Taras Grescoe is the author of seven nonfiction books and a widely read commentator on the interplay of food, travel, and the environment. His journalism has been published in many of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Guardian and National Geographic. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.
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Mark Hume is an award-winning environmental journalist and author of four books, including the acclaimed River of the Angry Moon. He was formerly a national correspondent and columnist with the Globe and Mail, BC bureau chief for the National Post, and a senior correspondent with the Vancouver Sun. Based in Vancouver, he has fly fished […]
Lyndsie Bourgon is a writer, oral historian, and National Geographic Explorer. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, The Guardian, Smithsonian, and Oxford American. Tree Thieves is her first book.
Mozhdah Jamalzadah is a Kabul-born, Vancouver-based singer-songwriter, media personality and women’s rights activist. She’s been called the Oprah of Afghanistan for having had a talk show debating taboo subjects like child marriage, violence against women and divorce in post-Taliban Afghanistan; and the first Afghan to perform at the Obama Whitehouse. She has guested on the Oprah Winfrey Show and […]
Dr. David Waltner-Toews is a renowned Canadian veterinary epidemiologist and highly-respected specialist in the epidemiology of food and waterborne diseases, zoonoses, ecosystem health and One Health, whose work has been instrumental in the development of teaching and training programs across North America, Europe and Asia. A University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Population Medicine at […]