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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
- Munk Debates: Is Democratic Backsliding the Defining Crisis of Our Time? — Yascha Mounk · Roy Thomson Hall (Munk Debates) · Monday, September 14, 2026
- Munk Debate — Resolved: Democracy or Technocracy? — Fareed Zakaria, Yascha Mounk · Roy Thomson Hall (Munk Debates) · Monday, September 14, 2026
- On Food, Farming, and the Planet — A Conversation with Michael Pollan — Michael Pollan · Toronto Reference Library (Appel Salon) · Monday, September 14, 2026
- Munk Debate: Is Democracy in Decline? — Rudyard Griffiths · Roy Thomson Hall (Munk Debates) · Monday, September 14, 2026
- Munk Debates — Resolved: Democracies Are in Decline — Fareed Zakaria · Roy Thomson Hall (Munk Debates) · Monday, September 14, 2026
- Justice and the Common Good — A Public Lecture — Michael J. Sandel · Hart House, University of Toronto · Monday, September 14, 2026
- In Conversation: Margaret Atwood — New Work and Landscape — Margaret Atwood · Toronto Reference Library, Appel Salon · Monday, September 14, 2026
- TIFF Documentary Screening + Filmmaker Panel (TIFF 2026) — Panel: Filmmaker + Producer (TBC) · Roy Thomson Hall · Monday, September 14, 2026