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b'The book by Yves Engler, Canada in Africa \\u2014 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation describing Canadian foreign policy in Africa will be analyzed in this presentation as well as the Canadian involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, \\u201cscramble for Africa\\u201d, missionary movement and European colonialism. The book also reveals Ottawa\\u2019s opposition to anticolonial struggles, support for apartheid South Africa, Idi Amin\\u2019s coup in Uganda and this country\\u2019s role in ousting independence leaders Patrice Lumumba of Congo and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.\\n\\nBased on an exhaustive look at the public record as well as on-the-ground research, Canada in Africa shows how the federal government pressed African countries to follow neoliberal economic prescriptions, which have benefited numerous Canadian corporations, including mining companies that have bought up much of the continent\\u2019s mineral resources, but are often bitterly resisted by local communities. \\n\\nThe book also sheds light on Canada\\u2019s role in the violence that has engulfed Somalia, Rwanda and the Congo and Canada\\u2019s creeping military footprint on the continent. Finally, it points out that this country\\u2019s near total indifference to the impact of global warming is tantamount to a death sentence for ever-growing numbers of Africans. \\n\\nSpeaker: Yves Engler\\nFormer Vice President of the Concordia Student Union, Yves Engler is a Montr\\xe9al-based activist and author. He has published eight books: Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation, The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper\\u2019s Foreign Policy, Lester Pearson\\u2019s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt, Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay (with Bianca Mugyenyi), The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy (Shortlisted for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non Fiction in the Quebec Writers\\u2019 Federation Literary Awards), Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical and Canada in Haiti: Waging War on The Poor Majority (with Anthony Fenton) and Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid.\\nYves was born in Vancouver, where he grew up playing hockey. He was a peewee teammate of NHL star Mike Ribeiro at Huron Hochelaga in Montr\\xe9al before playing in the B.C. Junior League. After being suspended from Concordia University, he turned to research and writing, but he\\u2019s still a fan of the great Canadian sport.\\n\\nModerator: TBA\\n\\nDate:\\t\\tSaturday, October 3, 2015 \\nTime: \\t\\t5:00 \\u2013 6:30 pm\\nLocation: \\tRoom PE264, 1st Choice Saving Centre, University of Lethbridge\\n\\nFree event - free parking - everyone welcome'