Listening, Speaking Out & Connecting in an Age of Rage ~ Écouter, s’exprimer et se connecter à l’ère de la colère
Listening, Speaking Out & Connecting in An Age of Rage
Sunday, October 19, 2025 – 1:00 pm
This inspiring event brings together renowned voices Carol Off, celebrated former CBC “As It Happens” host and acclaimed author, and Professor Timothy Caulfield from the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Law and School of Public Health. Drawing from their latest works—At a Loss for Words: Conversations in an Age of Rage and The Certainty Illusion: What You Don’t Know and Why It Matters—they’ll share wisdom for navigating our complex world.
Hosted by Adrian Harewood, Associate Professor at Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication, they will explore:
~ How genuine listening can bridge even the widest divides and restore meaning to essential concepts like “freedom” and “democracy”.
~ The fascinating complexities of communication, understanding how words can both reveal truth and create confusion, and discovering the power language holds in shaping our shared realities.
~ How language is used strategically in media, politics, and daily life, and how we can become a more discerning and confident information consumer.
This dynamic conversation celebrates the transformative potential of words when used with care and intention.
To increase the resonance of the conversation, youth passionate about journalism — emerging thinkers and communicators — will be engaged to co-create a dynamic component of the event and to bring youth insight, critical thinking, and lived experience to the centre of the public conversation.
Join us for an evening that transforms challenges into opportunities—where we’ll explore not just what divides us, but what unites us, and how we can all play a part in creating a more thoughtful, connected world.
As Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa reminds us: “Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without all three, we have no shared reality, and democracy as we know it—and all meaningful human endeavours—are dead.”
This event is presented in partnership with:
The independent, English-language, multi-award-winning, locally owned newspaper, The Low to Hull & Back News serving the Gatineau Hills since 1973; and, Friends of the Low Down (FoLD), a not-for-profit dedicated to ensuring thriving community-based journalism through education and community-building.
CAROL OFF
CAROL OFF spent almost sixteen years co-hosting the multi-award-winning CBC radio program, As It Happens. Before that, she covered news and current affairs in Canada and around the world. As a radio correspondent, she reported on politics in Ottawa and Quebec. As a television journalist, she covered the break-up of Yugoslavia; the 9/11 attack on the United States; the election of Vladimir Putin; and politics, conflicts and culture throughout Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Africa.
Her first bestselling book, The Lion, The Fox and the Eagle: A Story of Generals and Justice in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, was published in 2000. Since then, she’s written three more award-winning works of narrative non-fiction, including, most recently, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter’s Journey into the Lives of Others, winner of the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.
Timothy Caulfield
Timothy Caulfield is a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, and Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. He was the Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy for over 20 years (2002 – 2023). His interdisciplinary research on topics like stem cells, genetics, research ethics, the public representations of science, and public health policy has allowed him to publish almost 400 academic articles. He has won numerous academic, science communication, and writing awards, and is a Member of the Order Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He contributes frequently to the popular press and is the author of national bestsellers: The Cure for Everything: Untangling the Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness and Happiness (Penguin 2012) and Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash (Penguin 2015), and Relax, admit!: A User’s Guide to the Age of Anxiety (Penguin Random House, 2020). His most recent book is The Certainty Illusion: What You Don’t Know and Why It Matters (Penguin Random House, 2025). Caulfield is also the co-founder of the science engagement initiative #ScienceUpFirst and has written, hosted and produced documentaries, including the award-winning TV show, A User’s Guide to Cheating Death, which has been shown in over 60 countries, including streaming on Netflix in North America.
ADRIAN HAREWOOD
ADRIAN HAREWOOD is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Carleton University. The former host of CBC Ottawa’s drive home radio show All in A Day, he was the anchor of CBC Ottawa News at Six from 2009 to 2022.
In 2020, Adrian won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Local Anchor, and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Interviewer in 2017. He has been the guest host of national CBC programs The Current, As It Happens, Sounds Like Canada, The House, Counterspin, Hot Type, and Power and Politics. He was also the host of programs on BRAVO and PBS including Literati, The Actors, The Directors, Playwrights and Screenwriters.
Adrian has interviewed Angela Davis, Salman Rushdie, Eduardo Galeano, Bill Clinton, Wayne Shorter, Bob Woodward, Deepa Mehta, Naomi Klein, Ken Dryden, Alanis Obomsawin, Joy Kogawa, David Sedaris, Steven Pinker, Lawrence Hill, Barbara Gowdy, Austin Clarke, Andrea Levy, Branford Marsalis, Margaret Macmillan, Ken Burns, David Suzuki, Esi Edugyan, Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Hedges, Femi Kuti, Tariq Ali, Niall Ferguson, John Irving, Dionne Brand, Conrad Black and Donald Trump. Adrian is a board member of Journalists for Human Rights and of the Writers’ Union of Canada.
Écouter, prendre la parole & tisser des liens à l’ère de la colère
Dimanche 19 octobre 2025 – 13 h
Dans un monde avide de connexions authentiques et de conversations porteuses de sens, joignez-vous à nous pour une exploration inspirante de la manière dont nous pouvons redécouvrir le pouvoir d’une communication réfléchie pour rapprocher les gens.
Cet événement rassemble deux voix de renom : Carol Off, ancienne animatrice très appréciée de l’émission As It Happens à la CBC et autrice acclamée, et le professeur Timothy Caulfield, de la Faculté de droit et de l’École de santé publique de l’Université de l’Alberta. S’appuyant sur leurs plus récents ouvrages — At a Loss for Words: Conversations in an Age of Rage et The Certainty Illusion: What You Don’t Know and Why It Matters — ils partageront leur réflexion et leur sagesse pour nous aider à naviguer dans un monde complexe.
Animée par Adrian Harewood, professeur agrégé à l’École de journalisme et de communication de l’Université Carleton, la discussion explorera notamment :
~ Comment une écoute véritable peut combler les fossés les plus profonds et redonner du sens à des notions essentielles comme la liberté et la démocratie.
~ Les fascinantes complexités de la communication : comprendre comment les mots peuvent à la fois révéler la vérité et semer la confusion, et découvrir le pouvoir du langage dans la construction de nos réalités communes.
~ L’usage stratégique du langage dans les médias, la politique et la vie quotidienne — et comment chacun peut devenir un consommateur d’information plus avisé et plus confiant.
Cette conversation dynamique célèbre le pouvoir transformateur des mots lorsqu’ils sont utilisés avec soin et intention.
Afin d’amplifier la portée de la discussion, des jeunes passionnés de journalisme — penseurs et communicateurs émergents — seront invités à co-créer un volet dynamique de l’événement, apportant ainsi leur regard, leur esprit critique et leur expérience vécue au cœur de la conversation publique.
Joignez-vous à nous pour une rencontre qui transforme les défis en occasions — où nous explorerons non seulement ce qui nous divise, mais aussi ce qui nous unit, et comment chacun de nous peut contribuer à bâtir un monde plus réfléchi et plus connecté.
Comme le rappelle la lauréate du prix Nobel Maria Ressa : « Sans faits, il ne peut y avoir de vérité. Sans vérité, il ne peut y avoir de confiance. Et sans ces trois éléments, nous n’avons plus de réalité partagée — et la démocratie telle que nous la connaissons, ainsi que toute entreprise humaine porteuse de sens, cessent d’exister. »
Événement présenté en partenariat avec :
Le journal The Low to Hull & Back News, un média indépendant anglophone, maintes fois primé et propriété locale, au service des collines de la Gatineau depuis 1973; et Friends of the Low Down (FoLD), un organisme sans but lucratif voué à soutenir un journalisme communautaire dynamique par l’éducation et la création de liens communautaires.
CAROL OFF
Timothy Caulfield
ADRIAN HAREWOOD
