Carol Off: True Patriot Love
Nov 2, 7:00 PM–8:00 PM
Kitchener Public Library (Central)
85 Queen St N, Kitchener, ON N2H 2H1, Canada
Free with registration
Organized by Kitchener Public Library
Award-winning author and broadcast journalist Carol Off visits KPL to discuss her latest book, True Patriot Love, with host Deborah Dundas.
Since she stepped down from CBC's As It Happens, award-winning author and broadcast journalist, Carol Off has been on the road talking to Canadians about their country and listening to their questions about its future.
In True Patriot Love: Reporting from the Frontlines of Canadian Sovereignty, she weaves these conversations with personal experiences to reveal, as she says, "How I learned to truly, patriotically, love this country." She shows us that through all our efforts - imperfect as they may be - we have forged a nation out of our compassionate, caring, and accommodating impulses, our desire to include and not to exclude, to welcome and encompass rather than reject and demonize. Canadians aren't saintly, she concludes, but we have mostly tried to be decent. And that is a rock worthy of building a national identity upon.
Doors at 6:30 PM. Q&A and book signing to follow.
Presented in partnership with Penguin Random House Canada.
Books will be available to purchase onsite from Words Worth Books.