Grammy Award winning guitarist Albert Lee grew up in Blackheath, southeast London, where his father, who played piano and accordion, began teaching Lee when he was only seven. He became enraptured with the sound of American rock-a-billy (...)

American crime writer James Ellroy is best known for having penned such mystery thrillers as L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia and Blood’s a Rover. Born in Los Angeles, Ellroy lost his mother when he 10 years old. Her death, an (...)

As a musician, producer and composer Ben Sidran has recorded over 30 solo numbers and produced recordings for such noted artists as Van Morrison, Diana Ross and Jon Hendricks. As a session musician he has played with the likes of The (...)

When Thomas King was awarded the 2014 Governor General’s Award for Fiction for his novel, The Back of the Turtle, it came only months after being awarded the RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction for his book The Inconvenient Indian. The (...)

In 1990 Kate Lines became the first woman and only the second Canadian to enter the FBI’s Criminal Profiling Program in Quantico, Virginia. Upon her return to the OPP Kate Lines worked on high profile cases such as the murder of (...)

Chip Taylor is best known for having written such classic songs as Wild Thing, Angel of the Morning and Try, Just a Little Bit Harder. He was born in Yonkers, New York as Wes Voight. His brother Jon is an Academy Award winning actor and (...)

She is often described as Canada’s First Lady of the Stage. Martha Henry was in fact born in the United States, but came to Canada in her 20’s. Born Martha Buhs in Detroit, Michigan, Henry studied acting at Carnegie Tech, in (...)

During the 1960’s The Lovin’ Spoonful had a series of hits including “Do You Believe in Magic”, “Daydream” and “Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?”. The band was led by John Sebastian, (...)

Anyone who has been near a television or movie screen the last 20 years will recognize him immediately. J.C. MacKenzie has appeared in such films as The Aviator, The Wolf of Wall Street, What Planet Are You From and The Departed and (...)

The Golf Channel’s David Feherty has been hosting the Emmy-nominated talk show Feherty since 2011. Born in Bangor, County Down in Northern Ireland, Feherty dropped out of high school at 17 to become a golf pro. He went on to win 10 (...)

Kathleen Edwards’ music has been described as something between Suzanne Vega and Neil Young. The 37 year old alt-country singer songwriter from Ottawa broke onto the scene in 2003 with her album Failer that included the songs Six (...)

In June of 2015, film director Atom Egoyan was presented with the Governor -General’s Performing Arts Award for his contribution to Canada’s film culture. At 54 years of age, Egoyan isn’t quite ready to fold away his (...)

Steven Page is best known to Canadians as the former lead singer of the popular music group Barenaked Ladies. With hits like If I had $1000000, One Week, Enid and Be My Yoko Ono, the Barenaked Ladies became one of the most successful (...)

Dave Thomas is one of Canada’s most celebrated cultural exports. He has written, directed, produced and co-starred in television shows for all the major networks and is currently working on a series for Fox. Thomas’ television (...)

Freeman Patterson is one of Canada’s pre-eminent nature photographers, his work having been recognized by such esteemed authorities as the National Association of Photographic Art and the Photographic Society of America. Born and (...)

Chuck Klosterman is a 42 year old writer living in Brooklyn whose writing has captivated a generation with wry observations on celebrity, mass culture and sports. An author of eight books including Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Klosterman is (...)

Don Francks is one of Canada’s most prolific actors and at 82 years of age is still very much in demand, appearing most recently on Netflix’s Hemlock Grove. Like many Canadian actors his career began on the CBC where he starred (...)

Journalist and author Patricia Pearson has seen her articles published around the world for such journals as The Guardian, the New Yorker, the National Post and the New York Times. One of five children born to the late former ambassador (...)

D A Pennebaker is one of the most important documentary filmmakers of his generation. Awarded an honorary Oscar in 2012 for his collection of work that include such landmark films such as The War Room, Dont Look and Back and Monterey Pop, (...)

David Crosby is one of Rock music’s icons, a hero to the counter-culture movement of the sixties. As a founding member of the Byrds, Crosby helped popularize folk rock and as a founding member of Crosby, Stills and Nash he became one (...)

Rock photographer John Rowlands’ career began when he was 13 years old and borrowed his father’s camera to take pictures of the then-teen idol Brenda Lee who had come to perform in Ottawa back in the 1950’s. To his great (...)

Few things in life adhere to tradition as much as sports and the game of baseball is no exception. So when a young left-handed pitcher from California broke into the big leagues few were prepared for the witty, irreverent Bill Lee who (...)

Actor Colm Feore maybe best known to Canadian viewers for his role as Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the television mini-series Trudeau and in the hit movie Bon Cop, Bad Cop. He also recently appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, (...)

MIT astrophysicist and planetary scientist Sara Seager has been described as an ‘astronomical Indiana Jones’. As a result of her pioneering research into exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun, Seager was named (...)

When Zita Cobb left the business world at the age of 42, she really didn’t know what she wanted to do with herself but she did know that she wanted to be challenged as much as she was when she was Chief Financial Officer and (...)

Author, illustrator and cartoonist Bruce McCall has lived in New York for the past 40 years but he grew up in the quiet, peaceful idyllic town of Simcoe, Ontario. Never a strong performer in school, Mr. McCall displayed, from a very young (...)

Des McAnuff is the award winning director behind such Broadway productions as The Who’s Tommy, Jersey Boys, and Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays. McAnuff was born in the U.S. but grew up in Toronto, attending Woburn Collegiate in (...)

A conversation about family, religion, depression and healing with author and activist Andrew Solomon. A native New Yorker, Mr. Solomon’s mother’s battle with cancer ended with her taking her own life in front of her children (...)

Jazz saxophonist and composer Phil Dwyer grew up on the west coast of British Columbia. His father and his father before him worked as lumberjacks and lived in lumber camps built on rafts that would float from one tract of standing timber (...)

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun has had his paintings shown in major galleries and collections across the world including the National Gallery of Canada. A graduate of the Emily Carr College of Art, Mr. Yuxweluptun grew up in a home where (...)