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- The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does — Prof. Brian Cox · Royal Albert Hall · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Between the World and Me: A Decade Later — Ta-Nehisi Coates · Brooklyn Academy of Music · Thursday, September 17, 2026
- Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist — Kate Raworth · SFJAZZ Center · Tuesday, September 29, 2026
- Homo Deus: The Next Century — Yuval Noah Harari · Massey Hall · Friday, October 2, 2026
- The City and Its Discontents — Elif Shafak · Barbican Centre · Thursday, October 8, 2026
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Science and Indigenous Wisdom — Robin Wall Kimmerer · Daniels Spectrum · Tuesday, October 20, 2026
- Think Again: The Art of Rethinking — Adam Grant · Meridian Hall · Thursday, November 5, 2026
- TIFF Docs — Documentary Screening & Filmmaker Q&A — Filmmaker TBC · Roy Thomson Hall · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Justice and the Common Good: A Public Lecture by Michael J. Sandel — Michael J. Sandel · University of Toronto (Convocation Hall) · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Munk Debate: Democracy vs. Technocracy — A Conversation with Fareed Zakaria — Fareed Zakaria · Roy Thomson Hall (Munk Debates) · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Designing Memory: Architecture, Representation, and Public Space — Sir David Adjaye · Art Gallery of Ontario (Auditorium) · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Margaret Atwood: New Work and the Canadian Imagination — Margaret Atwood · Toronto Reference Library — Appel Salon · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Margaret MacMillan: War, Memory, and the Lessons of History — Margaret MacMillan · Massey College — Common Room · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Justice in an Unequal Age — Michael Sandel — Michael J. Sandel · University of Toronto (Convocation Hall) · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Munk Debates: Is Democracy at Risk in an Age of Disinformation? — Anne Applebaum · Roy Thomson Hall (Munk Debates) · Tuesday, September 15, 2026