Abishur Prakash
Abishur Prakash, known globally as “Mr. Geopolitics”, is one of the world’s leading geopolitical authorities. Born in New Zealand to Indian parents, raised in Australia, and based...
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Bob Woodward
Few figures in American history have shaped the landscape of investigative journalism as profoundly as Bob Woodward. An Associate Editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked...
Andrew Coyne
Andrew Coyne delivers insightful, provocative commentary on political and economic issues to Canadians across the country. The former national editor of Maclean’s, and currently a...
Dr. Vikram Mansharamani
Vikram Mansharamani is a successful businessman, economist, and author. Throughout his career, he has built businesses and supported entrepreneurs and companies in creating jobs an...
Sean Silcoff
Sean Silcoff is an award-winning business writer with The Globe and Mail and co-author of Losing the Signal, the critically acclaimed, best-selling story about the rise and fall of...
Dr. Pamela Palmater
Dr. Pamela Palmater is a Mi’kmaw lawyer, professor, author, and social justice activist from Ugpi’ganjig (Eel River Bar First Nation). She has 4 university degrees, including a Doc...
L.K. Bertram
Dr. L.K. Bertram is a renowned, award-winning author and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. L.K.’s work specializes in history, social media disinformation, and the...
Dr. Sherry Cooper
Dr. Sherry Cooper is the Chief Economist of Dominion Lending Centres (DLC). This is Canada’s leading mortgage and leasing company with more than 2,600 members offering free expert...
Peter Zeihan
Peter Zeihan is a globally recognized leader in geopolitical strategy, helping people understand how the world works. Peter combines an expert understanding of demography, economic...
Tod Maffin
Tod Maffin has emerged as one of Canada’s most distinctive voices on the Canadian identity. A former national CBC Radio host, Tod has built a loyal following through sharp weekly e...
Bruce Anderson
Bruce Anderson is one of Canada’s most respected pollsters and communications counselors. In 1980, at the age of 23 he was appointed Special Assistant to the Federal Minister Respo...
Samantha Nutt
Samantha Nutt is an award-winning humanitarian, bestselling author and acclaimed public speaker. A medical doctor and a founder of the renowned international humanitarian organizat...
Daniel Dale
Daniel Dale is a reporter in CNN’s Washington Bureau, where he fact-checks political claims. During the 2020 election cycle, he fact-checked President Trump, Democratic presidentia...
Anne T. Donahue
Anne T. Donahue is a writer and person from Cambridge, Ontario. Her first book, Nobody Cares, came out in 2018 and was a national bestseller. Currently, she writes a weekly newslet...
Stephen Carter
The National Post, CBC and other political commentators have described Stephen Carter as a “political mastermind.” In reality, he is at the forefront of a new political class focus...
Beyond A Ballot
Amanda Alvaro and Rachael Segal co-host Beyond A Ballot, a podcast dedicated to empowering Canadian women to engage in politics. Amanda Alvaro is the accomplished co-founder of Tor...
Chantal Hébert
Chantal Hébert is a Canadian political columnist, journalist, and author. She delivers sharp analysis of national affairs in both French and English. Audiences know her from the we...
Dambisa Moyo
Dr. Dambisa Moyo is a pre-eminent thinker, who influences key decision-makers in strategic investment and public policy. She is respected for her unique perspectives, her balance o...
André Picard
André Picard is one of Canada’s leading health and public policy commentators. He has worked as a health reporter and columnist for The Globe and Mail since 1987. He is also the au...
Angela Sterritt
Angela Sterritt is an award-winning investigative journalist, TV, radio, and podcast host, and national bestselling author. She comes from the Wilp Wiik’aax (we-GAK) of the Gitanma...
Sandy Hudson
Sandy Hudson is a visionary strategist, community builder, and media producer who is a powerful force for transformative social change. Renowned for co-founding the Black Lives Mat...
Ben Makuch
From interviewing ISIS members to being on the ground during a political assassination in Russia, or sitting in a trench in Ukraine, Ben brings unprecedented access to many of the...
Stephanie Nolen
Stephanie Nolen is the global health reporter for The New York Times, with over 30 years of experience. She has reported from more than 80 countries, covering war zones, humanitari...
Jason Kenney
The Honourable Jason Kenney recently completed a distinguished twenty-five year career in public service. In his twenties he built the Canadian Taxpayers Federation into one of Can...
Andrew Kirsch
Andrew Kirsch served as an intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for just under a decade. He held roles as a policy analyst and a field invest...
Brandi Morin
Brandi Morinis an acclaimed Cree/Iroquois/French journalist from Treaty 6 territory in Alberta, Canada, who has dedicated over a decade to amplifying Indigenous voices and shedding...
Larissa Crawford
Larissa Crawford proudly passes on Métis and Jamaican ancestry to her daughter, Zyra. She is a published Indigenous, anti-racism, and climate justice researcher, policy advisor, an...
John Baird
John Baird is a Senior Advisor to various enterprises and a former Senior Cabinet Minister in the Government of Canada. An instrumental figure in bilateral trade and investment rel...
Justin Ling
Justin Ling is a freelance investigative journalist and analyst who focuses on politics, national security and geopolitics. Over the past decade, he has come to be a leading voice...
Linda Nazareth
Linda Nazareth is an economist, a futurist and a respected authority on the future of work. As a newspaper columnist and an author, she knows how to frame things in ways that both...
Geoff Colvin
Experience counts in serious times. For four decades at Fortune, Geoff Colvin has covered the economic, political, technological, and competitive forces disrupting business and how...
Sage Paul
Sage Paul is an urban Denesuliné tskwe based in Toronto. She is a member of the English River First Nation. An award-winning artist and designer, Sage is also a recognized leader o...
Dave Meslin
Dave Meslin is a community organizer, bestselling author and popular TV host. Dave shows audiences how to build a culture by creating meaningful opportunities to engage employees,...
Jared Lindzon
Jared Lindzon is a freelance journalist and public speaker based in Toronto. Lindzon’s writing focuses on the future of work and talent as it relates to technological innovation. B...
Althia Raj
Althia Raj is an Ottawa-based political journalist and a member of the CBC’s “At Issue” panel. She previously served as The Huffington Post Canada’s senior editorial manager and it...
Ben Smith
Ben Smith is the former Editor-in-Chief at BuzzFeed, and current Media Columnist at the New York Times. He joined the BuzzFeed team in January 2010 and was responsible for overseei...
Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper is the anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°, a global newscast that goes beyond the headlines with in-depth reporting and investigations. The show airs weeknights a...
Dr. Wade Davis
Wade Davis is a Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Between 2000 and 2013, he served as...
Jesse Hirsh
Jesse Hirsh is a futurist famer who brings an outsider’s perspective and literal critical distance, operating from his farm in rural Eastern Ontario. Yet this is no ordinary farm....
Mark Sedra
Mark Sedra is the President and co-founder of the Security Governance Group (SGG), a consulting firm specializing in security and governance issues in fragile and conflict-affected...
Jeffrey Simpson
Born in New York, Mr. Simpson came to Canada when he was 10 years old and eventually studied at the University of Toronto Schools, Queen’s University and the London School of Econo...
Mohamed Fahmy
Mohamed Fahmy is an award-winning Egyptian-Canadian war reporter, journalist, author and human rights activist. He spent most of his career covering conflict zones and some of the...
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