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2013

 

Nikki Jabour

The Year Round Vegetable Gardener

Jennifer Murdoch

Medibus: An Innovation in Health Care

Michael Voigt

Canadian Coast Guard: Celebrating 50 years

Francoise Baylis

Ethics and Deep Brain Stimulation

Timothy Webster

Coastal risk assessment: flooding and erosion in Nova Scotia

 

2012

 

Steve Blasco

Titanic after 100: Discoveries and the Legacy of the Ship of Dreams

Graham Steele

Dollars and Sense: A tour of the Nova Scotia economy and the process of balancing the revenues and expenses which make up the budget.

Peter Vaughan

Drastic Surgery or Band-Aid Solutions? How our Health Care system has evolved, current problems, and what it might look like in the future.

Gail Eskes

Brain Fitness and Successful Aging. How are the brain and cognitive ability affected by aging.

Graham Daborn &

Anna Redden

Addressing the Challenges of Tidal Power in the Bay of Fundy. What has been done to date, and the future environmental and technical challenges.

Chris Field

Birds of the Aspotogan. At the feeders, on the water and in the woods.

Doug Wallace

The Changing Global Ocean: Technology needs and some solutions.

Fred Vaughan

American Presidential Politics. A crazy way to elect a president – or is it?

Brian Rogers

Aquaculture: A global overview.

 

2011

 

Richard Zurawski

How Media Affects our Knowledge of Global Warming

Jeffrey Reed

Heritage Value in the Unexpected: Stewardship of the richer character of cultural memory

Garth Prime

Tsunamis, Giant Bugs and the End of the Mastodons: A 520 million year journey into Nova Scotia’s past

Bob Fournier

Climate Change: As seen through the eyes of an oceanographer

Bob Breithaupt

Canada in Space: A 50-year retrospective of pioneering and achievement.

Philip Welch

What is “New Genetics”? Will it influence human health? Or health care?

Colin Starnes

The Foundation Year Programme Looking Backward and Forward: An exciting initiative in post-secondary education.

Jamie Whidden

Arab Spring turns to Winter: Change or Continuity in the Contemporary Middle East?

Kim Kierans

Public Broadcasting: What is the future for the CBC? The role of public broadcasting and local media in building strong communities.

 

2010

 

Daphna Levit

Markets and Ethics: examining the values behind the recent financial collapse

Zoe Lucas

Sable Island - Birds, Bats, Seals, and Horses - a Review of Natural History and Selected Research Programs

Ken Rozee

Ancient and Modern Plagues that Changed History

Laura Bennett

Sea Turtles in Nova Scotia

Lynne Millman

Cirque du Soleil

Philip Slayton

Mighty Judgement: How the Supreme Court Governs Canada

Peter Gregson

New Technology: Solving problems or creating them?

Ian Fraser

The Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo: Behind the scenes of the largest annual indoor show in the world

Denis Stairs

Being Rejected in the United Nations: the causes and implications of Canada’s failure to win a seat on the UN Security council

 

2009

 

Andy Fillmore

Urban Design: Improving the Livability of our Communities

John Leefe

Protecting Priceless Areas of Nova Scotia

Andrew Hebda

Sightings of Sea Serpents and Sea Monsters

Kathleen Bloom

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Local Communities and Universities Working Together for the Common Good

Ed Dunsworth

Pathway to Change: How I went from Halifax lawyer to working with the poor in Nicaragua, the 2nd poorest country in the western hemisphere.

Peter-Anthony Togni

From the Sacred to the Profane: a musical journey, exploring the origins of improvisation from sacred music to jazz

Jim King and Larry Murray

We Shall Remember Them: honouring our war dead, 1918 to the present

Pauline Dakin

Health or hype: how the media reacts to and reports on national and global health issues, and the potential impact that has on personal health choices

 

2008

 

Sue Westby

The Little Bees That Could and What Would Happen If They Couldn’t

Paul Bachand

Diamond Mining in Northern Canada

Pat Croskerry

Thinking or Blinking: How Physicians make your Diagnosis

Danny Hennigar

The World's Longest Running and Most Famous Treasure Hunt

Peter Lloyd

The Navy went North... and I went with it!  A first-hand account of the 1954 epic voyage of HMCS Labrador through the Northwest Passage

Laura McCue

Sex, Politics, and Religion: the story of Henry VIII and his Schism with the Church of Rome

Mary Lou Whitehorne

A visual tour of the lives of stars, from their dusty beginnings to their interesting, and occasionally spectacular, ends

Fred Vaughan

Anthony Trollope: An appreciation

Brian Flemming                  

Arctic Sovereignty: Time for a New US-Canada Relationship

 

2007

 

Fred Vaughan

Viscount Haldane and the Art of Biography

James King

A New World Order: Canada’s Contribution to 21st Century Global Security.

Deborah Gass

From St. Margaret’s Bay to the House of Lords: International Judicial Cooperation and Judging in the 21st Century

John Dunsworth

An Actor’s Life

Peter Vaughan

The Future of Health, Healthcare, and Medicine

Budge Wilson

Children’s Literature

Mike Day

Birding the Aspotogan and other disconnected avian jottings

Myra Freeman

The Changing Role of Lieutenant Governor