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Monday, March 3rd
08:00 - 10:00

Prior to joining the Globe and Mail in 2002, Roy MacGregor worked for the National Post, the Ottawa Citizen, Maclean's magazine, the Toronto Star and Canadian Magazine. He has won numerous awards for his journalism, including the National Newspaper Award, several National Magazine Awards and twice the ACTRA Award as the best television drama writer in the country.

MacGregor has covered both sports and politics in his journalism career, having spent 14 years on Parliament Hill prior to covering the Ottawa Senators and the National Hockey League for several years in the 1990s. He is also the author of some 37 books, 20 of them in the internationally successful Screech Owls mystery series for young readers.

His books include A Life In the Bush, which won the Rutstrum Award as the best book on wilderness published in North America between 1995 and 2000, and also won the Canadian Authors' Award for biography and the Ottawa-Carleton Book Award.

In 2002, MacGregor's novel, Canoe Lake, on the death of painter Tom Thomson, reached No. 2 on the Globe bestsellers list. His books Escape: In Search of the Natural Soul of Canada, and A Loonie for Luck, with a forward by Wayne Gretzky, were published in the fall of 2002, followed in 2005 by his most recent publication, The Weekender, a collection of MacGregor's popular columns for Cottage Life magazine.

When MacGregor was named an Officer in the Order of Canada in 2005, the citation read: "One of our most gifted storytellers, Roy MacGregor is renowned for evoking the subtle nuances of our Canadian identity in his columns and books."

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Thursday, March 6th
08:00 - 10:00

Mark Tewksbury is the star athlete we remember bursting out of the water at the Barcelona Olympics who retired shortly thereafter with Olympic gold, silver and bronze medals in hand, numerous awards, and inductions into three major Halls of Fame.

He has proudly supported sick children, special Olympians, and people living with AIDS. He is one of the few openly gay sport heroes in the world, and through this diversity has connected to the global human rights movement.

He is also the personality we see on television, giving celebrated coverage at the Athens Olympics with Brian Williams, hosting Discovery Channel's How It's Made and contributing to CBC Newsworld's The Hour. He has written two books and numerous articles for the Ottawa Citizen, Globe and Mail and Le Devoir. He is the articulate and masterful storyteller who is celebrated internationally for his insights and humour. Tewksbury continues to evolve, establishing himself as a well-respected public figure known, in any milieu, for his mixture of intelligence, straight talk, and sense of fun.

As a speaker, Tewksbury combines all the traits that have helped him achieve success in so many arenas - passion, enthusiasm, humour, and commitment. He adapts his message to each specific audience and moves easily from corporate engagements to educational groups and associations.

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