Wab Kinew, UWinnipeg’s Director of Indigenous Inclusion, has successfully championed the winner of Canada Reads 2014, a nation-wide competition that seeks to determine “what book could change the nation…or even the world?”
Kinew argued on behalf of The Orenda by Joseph Boyden, a novel is described as a visceral portrait of life at a crossroads in early Canadian history. It is about the arrival of a Jesuit missionary into the life of a Huron elder and a gifted young Iroquois girl.
Other Canada Reads panelists included philanthropist Stephen Lewis, two-time Olympic gold medalist Donavan Bailey, comic/actor Samantha Bee, and actor Sarah Gadon.
Wab Kinew and Joseph Boyden will be on Q with host Jian Ghomeshi on CBC Radio Friday, March 7, 2014 at 10 am.
