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The Globe and Mail is Canada’s source for trusted journalism, providing eye-opening investigations and thought-provoking opinions from the country’s most award-winning newsroom. Joining us on our journey will be The Globe’s intrepid team, CEO, Andrew Saunders and Editor-in-Chief, David Walmsley, who will take on hosting duties for one week each. Cookbook author and Globe food contributor, Tara O’Brady and Globe wine writer, Christopher Waters, will ensure we’re well fed and well imbibed along the way. They will be joined by reporters and columnist including Robert Fife, Robyn Doolittle and Alexandra Posadzki, who will each host forums and tours.
Together, they will give you a behind-the-scenes look at some of The Globe’s headline stories and their views on some of the world’s most pressing issues. France, like Europe at large, is at a cultural crossroad. How will it adapt to ongoing migration? And how will it negotiate the globalization of culture, ideas and capital? All these questions and more will be explored by The Globe’s international team of journalists.
ANDREW SAUNDERS
PRESIDENT AND CEO
Andrew Saunders is the President and CEO of The Globe and Mail, overseeing all aspects of Canada's national newspaper, its business magazine, digital advertising network, digital platforms and events and conference lines of business. With over 20 years of experience at The Globe, he brings expertise in revenue generation and management, business transformation, change management and digitization, data analytics & consumer insights, technology implementation, branding and performance marketing, pricing optimization and more.
In his previous role as Chief Revenue Officer at The Globe, Andrew was responsible for shaping the monetization strategy and driving the business transition from print to digital across all facets of the business, including subscription revenue, licensing, advertising sales, events and conference business, data engineering & analytics, digital media/UX and consumer marketing.
In his capacity as President and CEO, Andrew Saunders is dedicated to maintaining The Globe and Mail’s journalistic excellence and steering it towards innovation in the ever-evolving media landscape.
DAVID WALMSLEY
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
David Walmsley was appointed the editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail in March 2014. His appointment returned him to The Globe where he previously worked as the Managing Editor and National Editor. Under his editorship, The Globe and Mail has won the Michener Award, National Newspaper Awards, top honours among an international field at the global Online Journalism Awards, and a series of Eppy awards recognizing digital excellence.
David previously held senior positions at the CBC in Toronto and Ottawa, Toronto Star and National Post. He began his career at The Belfast Telegraph where he was named Northern Ireland Young Journalist of the Year in 1995. He also worked for The Daily Record in Scotland and The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph in London.
LISA LAFLAMME
CANADIAN JOURNALIST
Lisa LaFlamme has been at the forefront of Canadian journalism for over 35 years tackling some of the biggest issues of our time from war zones and natural disasters to the changing political climate around the world. An Officer of the Order of Canada and Order of Ontario, LaFlamme is the recipient of 14 Canadian Screen Awards, including the Gordon Sinclair Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, consecutive RTDNA awards as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award for journalism. The internationally respected journalist was the first woman to anchor CTV National News, a role she held - as chief news anchor and senior editor - for over a decade. A passionate advocate of democracy, LaFlamme is an ambassador for Journalists For Human Rights, volunteers for Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan and is a member of the board of Samara Centre for Democracy.
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TARA O’BRADY
FOOD WRITER
Tara O'Brady is the author of the bestselling cookbook Seven Spoons (Ten Speed press and Appetite by Random House, 2015) and the award-winning site of the same name. Tara is known for straightforward home cooking that reflects the way many of us are cooking today—seasonally, with an international perspective, an emphasis on balanced eating, and ethically-sourced ingredients.
Seven Spoons won the Taste Canada Silver Award, and garnered mention in the New York Times, Canadian House and Home, Flare, and Ricardo Magazine, among others. Tara writes for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, and has been a past contributor to Kinfolk and Uppercase magazines.
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CHRISTOPHER WATERS
WINE WRITER
Christopher Waters has been writing about wine for two decades. He is education director of IWEG Drinks Academy in Toronto and a WSET (Wine Spirits Education Trust) certified instructor at the Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute, Brock University.
For 21 years, he was the editor/co-founder of Canada's largest circulation wine magazine, VINES, and author of a nationally syndicated column, Waters & Wine.
An internationally recognized wine judge, Christopher served as head judge and organizer of the InterVin International Wine Awards for 10 years (2009-2019) and continues to represent Canada for the Six Nations Wine Challenge. He was awarded the Business Citizen of the Year at the 2011 Niagara Grape and Wine Festival and was received the VQA Promoters Award for Education, also in 2011.
ROBERT FIFE
OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF
Robert Fife is The Globe and Mail's Ottawa Bureau Chief and the host of CTV's "Question Period with The Globe and Mail's Robert Fife." He uncovered the Senate expense scandal, setting the course for an RCMP investigation, audits and reform of Senate expense rules. In 2012, he exposed the E. coli contamination of some XL Foods products, forcing the company to recall 1500 tainted meat products. Covering national politics since 1978, he began his career in the parliamentary bureau of NewsRadio and later United Press International (Canada). He worked as a senior political reporter for Canadian Press and spent a decade as Ottawa Bureau Chief and Political Columnist for the Sun Media chain, and had the same post for the National Post and CanWest News Service. He was with CTV from 2005 to 2015. Mr. Fife, who has won many awards for his journalism, is also the author of several books: A Capital Scandal: Politics, Patronage and Payoff; Why Parliament Must Be Reformed; and Kim Campbell: The Making of a Politician.
ROBYN DOOLITTLE
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
Robyn Doolittle is an award-winning journalist and author and a member of The Globe and Mail's investigative team. Since coming to The Globe in 2014, she has probed suspicious business contracts, political corruption, and Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her “Unfounded” investigation, which explored the ways that Canadian police services handle sexual assault cases, prompted a national overhaul of policy, training and practices around sexual violence. Doolittle’s other notable projects include the “Power Gap,” an investigation of gender inequities in the workforce, and “Secret Canada,” which examines Canada’s broken freedom of information system. She is the author of two books, “Had It Coming – What’s Fair In The Age of #MeToo?,” which was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction, and “Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story,” both of which were national bestsellers.
ALEXANDRA POSADZKI
TELECOM REPORTER
Alexandra Posadzki is an award-winning business journalist based in Toronto. She covers the Canadian telecom industry for The Globe and Mail's Report on Business. Her industry-leading coverage of the dramatic power struggle at Rogers Communications Inc. was recognized with several Canada Best in Business Awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, including gold medals in the “scoop” and “beat reporting” categories. Before taking on the telecom beat, Alexandra was The Globe’s capital markets reporter and wrote extensively about Canada’s fledgling cryptocurrency industry, particularly through a regulatory lens. Her network of contacts and deep knowledge of the space proved valuable during the collapse of Canada’s largest virtual currency exchange, QuadrigaCX. Alexandra’s contributions to The Globe’s award-winning coverage of the massive cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme led to her being prominently featured in multiple documentaries, podcasts and radio shows on the topic, including a 2022 Netflix documentary called Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King.
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN
COLUMNIST – AMERICAN AFFAIRS
David M. Shribman, contributing columnist on American affairs for the Globe and Mail, is executive editor emeritus of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. A citizen of both the United States and Canada, he writes a nationally syndicated column in the United States; teaches American politics at the Max Bell School of Public Policy McGill University and is scholar in residence at Carnegie Mellon University. He went to Pittsburgh from The Boston Globe where he was assistant managing editor, columnist and Washington bureau chief. He served as national political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, covered Congress and national politics for The New York Times and was a member of the national staff of The Washington Star. Mr. Shribman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his writing on Washington and the American political scene. He led the coverage of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre that won the Pulitzer Prize a quarter-century later.
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