Tapestry

Religion: Utopia or Dystopia?

Margaret Atwood and Christian environmentalist Leah Kostamo discuss how religion has shaped our country, at the 'Restorying Canada' conference at the University of Ottawa.
An illustrated book called "The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas" describing Canada's vast wilds, masked medicine men and a missionary's taming of bears at the dawn of European colonization. (MICHEL COMTE/AFP/Getty Images)

A keynote session from the Restorying Canada conference, held in May 2017 and organized by Emma Anderson (University of Ottawa), Hillary Kaell (Concordia University) and Pamela Klassen (University of Toronto). The event was held at the Institute of Canadian and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Ottawa.