Tsering Yangzom Lama’s debut novel, We Measure the Earth with our Bodies, is a New York Times Summer Reads Pick and a finalist for The Scotiabank Giller Prize, and longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and The Toronto Book Award. She holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and a BA … Read more
Seth Klein is the Team Lead for the Climate Emergency Unit (a project of the David Suzuki Institute). Previously, Seth served for 22 years as the founding British Columbia Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a public policy research institute committed to social, economic and environmental justice. He is a writer, speaker and … Read more
Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He is the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. The start of his journalism career coincided with the start of the war on terror, and over … Read more
Jack Knox is an award-losing columnist with the Victoria Times Colonist. Since joining the Times Colonist in 1988, Jack has worked as a copy editor, city editor, editorial writer and editorial page editor. Prior to that he was an editor and reporter at newspapers in Campbell River, Regina and Kamloops. As a journalist he has … Read more
Described by The Georgia Straight “one of the city’s best artists”, Tetsuro Shigematsu tells stories across an array of media. He is an author, playwright, actor, scholar, broadcaster, and filmmaker. A former writer for CBC Television’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes, in 2004, he became the first person-of-colour to host a daily national radio program in Canada when he … Read more
Since 1986 Mark Jaccard has been a professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, interrupted in 1992-97 when he served as Chair and CEO of the British Columbia Utilities Commission. His PhD is in energy economics from the University of Grenoble, and his research focus is the design and application … Read more
Kate Harris is a writer and adventurer with a knack for getting lost. Her debut memoir, Lands of Lost Borders, about cycling the Silk Road, was a number one national bestseller in Canada and the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, among others. The … Read more
Dr. Brian Goldman is a physician who thinks like a patient. He is an ER doctor at the Schwartz Reisman Emergency Centre at Sinai Health System in Toronto. Since 2007 he has hosted White Coat, Black Art, an award-winning show on CBC Radio One about the patient experience in the culture of modern medicine. His TED … Read more
Libby Davies has been a social activist for 45 plus years. She began as a community organizer in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in 1972. She was elected to Vancouver City Council for 5 consecutive terms, 1982-1993. As the Member of Parliament for Vancouver East for 6 consecutive terms, 1997-2015, she became NDP House Leader (2003-2011), and … Read more
Peggy Herring is the author of two novels: Anna, Like Thunder and This Innocent Corner. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in literary journals such as Grain, The Antigonish Review, Prism International and others. Prior to turning to fiction, she worked in international development in Bangladesh and Nepal, and spent another six years living in India. Prior to that, she … Read more
