. Lee, and Lawyer Glenna McClelland.

Tickets are $30/person or $25/person for a group of 5 or more, and can be picked-up at:

Owen Sound

Downtown Bookstore—945 2nd Ave. E
DIA—854 2nd Ave. E
Owen Sound library

Wiarton

W. McKenzie Pharmacy—698 Berford St.

Port Elgin

Cathy’s Flowers—683 Goderich St.

Meaford

Muxlow Pharmacy—54 Sykes St.

Many thanks to Jeff for putting together this article. And many more thanks to the numerous individuals who have contributed their thoughts/ideas/and articles over the past few months. If you have something you would like to discuss with your community, please drop us a line.

Written by Ryan · Filed Under Port Elgin, theOwen 

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