Evan Solomon

Two-time Gemini award winning broadcaster and journalist, Evan Solomon is the host of the most watched national political affairs TV show in the country, CBC News Network’s Power and Politics with Evan Solomon. On the daily broadcast, Solomon interviews all the key politicians and powerbrokers who affect your life.

Solomon was the co-host of the Gemini award winning programs CBC News: Sunday and CBC News: Sunday Night, the weekly current affairs news shows. He covered events all over the world, from the recent elections in Iran, the navy’s battle against piracy in the Persian Gulf to the immediate aftermath of the Tsunami in Bandeh Acheh, Indonesia.

Solomon has also hosted the CBC shows Hot Type and the Gemini award-winning CBC show Futureworld, which explored the latest developments in technology and innovation. He produced and hosted a series called The Change Makers, and a series for PBS in America, called Masters of Technology.

He was the co-founder and for eight years the editor-in-chief of Shift magazine, an award-winning international magazine about technology and culture.  

A published author, Solomon’s books include the best-selling Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy Is Changing Everything, which was nominated for the National Business Book Award and the National Science Book of the Year, and Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World’s Food Crisis. Both books were recently re-released as Food and Fuel. He is also the author of the best-selling novel Crossing the Distance and two children’s books published by Penguin Books.

Solomon has worked as a journalist in North America and Asia, giving him a global perspective on the topics he addresses, from how technology will shape the way we are headed to the role politics plays in shaping our present and future.

• 1. Power & Politics with Evan Solomon

  Solomon provides an in-depth look at that intersection point where politicians, policy, and power meet the people who are affected. Taking audiences through the headlines of the day, he offers insight on the key issues affecting Canadians.

  Smart, accessible and in the know, Evan Solomon is a popular choice for conference programs across the nation.   

• 3. Futureworld: Bringing Ingenuity To Crisis

• 4. Change and Change Again

• 2. Deep Impact

  Evan Solomon examines the implications of the technological age on our relationships with customers, colleagues, partners and our communities.
  
  As we've moved from the analogue world to the digital world, the biggest change has been from a world of "location, location, location", to "relation, relation, relation".
  
  In an age of information plenitude and tech parity, value shifts from access to understanding and perspective, from information to wisdom, and from technology to creativity. The most profound change is not about the technology, but about the nature of relationships. Evan leaves us with 10 actionable steps to manage high tech change, including the importance of going deeper in your relationships.

• An entertaining and stimulating message that captivated our discriminating audience. You received by far the highest rating of all our keynote presenters!
  Ontario Society for Training & Development
• ...you managed to create a more personal, intimate relationship with the audience than we could ever have expected, which really enhanced the attendees' engagement.
  The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
• Your keynote presentation on the many innovations and technological advances happening in our world today and their impact on us as individuals and as part of a global village generated a real buzz among our attendees. Many surprising insights and discoveries were made by everyone in attendance and the unique yet realistic picture you painted of our world certainly had everyone thinking about the future.
  Association of Corporate Travel Executives

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  February 2009

  Food and Fuel

  The twenty-first century has been dominated by two major global crises: a scarcity of food and fuel. Both have had detrimental effects on the environment and both are at the root of the fragile health of the global economy. Combining the best of the critically acclaimed Fueling the Future and Feeding the Future, this timely and provocative collection of essays from leading thinkers offers valuable strategies to combat global famine and fast-food fat; business models for sustainable food production and power sources; and descriptions of emerging technologies and sciences.

  
  
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  March 2007

  Nathaniel McDaniel and the Sabre-Toothed Tiger

  While exploring the treasure trove in Gramps’ attic, Nathaniel and his feline friend Queen Tut discover a woolly mammoth skin. Before they know it—BA-ZANG—the two are transported back more than a hundred thousand years, where a woolly mammoth named Ed has been scared out of his hide by a terrifying sabre-toothed tiger. Nate must do battle with the tiger if he is to return Ed to his former woolly glory and make it home again.

  
  
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  October 2005

  Feeding the Future

  As humanity enters the 21st century, globalization and modernization promise to make for more consumption of grains, beef, and fish than ever before. The 2 billion inhabitants of India and China are set to purchase at unprecedented levels, and sub-Saharan Africa will need to overcome its many torturous famines. What kinds of fixes can ensure the stability of the food supply throughout the 21st century and beyond? Feeding the Future provides pragmatic, learned solutions to the issues that loom large. Nine chapters, each penned by a different expert, examine issues ranging from food safety to the business of food to conservation. "Fish or Cut Bait" examines overfishing and other practices that threaten to ruin the world's seas, while "Between Feast and Famine" takes on the issue of global trade, showing how globalization can be made to work for all. Combining social ingenuity, emerging technologies, and smart business models, Feeding the Future offers real solutions for a world that needs them now more than ever.

  
  
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  April 2005

  Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy is Changing Everything

  From trips to the market to lighting entire cities, power is pivotal to the simplest of everyday necessities. Wars are fought over it, the planet is polluted by it, but now its price has become too high. Are we capable of shifting to cleaner, safer, more reliable sources of energy? Fueling the Future gathers the best and brightest minds in the field — thinkers like Jeremy Rifkin, L. Hunter Lovins, and Allison MacFarlane — and uses their collective wisdom to tackle this pressing question from several angles. The experts predict what a world without oil, which is estimated to run out in 50 years, would be like. What new energy alternatives are available? The use of hydrogen and fuel cells is examined, with surprising conclusions. Fresh, efficient prose makes the experts' controversial answers readable and engaging, as well as thought provoking.

  
  
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  April 2005

  Nathaniel McDaniel and Bigbeard's Hook

  Meet Nathaniel McDaniel, the mischievous hero of a delightful new series of adventures. In Bigbeard's Hook, Nate discovers Gramps' attic and a treasure trove the likes of which he's never seen. There's even a real pirate's hook!But when Nate reaches out to touch it-BA-ZANG-suddenly he's not in the attic any more, but aboard a ship and surrounded by pirates. Before he knows it, Nate is facing the most dreaded, the meanest, the slobberiest pirate of them all-with a ten-foot red beard-known as the terror of Bristol! And the terror of Bristol is wanting back his hook...
  
  

  
  
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  January 2000

  Crossing the Distance

  Two brothers - each charged with separate murders - make tracks as they flee the authorities and the media. While on their road trip, the fugitives begin to rediscover themselves as individuals and as siblings. In the background of their flight, various media players hunt them down in a desperate bid for ratings and recognition. What culminates is a dark and chaotic tragedy that touches more lives than anyone could have ever dreamed. CBC Newsworld host and Canadian author Evan Solomon is unabashed about casting a light on media monsters and shows great promise as a master of satire with Crossing the Distance.