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MARKHAM, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) – The LifeSiteNews 25th Anniversary Canadian gala is a week away, and we couldn’t be more excited.
Seating is limited, and tickets are quickly selling, so this is your chance to ensure there is a space for you. We are approaching maximum capacity, so right now is the time to buy a ticket if you plan on joining us.
Next Tuesday night, most LifeSiteNews staffers will join our featured speakers Father James Altman and Elizabeth Yore; our special guests Josh Alexander, Jonathon Van Maren, Jim Hughes, and Jim Hale; and medical freedom heroes Dr. Byram Bridle, Dr. Mary O’Connor, and Dr. Mark Trozzi at the Hilton Conference Centre, just north of Toronto.
Thanks to the COVID regime’s discriminatory policies, LifeSiteNews’ international team has been unable to meet each other in person for almost four years. This means our opening cocktail party is going to be truly celebratory. But don’t think that this is going to be a closed circle! The LifeSiteNews team is keen to meet our faithful readers and supporters, particularly those who were unable to get to our U.S. gala in Florida last August. And any of last year’s guests heading to the Great White North for a return visit will now be able to meet Canadian, British, and European staffers.
Tim Jackson, the Director of LifeSiteNews petitions, is Irish but lives in Latin America. Tim has been with LifeSite for two years, but thanks to the COVID travel restrictions, this is the first time he will meet his North American colleagues in person.
“The Gala will be my first opportunity to meet all LifeSiteNews staff and many of our supporters,” he says. “It’s always a pleasure to be in the company of people dedicated to the great mission of spreading the truth, so I’m very much looking forward to the 18th of July in Toronto.”
Andreas Wailzer, the Vienna-based LifeSiteNews journalist who – thanks to Central European Time – clocks in before everyone else, wants to find out what LifeSiteNews means to our readers.
“I’m looking forward to talking to our readers and supporters at the Gala, to hear their feedback, get to know them, and learn how LifeSiteNews has impacted their life,” he said.
“In the end, it is them that we are doing our work for so I’m excited to hear their thoughts and ideas. We are praying for our readers and supporters, and I know many of them are praying for the LifeSite staff as well. So it will be great to meet people from this spiritual LifeSite family in person and connect with them.”
In recent weeks, we’ve profiled several people who will be coming to the gala. You can read about “cancelled priest” Fr. Altman here and about children’s rights activist Elizabeth Yore there. This article about Josh Alexander is a short introduction to the teenage culture warrior. You can read about Dr. Byram Bridle’s fight for Canadians’ medical freedom here, about Dr. Mary O’Connor’s stand here, and about Dr. Mark Trozzi’s sacrifices there. If you’ve ever wanted to meet the de facto leaders of the fight against COVID tyranny in Canada and thank them for their courage, here is your chance.
Meanwhile, keen LifeSite readers may be interested in behind-the-scenes anecdotes from such journalists as Editor-in-Chief John-Henry Westen, Washington, D.C. bureau chief Doug Mainwaring, ace reporter Patrick Delaney, and columnist Jonathon Van Maren. For a British perspective, you can chat with Toronto-to-Edinburgh transplant Dorothy Cummings McLean, and for insiders’ stories from Rome, you should look for newly returned Louis Knuffke. For tales from the road through America’s heartlands, Jim Hale is your man.
At the same time, LifeSite supporters are likely to find kindred spirits outside our editorial department, too. Colleagues from marketing, fundraising, computer security, human resources, social media, and video will all be on hand, and more than prepared to tell you how they contribute to ensuring that you get pro-life, pro-family news day after day.
But that’s not all. After our cocktail party and sit-down supper, we will watch, or take part in, a special filming of “LifeSite Live.” If you like LifeSiteNews’s flourishing video content, you’re going to love this!
Tickets to the Canadian gala can be purchased HERE.