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Kent Allen is a Saskatoon actor, and has done a series of shows with Persephone, Dancing Sky and Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan theatres.

John Brady McDonald is a Nehiyawak-Metis writer, artist, historian, musician, playwright, actor and activist born and raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He is from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation and the Mistawasis Nehiyawak. The great-great-great grandson of Chief Mistawasis of the Plains Cree, as well as the grandson of famed Metis leader Jim Brady, John's writings and artwork have been displaye...

Science fiction fantasy author Tobin Marks has created an alien watery world called Aqueous. Orbiting a Red Dwarf 1187 light years from Earth, Aqueous is teeming with dangerous reptilian life…and one long forgotten human colony. Marks is a world traveler who grew up in a household of rocket scientists. As a boy he had a front row seat observing many NASA and NOAA projects and always dreamed of rea...

Alan Strachan is a Canadian sports author and journalist. A former sports columnist for The Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, and Toronto Sun, he won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1993 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame. He is also a former panelist on Hockey Night in Canada and analyst on The Score.

The eldest of eight siblings, Catherine was born and raised in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her parents are William Earl Gourdier and Mary Wanita (Neta) Tuepah.   She moved to the 'big city' of Toronto at eighteen years old to attend Seneca College. After taking their Cosmetics Technique and Management course, she became a certified esthetician and cosmetician. Two years later, bored with filing nai...

Dafydd Rhys Williams OC OOnt CCFP FCFP FRCPC FRCP (born May 16, 1954) is a Canadian physician, public speaker, CEO, author and a retired CSA astronaut. Williams was a mission specialist on two space shuttle missions. His first spaceflight, STS-90 in 1998, was a 16-day mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia dedicated to neuroscience research. His second flight, STS-118 in August 2007, was flown by S...

Chet Cory has experience in broadcasting

Jeffrey Morgan is a Canadian writer and photographer who is best known for being the authorized biographer of both Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop and The Stooges. He is also the writer of the graphic novel The Brides of Mister X and Other Stories[4] which Rolling Stone called "one of the 50 best non-superhero graphic novels". In 2021, New Haven published Morgan's autobiography Rock Critic Confidential...

Anvil are a Canadian heavy metal band from Toronto, Ontario, formed in 1978. The band currently consists of founding members Steve "Lips" Kudlow (vocals, guitar) and Robb Reiner (drums), and Chris Robertson (bass). As of 2021, the band has released eighteen studio albums, and has been cited as having influenced many notable heavy metal groups, including Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax and Metallica.

Arthur Douglas was the son of a lawyer and schoolteacher. He was an active child. Doing was more important than reading. Arthur told his 11th grade English teacher, "I don't have time to read, I'm too busy having adventures. One day people read about my adventures." Later, Arthur became very fond of reading. The author has chronicled his experiences all his life. Literary influences were John Gris...

James Donaldson, independent author and disabled veteran, is realizing his lifelong dream of writing speculative fiction. James' writing philosophy revolves around "...eldritch styled adventure stories I'd enjoy reading." ​James crafts his books (novels, novellas and novelettes) in a continuing series referred to as "The Corsair Adventures". The series follows a single protagonist, Nash (Code Name...

Robert Lawson is a lifelong fan of The Guess Who, starting with his very first concert at age two. He has spent years tracking the band's recording history and consulted closely with many Guess Who experts to compile this comprehensive guide. He is the author of Razama-Snaz! The Listener's Guide to Nazareth and Still Competition: The Listener's Guide to Cheap Trick. He lives in Toronto with his wi...

Marion Mutala has a master's degree in educational administration and taught for 30 years. With a passion for the arts, she loves to write, sing, play pickle-ball, play guitar, travel and read. Marion is the author of the National Bestselling, Award-winning Children's Books series, Baba's Babushka.

Joel Selvin (born February 14, 1950) is an American San Francisco-based music critic and author known for his weekly column in the San Francisco Chronicle, which ran from 1972 to 2009. Selvin has written books covering various aspects of pop music—including the No. 1 New York Times best-seller Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock with Sammy Hagar—and has interviewed many musical artists. Selvin has pub...

Canadian country singer-songwriter, Tommy John Ehman joins us again. He released his new single, a new take on the Bruce Springsteen classic hit, "Hungry Heart".

Linwood Barclay, a New York Times bestselling author with twenty novels to his credit, spent three decades in newspapers before turning full time to writing thrillers. His books have been translated into more than two dozen languages, sold millions of copies, and he counts Stephen King among his fans. Many of his books have been optioned for film and TV, a series has been made in France, and he wr...

Avanti Centrae is the author of the international multi-award-winning and #1 best selling VanOps thriller series. An instant Barnes and Noble Nook bestseller, The Lost Power took home a genre grand prize ribbon at the Chanticleer International Book Awards, a bronze medal at the Wishing Shelf Awards, and an Honorable Mention at the Hollywood Book Festival. Solstice Shadows also released as a Barnes...

Glenn Dixon's fourth book, Bootleg Stardust, is about a band in 1974, and for it the author created a full soundtrack of songs. Recorded on the legendary Rolling Stones Mobile Studio and then mastered at Abbey Road Studios, the project was the dream of a lifetime. His previous book, Juliet's Answer was published in twelve countries and translated into five languages including Chinese, Spanish and...

STEPHEN R. BOWN has written ten books on the history of exploration, science, and ideas--including books on the medical mystery of scurvy, the Treaty or Tordesillas, the lives of Captain George Vancouver and of Roald Amundsen and a doomed Russian sea voyage. His books have been published in multiple English-speaking territories, translated into nine languages and shortlisted for many awards. He ha...

Genevieve went to university to be a professional oboe player, and she had never planned to be a writer. Writing her first story after turning forty she is proof that you're never too old to try something new.

If anyone understands that life is what you make it, it's Darci. She quite literally went out and built the life she wanted. She has worked for great leaders and not so great leaders, built three award-winning businesses and let them go when the time was right. All she has accomplished has been done on her own terms and by Focusing on the 90% - on the positive in her world.

Informed by his direct experience with stigma and the mental health care system, Mark Henick dedicated his life from an early age to opening minds and creating change. He has previously served as the youngest president of a provincial Canadian Mental Health Association division in history, the youngest member of the board of directors for the Mental Health Commission of Canada, and a national spok...

Erik Raschke received an M.A. in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. His first novel, The Book of Samuel (St. Martin's Press in 2009) was translated into Italian and nominated for the prestigious Printz award. His short stories and essays have been published in, among others, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Hazlitt, Georgia Review, De Volkskrant, and Guernica. St...

David More is a historical novelist from Kingston. He is known for the Smithyman Saga, a military-historical fiction series set in the 18th century.

Helen Humphreys  is a Canadian poet and novelist. Humphreys's first novel, Leaving Earth, was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998, and a winner of the City of Toronto Book Award.