Keynote Presenters at Past Conferences

2012 - Ivan Coyote, Writer and storyteller extraordinaire
2011 - Marci McDonald, Author of The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada
2010 - The Honourable Scott Brison, P.C., M.P. (Kings-Hants)
2009 - Kate Bornstein, New York performance artist
2008 - A tribute to members of the “1978 Committee to Defend Doug Wilson”
2007 - Prairie Pride Chorus (Regina)
2006 - Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, performance artists (Winnipeg)
2005 - Respect for Sexual Diversity Troupe (Saskatoon)
2004 - Laramie Project, five performances of Moisés Kaufman’s play on the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard
2003 - Bishop John Shelby Spong, the widely published and well-known liberal Episcopalian theologian
2002 - Joe Arvay, Q.C., the lawyer who took the Chamberlain et al vs The Board of Trustees of School District No. 36 (Surrey) (The “Surrey Book Banning Case”) to the Supreme Court of Canada…and won
2001 - Pat Griffin, University of Massachusetts—Amherst, a leading researcher on homophobia in school and university sports
2000 - Mark Tewkesbury, Canada’s gold medalist at the Barcelona Olympic Games (1992)
1999 - Svend Robinson, former Member of Parliament for Vancouver-Kingsway