The next book that the Saskatoon Book Club For Non Fiction Books - Coffee/Bar Group will be reading will be VALUES (S): Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney. We will then be meeting at The Thirsty Scholar on 8th Street on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM to discuss this book.
It’s now official, Canada’s next election will be held on April 28. One of the Candidates running for Prime Minister will be our current Prime Minister, Mark Carney. However, since he has never run for an elected office, and has never been elected and since he has only been our current Prime Minister for about a week, none of us knows very much about him. Except, he has written a book that talks about his values (the book is called VALUES (S): Building a Better World for All). I think we will have a much clearer understanding of who Mark Carney is after reading this book. We won’t have much time to read this book because the election campaign is going to be the shortest one allowable under Canadian law.
The publisher’s promotion describes this book, as follows:
“Our world is full of fault lines--growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental problems and others like them, argues Mark Carney, stem from a common crisis in values. Drawing on the turmoil of the past decade, Mark Carney shows how "market economies" have evolved into "market societies" where price determines the value of everything.
When we think about what we, as individuals, value most highly, we might list fairness, health, the protection of our rights, economic security from poverty, the preservation of natural diversity, resources, and beauty. The tragedy is, these things that we hold dearest are too often the casualties of our twenty-first century world, where they ought to be our bedrock.
In this profoundly important new book, Mark Carney offers a vision of a more humane society and a practical manifesto for getting there. How we reform our infrastructure to make things better and fairer is at the heart of every chapter, with outlines of wholly new ideas that can restructure society and enshrine our human values at the core of all that we build for our children and grandchildren.”
I hope you can make it to this meetup on APR 22/25. If you are planning to attend, but haven’t yet RSVPed “Yes” for this Meetup, then I would appreciate if you could click the “Attend” button to let us know how many seats to save.
I look forward to seeing you then,
Thomas
