In-person
1.5 hours
All public servants at all levels
The Globe History Project is one of The Globe and Mail's most ambitious undertakings and is the culmination of the work of dozens of writers and editors who have spent the last two years researching and writing thirty essays to mark the paper’s 180th anniversary. While some essays were historical, such as the role of George Brown’s Globe in Confederation, or the paper’s coverage of the Second World War and during the Quiet Revolution, others examined societal issues, including the environment, racial and religious conflict, Indigenous relations, women and sexual minorities. In 2024, the collected essays were published by Signal/McClelland & Stewart as A Nation’s Paper: The Globe and Mail in the Life of Canada.
This in-person event welcomes John Ibbitson, writer and journalist for The Globe and Mail, who will present the Globe History Project and discuss the issues and events in which the newspaper intersected with Canada’s progress and influenced its course.
Participants will explore the question of what The Globe and Mail is in an age of ever-changing technology and discover how it is ultimately a contract of trust between readers and journalists.
