The NQ offices are across from the Arts and Culture Centre, so all week we've had a front row seat to the Convocation goings-on across the Parkway. As the weather shifted from Tuesday's snow blight to today's near-summer balm, the lawns and grounds have remained peopled with little clutches of photo ops, gowned grad flanked by proud kin. We heard David Suzuki and Jill Keiley delivered great speeches, and Keiley's will be broadcast on Weekend Am tomorrow morning. And here's a story of a convocation address that never was.

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