Perspectives

About Perspectives: Canada in the World

Launched in 2002 by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Red Deer Polytechnic, this public lecture series features internationally recognized speakers on topics important to our community, our country and the world. The event is organized by a Humanities and Social Sciences departmental committee.

Perspectives 2025: Challenges to Democracy 

For over two decades, political journalist Andrew Coyne has been delivering insightful, provocative commentary on the day’s biggest political and economic events. In this timely presentation, Coyne engages audiences in a powerful conversation on the biggest challenges facing democratic governments today. Coyne asks how we, as a species, can pull together to address the biggest challenges looming over our future. Join us on October 29 at 7 pm in the Red Deer Polytechnic Arts Centre Mainstage.  

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Biography

Andrew Coyne, Political Journalist

Insightful, provocative commentary on political and economic issues is what Andrew Coyne delivers to Canadians across the country. With topical and timely presentations, the former national editor of Maclean’s magazine and currently a columnist with the Globe and Mail, Coyne is sure to ignite debate and discussion with every audience.

In addition to writing for Maclean’s and the Globe and Mail, Coyne was previously an editorial writer and columnist for the Financial Post and a nationally syndicated columnist with Postmedia and the Southam newspaper chain. He also writes regularly for a number of foreign publications, is a frequent commentator on radio and television — most famously, as a panellist on CBC’s The National in the popular “At Issue” segment — and the author of the forthcoming book, The Crisis of Canadian Democracy.

Coyne is the winner of two National Newspaper Awards and a four-time finalist in the National Magazine Awards. A past recipient of the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism, he is also a Fellow of the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto.

Coyne received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and History from the University of Toronto and a Master’s in Economics from the London School of Economics. He is a Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.