A smoking chef with wanderlust in his genes who goes flat out with no regrets, Anthony Bourdain is Executive Chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York, the best damn brasserie in America. He started out as a dishwasher and slaved his way to culinary stardom, but remains not your average cook: he's an international bad boy who also happens to write bestsellers, get published in the New Yorker, and travel the world on the Food Network's dime. We love him.
www.anthonybourdain.com
Gwynne Dyer is a London-based journalist, military historian and contemporary thinker who studies and writes about war, and fears we are hightailing it to World War Three. He hopes for a day when the US is back as an architect of global order, not chaos, and makes his case in a new book called Future Tense: The Coming World Order.
www.gwynnedyer.net
Bestselling historian Charlotte Gray has created something truly special in her new book, A Museum Called Canada. In it she presents a breathtaking range of cultural artifacts, artworks and historic objects, many you've never seen before, and in so doing paints a remarkable and utterly compelling portrait of our country.
www.theglobeandmail.com/museum/thebook.htm
Bill Casselman is a veteran writer, editor and broadcaster who says of himself, "the curriculum of my vitae zigzags in a most uncool pattern." Whatever pattern he's zigged in, he's managed to pick up a story or two along the way, and he's collected the best aphorisms in the country in the new, third edition of his book, Canadian Sayings 3.
www.billcasselman.com
Sara Robinson has taught history and civics, was with Electronic Arts back at its beginnings in Silicon Valley, and has been politically active her whole life. And in a trend that might only grow, she's a Democrat who recently moved to Canada, where she worked on the Kerry campaign as the local head of Democrats Abroad.
http://ca.democratsabroad.org
Victor Adair is a market analyst, Senior VP at Refco Futures in Vancouver and a radio commentator (about money, what else) on CKNW. Today he weighs in on the impact of the US election on money and markets.
www.victoradair.com
Dr. Jane Goodall grew up in war-battered England, dreaming of Africa and its animals. Her mother encouraged her, and she became an unstoppable scientist who lived out her childhood dreams, researching and saving wild chimpanzees. Today she travels 300 days per year, getting out the message that each of us can--and must--help save the endangered animal species that share our planet.
www.janegoodall.org
www.spiritbearyouth.org
Keith Spicer is a national dreamer in both official languages, a former newspaperman and head of the CRTC. Now Director of Institute for Media, Peace and Security in Geneva, he has written his life story in Life Sentences: Memoirs of an Incorrigible Canadian.
www.mcclelland.com
www.mediapeace.org
Committed Canadian and candid diplomat Pamela Wallin is having a bit of a love-in with Manhattan as Canada's Consul General to New York City. She was visiting Vancouver last week to give the keynote address at the Jack Webster Awards, and assures us she is not planning to become a US citizen any time soon.
www.uppernorthside.org
Mark Davidson is a sommelier, wine educator, wine drinker and Director of the Dubrulle Culinary Institute of Vancouver. He'll help you sniff, sip and taste your way to new oenological discoveries at this year's Cornucopia Festival of Food and Wine in Whistler, November 11 to 14.
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