Our flagship Bacon and Eggheads breakfast series returns for the 2025–2026 parliamentary season, thanks to the generous support of the Speakers of the House of Commons and the Senate. We are delighted to launch the season with our first talk on Wednesday, September 24, 2025. Please find the event details below. Through the Melting Ice: Ship Traffic […]

Jeffrey S. Mogil, McGill University Canada is in the midst of two intertwined and deadly health crises: the opioid crisis, and the “silent epidemic” of chronic pain. Chronic pain is in fact the most prevalent and costly health problem. Yet, despite Canada being the world leader in pain research, pain stubbornly remains the country's most misunderstood and costly health […]

Dr. Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo  Canada and 194 other countries reached the Paris Agreement, a plan to combat climate change, and are now determining the best strategies to control greenhouse emissions. Our speaker, Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland, likes to quote Lord Kelvin: “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” Dr. Strickland […]