Brian Bird is an assistant professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.
Contributors
Caroline Elliott is a political commentator and a PhD candidate in Political Science at Simon Fraser University. She runs a consulting firm specializing in strategic communications, public policy and political advice for a broad range of clients.
Chris Spoke is a real estate investor and the founder of August, a Toronto-based agency that designs and builds digital products.
Dan Delmar is a Québec-based political commentator, a former journalist and newspaper columnist, and the co-founder of TNKR Media, a public relations and content marketing firm.
Deani Van Pelt, PhD, of Hamilton, Ontario is a Visiting Research Fellow in Charlotte Mason Studies at the University of Cumbria, U.K.
Ginny Roth is the National Practice Lead for Government Relations at Crestview Strategy and a long-time conservative activist who previously worked at Queen’s Park and as party organizer for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
Howard Anglin is a doctoral student at Oxford University. He was previously Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Principal Secretary to the Premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney, and a lawyer in New York, London, and Washington, DC.
Jack Mitchell (www.jackmitchell.ca) is a poet and scholar based in Halifax, where he is an associate professor of Classics at Dalhousie. His latest book, The Odyssey of Star Wars: an Epic Poem, a retelling of the original Star Wars film trilogy, will be published in September 2021 by Abrams Books.
Janet Bufton is a founder of the Institute for Liberal Studies. She holds degrees in business, economics, and international affairs, which she has somehow managed to turn towards work as an Ottawa-based educational consultant and copy editor.
J.D.M. Stewart has been a history teacher and writer for more than 25 years. He is the author of Being Prime Minister.
Joanna Baron is Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, a legal charity that protects constitutional freedoms in courts of law and public opinion. Previously, she was the founding National Director of the Runnymede Society and a criminal defence litigator in Toronto. She studied Classics at St John's College in MD and NM and law at McGill University.
Karen Restoule is co-founder of BOLD Realities, working to advance economic reconciliation, building on prior roles where she worked with First Nations leadership to advance self-determination. Previously, she led the modernization of Ontario’s administrative justice system. Karen is Ojibwe from Dokis First Nation.
Kelden Formosa is an elementary school teacher in Calgary. He has an M.Ed. from the University of Notre Dame.
Livio Di Matteo is a contributor to The Hub, Professor of Economics at Lakehead University, and a Member of the Canadian Institute for Health Information National Health Expenditure Advisory Group.
Malcolm Jolley is a roving wine and food journalist, beagler, and professional house guest. Based mostly in Toronto, he publishes a sort of wine club newsletter at mjwinebox.com.
Matthew Spoke is a Canadian tech entrepreneur and Founder of Moves, a fintech company for the gig economy.
Patrick Luciani is co-director of the Salon Speakers Series at the Gardiner Museum and former executive director of the Donner Canadian Foundation.
Rahim Mohamed is a Canadian freelance writer based in Calgary. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has held teaching positions at Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) and Centre College (Danville, Kentucky).
Rob Leone holds a PhD in public policy and serves as an Associate Professor of Leadership and Policy at Niagara University in Lewiston, NY. In addition, he is a Principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group in Toronto.
Steve Lafleur is a public policy analyst and columnist based in Toronto.
Trevor Tombe is a professor of economics at the University of Calgary and a research fellow at The School of Public Policy.