If You Build It, Will They Come?

The Walrus McGill Annual Debate at the Segal Centre: What does it take to build a cultural metropolis?

On March 30, 2011, Montreal’s Segal Centre hosted the second annual Walrus McGill Debate. Simon Brault, author of No Culture, No Future, vice-chair of the Canada Council for the Arts, CEO of the National Theatre School and president of Culture Montréal, matched wits with McGill album Witold Rybczynski, author of Makeshift Metropolis, University of Pennsylvania professor, and Slate architecture critic on the topic of city building. La Presse columnist and Radio-Canada broadcaster Nathalie Petrowski moderated.

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The Walrus HOOPP Pension Debate
Be It Resolved That Canadians Are Incapable
of Saving for Their Retirement Needs Alone

12 pm, Wednesday, May 30 at
Hart House Debate Room, Toronto

The Walrus Glenbow Debate
Calgary’s Cowboy Culture:
Living Legacy or Just History?

6:30 pm, Thursday, June 7 at
Epcor Centre: Max Bell Theatre, Calgary

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