Participant Bios

Mutual Accommodation: A Virtual Seminar Marking the Publication of William A. Macdonald's Might Nature Be Canadian? Essays on Mutual Accommodation

Featuring: Margaret MacMillan; Martin Wolf; Thomas Mulcair; David Walmsley; Shawn and Heather Atleo; The Hon. Bill Graham; and Heather Nicol

September 10, 2020, on Zoom

Margaret Macmillan

Professor Margaret MacMillan became the fifth Warden of St Antony’s College in July 2007. Prior to taking on the Wardenship, Professor MacMillan was Provost of Trinity College and professor of History at the University of Toronto. She was educated at the University of Toronto (Honours B.A. in History) and at St Hilda’s College, and St Antony’s College, Oxford University (BPhil in Politics and DPhil). From 1975 until 2002 she was a member of the History Department at Ryerson University in Toronto and she also served as Chair of the Department. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto, a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust, and sits on the boards of the Mosaic Institute, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, the Scholars Council of the Library of Congress, and the editorial boards of Global Affairs, International History, and First World War Studies.

MARTIN WOLF CBE

Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 for services to financial journalism. He was a member of the UK government’s Independent Commission on Banking between June 2010 and September 2011.

Mr Wolf has honorary doctorates from the London School of Economics, Nottingham University, Warwick University and Kingston University, in the UK, Macquarie University, in Australia and KU Leuven, in Belgium. He is an honorary fellow of Corpus Christ College and Nuffield College, Oxford University, and of King’s College, London.

Mr Wolf won the Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic commentary for 2009 and “Commentariat of the Year 2009” at the Comment Awards, sponsored by Editorial Intelligence. He was placed 15th in Foreign Policy’s list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in December 2009 and 37th in the same list for 2010. He was joint winner of the 2009 award for columns in “giant newspapers” at the 15th annual Best in Business Journalism competition of The Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the 33rd Ischia International Journalism Prize in 2012, the Overseas Press Club of America’s prize for “best commentary on international news in any medium” for 2013 and the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gerald Loeb Awards.

Mr Wolf’s most recent publication is The Shifts and The Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis (London and New York: Allen Lane, 2014).

DAVID WALMSLEY

David Walmsley is The Globe and Mail's 12th editor-in-chief. He was appointed in March 2014,having previously served as Managing Editor. Under his editorship, The Globe and Mail has twice won the annual Michener Award for meritorious public service journalism as well as dominated the annual National Newspaper Awards. The Globe and Mail won the global award for best data journalism in 2017 for its seminal investigation Unfounded.

Last year he co-curated in Toronto a two-day symposium Shooting War involving the world's most important conflict photographers. David is now working with Professor Anthony Feinstein of Sunnybrook Hospital to devise the world's first Moral Injury scale for journalists.

David arrived in Canada 22 years ago for a short stay. Like so many before him, he fell in love with the welcome laid on by this grand country, and never left. His mother comes from Montreal and Hamilton. Her father came from Edinburgh but fought with the Canadian Forces under US command at the Battle of Okinawa. Her grandfather created the Canadian Club of Montreal in 1905. David came to Toronto by way of Northern Ireland and latterly London, England. He worked as a news reporter for The Belfast Telegraph during the politically momentous and violent years of the early 1990s before moving first to Glasgow and then to The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph in London. He arrived in Canada as employee number seven to launch the National Post. He subsequently held news leadership roles at CBC News and The Toronto Star. He is still researching the RAF Chinook crash of 1994 that killed all 29 souls onboard. In 2011, partly due to David's investigative work, the pilots who had been posthumously blamed for the crash, had their names cleared.

David is a member of the World Editors' Forum of the World Association of Newspapers, a delegate to the World Economic Forum Davos, the creator of World News Day, a global day of action explaining the impact of important journalism and a past chair of the Canadian Journalism Foundation. David sits on the advisory board of the digital media zone at Ryerson University and is a board member of the Canadian Children's Literacy Foundation.

SHAWN AND HEATHER ATLEO- “AH UP WA EEK” AND “YA?AK CHUMAT AXA”

Together, Shawn and Heather Atleo are partners in life and work, and engage in a full co-leadership approach in a variety of intersecting streams including education, business, and politics, while always connecting in mental and emotional health and well-being.

They provide compassionate leadership coaching and training through their Compassionate Leadership Institute. This work is founded on indigenous philosophy and worldviews as well as mainstream advancements in areas such as child development, non-violent communication, empathy and the neuroscience of mental and emotional development.

They also work to advance First Nations reconciliation. They serve as Co-Chairs with the Tsilhqot’in National Government Chiefs’ Council in the implementation of their 2014 Supreme Court Aboriginal Title Case win. Shawn and Heather continue to strive to develop compassionate approaches and and strategies to build strong and meaningful partnerships that support, respect, understand and empower First Nations and that constructively disrupt systems that do not yet fully recognize or ‘see’ each other.

Heather Atleo, “Ya?ak chumat axa”, is of Blackfoot ancestry and is an experienced leader in the area of conflict resolution, negotiation, mediation, senior strategic analysis, and facilitation working with First Nation leaders, academic institutions and non-profit organizations, federal/provincial leadership at the Premier/Prime Minister and Ministerial level, and Industry CEOs. She has an extensive background in transformative leadership and change management, strategic partnerships, engagement, communications, and policy analysis and development. Heather has spent the majority of the last 20 years in the political environment supporting and working with/for First Nations and First Nations leaders locally, regionally, provincially, and nationally, and has supported successful negotiations of large-scale agreements. She is also extremely passionate and has decades of expertise in the area of health and wellness leadership and mental health advocacy.

Shawn 'Ah-up-wa-eek' Atleo brings 30 years of leadership experience including elected leadership. Shawn is a Hereditary Chief from the Ahousaht First Nation (part of Nuu-chah-nulth) and former twice-elected National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. He was first elected in 2009 and then re-elected in 2012. The National Chief is elected by the over 633 First Nations from across Canada and serves as the lead advocate representing First Nations in Canada and

globally. Shawn held this role after serving back-to-back terms serving the 203 First Nations in BC as Regional Chief in 2003 and then in 2006. It was in this role that he helped found the BC First Nations Leadership Council, which brought together senior First Nations leadership organizations to work together.

Shawn has two wonderful grown kids, and Shawn and Heather are together parents of three wonderful young girls in Squamish BC

THE HONOURABLE THOMAS MULCAIR

Thomas Mulcair is a lawyer, university professor and political commentator born on October 24, 1954. First elected as a Federal Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party in a 2007 by-election (Outremont), he became, the very next year, the first New Democrat ever to be elected in a general election in his province of Quebec. Appointed as the Quebec lieutenant of his party, he was one of the architects of the “Orange Wave” which saw the New Democrats take three quarters of the seats in his home province and become, for the first time in the party’s history, the Official Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons. In 2012, he became the leader of the party.

With a government career spanning forty years, Mulcair came to Federal politics after serving three mandates as a provincial member of the Quebec National Assembly (Chomedey, Laval) (1994-2007). From 2003 to 2006, he served as Environment Minister in the Liberal government of Premier Jean Charest and was responsible for implementing Sustainable Development legislation, described as the most avant-garde in North America and still considered cutting-edge to this day.

Having devoted his career to public service, Mulcair was also president of the Office des professions du Québec (1987-1993), the body governing Quebec’s professional orders. He was the first Canadian elected to Board of Directors of CLEAR, the American Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation. Pursuant to the adoption of NAFTA, he lectured widely on its effects on the regulation of professions, including for the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association.

As a lawyer he has worked in the Legislative Affairs branch of the Quebec Justice department and at the Conseil de la langue française and in private law practice for ten years. He was in charge of the revision of the French version of the laws of Manitoba pursuant to the Supreme Court decision. He was Elected régional Secretary of the SPGQ, the Union of Quebec Government professionals, notably during the strike of 1982-1983.

Visiting Professor in the political science Department at l’Université de Montréal where he teaches a Master’s level course in Environment and Sustainable Development, he has also taught at UQTR, Concordia and St-Lawrence College.

He is a Fellow at the Centre for International Studies (CÉRIUM) and Senior Fellow of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights He is chairman of the board of Jour de la Terre (Earth Day). Second in a family of ten children, Mulcair is married to Catherine P. Mulcair. They have two sons and three grand-children.

The Honourable Bill Graham

The Hon. Bill Graham was Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre-Rosedale, then Toronto Centre, from 1993 to 2007. Prior to entering politics, he practiced law with the firm Fasken Martineau and taught in the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. For six years he was chairman of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and subsequently served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2002-2004 and Minister of National Defence from 2004-2006. In 2006, he was Leader of the Opposition and Interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. He is currently Chancellor of Trinity College in the University of Toronto and a member of The Bill Graham Centre Advisory Board.

HEATHER NICOL

Heather Nicol is the Director of the School for the Study of Canada and a Professor of Geography in the School of the Environment at Trent University. Her research is focused upon exploring the dynamics which structure the political geography of Canadian regionalism and cross-border relations, as well as the circumpolar North, with a specific focus on the North American Arctic and Canada-US relations. Her work is focused upon cross-border relations, geopolitical tensions, narratives and mappings of power and sovereignty, indigenous governance and circumpolarity. She is currently researching borders in relation to globalization, security, environment, and polar governance.

Nicol is a Fulbright Scholar and was the 2015-16 Visiting Fulbright Chair to the University of Washington, at the Centre for Canadian Studies and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. She is the author, co-author or editor of approximately a dozen books as well as numerous articles on regional and transnational relations involving the Canadian state and regional development. Before taking up a position at Trent University, Nicol taught in the United States at the University of West Georgia (2000-2008), UBC Kelowna, the Royal Military College, and Queen’s University.

Nicol is the past President of the Association of Borderlands Studies and the Southeastern Association of Canadian Studies, a former Board Member of the Association of Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), and now serves of the Board of directors.