National political commentator Chantal Hébert comes to Red Deer on Oct. 25 as part of Red Deer College’s Perspectives: Canada in the World speaker series.
Hébert is a Toronto Star national affairs writer syndicated to the Advocate as well as a Le Devoir and L’Actualité guest columnist. She’s also an At Issue panelist on CBC-TV’s The National.
She’s covered Ontario politics, national news and politics for Radio-Canada and was Parliament Hill bureau chief for Le Devoir and La Presse.
Her presentation Canada: What’s Next? goes at 7:30 p.m. in the college’s Arts Centre Main Stage.
Tickets are $39.20 for the public, and $29.20 for college students and staff.
They’re available through the Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre in person, by phone at 403-755-6626 or toll free 1-800-661-8793 or online at www.bkticketcentre.ca.
The decade-old Perspectives lecture series by the RDC Humanities and Social Sciences Department features internationally recognized speakers on topics important to the community, country and world.
Past speakers include Gary Doer, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., international affairs journalist Gwynne Dyer, Inuit speaker and singer Susan Aglukark and kidnapped journalist Amanda Lindhout, the founder and director of the Somali Women’s Scholarship Program.