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Here, are the participants in globeSalon
Michael Adams is the president of the Environics group of research and communications consulting companies which he co-founded in 1970. He is the author of four Canadian best sellers: Sex in the Snow: Canadian Social Values at the End of the Millennium, Better Happy Than Rich? Canadians, Money and the Meaning of Life, Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values, and American Backlash: The Untold Story of Social Change in the United States. His current book entitled Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph of Canadian Pluralism, focuses on the promise and challenge of Canadian multiculturalism.
David Beers is an award-winning writer and founding editor of The Tyee, one of Canada's leading independent online sources of news and views. He has been a senior editor at Mother Jones and The Vancouver Sun where he edited the "Fate of the Strait" environmental series, winner of Canada's National Newspaper Award. With a strong interest in sustainability issues and solutions-oriented journalism, he is a lecturer at the UBC School of Journalism, and former vice chair of the Vancouver City Planning Commission.
Journalist Lorna Dueck is Executive Producer of Listen Up TV, a newsmagazine examining spiritual themes in news and current events, aired on nine networks worldwide. She works extensively in Canada's non-profit and charitable sector, including Samaritan's Purse, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Toronto City Mission, Feed The Hungry, and Greater Europe Mission. She is completing a Bachelor of Religious Education degree from Tyndale University College, and holds an Honorary Doctorate in Christian Ministry from Trinity Western University. She is a recipient of several leadership and journalism awards.
John Duffy is one of Canada's leading government relations and public affairs consultants, serving a wide range of ROB 500 corporations in Toronto and Ottawa. He has been actively involved in Liberal Party politics, both federally and in Ontario, for more than 20 years. He has served for two decades as a volunteer adviser to former prime minister Paul Martin, playing senior policy and strategy roles. Mr. Duffy has also served as a strategic consultant on the last several Ontario Liberal election campaigns. He is the author of Fights of Our Lives: Elections, Leadership and the Making of Canada, a bestselling examination of Canada's five pivotal federal elections.
Brian Flemming is a Halifax-based international lawyer, writer and public policy adviser. He is a former senior aide to Prime Minister Trudeau. During the past 14 years, he was a weekly columnist for a Halifax daily newspaper, writing on politics and public policy issues. His columns have been carried in every major Canadian newspaper. In the public sector, Flemming has been the head of several Crown corporations, federal panels and agencies. From 2005 to 2007, he was a founding member of the federal Advisory Council on National Security. He is a QC and a Member of the Order of Canada.
Camilla Gibb is the author of three internationally acclaimed novels, including Mouthing the Words (winner of the City of Toronto Book Award), and Sweetness in the Belly (shortlisted for the Giller Prize and winner of the Trillium Award). She has served as Writer-in-Residence at the Universities of Alberta and Toronto, and is currently an adjunct faculty member with the University of Toronto's MA in Creative Writing Program. She holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Oxford University.
Marcus Gee is a Globe reporter and columnist covering the Asia-Pacific region. Born in Toronto, he graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1979 with a degree in modern European history, then worked as a reporter for The Province, Vancouver's morning newspaper. He spent four years in Asia in the early 1980s, the first three in Hong Kong as an editor, writer and correspondent for Asiaweek magazine, the last as a reporter for United Press International in Manila and Sydney. He joined the Globe in 1991 as an editorial writer and has won two National Newspaper Awards for his commentary.
Natasha Hassan is Comment Editor of The Globe and Mail. She joined The Globe in early 2005 as bureaus editor for the Report on Business, where she was responsible for the business section's national and international news coverage. Ms. Hassan came to The Globe from The National Post where she held numerous positions, most notably Comment Editor from the paper's inception in 1998 till 2004. She was also a senior editor and editorial writer with the former Financial Post before the launch of the National Post. Prior to her career in journalism, Ms. Hassan worked as research co-ordinator for the Centre for International Studies.
