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Carbohydrate researcher David Jenkins will be one of the speakers at the third annual Montreal Vegan Festival, planned for the weekend of Nov. 5 and 6 at Marché Bonsecours in Old Montreal. The University of Toronto endocrinologist is credited with developing the concept of the glycemic index to explain how carbohydrates affect our blood sugar, and has lately endorsed a plant-based diet.

He will speak Saturday, Nov. 5 at 3:30 p.m. during two days of vegan diet discussions and cooking demonstrations. The bilingual festival, which attracted 10,000 visitors in 2015, will host about 40 producers and speakers and a library offering more than 150 books on the subject. A number of authors will be available to sign books. Admission is free.

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The speaker list includes competitive runner and nutrition student Alister Gardner, cookbook author Isabelle Gélinas, vegan blogger Ophélie Véron, vegan cooking teacher Geneviève Deschênes, animal-rights activist Georges Laraque and more than a dozen others. The talks and demos on new products and the health and ecological aspects of veganism will be offered each hour Nov. 5, beginning at 10:30 a.m., and Nov. 6, beginning at 11 a.m. Times, speakers and topics can be found at festivalveganedemontreal.com/2016en/schedule/

The launch of the documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine will kick off the festival Friday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. Animal photographer Jo-Anne McArthur will answer questions about her film on the workings of the meat industry.