This year, at WEP Central, we wanted to build on a foundation that we started to pour when we opened our doors to mayoral candidates for town hall discussions ahead of the 2023 mayoral election. Bricks were added when we hosted scores of supporters standing up for public spaces at our telethon for Ontario Place. The guiding question was: Together, what can we do to repair, maintain and hold onto the city we love? 

It’s with that spirit that we’re embarking on a series of conversations with great thinkers in our city, to ask them what they think we can do to put the pieces of the city back together.

To launch this series of conversations, we have a one-of-a-kind kickoff event: the journalist and 26th Governor General of Canada Adrienne Clarkson sitting in conversation with her partner, writer and philosopher John Ralston Saul, moderated by city columnist Edward Keenan.

Keenan will talk to Clarkson and Saul about their lives as Torontonians, where this city has been, where it’s going and how it can become the best Toronto possible.

We hope that you’ll join us as we sit and work together on a vision for the city’s future.

Join us on Sunday, February 25th at 11 AM

Seating for this event will be limited. Tickets $40 +HST / person.

An ongoing fundraising series for the West End Phoenix, Sponsored by BMO