8 September 2008 — Speaker, FIDIC 2008 Conference
Québec, QC
Contact: Association of Consulting Engineers of Canada
Tel: (613) 236-0569

28 September 2008 — Publication date, A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada
PR tour details to come.

29 October 2008 — Extraordinary Canadians Event
Ottawa
Contact: Melissa Robson, Penguin
Tel: 416-925-2249

12 November 2008 — Speaker, Le Club B
Dublin, Ireland
Contact: Martin Perelmuter
Tel: 416-345-1559


Message to the French for the Future Local Forum, Fredericton, 29 April 2008

Opening Speech at the France-Canada Colloqium, 7 March 2008 (en français)

Speech given at People for Education conference,
3 November 2007

Speech given at Citizenship Ceremony in Vancouver, 1 March 2007

"Canada ’s Looking Forward: Making Progress Happen" - Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs. Sunday, August 13, 2006.

"In Defense of Public Education" - Magee Secondary School, Vancouver, British Columbia, September 20, 2004 (Webcast)

Speech to the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 21, 2002

Inaugural LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture - Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario. March 23, 2000.

"Democracy and Globalisation" - University of New South Wales. January 1999,

"Power versus the Public Good: The Conundrum of the Individual and Society" - University of Waterloo, 1996 Hagey Lecture

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Articles

"Some Thoughts About Canadian Citizenship"
July / August 2008 - LawNow Magazine

Adam McDowell, "Here's your passport, and there are the Riopelles," article about the new cultural passes created by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship
- 11 April 2008, The National Post

Lianne George, "Songs of Ourselves." An article about John Ralston Saul and the Penguin Extraordinary Canadians biography series. From the 31 March issue of Maclean's

Paul Wells, "Marrying Up: Getting ahead in New France," an article about John Saul's participation in the Colloque France-Canada in Paris, 24 March issue of Maclean's

"Une démocratie qui a 160 ans," 16 mars 2008, La Presse

Jim Farrell, "Author Saul challenges new Canadians to make a difference," Article about John Ralston Saul's invovlement with the Institute for Canadian Citizenship- 13 March 2008, Edmonton Journal

"Canada, 160 Years Later," 11 March 2008, Globe and Mail

"Democracy in Alberta," an essay that appears in the Jan./Feb. 2008 issue of albertaviews

Article mentioning John Ralston Saul as General Editor for upcoming Penguin "Extraordinary Canadians" Series, 2 January 2008, Publishers Weekly

Editorial about education and John Ralston Saul's speech at the People for Education Conference in Toronto, 8 November 2007, Owen Sound Sun Times

"The rogue state of Burmese generals," 22 October 2007, Globe and Mail

Article about John Ralston Saul's support for "la souveraineté alimentaire", 13 September 2007,
La Terre
(en français)

News Release regarding the 28 September John Cage Tribute Concert

"City Fetes 'Writer in Exile'," 6 June 2007, Edmonton Journal

"Twelve Months On," Asia Literary Review, Spring 2007 Vol.4

"La culture n'est pas quelque chose à part dans la société, pense John Ralston Saul", 2 mai 2007, L'Acadie Nouvelle

"L'Organisme Le français pour l'avenir fête son 10e anniversaire," 2 au 8 mai 2007, Le Métropolitain

"Saul sees progress in bilingualism," 24 April 2007, Toronto Star

"Why the World is Round," 31 March 2007, China Daily

"Globalism long off the mainland's trade agenda," 19 March 2007, South China Morning Post

Vancouver Sun, 28 February 2007, LaFontaine-Baldwin Op-Ed (Canada)

Ewa M. Thompson, Europa (October 28, 2006)
– in Polish

La Vie
, 20/26 mars 2006 (Paris)

Maclean’s: Issue on Canada’s Best Thinkers,
22 December 2003
(Canada)

The Listener, 22 June 2002 (New Zealand)

Bob Ellis,So it Goes: Essays, Broadcasts, Speeches, 1987-1999 (Australia)

Utne Reader, Issue on 100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life (Jan-Feb 1995) (USA)

Interviews / Entrevues

Interview with Mikey Havoc on 95bFM (Auckland), August 29, 2007

"Globalism Is Dead," May 2007, China International Business

Testimony given in Ottawa before the Parliamentary Committee on Citizenship and Immigration (April 25, 2007)

ChinesePod Blog, with Ken Carroll (March 25, 2007) - in English

that's Shanghai, March 2007 (Shanghai)

Excerpt from The Collapse of Globalism in Europa (2006)
– in Polish

Interview with Wawrzyniec Smoczyński, Centrum Kultury idialogu
– in Polish

Commentary in Europa (November 4, 2006)
– in Polish

Maciej Nowicki, Europa (October 28, 2006)
– in Polish

CNN - Lou Dobbs (October 5, 2005)

Washington Times Interview (Feb 1995) (USA)


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