At this crucial time for journalism, facts, and public trust in media, Wordfest and the Canadian Association of Journalists are proud to present a conversation with Mark MacKinnon, Senior International correspondent for The Globe and Mail, who has been covering international affairs and Canada’s role in the world since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and the subsequent war in Afghanistan. One of Canada’s most decorated foreign correspondents, MacKinnon has won the National Newspaper Award seven times. He was nominated in 2022 and again this year for his ongoing coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This timely afternoon conversation, hosted by journalist Christina Frangou, includes an audience Q&A and book signing. You can also pre-order copies of Mark MacKinnon’s latest books at the link here.
We are grateful to the Canadian Association of Journalists for making it possible to connect you with Mark MacKinnon. Click here for more information about the 2025 CAJ National Conference, taking place in Calgary May 30-31.
Christina Frangou
Conversation
Audience Q&A
Book Signing
75 minutes. No intermission.
Penguin Random House Canada
The Canadian Association of Journalists
From Canada’s newspaper of record for 180 years, here are 30 brilliant and provocative essays by a diverse selection of their writers on how The Globe and Mail covered and influenced major events and issues from the paper’s founding to the latest news.
Since 1844, The Globe and Mail and its predecessor, George Brown’s Globe, have chronicled Canada: as a colony, a dominion, and a nation. To mark the paper’s 180th anniversary, Globe writers explored thirty issues and events in which the national newspaper has steered the course of the country: Confederation, settler migrations, regional tensions, tussles over language, religion, and race. The essays reveal a tapestry of progress, conflict, and still-incomplete reconciliation: Catholic-Protestant hostilities that are now mostly the stuff of memory; the betrayal of Indigenous peoples with which the newspaper—and the country—still grapples; the frustrations and triumphs of women journalists; pandemics then and now; environmental challenges; the joys of covering sports and the arts; the highs and lows of chronicling the nation’s business and world affairs; the impossibility of Canada and of this newspaper, which both somehow flourish nonetheless.
Riveting, insightful, troubling, witty, and with black-and-white photographs throughout (plus a full-colour photographic essay), A Nation’s Paper examines a country and a newspaper that have grown and struggled together—essential reading for anyone who wants to understand where we came from and where we are going.
The Globe and Mail will donate all its proceeds from the book to Journalists for Human Rights.
Christina Frangou
Conversation
Audience Q&A
Book Signing
75 minutes. No intermission.
Penguin Random House Canada
The Canadian Association of Journalists
Christina Frangou is a Calgary journalist who writes about health and social issues. Her stories have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Maclean’s and The Guardian, among others, and cover topics like refugee health, domestic violence, loneliness and widowhood. Frangou has received a National Newspaper Award and multiple National Magazine Awards for feature writing. In 2022, she was awarded the Landsberg Award from the Canadian Women’s Foundation and Canadian Journalism Foundation for her work shedding light on gender injustice in Canada.
Website: christinafrangou.com
Bluesky: cfrangou.bsky.social
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