Mansbridge’s ‘How Canada Works’: What We Do and Why We Do It

In the six years since Peter Mansbridge stepped away from anchoring the CBC’s flagship nightly newscast, The National, Canadians have learned something about him: for nearly three decades, while we were all watching Peter, he was watching us back. Over half a century as a journalist, including 29 years as the face and voice of The National, Mansbridge travelled to countless countries, interviewed dozens of world leaders and celebrities, and was, as often as he could, on the scene where major news had broken.

But what really moves him, as we first learned in his 2020 book Extraordinary Canadians, are stories about so-called ‘ordinary Canadians’ doing remarkable things. That book, presented in the first-person voice of his subjects, focused on little-known people across the country who had transcended significant personal challenges to move forward in their lives — to the betterment of everyone around them. [MORE]