Stuart McNish invited Aaron Hughes, the author of “10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada” to join him for a Conversation That Matters about why we need to understand what we, as a country, have become and the connection between now and then.

We invited John MacLachlan Gray to join us for a Conversation That Matters about how the cold case of the Scottish nanny epitomizes Vancouver in its 1924 opium-hazed, smoke-choked and rain soaked uglier days.

Thirty years later Expo 86 stands as the beginning of Vancouver’s transformation to an international city, one that is just starting to realize its full potential.