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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><i class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:107%" class="">Public Forum with Gordon Laxer<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;line-height:107%" class=""> <b class="">Friday, October 28, 7:00 PM, Mahone Bay
Centre,</b> 45 School Street, Mahone Bay<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;line-height:107%" class=""> All
welcome. Free admission.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;line-height:107%" class="">The South Shore Chapter of the Council of Canadians is
pleased to present the first public event this season. Gordon Laxer, author of <i class="">After the Sands: Energy and Ecological
Security for Canada</i> will be in Mahone Bay October 28<sup class="">th</sup> as part
of his Maritime book tour. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;line-height:107%" class="">Gordon Laxer is the Founding Director of the Parkland
Institute and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta. He has authored
six books. His latest, <i class="">After the Sands</i>
(Douglas and McIntyre) won the Errol Sharpe Book Prize in May of this year. Ralph
Nader hails it as “a myth-destroying blockbuster book.” Impeccably researched, <i class="">After the Sands </i>is critical reading for
anyone concerned about rising sea levels, pipeline and tanker spills, climate
change chaos, and Canada’s future in a carbon restricted world.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;line-height:107%" class="">Despite our oil abundance, Canada is woefully
unprepared for the next global oil supply crisis. Canada imports 30 percent of
its oil, yet—unlike twenty-seven of the other twenty-nine member countries in
the International Energy Agency—has no strategic petroleum reserves to meet
temporary shortages. Canadians use much more oil per capita than other sparsely
populated, northern countries like Norway and Sweden.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%" class="">After the
Sands</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;line-height:107%" class=""> sets out a bold strategy based on deep conservation
and a Canada-first perspective. The goal is to ensure that lower-income
Canadians get sufficient energy at affordable prices in a carbon-constrained
future and prevent the rich from cornering reduced energy supplies.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;line-height:107%" class="">Book sale and signing will follow the talk. Donations
to the Council of Canadians South Shore Chapter will be gratefully accepted to
help cover room rental and other event costs.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;line-height:107%" class="">For more information, email </span><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><a href="mailto:southshore.coc@gmail.com" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;color:windowtext;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none" class="">southshore.coc@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%" class="">
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_GoBack" class=""></a><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SouthShoreCouncilofCanadians/" class="">https://www.facebook.com/SouthShoreCouncilofCanadians/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" class=""> </span></p>
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