On Sunday, April 14th, 2013 PEN Canada and Spur Toronto present a conversation on vested interests in politics.
Do people with money have an undue influence on our political system? Well-informed panelists bring their expertise and experience to discuss comparative models of political campaign financing in Canada and the United States.
Hendrik Hertzberg was President Jimmy Carter’s chief speechwriter prior to working as a senior political columnist and editor at The New Republic from 1981-1992. Since 1992 he has worked as a staff writer and senior editor at The New Yorker where he often writes the opening Comment for The Talk of the Town. Hertzberg is the author of “Politics: Observations & Arguments” (2004) and ¡Obamanos!: The Birth of a New Political Era.
Appointed in January 2013 as Managing Director and Editor of Consumer News (Thomson Reuters), Chrystia Freeland has editorial control of the company’s consumer online, mobile and digital properties. Before joining Reuters in 2010, Freeland served as the U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times and editor of The Globe and Mail, and has written for the Financial Times, The Washington Postand The Economist. Her internationally bestselling second book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (2012), won the 2013 Lionel Gelber prize.
Photo Credits: Main image On Being, Hendrik Hertzberg headshot The Texas Tribune