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Rob Carrick

Rob Carrick has been writing about personal finance, business and economics for over 20 years. He joined Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, in late 1996 as an investment reporter and has been a personal finance columnist since November 1998. In previous jobs with The Canadian Press, he covered the Federal Department of Finance […]

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Mark Sedra

Mark Sedra is the President and co-founder of the Security Governance Group (SGG), a consulting firm specializing in security and governance issues in fragile and conflict-affected states, and the Executive Director and co-founder of the Centre for Security Governance (CSG), a non-profit think tank focussed on the study of security sector reform and related issues. […]

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Linda Nazareth

Linda Nazareth is an economist, a futurist and a respected authority on the future of work. As a newspaper columnist and an author, she knows how to frame things in ways that both educate and entertain and as the Senior Fellow for Economics and Population Change at think-tank the Macdonald Laurier Institute she knows what […]

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Justin Ling

Justin Ling is a freelance investigative journalist and analyst who focuses on politics, national security and geopolitics. Over the past decade, he has come to be a leading voice on misinformation, extremism, political polarization, the rise of conspiratorial politics — and how technology enables all those trends. At a time when modern society is increasingly […]

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Jeffrey Simpson

Born in New York, Mr. Simpson came to Canada when he was 10 years old and eventually studied at the University of Toronto Schools, Queen’s University and the London School of Economics. From 1972-73, he received a parliamentary internship scholarship in Ottawa. A year later, he joined The Globe and Mail. His career with the […]