An Evening with Victor Malarek: "My Life's Work: From a Shattered Home to the CBC and Beyond - Giving a Voice to the Voiceless"

Last year award-winning journalist, Victor Malarek, retired as the senior investigative reporter on CTV’s current affairs show W5. Prior to that he was the investigations editor for The Globe and Mail, and from 1990 to 2000 co-host of the CBC’s current affairs show, The Fifth Estate. In 1996 he won a Gemini Award as Canada’s top broadcast journalist.

Malarek has written six non-fiction books, among them Hey … Malarek!, which documents his troubled and tumultuous early years in the Quebec child welfare system. In 1988, it was made into a feature movie. In 1991/92, the book was also the basis of sixteen one-hour dramatic episodes on CBC TV called “Urban Angel.” Some of his other non-fiction works include The Johns – Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It (2009), and the internationally acclaimed Natashas – Inside the Global Sex Trade (2003). Most recently Malarek ventured into fiction with the novel, Orphanage 41 (2014). In most of his works, Malarek has taken up the cause of the voiceless and oppressed. As a Ukrainian Canadian he has increasingly publicized the plight of victimized women and orphans in the former USSR and East bloc.

Victor will engage in conversation with CTV's Sandie Ronaldo, followed by a discussion with the audience.

Copies of Orphanage 41 will be available for purchase.

This event is part of “Thursdays at Sheptytsky,” a free and open series of public presentations at the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto