Every season, the Empire Club of Canada collects into a single, handy volume the speeches by all those worthies invited to the venerable Royal York Hotel to address its luncheon gatherings on urgent themes of the times.
It might hearten those concerned with the fate of civilization here on the little blue planet to know that in 2010-11 the Empire Club had its finger squarely on the pulse of the most vital of current issues, with five separate orations on energy-related themes — oil, nuclear, gas and both sides of the wind-turbine debate.
