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Daniel Lamarre is the past CEO and Vice Chairman of Cirque Du Soleil and author of the new business book, BALACING ACTS. This interview was conducted in cooperation with the Entrepreneurship Academy, Canadore College.

Jonathan Taplin is a writer, film producer and scholar. He is the Director Emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab  at the University of Southern California and was a Professor at the USC Annenberg School from 2003-2016 in the field of international communication management and digital media entertainment. Taplin began his entertainment career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. I...

Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Steven Hayward has published four books of fiction, including The  Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke  (winner of the Premio Grinzane Cavour prize), and the Canadian national bestseller  Don’t Be Afraid . A founding member of the  Critical Karaoke Radio Project , he is also Editor-At-Large of  Springs Magazine  and is the Director of the  Colorado College Journalism...

Ian started his career creating immersive installation art pieces to explore ways to bridge the divide between observer and artifact. These projects later led to experiments in virtual reality and cybercafés (including Calgary's first cybercafé in 1995). From studying the ergonomics of VR in the first virtual reality hype bubble to early video on demand and interactive TV experiments, Ian has...

Professor Loeb received a PhD in plasma physics at age 24 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1986) and was subsequently a long-term member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1988-1993), where he started to work in theoretical astrophysics. In 1993 he moved to Harvard University where he was tenured three years later.  He is now the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science and f...

A message from DR. SHAR In my heart, I have always believed that the body has the ability to heal itself if the proper modalities, environment and support are in place. Over the years of practice, I saw the most amazing physical transformations take shape with chiropractic adjustments and witnessed the body’s natural ability to heal. Once I added coaching and energy healing to my list of modalitie...

MIKE SHOREMAN Recently honored by the Prime Minister, the House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and celebrated by Canadians from coast to coast in this national achievement, Mike is the 2022 recipient of the Mental Health Leadership Award by the Mood Disorder Society of Canada. A remarkable story of resilience and ‘the comeback’ following a devastating health crisis that left Mi...

Ben Haab is the director of a new documentary called UNACCEPTABLE? chronicling the 2022 FREEDOM CONVOY that captured the attention, hearts and minds of Canadians and the world. "We are living Canadian history in real-time which is sure to go down in the books; the story is still being written. Our crew went to Ottawa to see first hand what was happening at the “Freedom Convoy to Ottawa 2022”....

Rick Alan Ross  is the founder and Executive Director of The Cult Education Institute. He is an internationally known expert regarding destructive cults, controversial groups and movements and author of the book "Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out." Since 1982 he has been studying, researching and responding to the problems often posed by controversial authoritarian groups an...

Dan Richter is best known as Moonwatcher the man-ape in the opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” which he also choreographed.  Dan has had a long career as a mime, choreographer, actor, director, producer, memoirist, and for two decades a Hollywood executive.  His book “Moonwatcher’s Memoir” is about working on “2001.”  His memoir “The Dream is Over” describ...

Jay Semko is known worldwide as the co-founder of multi-platinum Canadian rock icons the Northern Pikes, and as an award winning music composer for numerous film and TV productions, including Canada's most successful internationally syndicated series, "Due South". He is also a member of ACTRA - an accomplished voiceover actor and narrator, voicing numerous national and international radio & TV...

Ivan Eugene Doroschuk ( /ˈdɒrəstʃʌk, ˈdɒrəʃʌk/ , French pronunciation:  [ivɑ̃ øʒɛ̃ dɔʁɔʃyk] ), born 9 October 1957, is an American-born Canadian musician. He is the lead vocalist and founding member of Men Without Hats , best known for the hit song " The Safety Dance ". GET THE NEW ALBUM Men Without Hats Again Part II CD — Men Without Hats   www.safetydance.com

Dean Radin, MS, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). His original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude and with honors in physics, from the Univ...

X-Mas A.F. is a special new holiday podcast featuring new and / or un-released music from artists from around this big beautiful world. It is a gift of music, and its power to unite, inspire and heal us all.   Special thanks to the following generous souls who have shared their art and heart with us, including: Ozark Henry - from Belgium  BUSM - from Oshawa  Anjani Thomas - from Haw...

Jeanne Beker started her career as an actress, but moved into radio and then television as co-host of the ground-breaking series,  The NewMusic , and entertainment anchor on  CityPulse News . She went on to become the host of  the internationally syndicated Fashion Television (FT) , which aired for 27 years and had viewers in more than 130 countries. Jeanne is the former editor-in-c...

 Tony Nugent is a Silicon Valley Inventor, Engineer and Executive. He was the VP Product Development, System Integration, Factory Automation at Theranos.  Founded in 2003, Theranos promised to revolutionize blood testing by devising technology that could conduct wide-ranging blood tests and test for diseases using a mere pinprick of blood. At its peak, the company was valued at $10 billi...

UNIVERSALLY RESPECTED FOR HIS IMPRESSIVE SKILLS AS A PIANIST, MIKE GARSON IS A RESPECTED COMPOSER, PERFORMER AND EDUCATOR, AS WELL. MIKE IS PERHAPS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH DAVID BOWIE, WHICH BEGAN IN 1972. He made his mark on numerous Bowie albums and has travelled thousands of miles on Bowie tours, including his 2003-04 “A Reality Tour,” Bowie’s first world tour in 20 years. In Novem...

As Executive Vice Chairman of the Board, Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, Daniel Lamarre is responsible for nurturing the delicate balance between the company’s global strategy (across five continents), its financial growth and stability, and the integrity of its culture and values. Among his greatest achievements include the execution of complex negotiations resulting in signed agreements wi...

Dan Hill (Daniel Grafton Hill IV) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. He had two major international hits with his songs "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try", a duet with Vonda Shepard, as well as a number of other charting singles in Canada and the United States

Life in Our Minds is one of the most collaborative, technologically innovative NFT projects to date. It opens up an interplay between collective ownership and individual mark-making, re-staging art within a new (meta)-universe that has its own rules and, in so doing, represents a new form of public sculpture. This multi-dimensional artwork consists of two major parts: an NFT collection and an inte...

Serge Faguet is a serial tech entrepreneur and a prominent thinker in the Web3 space. To date he has personally raised more than $100m of capital, and has co-founded numerous breakthrough tech companies: - Emerging Travel Group , a multi-billion-dollar B2B online travel company; - Novami , a concierge medicine delivery company; - Multiomic Health , an AI drug discovery company; - Nexus , an compan...

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Serena Ryder was born on December 8, 1983 in Millbrook, Ontario, Canada. A strikingly pretty brunette with a remarkably deep, soulful and powerful three-octave voice, Serena stems from strong musical roots: Her Canadian mother was a go-go dancer and touring back-up singer while her Trinidadian father was a guitarist and percussionist with the Carribean folk group t...

Bob Rae is the Canadian ambassador to the United Nations.

Nick Laird Clowes of The Dream Academy. Laird-Clowes was a member of Alfalpha and the Act before The Dream Academy. He was also a presenter for the first series of the Channel 4 music show, The Tube . The Dream Academy were formed in the 1980s and released three albums. His solo album, Mona Lisa Overdrive , was released under the name Trashmonk in 1999 under Alan McGee's Creation Records, and re-r...

Judy Collins  has inspired audiences with sublime vocals, boldly vulnerable songwriting, personal life triumphs, and a firm commitment to social activism. In the 1960s, she evoked both the idealism and steely determination of a generation united against social and environmental injustices. Five decades later, her luminescent presence shines brightly as new generations bask in the glow of her...