VSHA Speaker Series
Free* And Open To All!
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 – 7:00-8:30 pm
Cook Street Activity Center
380 Cook St. (Cook St. Village), Victoria
Free Parking
Please Use The Side Entrance
Coffee/Tea nearby at The Mocha House – BYO!
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon
Topic: Defending Canada’s Democracy: A Strategic Framework
Description: The problems facing Canada—and weakening our democracy—are so varied and entangled that it’s difficult to know where or how to start fixing them. The Cascade Institute has analyzed the deep causes of our democracy’s current frailty to help Canadians identify powerful ways to build our country’s economic and social resilience. It is applying this framework to guide and focus the now urgent conversations—within governments, among policymakers and businesses, and across Canada’s civil society—about how to save our country. -THD
Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon is founder and Executive Director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. For nearly two decades, he directed the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto; in 2008 he founded the Waterloo Institute for complexity and Innovation and held a University Research Chair until 2022. Called by the Guardian “one of the best-informed and most brilliant writers on global affairs today,” he is considered among the world’s leading experts on the intricate links between nature, technology, and society.
Lot’s of time will be allowed for questions.
See you there! Bring a friend!
The Victoria Secular Humanist Association hosts lectures several times a year on a variety of issues. Other than lectures, holds discussions on the first and third Wednesdays of the month, with a break in the summer. Bring a friend and questions about the lecture topic.
* Donations gratefully accepted.